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What is the best Bethesda Game Studios game?

By YPB Team

Some of these worlds swallowed a thousand hours of players' lives; others launched to a storm of patch notes and still divide the fanbase.

  1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — ranked #11
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
    Open-world fantasy RPG released on 11 November 2011, set in the province of Skyrim during a civil war and the return of dragons.
    1000pts
  2. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind — ranked #22
    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
    RPG released in 2002 on the island of Vvardenfell, the first game made under the Bethesda Game Studios name.
    750pts
  3. Fallout 3 — ranked #33
    Fallout 3
    Post-apocalyptic RPG released in October 2008, set in the Capital Wasteland around Washington, D.C., and Bethesda's first Fallout game.
    611pts
  4. Fallout 4 — ranked #44
    Fallout 4
    Post-apocalyptic RPG released in November 2015, set in the Commonwealth around Boston and adding settlement building to the series.
    611pts
  5. Starfield — ranked #55
    Starfield
    Space-exploration RPG released in September 2023, the studio's first new original universe in 25 years.
    500pts
  6. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion — ranked #66
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
    Fantasy RPG released in March 2006 in which the player closes Oblivion gates opening across the province of Cyrodiil.
    357pts
  7. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall — ranked #77
    The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
    First-person RPG released by Bethesda Softworks in 1996, with a procedurally generated game world roughly the size of Great Britain.
    357pts
  8. The Elder Scrolls: Blades — ranked #88
    The Elder Scrolls: Blades
    Free-to-play dungeon-crawler for mobile, launched in early access in 2019 and later ported to Nintendo Switch.
    357pts
  9. Fallout 76 — ranked #99
    Fallout 76
    Online multiplayer Fallout game released in November 2018, set in West Virginia and reworked with NPCs in the 2020 Wastelanders update.
    167pts
  10. Fallout Shelter — ranked #1010
    Fallout Shelter
    Free-to-play vault-management game co-developed with Behaviour Interactive and released for mobile in June 2015.
    167pts
  11. The Elder Scrolls: Arena — ranked #1111
    The Elder Scrolls: Arena
    The 1994 Bethesda Softworks RPG that started The Elder Scrolls series, spanning the whole continent of Tamriel.
    167pts

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