The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition contains the full game plus all three expansions and over 500 pieces of unique content from Creation Club, including pre-existing and new quests, dungeons…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is an adventure developed by Bethesda Game Studios, released 11 November 2021 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
What The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is an adventure game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and released in 2021. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Creation Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The adventure unfolds in Skyrim, a cold and mountainous province in the north of the continent of Tamriel, divided into nine holds and long regarded as the ancestral homeland of the Nords. The once-mighty Empire that rules the land has been left weakened by a brutal war, and civil unrest simmers between imperial loyalists and rebels. The story begins with the player captured by imperial soldiers and mistakenly marked for execution alongside the rebel leader Ulfric Stormcloak. The grim proceedings are shattered when a fearsome dragon named Alduin descends upon the outpost, and in the chaos the player escapes. Soon after, upon slaying a dragon and absorbing its very soul, the player is…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is the 48th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was Skyrim Anniversary Edition + Fallout 4 G.O.T.Y. Bundle in 2021. Its critic score of 84 is 7 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.
How it was received
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Players rate it 90, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition launched on 11 November 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
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