First reported by Eurogamer, Bethesda has publicly celebrated over 4 million gamers testing its recently-launched remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Alongside Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, the remaster has turned an otherwise-quiet April into growth occasions for RPG followers.
Bethesda broke the information by tweeting the next message on X, “The All the pieces App”: “We’re so grateful to the over 4 million of you which have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thanks!”
We’re so grateful to the over 4 million of you which have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thanks! pic.twitter.com/Fz1lo7XZtMApril 25, 2025
Within the context of Xbox’s Sport Cross service, that quantity is not going to be one-to-one with full value gross sales, however it nonetheless signifies a shocking success for the sport total. Absent celebratory messages like these, the top-selling and concurrent participant depend charts on Steam and SteamDB are one of many few concrete methods we’ve got of figuring out a recreation’s gross sales success, however they’re solely a part of the image for a multiplatform launch.
Oblivion’s presence on PC Sport Cross would not appear to have harm its straight up PC gross sales all that a lot, although. It presently has the fourth-highest participant depend on the platform in response to each Steam charts and SteamDB, nearing 200,000 gamers on the time of writing. It is also primary on Steam’s official prime sellers record, and quantity two on the SteamDB finest promoting tracker.
Each assess video games by total income (importantly, not variety of models bought) over a set time period—24 hours for Steam’s official depend, with further scoring weight utilized to gross sales prior to now three hours, in response to Steamworks documentation. The truth that it is total income, together with DLC and microtransactions, explains how weapon pores and skin micro-economy Counter-Strike 2 and the $400+ Steam Deck stay perennial fixtures, whereas SteamDB could weight latest gross sales in a barely completely different trend, explaining the swapped positions of CS2 and Oblivion.
Which is all very fascinating to me, and a useful indicator of how Steam concurrents and finest promoting standing relate to total gross sales success for the multiplatform, Sport Cross-accessible video games popping out of Microsoft. Additionally, I suppose the folks wished extra Elder Scrolls. Who might have guessed?
Regardless of some actually demanding graphics as demonstrated by PCG {hardware} lead Dave James, in addition to atrocious stuttering outlined by Digital Foundry, I’ve personally been having a good time on this reinterpretation of my favourite Elder Scrolls recreation.