The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood

Though at the height of their power, the Dark Brotherhood faces a grave threat in the form of a mysterious black-armored warrior capable of bringing down their best agents. Venture forth for another exciting…

31 May 2016

What The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood is

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HeroEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Though at the height of their power, the Dark Brotherhood faces a grave threat in the form of a mysterious black-armored warrior capable of bringing down their best agents. Venture forth for another exciting adventure in the Elder Scrolls Online as you carve a bloody swath across Tamriel in the name of the Dark Brotherhood!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy.

Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood is the 20th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls Online: Shadows of the Hist in 2016.

See all 62 The Elder Scrolls games in release order →

What it launched against

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood launched on 31 May 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch and Doom. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom.

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