They stay so true to the original game that even the sudden FPS drops when transitioning to a new location are faithfully recreated.

Pope died for this

Was riding a horse, tripped over a rock and flew into the sky...ahhh just how I like it

I remember the first time I played Oblivion.
It was December 26th, 2006. I was thirteen, my soul hungry for wonder, my heart still unaware of the weight nostalgia can carry.
That day, my mother gave me a Christmas gift.
A simple disc. A green case for my old Xbox 360.
But it wasn’t just a game.
It was the beginning of something.
It was Oblivion.

I installed it, turned on the console... and it was as if the real world disappeared.
I spent every hour of that day lost in Cyrodiil.
Snowy mountains, mysterious woods, ruins caught halfway between dream and nightmare.
I wasn’t playing it—I was living it.

And then… so many runs. So many new characters, new choices, restarts just for the sheer joy of starting over.
I knew every trick, every shortcut, every glitch.
And without any guide—when the internet was still a slow, rare whisper—I achieved 100% completion.
It was my world.
It was home.

Every now and then, my mother would sit beside me.
She’d watch the screen in silence.
She came from Donkey Kong 3, so to her, this was like glimpsing the future.
I still remember that one time... I handed her the controller, let her fight in the Arena.
She lost. She laughed.
She wasn’t made for that world, but... she liked being there.
She liked seeing me in it.
It was my refuge.
It was our small bridge.

And now, 19 years later, I go back.
The world has changed. I have changed. I’m 31 now.
And she… she’s no longer here.

And yet, playing the remaster feels like... like opening a window into the past.
The graphics are new, but the heart remains untouched.
Every tree, every sound, every line of dialogue speaks in a language only the soul remembers.
It’s the voice of childhood.
It’s the whisper of my mother laughing once more after losing that Arena fight.

Oblivion is not just a game.
It’s a time machine.
It’s a second chance to touch, even for a moment, what we thought was lost.

And as the sun rises over Cyrodiil, I remain there.
Fingers on the keyboard...
And a tear I cannot tell—if it’s sorrow or gratitude.

I have never written a review on Steam before, but I feel compelled to do so for this game.

In 2008, seventeen years ago, my mom took me to a GameStop after a rather grueling orthodontist appointment. I was allowed to pick out a game to buy. I wasn’t sure what to get, but the associate working there gave me a recommendation: a relatively recent game packed full of fantastical adventure, a game where you could go anywhere and do anything. I wish I could thank that associate for what he gave me, because, of course, that game was Oblivion.

It’s hard to put into words just how important Oblivion is to me. It was my first "real" game as a kid and truly what made me fall in love with video games as an art form. Beyond that, I credit it for sparking my lifelong love of fantasy and medieval settings. Maybe it sounds weird or a little cringe, but Oblivion is foundational to who I am today.

As time marched on and gaming standards evolved, Oblivion aged and not gracefully (even worse than Morrowind, in my opinion). I found it harder and harder to go back to it. I tried to replay it several times but kept bouncing off. The years had worn heavily on this beloved game from my childhood. At times, I even wondered if I could still confidently say I liked Oblivion, since I found it so difficult to revisit. Was it all just nostalgia?

This remaster has given Oblivion back to me.
It fixes all the issues that made me bounce off the game so many times before. It's no longer an early-2000s 3D bloomfest, it looks gorgeous. It no longer feels like you’re floating through the world, smacking enemies with a pool noodle; now, you feel present, tangibly part of the world. The punishing min-maxing system is gone; you can actually play the builds you want to play.
And the incredible part is: it fixes all of this without changing what the game fundamentally is.
If you played this version without ever touching the 2006 original, I wouldn't consider your experience "less than." This is Oblivion, through and through.

This remaster has validated my feelings about Oblivion. I do still love this game to death. It had just aged so poorly that I struggled to enjoy it. That’s no longer an issue, because this remaster has brought all of that magic back to me.

2025 hasn’t been a great year for me so far. I've been in a pretty unhappy place for most of it.
As corny as it might sound, this game has honestly given me a lot of happiness. Beyond just playing it, I’ve had so much fun talking about it with other people. The whole rollout, the leaks, the reveal stream, the shadowdrop, is something I think will go down as one of my favorite memories ever.

It’s clear this game was made by people who loved Oblivion as much as I did, and that love shines through in every facet. To me, this remaster is more than just a fresh coat of paint on a 20-year-old RPG. It's a reminder, at least in part, of how I became who I am today.

Oblivion Remastered really does mean the world to me, and I’m so excited to spend several hundred more hours in Cyrodiil.

It's still Oblivion. The graphics have surpassed my wildest expectations, but it's still Oblivion. The UI is so much cleaner, the gameplay is smoother, and the combat is more fun. But it's still Oblivion. This is the benchmark for a remaster, and I couldn't be happier.

For those wondering. You do NOT need to buy the Deluxe edition to get the original dlc ( shivering isle, knights of the nine etc). Despite the borderline false advertisement shown above, the standard edition includes all the OG dlc including the original horse armour.

Despite this BS practice, the game itself is very well done. There are issues, crashes UI flaws such as the alchemy UI which i think is dumb. I do recommend it but I would wait a week or 2 for them to fix the major crashes. I mean its a 20 year old game, whats 2 more weeks.

exited sewers
got achievement
game crashed...
we're so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ back

this is like seeing those "XXXX REMADE IN UNREAL ENGINE" videos turned into an actual game and its actually good

I was just 15 or 16 when I first played Oblivion. I still remember the feeling of stepping out of the prison sewers into that wide-open world—the light, the trees, the music. Back then, I had nothing but time. I’d play all day, get lost in quests, wander through Cyrodiil without a care in the world. It wasn’t just a game; it was my escape, my adventure, my second home.

Now I’m 28. Life is different. Work, responsibilities, barely a few hours to spare. But when I saw the remastered version, something inside me stirred—like an old friend calling me back. And the moment I launched it, I was 16 again.

The improved visuals are beautiful, but what really hit me was the emotion. The nostalgia. The memories. Every town, every ruin, every track on the soundtrack—it all brought me back to a simpler time, when magic felt real and the world was mine to explore.

I may not have the time I used to, but even just an hour in Oblivion Remastered is enough to remind me who I was... and why I fell in love with gaming in the first place.

Thank you for bringing this back. It means more than you know.

11/10 – From a grown-up kid who never really left Cyrodiil.