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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition

2016

Audio: German, Polish, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Russian, English · Subtitles: French, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Chinese, English, German

  • role-playing (rpg)
  • adventure
  • action
  • fantasy
  • historical
  • sandbox
  • open world
  • single player

The story

Skyrim special edition is a remaster of the classic from 2011. Now with upgraded visuals. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionises the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

What it’s like

Snow-dusted pine forests and wind-scoured mountain passes under shifting skies, with long golden-hour sweeps across valleys and the cold blue glow of northern dusk. The Special Edition's upgraded lighting softens the rendering so torchlit longhouses, mossy ruins and frost on stone feel warm against the chill, and the grassy plains and rolling highlands open out wide enough to get lost in. Its score is a stately, choral fantasy theme that thins to plucked strings and wind when you wander alone, while the ambient soundscape of birdsong, crackling fires and distant wolves carries the quiet. The vibe is expansive and unhurried, a wandering, self-directed calm punctuated by sudden skirmishes. Pacing is entirely up to the player: sessions can drift for hours through side quests, foraging, crafting and map-reading, with the main story as a loose thread. Intensity runs moderate: frequent sword, bow and spell combat against bandits, draugr and dragons, with bloody but bloodless-looking hits, no sexual content, and fear mostly in ambush moments rather than sustained dread. It suits comfort-play on a rainy Sunday, long solo evenings, or anyone who wants a sprawling world to disappear into at their own speed, especially players who enjoy building a character through exploration and mods.

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