Open world · Story-rich games

Shivering Isles and the Daedric questlines hold up 20 years on — but a stutter-riddled UE5 port and a year of dev silence make this one to wait for on sale.

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Seamless zone-to-zone hunting and the Seikret beat World's moment-to-moment — but a thin roster and AMD crashes mean you should wait for a sale.

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The quest writing and side characters are why people replay it at 500 hours — it deserves the medieval-RPG crown, if you can live with save limits and slow travel.

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The combat rig and region-by-region exploration carry 300 hours; the main story and voice acting fall short — buy it for the world, skip if you need a plot.

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The 64-player infantry flow is the closest thing to BF3 since BF3 — but you die behind cover often enough that it's only worth it on sale.

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Dual-wielding a wand and a flintlock is genuinely great — but the open world is empty and the choices never branch, so it misses the Obsidian reactivity you came for.

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Still the best-value RPG on Steam — Complete is $10 over base for $25 of expansions. Check your OS first: the next patch drops Windows 10 and DirectX 11.

• Updated 11d ago

Solo and duos both work now — the launch reviews calling solo a death sentence are a year stale. Still worth $39.99 if you can live with six months of silence.

• Updated 11d ago

Free Lanes finally fixed the space travel — you can cruise between planets now — but the procedural planets and the weak main story are untouched.

• Updated 11d ago