Summary

  • Oblivion Remastered is finally here, and you can buy it right now for £50 or play it for free with Xbox Game Pass.
  • Original voice lines have been kept, but new ones have also been recorded to better fit each race. Combat and gameplay have also been revamped, with an improved third-person camera and even sprinting.
  • Old minigames, however, remain unchanged. You can still improve your standing with NPCs (or nosedive your reputation, if you're not careful), while lockpicking is true to the original game, rather than adopting a system akin to Skyrim.

Bethesda put years of rumour and speculation to bed yesterday, confirming that the Oblivion remake is real. Sure, all we got was a vague close-up of the "Hero" wearing an Imperial Guard's helmet (somehow less than the mountain range from The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser), but even the letters 'IV' were enough to stir the community into an excited fervour.

But finally, we can stop going back and forth over when The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered will be released. It's available right now on PC, PS5, and Xbox for £50, or you can play it for free with Game Pass.

We got a lot more to chew on today (including the game itself). During the dedicated showcase, Bethesda gave us a grand tour of Virtuos' revamped Cyrodiil, remade partly in Unreal Engine 5 as leaks suggested.

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The remake features modern combat inspired by Skyrim, sprinting (finally), an improved third-person camera, next-gen visuals, and updated lip-syncing tech. There's even newly recorded dialogue to better fit each race, although Virtuos ensured it kept the original's "quirky" writing.

And yes, Wes Johnson is back.

Lockpicking has also been kept as it was, rather than adopting the newer approach from Fallout and Skyrim, and you can still manipulate every NPC with the dialogue wheel minigame.

Is The DLC Included In Oblivion Remastered?

If you've been following the leaks (of which there are a lot, so kudos), you might have seen the incredibly fuzzy deluxe edition splash screen that leaked from the Virtuos website. Don't worry, you won't need to buy that version (which costs £59.99) to access all the DLC. As broken down on the Steam page, the base version of the remake includes Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, "and additional downloadable content".

And as fans were able to glean from those fuzzy pictures, the deluxe edition does indeed come with horse armour. There are new quests that unlock "unique Akatosh & Mehrunes Dagon armors, weapons, & horse armor sets.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Like Follow Followed Action RPG Open-World Adventure Systems OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 82/100 Critics Rec: 87% Released April 22, 2025 ESRB Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Violence Developer(s) Virtuos, Bethesda Publisher(s) Bethesda 6 Images Close
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