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The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold

The rage of Dragons has brought its fire and fury to the ruined region of Southern Elsweyr, and the people of this once-great kingdom fight to survive. The monstrous Dragon Kaalgrontiid, bolstered with all-new…

75 21 October 2019

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold is a role-playing (rpg) developed by ZeniMax Online Studios, released 21 October 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold is

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and released in 2019. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The rage of Dragons has brought its fire and fury to the ruined region of Southern Elsweyr, and the people of this once-great kingdom fight to survive. The monstrous Dragon Kaalgrontiid, bolstered with all-new allies, returns more powerful than ever. In Dragonhold, you must stand with Sai Sahan, restore the Dragonguard, and together, finally put an end the Season of the Dragon year-long adventure!
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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: Dragonhold is the 38th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls Online: Harrowstorm in 2020. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.

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How it was received

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold launched on 21 October 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium and Persona 5 Royal. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal.

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When did The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold come out?
The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold was released on 21 October 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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