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

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition

The award-winning fantasy role-playing series, The Elder Scrolls, goes online. Experience the world of Tamriel on your own, or together with friends, guild mates, and thousands of other players. The Elder…

78 9 September 2016 ESRB M

What The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition is

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition 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 Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game is set on the continent of Tamriel during the Second Era, but not all places in Tamriel are playable. The events of the game occur a millennium before those of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and around 800 years before The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Its structure is broadly similar to Skyrim, with two separate conflicts progressing at the same time, one with the fate of the world in the balance, and one where the prize is supreme power on Tamriel. In The Elder Scrolls Online, the first struggle is against the Daedric Prince Molag Bal, who is attempting to meld the plane of Mundus with his realm of Coldharbour, and the second is to capture the…

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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition is the 22nd of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition in 2016. 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.

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How it was received

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition 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 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition launched on 9 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Forza Horizon 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Forza Horizon 3.

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