As if spectacular Steam concurrent participant numbers and Bethesda’s personal announcement of 4 million gamers wasn’t sufficient to cement it as a success, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is now the third best-selling recreation of 2025 in the U.S. after only one week on sale.
Oblivion Remastered, which shadow-dropped on April 22, has a peak concurrent participant rely of 216,784 on Steam. Whereas spectacular, that determine doesn’t inform the complete story, given Oblivion Remastered additionally launched on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X and S, in addition to straight into Game Move.
Now we have now a brand new milestone: after only one week on sale, Oblivion Remastered grew to become the third best-selling recreation in the U.S. of 2025 up to now by greenback gross sales. That’s based on Circana’s Mat Piscatella, who took to social media to say Oblivion Remastered trails solely Monster Hunter: Wilds and Murderer’s Creed: Shadows at the prime of the 2025 gross sales chart.
It is value stating that Circana’s gross sales charts don’t embody gamers through subscription providers. So, we all know that Oblivion Remastered is a gross sales hit regardless of additionally being obtainable on Microsoft’s Game Move.
With this success, it appears inevitable that extra remasters of Bethesda video games will observe, with most suggesting both Fallout 3 (it was leaked again in 2023) or Fallout: New Vegas are subsequent.
If both recreation is certainly subsequent, what ought to gamers anticipate? Bruce Nesmith, one of Fallout 3’s designers, has pointed to Fallout 3’s “not good” gun fight, which he expects Bethesda would enhance considerably for a remaster.
Chatting with VideoGamer, Nesmith stated Fallout 3 Remastered would have taking pictures extra in-line with that of Fallout 4. “What did you see in Fallout 4? That may let you know what they felt was vital to vary from Fallout 3,” Nesmith stated.
“I do know in Fallout 4 there was quite a bit of work carried out on the gun fight, as a result of Fallout 3 is the first time they ever tried to do a shooter-style recreation. And, properly, I feel the work that was carried out was superb.”
Oblivion Remastered, developed by remake specialist Virtuos utilizing Unreal Engine 5, has a protracted listing of visible and function enhancements. It runs at 4K decision and 60 frames per second, as you’d anticipate, however different modifications are extra significant. All the things from the leveling programs to character creation, and fight animations to in-game menus have been improved. In the meantime, there’s heaps of new dialogue, a correct third-person view, and new lip sync expertise. The modifications are happening properly with followers, some of whom imagine Oblivion Remastered can be extra precisely described as a remake. Bethesda, nonetheless, has defined why it went down the remaster route.
Nesmith stated Fallout 3 Remastered would most likely embody enhancements and modifications alongside related traces to Oblivion Remastered.
“[Fallout 3 combat] didn’t maintain as much as shooters at the time,” he stated. “Additionally, it’s an RPG shooter, it’s not a run-and-gun shooter. However quite a bit of work was carried out on that for Fallout 4. So I anticipate seeing quite a bit of that work go into it, assuming they’re doing the identical factor.”
“Oblivion wasn’t simply introduced as much as the 2011 model of Skyrim,” he added. “It was introduced as much as one thing that, no less than on the floor, appears to be like prefer it exceeds the most up-to-date graphics replace in Skyrim.” Nesmith has stated The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is so spectacular it might be known as “Oblivion 2.0.”
It’s a busy time for Bethesda, which is engaged on The Elder Scrolls VI and, perhaps, extra Starfield. Throw in remasters and ongoing work on Fallout 76 and the Fallout TV present, which is heading to New Vegas for Season 2, and followers are in for a deal with in the coming years.
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