2011 · Open World · RPG · Fantasy
How long isThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
by Bethesda Game Studios
88 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 29 hours and 215 hours
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim among the 293 open-world games here
The whole tier list#4
of 293
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 90%
- got past 2 hours
- +37 on the kind's 53%
- 67%
- past 20 hours
- +42 on the kind's 25%
- 97%
- launched it
- +30 on the kind's 67%
- 597
- libraries own it
- 1 in 4 of the 2,519 read here
Next to it in the ranking
An absurd bargain: 23¢ an hour, cheaper than 381 of 383 open-world games here.
84% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
91% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
93% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
94% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
95% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
96% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
96% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
96% recommend it past 500 hours
Does The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hold up?
Holds steady
At least 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim tell you?
In the first two hours84%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
5 in 100 said no: 5 after the window had closed.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 88 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 29 hours and 215 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 318,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 91% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 84% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 91% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 60 hours in.
When would you get there?
13weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 88 hours on Wednesday, February 10, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 29 and 215 hours: Dec 13 to Jun 17, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
The filter
Diplomatic Immunity
16 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold The Way of the Voice and never earned it.
How this is counted
89% of the players who launched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hold Unbound, its first story achievement on Steam, and 31% hold Dragonslayer, its last. The steepest drop comes between The Way of the Voice (65%) and Diplomatic Immunity (49%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Where did you leave it?
Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.
No Steam, or played it elsewhere?
Is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 88 h
- open-world game rate
- $2.27/h
- 88 h at that rate
- $200
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim worth it? Yes.
A steal
10× the hours of a typical open-world game, for the same money
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost open-world games: 86%
Gets played
97% of owners here have played itmost open-world games: 66%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 88 hours come to 23¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 23¢ an hour, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is cheaper per hour than 381 of 383 open-world games here: the typical one of 383 open-world games here charges $2.27, so the same $19.99 buys 10× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (open-world games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 3 more.
- PS32011
- Xbox 3602011
- todayPS42016remastered
- todayXbox One2016remastered
- todaySwitch2017remastered
- todayPC2017ported
- todaySteamVR2018ported
- todayXbox Series2021remastered
- todayPS52021remastered
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@eso holds this page
- 1st
@eso703 h - 2nd
@pr-xy379 h - 3rd
@ravage225 h - 4th
@drezel157 h - 5th
@poor-leno128 h - 6th
@hustensaftschmuggler111 h - 7th
@mossyotter97 h - 8th@slowspeaker97 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
- B
The middle pick of 10 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 4
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: a kind of game it is that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not, a feature its tags carry that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.