The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr

Dragons return to Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, part of the Season of the Dragon year-long adventure! Explore sun-blessed savannahs and canyons, defend the Khajiiti homeland, and command the…

78 21 May 2019

Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy Open world

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

Verified 18 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr is

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr 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). It runs on HeroEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dragons return to Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, part of the Season of the Dragon year-long adventure! Explore sun-blessed savannahs and canyons, defend the Khajiiti homeland, and command the merciless undead with the Necromancer class in this all-new Chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online saga!

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and open world. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.

Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr is the 36th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. It arrived 7 months after The Elder Scrolls Online: Murkmire. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls Online: Scalebreaker in 2019. Its critic score of 78 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.

See all 62 The Elder Scrolls games in release order →

How it was received

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr launched on 21 May 2019, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Rage 2 and Call of Duty: Mobile. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. 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: A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Rage 2, Call of Duty: Mobile.

Cheats and codes

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