Developed by Bethesda Game Studios in 2006, the new version of the game, thanks to Virtuos on Unreal Engine 5, has been a hit with the public…

Bethesda has announced on Twitter that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, released this week, has over four million players. This total includes sales on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series, as well as those playing through Xbox Game Pass. Add to that the latest major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3, the eighth, and it’s fair to say that April has been a month for RPG lovers.

We are so grateful to the over 4 million of you that have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/Fz1lo7XZtM

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) April 25, 2025

Of course, Xbox Game Pass skews the results here (as Atomfall, although it reached 2 million, was also released on Redmond’s subscription service), so this doesn’t equate to full-price sales, but it’s still an amazing success. Steam and SteamDB sales lists and concurrent player counts are one of the few concrete ways to determine a game’s sales success, but they are only part of the picture for a multiplatform release. However, Oblivion’s presence on PC Game Pass doesn’t seem to have hurt PC sales much. It currently has the fourth-highest player count on the platform, according to both Steam and SteamDB, and is also number one on Steam’s official sales list and number two on SteamDB’s sales list.

Both rank games based on total revenue (rather than the number of copies sold) over a specified period of time. Steam’s official calculation is 24 hours, and the Steamworks documentation says that sales in the last three hours are given extra credit. The fact that total revenue including DLCs and microtransactions is the measure explains how Counter-Strike 2’s Gun Economy and Steam Deck over $400 remain perpetual runners-up, while SteamDB may weight recent sales slightly differently, explaining the reversed positions of Counter-Strike 2 and the new Oblivion.

The lesson is clear: the audience has been waiting for a new The Elder Scrolls for almost ONE AND A HALF DECADES, since Skyrim came out in 2011…

Source: PCGamer, Steam, SteamDB,