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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2011 open world action role-playing video game

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a 2011 video game that lets players explore a vast open world, create a character, and complete quests involving combat, magic, and dialogue choices. It became one of the most popular and influential games of its generation, known for its immersive setting and freedom to play the game in multiple ways.

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Metacritic 94

Released: 2011-11-11
User rating: 4.42 / 5
Genres: Action, RPG
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series S/X, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
ESRB: Mature

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), and was released worldwide for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011. Skyrim was developed using the Creation Engine. The team opted for a unique and more diverse open world than Oblivion's Imperial Province of Cyrodiil, which game director and executive producer Todd Howard considered less interesting by comparison.

The game is set 200 years after the events of Oblivion and takes place in Skyrim, the northernmost province of Tamriel, a continent on the planet Nirn. Its main story focuses on the player character, the Dragonborn, on their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon prophesied to destroy the world. Throughout the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel to discovered locations in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.