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An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire cover art

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

Bethesda Softworks · 2022-04-26

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ActionRPG

Franchise: The Elder Scrolls · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: 1997 (DOS), Apr 26, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

TRAPPED IN THE REALM OF DARKNESS

68%
positive of 214 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
52/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
7
Nexus mods (2.6k downloads)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks for MS-DOS. Set in the universe of The Elder Scrolls franchise, players navigate the titular Battlespire and planes of Oblivion to find and defeat Mehrunes Dagon, before his armies invade the world of Tamriel. Following the release of Daggerfall in 1996, Battlespire was first conceived as an expansion pack to the game, and adapted into a spin-off title set in The Elder Scrolls universe, alongside The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard. Led by Elder Scrolls developer Julian Le Fay, it was designed with a smaller scope and linear level design. The game featured several novel mechanics not seen in previous titles, including the addition of a multiplayer mode.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 29 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 28,583 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–9.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 214 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.39-60%
Microsoft Store$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.29 at GOG (2018-08-17) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 49 of 129 observed days · $1.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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111120222026Week of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$1.492015-08-272026-10-152015-08-27 — best price $5.992016-12-29 — best price $5.992018-08-21 — best price $5.992019-06-18 — best price $5.992020-03-30 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $5.992022-04-29 — best price $2.392022-10-04 — best price $2.682022-12-22 — best price $2.552023-02-15 — best price $5.222023-03-20 — best price $2.992023-05-12 — best price $2.552023-07-04 — best price $5.992023-08-09 — best price $2.992023-11-29 — best price $4.972024-01-16 — best price $5.992024-03-11 — best price $1.962024-04-19 — best price $1.962024-06-11 — best price $2.392024-08-05 — best price $2.092024-10-11 — best price $2.152024-12-16 — best price $1.912025-03-03 — best price $5.992025-04-04 — best price $1.882025-06-02 — best price $5.222025-07-11 — best price $5.162025-08-26 — best price $2.392025-10-19 — best price $5.162025-11-21 — best price $2.042026-01-03 — best price $5.992026-02-11 — best price $5.162026-03-12 — best price $2.092026-04-10 — best price $1.902026-05-04 — best price $5.992026-06-04 — best price $2.392026-07-06 — best price $2.062026-07-31 — best price $5.312026-09-21 — best price $5.992026-10-15 — best price $2.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGGoreActionNudityClassicFantasyViolentAction RPGStory RichFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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