Summary

  • Bethesda released an overhauled Oblivion Remaster with visual improvements and new quests.
  • The game had the second-biggest single-player launch on Steam in 2025, peaking at 182,298 players.
  • While multiplayer games still have higher peaks, Oblivion Remaster may surpass Skyrim's peak soon.

Yesterday, after three years of leaks and rumors that ramped up over the last few months, Bethesda officially revealed and released The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster.

More than a simple remaster, though, Virtuous overhauled the game's visuals, added new quests, new voice lines, a bunch of quality-of-life changes, and introduced character origins to the almost 20-year-old title.

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This effort doesn't seem to have been in vain either, as combined with the community's thirst for more Elder Scrolls, the Oblivion Remaster has had the second-biggest single-player launch of 2025 so far, at least on Steam.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Gets Off To A Stellar Start On Steam

Mere hours after the Oblivion remaster launched, the game rushed to the highest of first-day highs on Steam with a peak of 182,298 players jumping into the game at the same time, according to SteamDB. This is the second-highest peak of any single-player game that has been released this year, behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's 256,206.

Notably, though, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 didn't peak until the weekend, reaching its highs five days after the game launched. On launch day, Warhorse Studios' RPG managed a peak of 159,351, meaning if the Oblivion remaster continues on the same trajectory, it should beat KCD2 on Sunday evening. Not bad for a 20-year-old game.

There are a handful of multiplayer games that have, at least at this point, outdone the Oblivion remaster. Monster Hunter Wilds has had the biggest launch of the year, and will take some beating, peaking at almost 1.4 million players (the fifth-highest peak of any game on Steam, ever), but other games like Split Fiction and indie darling Schedule 1 have, so far, reached higher heights.

2025's Biggest Game Releases:

Steam Peak Concurrent Player Count

Monster Hunter Wilds

1,384,608

Schedule 1

459,075

Mecha Break Demo

317,522

R.E.P.O

271571

Split Fiction

259,003

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

256,206

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

182,298

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster also still has a little way to go if it plans to beat Skyrim's peak, with the oft-memed title hitting 287,411 players 13 years ago. With the adoption rate of the Oblivion remaster, however, it would be no major surprise to see it surpass its successor at the weekend.

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Action RPG Open-World Adventure Systems 19 8.5/10 OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 82/100 Critics Rec: 86% Released April 22, 2025 ESRB Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Violence Developer(s) Virtuos, Bethesda Publisher(s) Bethesda Engine Unreal Engine 5
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