The Elder Scrolls® Online A whole continent to wander

You start in a Tamriel set long before Skyrim, with the base game plus Morrowind, Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild, and Dark Brotherhood adventures included. Walk the mushroom forests of Morrowind, cross Oblivion to battle Daedra, and keep finding regions that feel different from the last. The world is large, atmospheric, and dark in places, with lore tucked into quests, ruins, and side roads. You can chase the main story or drift. Getting distracted by one more quest marker is half the plan.

Quests here carry the spirit of classic Elder Scrolls storytelling, with choices about how you handle them. Play alone like a single-player RPG while other adventurers pass by, or team up with friends for dungeons and harder fights. You log in without a plan, talk to someone who needs help with mushrooms or murder, and two hours later you are a thief, a vampire, or a hero by accident. New seasonal stories arrive every three months, with Tamriel Tomes to progress for rewards.

Pick a class, shape your look, and build skills around magic, weapons, and trickery. Join the Thieves Guild to steal for profit or the Dark Brotherhood to take contracts, or ignore both and be a respectable mushroom picker. Character customization runs deep, from gear to mounts and pets to your own housing, which you can furnish freely. The tone stays fantasy with blood, violence, alcohol, and sexual themes, so it is not a tale for small children.

Combat is real-time action with swords, bows, blocking, and class-based magic. Take on PvE quests, delves, and dungeons across PvE zones, then test yourself in PvP duels and alliance war in Cyrodiil if you want competition. Three alliances — Ebonheart Pact, Daggerfall Covenant, Aldmeri Dominion — fight for control, so you always have somewhere to prove your build. Cinematic and competitive by turns, it suits slow exploration one night and a straight fight the next.