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The Elder Scrolls: Arena

Bethesda Softworks · 2022-04-26

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ActionRPG

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

Releases: Apr 26, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 25, 1994 (DOS)

THE LEGEND BEGINS

80%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
88/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (56 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a 1994 action role-playing game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. The first game in the Elder Scrolls series, it was released for MS-DOS on March 25, 1994. The game follows the player trying to uncover a conspiracy against Emperor Uriel Septim VII.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 263 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~33/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 20,166 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

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12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Details

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Census log

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Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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