The Elder Scrolls® Online
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This action RPG MMORPG, released in 2017, offers a vast open fantasy world. Developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks, it has garnered 133,136 Steam reviews with an 81% positive rating. The game focuses on adventure and exploration within its expansive setting.
Overview
The Elder Scrolls® Online is a 2017 Action game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. On Steam it has gathered 133,309 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer ZeniMax Online Studios with publisher Bethesda Softworks is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.4 million to 14.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Elder Scrolls® Online can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
133,309
Positive
81%
Steam appid
306130
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.06.4M to 14.9M
units (median: 10.7M)
≈ $73.1M to $170.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Elder Scrolls® Online at roughly 6.4 million to 14.9 million copies, with a median around 10.7 million, derived from its 133,309 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $121.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.53Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.53 to $19.99, averaging $18.35 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.53 on 2026-05-13.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
RPGMMORPGOpen WorldFantasyAdventureMultiplayerExplorationSingleplayerMassively MultiplayerActionCharacter CustomizationPvPPvELore-RichStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureClass-BasedMagicAction RPGAtmospheric
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Elder Scrolls® Online sold?
- indielist estimates The Elder Scrolls® Online has sold between 6,398,832 and 14,930,608 units (median 10,664,720), derived from its 133,309 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Elder Scrolls® Online?
- The Elder Scrolls® Online was developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
- When was The Elder Scrolls® Online released?
- The Elder Scrolls® Online was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does The Elder Scrolls® Online have on Steam?
- The Elder Scrolls® Online has 133,309 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Elder Scrolls® Online within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, ZeniMax Online Studios's other releases and Bethesda Softworks's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Elder Scrolls® Online sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Elder Scrolls® Online page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.