TES IV: Oblivion Remastered Sees Over 180K Concurrent Players on Launch Day

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered hit a peak of 182,298 concurrent players on Steam on release day. On top of that, according to SteamDB, the game also reached a peak number of 460,946 viewers on launch day.

The remastered fourth chapter of The Elder Scrolls series became the fourth-most-played game on Steam on its release day, April 22, 2025, behind only Counter-Strike 2, PUBG and Dota 2. As of the time of writing, the title featured a “Very Positive” rating on Steam with 9,110 reviews.

Such stats make The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered the second-highest peak of any single-player game that has been released in 2025, second only to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Notably, though, the second part of Kingdom Come: Deliverance reached a peak of 256,206 concurrent players on Steam only five days after its launch.

In comparison with not just single-player releases, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered entered the top ten of new games launched in 2025 by peak online player count on Steam:

• Monster Hunter Wilds — 1,384,608
• Schedule I — 459,075
• R.E.P.O. — 271,571
• Split Fiction — 259,003
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — 256,206
• Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced — 187,059
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — 182,298
• Bongo Cat — 166,768
• FragPunk — 113,946
• inZOI — 87,377

It is worth noting that Steam stats don’t paint a complete picture, as Oblivion Remastered was simultaneously launched on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 besides Steam. On top of that, the game was dropped on Xbox Game Pass within the Ultimate subscription plan.

Oblivion Remastered, developed by Paris-based port studio Virtuos in collaboration with Bethesda on Unreal Engine 5, runs at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second and features improvements in the leveling systems, combat animations, in-game menus and character creation. Also, the game got lots of new dialogue lines, a proper third-person view and new lip-sync technology.