Some of these worlds swallowed a thousand hours of players' lives; others launched to a storm of patch notes and still divide the fanbase.
1The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimOpen-world fantasy RPG released on 11 November 2011, set in the province of Skyrim during a civil war and the return of dragons.1000pts
2The Elder Scrolls III: MorrowindRPG released in 2002 on the island of Vvardenfell, the first game made under the Bethesda Game Studios name.750pts
3Fallout 3Post-apocalyptic RPG released in October 2008, set in the Capital Wasteland around Washington, D.C., and Bethesda's first Fallout game.611pts
4Fallout 4Post-apocalyptic RPG released in November 2015, set in the Commonwealth around Boston and adding settlement building to the series.611pts
5StarfieldSpace-exploration RPG released in September 2023, the studio's first new original universe in 25 years.500pts
6The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionFantasy RPG released in March 2006 in which the player closes Oblivion gates opening across the province of Cyrodiil.357pts
7The Elder Scrolls II: DaggerfallFirst-person RPG released by Bethesda Softworks in 1996, with a procedurally generated game world roughly the size of Great Britain.357pts
8The Elder Scrolls: BladesFree-to-play dungeon-crawler for mobile, launched in early access in 2019 and later ported to Nintendo Switch.357pts
9Fallout 76Online multiplayer Fallout game released in November 2018, set in West Virginia and reworked with NPCs in the 2020 Wastelanders update.167pts
10Fallout ShelterFree-to-play vault-management game co-developed with Behaviour Interactive and released for mobile in June 2015.167pts
11The Elder Scrolls: ArenaThe 1994 Bethesda Softworks RPG that started The Elder Scrolls series, spanning the whole continent of Tamriel.167pts




















