The game is currently very unstable without mods or extensive workarounds, until the game is patched to a point of being playable I cannot recommend it.

They took the time to censor statues, only female characters and change male and female to body type A and B. Yet did not take the time to fix 20 year old bugs and performance issues.

Examples: the hitching when traversing the open world. Or the memory leak issues when playing the game for long play sessions.

There are also new bugs that have been introduced from the implementation of Unreal Engine 5. Such as light spells not working correctly in first person view, the lockpicking mini game sensitivity is bugged, The character height keeps changing, The game crashing with archery at level 75 or higher due to the paralyse chance causing the crashing, Alchemy can cause crashing; and for me there is the occasional Unreal Engine 5 crash window from long sessions of playing the game.

It has been a month since the release of the game. There has been zero patches for the game on PC Steam. And no communication from Bethesda themselves whether or not a patch is on the way. Welcome to lazy western triple A gaming.

My specs:

>PNY RTX 5090 Triple Fan OC
>Ryzen 9 9950X3D
>Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB 6000MHz CL30 DDR5
>Samsung 9100 Pro NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD 4TB
>Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Wifi DDR5 Motherboard (Bios 1401)
>Asus ROG Thor Platinum III 1200W PSU
>Asus ROG Ryujin III 360 Extreme Liquid Cooler
>Asus XG349C UWQHD 144Hz FreeSync HDR IPS Curved 34 inch Monitor (G-Sync compatible)
>OS Windows 11 24H2

I love the game, but 20 FPS in the open world on medium settings on a 3060ti ain't it chief. Fix your game.

So let me get this straight: this game is pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pile of trash. If you, like me, somehow fell into the ✨nostalgia trap✨, then please accept my condolences. I'd say it's pretty safe for everyone else to stay out and save their brain cells count.


- It looks beautiful. lighting in this game is superb, new models are good, and spell effects are solid.*

- They fixed the leveling system! Now you get a fixed amount of attribute points per level, that makes a HUGE difference because the leveling system in the original game was obnoxious and could easily leave you severely underpowered. On top of that, all skills contribute to your level up gains now, not just major ones, increasing the hard level cap.*

- Combat feels way more satisfying with new animations.*

- Updated third-person perspective is actually playable unlike the original!


* - It may look beautiful but it runs like ♥♥♥♥, FPS can be all over the place, stutters are insane no matter what rig you have. It's also inconsistent.
••• Snow for one leaves much to be desired, which is still a mystery to me as to why considering you spend a hefty chunk of the game time in snowy locations and I don't understand why zero attention was directed there.
••• There's also argument to be made that the original game came out in the age of "piss filter" games and it was a breath of fresh air with its vibrant oversaturated colors, which are totally missing here. It looks washed out, they could've at least given an OPTION with the original colors.
••• Oh, and the animations. Yeah, they're an improvement over the original, but it's not really a merit, they just suck a bit less.

* - That's the ONLY thing they fixed about leveling, and it's still broken.
••• Luck is particularly a questionable choice, now if you want to get your luck to 100 you better start sacrificing your attribute points into it each level as soon as possible. And with minor skills also leveling you up, it's easy as ever to fall into the "leveled up too much before going to Kvatch" trap, especially for those unaware poor souls.
••• Those infamous leveled items? Still untouched, still suck.
••• Most of the skill perks were revamped, and a lot of those choices feel like Bethesda just hates fun. Bring back knockdown arrows and power attacks!!! Also what's up with weight of your boots affecting stealth now on all sneak levels?
••• New rules for gaining experience to skills are all over the place as well. It's so easy to level up Destruction now, unlike in the original game where it was a nightmare. But at the same time leveling up sneak without using cheese starts is outright impossible. I have 64 hours in the game on Steam alone, and that's after transferring my saves from the Game Pass version. I sneak all the time. And I had sneak level 59. 59!!!! So i HAD to use the new AMAZING game design choice of "opening and closing the steal prompt non-stop" which somehow level ups your sneak very fast, you don't even have to actually steal anything. Why don't sneak attacks level you up faster?? It makes no sense????

* - It feels that way, but it still sucks. There's not much to be said there, it's still the same combat from Oblivion 2006, and that was bad even then. Not looking forward to Morrowind Remastered (shadowdrop).

- The game is a buggy mess, and I mean OH BOY. Like, they BARELY fixed ANY bugs that were in the original, and they sure as hell added a MYRIAD of the new ones. I swear I find a new one every 20-60 minutes, and that's still happening. EVERYTHING is bugged.
••• Graphics is bugged. Try chameleon, lmao, or the annoying "shield sticks to your hand if you have a torch equipped" one.
••• Interface is bugged.
••• Saves can get bugged, that's actually why I had to transfer from the Game Pass.
••• Some quests are bugged, like literally the first quest in Kvatch is bugged, way to go.
••• AI is bugged, sometimes enemies just don't fight back or walk into walls.
••• Skills are bugged. Oh the elusive x1 sneak attack damage that noone seems to know how to reproduce, it just happens.
••• And my favorite bug of Schrödinger's Oblivion Gates. Sometimes they appear on the map prematurely, sometimes even before you go to Kvatch, sometimes it's the whole gate and sometimes it's just an icon on the map, and they disappear after the save load.
••• There's too many bugs to count. And the best part? It's been 3 weeks since release without a SINGLE patch.

- The interface is unbearable.
••• The local map is hidden inside the overworld map, and you have to zoom in. You have a workaround for that on kb+m where you can do it once and then use TAB to get into the same local map menu until you have to go into another menu, then you have to repeat the process. Why is that even a thing!! Accessing the local map is a NECESSITY because dungeon layouts aged as well as you'd expect from a 2006 game, I'm pretty sure the original game actually had a shortcut for local map. And there's no workaround on gamepad.
••• Accessing save menu on gamepad is also hell.
••• Checking item's enchantments is a nightmare, you will feel that especially well when you try to reroll your Sigil Stones from Oblivion Gates.
••• Trading interface is awful, even worse on gamepad.
••• Looting pop-up doesn't even show your carried weight unless you open the detailed menu, that's such a stupid oversight I can't even believe it's in the game.
••• There's definitely more issues, but I'm already overwhelmed bringing them up so let's move on.

- Barely any QoL.
••• Still no way to hide your helmet for fashion.
••• No fast travel from inside dungeons/houses.
••• No ring equip shortcut bound to a specific ring slot for hotswap.
••• No multiple quicksave slots.
••• The game could also benefit from a separate shortcut wheel for spells.
••• Probably some other stuff I'm missing at this time.


This is a very very undercooked version of the already VERY flawed game from 2006. Four years in development my ass, it feels like 4 weeks of vibe-coding with UE5 default assets. Hats off to the 3D designers who made those atrocities they mistakenly called Argonians and Khajits in the original look this dandy in the Remaster, but that's exactly where my excitement ends.

If you're a new player, skip this, don't let the curiosity get the best of you, definitely not for the $50 price tag. This mess of a shadowdrop should be $30 at most and that's without a sale, and then it's not the kinda experience you're really missing out on in 2025, there're better games out there and not much time to play them.

If you're a returning player, well then we never deserved happiness I guess, given how the game was already a mess in 2006, and it's even a messier mess now in 2025, spiced up by the "aging" mechanic. And it certainly didn't age well. You may have fun out of it, but if you haven't yet decided to grab this game and need a second opinion - then don't buy it. Again, at the very least wait for patches and sales.

I was having the time of my life for 50 hours and out of nowhere it's crashing on start up. 120 seconds in, no matter whether I've loaded a save or let it sit on the title menu, it will crash. "GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs." Nothing has worked to fix it and even uninstalling and reinstalling didn't fix it. So, great game IF it works and continues to work, otherwise it's a $50 waste of time. I don't like to gamble, do you?

As of 5/12/25 the games optimization and overall performance has TANKED. I dont know if it coincides with the nvidia drivers update today but i was having trouble getting past the main menu and into my character save because the game couldnt load anything. Get into my character save and hop into an oblivion gate, I get punched by a storm atronach and it locks my computer up and i have to hard restart. With 2+ weeks of playing with pretty much zero problems, i just want to know what happened because within a month your game has gone from being awesome and a great experience to un-launchable.

Edit: It in fact was the Nvidia driver update. Restored back to previous drivers and everything runs fine with no frame drops or crashing. Hope this helps out anyone else having the same or similar problems.

Very fun, and major improvement over the original in many ways, but I cannot currently recommend it as I am experiencing frequent crashes.

Too many performance issues and crashes.

Bethesda/Virtuos sneakily added censorship that did not exist in the original game, and of course they failed to disclose it.
I will never endorse or reward any company for censoring games. Doesn't even matter if the game is good or not, it's a matter of principle. Don't normalize censorship. Refunded.

Holy Crap!! How is a company that has so many developers and funding could release a "Remaster" game with so many bugs and issues!?!?!? Bethesda is such a dog s**t company. Seriously, how the F**k you guys can't get this sh*t right after 15-20 years?!?!?! 4070TI and running constant frame drops from 120 to 50s; crashes often. Just unacceptable.