Games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
If The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its epic, immersive and nostalgic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open-world RPG developed by Bethesda Game Studios and released in 2011. The game features skill-based progression, branching quests, home-base customization, and extensive modding support. Players describe the experience as epic, immersive, nostalgic, and whimsical, with reviewers highlighting dragon battles as cinematic moments. The freedom to build any class and join various factions provides significant replayability, while the sheer volume of side quests and activities keeps players engaged for hundreds of hours. The modding community has continuously expanded the game, with players noting that modifications can completely reinvent the experience. Skyrim is playable on Steam Deck and holds a 92% positive rating from over 101,000 Steam reviews, priced at $19.99.
About The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Second-strongest match for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
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Shares skill based progression and a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Third-strongest match for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
Dragon's Dogma 2
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Ranked #4 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Ranked #5 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
Block Story™
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Ranked #6 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Two Worlds Epic Edition
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Ranked #7 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
... 300 years after Aziraal has been banished, a brother and sister are drawn into the conflict which has flared up between the Orcs and the free world. Kyra, the hero's younger sister, suddenly disappears in mysterious circumstances.«...If my family really belongs to the chosen ones, why then have we always been as poor as church mice?
Divinity II: Developer's Cut
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Ranked #8 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Dragons: they have been hunted, they have been slain, but now the hour to strike back has come.
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GreedFall
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception and force, become part of a living, evolving world - influence its course and shape your story.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving.
ELDEN RING
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Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
Mass Effect (2007)
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
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Shares an immersive mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!
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Fallout: New Vegas
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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Noita
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Priced ~60% under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam right now.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Persona 4 Golden
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Priced ~50% under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
DREDGE
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Priced ~46% under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Brotato
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Priced ~75% under The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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NGU IDLE
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Fallout 4
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Starfield
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Shares an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Fallout 76
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Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
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Shares quest branching, open world exploration and an epic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
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Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
WHY THIS
Shares skill based progression and a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Another title from Bethesda Game Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shares RPG with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
Frequently asked about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Does The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim run on Steam Deck?
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim cost?
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009).
- Who developed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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