The Elder Scrolls Games, Ranked

The 2011 open-world juggernaut sold over 60 million copies, won numerous Game of the Year awards, and was re-released across nearly every platform for a decade.

The 2002 breakthrough traded generic fantasy for the strange, mushroom-forested Vvardenfell, prized for its dense hand-written lore and deep freeform systems; holds an 89 Metacritic.

The 2006 title showcased the Xbox 360's power with radiant AI, full voice acting, and the Dark Brotherhood questline; holds a 94 Metacritic and won multiple GOTY honors.

After a shaky 2014 launch, ZeniMax Online's MMO rebounded into one of the most successful subscription-free online RPGs, surpassing 22 million players via steady Chapter expansions.

The 1996 sequel generated a landmass famously said to rival Great Britain in size, establishing the series' scale ambitions with a procedurally built world of thousands of towns.

The 1994 first-person original launched the entire franchise, laying down the freeform explore-the-whole-continent template Bethesda would refine for decades.

The 2017 Chapter brought players back to a pre-eruption Vvardenfell with Vivec City and the Warden class, a well-received nostalgia-driven expansion.

A 1997 spinoff focusing on a single Daedric dungeon and multiplayer dueling, a narrower experiment that stepped away from the open-world formula.

The 1998 third-person action-adventure starring Cyrus was a bold genre departure that sold poorly but is fondly remembered for its lore-rich Hammerfell setting.

The 2019 mobile RPG drew criticism for aggressive microtransactions and repetitive dungeons, a monetization-heavy entry far below mainline standards.

A 2017 digital collectible card game that reviewed decently but had development halted in 2019, leaving it in maintenance-only limbo.

A 2004 mobile-phone entry in the Travels sub-series, a heavily scaled-down first-person RPG remembered only by series completionists.