Games Like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)

Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.

Why similar: Open World 28.3%, RPG 18.8%, Fantasy 10.6%, Character Customization 7.9%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It preserves Oblivion's quests, faction progression, open-world exploration, and character-building while substantially modernizing its presentation and combat.

Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

Why similar: Open World 29%, Moddable 17.9%, RPG 13.6%, Fantasy 7.7%, Character Customization 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Skyrim is the closest modern continuation of Oblivion's first-person fantasy sandbox, with vast exploration, flexible builds, guild questlines, and enormous mod support.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

Why similar: Open World 22.4%, Moddable 17.1%, RPG 14%, Classic 9.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Morrowind offers an even more freeform and strange Elder Scrolls world, rewarding curiosity, custom character builds, and unmarked exploration.

Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.

Why similar: Open World 32.3%, RPG 18%, Character Customization 9.3%, First-Person 7.6%, Action RPG 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person open-world dark-fantasy RPG strongly channels classic Elder Scrolls design through free exploration, skill-based builds, factions, quests, and dungeon delving.

Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World 32.9%, Moddable 25.7%, RPG 16.7%, First-Person 4.4%, Great Soundtrack 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Fallout 3 shares Oblivion's Bethesda exploration loop of roaming, looting, leveling, entering ruins, and finding self-contained stories across a large world.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Open World 32.1%, Moddable 25.7%, RPG 16.8%, First-Person 3.9%, Character Customization 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Bethesda-style open-world wandering into a post-apocalyptic setting while greatly emphasizing faction reputation, player choice, and role-playable character builds.

Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.

Why similar: Open World 30.6%, RPG 19.5%, Character Customization 9.4%, Fantasy 9.3%, Great Soundtrack 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its adventurous fantasy world, vocation-based character development, dangerous wilderness, and emergent combat make it a strong fit for players who value exploration and builds.

A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.

Why similar: Open World 38.9%, RPG 22.9%, Medieval 13.3%, First-Person 8.3%, Story Rich 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This expands the first-person role-playing and reactive quest design of its predecessor into a larger, more polished medieval sandbox full of choices and exploration.

Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!

Why similar: Open World 38.2%, RPG 21.4%, Medieval 14.4%, First-Person 6.2%, Great Soundtrack 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded medieval world replaces magic with historical simulation, but it offers similarly immersive first-person exploration, quests, skill growth, and player-directed problem solving.

Gothic II: Gold Edition brings together the excitement of Gothic II and the add-on Night of the Raven to your fingertips!

Why similar: Open World 24.1%, RPG 20.9%, Classic 18.5% ★, Fantasy 6.4%, Great Soundtrack 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This classic delivers a dense, reactive fantasy world where faction allegiance, character progression, and carefully earned exploration define the role-playing experience.

Delve into a gritty, raw and atmospheric fantasy world in which every action has a consequence. In the epic world of Risen, filled with mysterious earthquakes, fearsome monsters and unimaginable treasures, forge your path with the sword, learn the art of staff fighting or become a powerful mage.

Why similar: Open World 33.4%, RPG 24.3%, Fantasy 8.6%, Great Soundtrack 4.5%, Magic 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Made in the Gothic tradition, Risen offers a compact but highly reactive island RPG with factions, meaningful skill choices, and a satisfying sense of gradual advancement.

The hit RPG returns! Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world.

Why similar: Open World 29.5%, RPG 25.1%, Fantasy 12.6%, Character Customization 8.4%, Action RPG 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers colorful fantasy exploration and especially flexible class construction, letting you combine weapon, magic, and stealth abilities into highly customized characters.

FOR EVERY CHOICE, A CONSEQUENCE.Fully re-mastered with HD visuals and audio, Fable Anniversary is a stunning rendition of the original game that will delight faithful fans and new players alike! The all new Heroic difficulty setting will test the mettle of even the most hardcore Fable fan.

Why similar: Open World 24.2%, RPG 20.7%, Classic 13.3% ★, Fantasy 10%, Great Soundtrack 6%

Why You'll Like It: Fable provides a lighter, more storybook-like fantasy alternative built around moral choices, character growth, exploration, and watching your hero visibly change over time.

ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Why similar: Open World 46.8%, RPG 26.7%, Fantasy 9.6%, Third Person 3.1%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: ELEX combines a harsh open world with faction-driven role-playing, unrestrained exploration, and build freedom, despite its unusual blend of fantasy and science fiction.

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Open World 41%, RPG 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%, Exploration 6.5%, First-Person 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Fallout 4 retains Bethesda's familiar loop of first-person exploration, scavenging, questing, leveling, and modding, with settlement building added to the sandbox.

War has been waged across the kingdom of Myrtana. Orcish hordes invaded human territory and the king of the land needed a lot of ore to forge enough weapons, should his army stand against this threat. Whoever breaks the law in these darkest of times is sentenced to serve in the giant penal colony of Khorinis, mining the so much needed...

Why similar: Open World 26.8%, RPG 21.2%, Classic 16.4% ★, Fantasy 7.6%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its influential open-world design centers on belonging to rival factions, improving from a powerless newcomer, and exploring a world that feels dangerous and interconnected.

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Why similar: Open World 28.8%, Moddable 17.3%, RPG 14.9%, Character Customization 6.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its spacefaring setting changes the theme, but the familiar Bethesda formula of first-person exploration, quest hubs, skill progression, looting, and moddable sandbox play remains intact.

Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG set in the world of Eora, where your choices carve a path through war, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. Navigate a land in turmoil, forge powerful alliances or deadly rivalries, and wield magic and steel to shape the fate of the Living Lands—and your own destiny.

Why similar: Open World 20.8%, RPG 16.6%, Fantasy 12.7%, Magic 11%, Character Customization 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Obsidian's first-person fantasy RPG focuses on dialogue choices, companion-driven quests, exploration, and mixing melee, guns, and magic into a personalized combat style.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Open World 43.8%, RPG 27.3%, Moddable 9.2%, Fantasy 8.5%, Exploration 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding open-world fantasy adventure emphasizes survival, travel, exploration, magic experimentation, and living with the consequences of your build choices.

A nameless hero becomes a legend! Myrtana, a world in upheaval: overrun by orcs from the dark lands in the north, King Rhobar is defending Vengard, the former stronghold of the humans, with his last troop of followers.

Why similar: Open World 32.3%, RPG 22.2%, Fantasy 8.3%, Great Soundtrack 6.9%, Classic 5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its large wilderness, multiple factions, and open-ended quest resolution capture the appeal of forging your own path through a reactive fantasy realm.

THE GREAT MACHINE AWAKENS

Why similar: Open World 22.5%, RPG 19.8%, Classic 13.8% ★, Fantasy 11.7%, Action RPG 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Oblivion's enormous predecessor remains a remarkably open fantasy sandbox, with deep character creation, faction systems, procedural exploration, and unparalleled scale.

Check out the new Velvet Edition bundle including both Two Worlds II and Pirates of the Flying Fortress DLC.

Why similar: Open World 30.5%, RPG 30.3%, Fantasy 10.3%, Exploration 4%, Action RPG 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a classic-style open-world fantasy RPG with free roaming, quests, loot, spell crafting, and an intentionally broad range of character options.

Gedonia is a classic open world rpg, featuring a complete freedom of building your character, exploring a huge world and completing quests.

Why similar: Open World 28%, RPG 15.2%, Classic 9.1% ★, Fantasy 8.5%, Magic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Gedonia is an indie open-world fantasy RPG that favors Elder Scrolls-like freedom to explore, join factions, develop skills, and tackle quests in your own order.

Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.

Why similar: Open World 28.2%, RPG 17.2%, Magic 8.3%, First-Person 7.1%, Character Customization 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal first-person fantasy world rewards wandering off the main path, discovering unusual places, choosing dialogue responses, and shaping a specialized character.

The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…

Why similar: Open World 23.5%, RPG 14.6%, Fantasy 10.1%, Character Customization 8.8%, Medieval 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world fantasy action RPG is built around freely developing a hero through combat styles, magic, exploration, quests, and broad character customization.

Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.

Why similar: RPG 27.6%, Fantasy 15.5%, Classic 12.7% ★, First-Person 12.4%, Magic 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While much more linear than Oblivion, it offers tactile first-person fantasy combat, magic, stealth, and environmental interaction with meaningful character upgrades.

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Why similar: RPG 41.1%, Classic 16.9% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Action RPG 6.3%, First-Person 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This immersive first-person RPG excels at dialogue-driven role-playing, distinct character archetypes, factional intrigue, and multiple approaches to quests in dense urban hubs.

Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

Why similar: Open World 31.4%, RPG 19.9%, Fantasy 12.9%, Exploration 6.9%, Character Customization 6.1%

THE LEGEND BEGINS

Why similar: RPG 24.2%, Fantasy 15.9%, Open World 14.4%, Classic 14.3% ★, Action RPG 8.9%

Each person you aid, each flower you crush, and each creature you slay will change this world forever. Fable: Who will you be?

Why similar: RPG 25.6%, Open World 14.5%, Classic 11.1% ★, Fantasy 10.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%

A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.

Why similar: Open World 31.4%, RPG 15.7%, Moddable 15.1%, Fantasy 8.1%, Magic 6.3%

Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.

Why similar: Open World 35.3%, Moddable 21.1%, RPG 15.8%, First-Person 4.6%, Exploration 4.3%

PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Deluxe Edition, released in 2009.---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.

Why similar: Open World 24%, Moddable 19.6%, RPG 13.8%, Fantasy 7.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%

Winner of over 130 Game of the Year awards, discover the definitive Dragon Age: Inquisition experience. The Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed game, all three official add-ons - Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser - and more.

Why similar: Open World 30.8%, RPG 20%, Character Customization 11.7%, Fantasy 11.5%, Great Soundtrack 8%

This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.

Why similar: RPG 30.1%, Classic 18.5% ★, Fantasy 10.8%, First-Person 9.6%, Open World 6.2%

Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Why similar: RPG 31.3%, Fantasy 18.1%, Open World 10.3%, Moddable 10.1%, Character Customization 7.9%

Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, a legendary monster slayer caught in a web of intrigue woven by forces vying for control of the world. Make difficult decisions and live with the consequences in a game that will immerse you in an extraordinary tale like no other.

Why similar: RPG 29%, Fantasy 14%, Open World 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 8.2%, Classic 4.8% ★

The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving.

Why similar: Open World 30.3%, RPG 25.1%, Fantasy 13.6%, Action RPG 6.2%, Magic 4.4%

Divine Divinity is an epic role-playing game with hack-and-slash action, offering a huge world to explore and thousands of items to investigate, trade and use.

Why similar: RPG 33.7%, Classic 17.4% ★, Open World 16.9%, Fantasy 13.5%, Action RPG 5.6%

Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

Why similar: RPG 28.8%, Open World 27.5%, Classic 22.8% ★, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, Exploration 2.8%

Step into Guild Wars Reforged, the award-winning online roleplaying game enjoyed by millions, now re-energized with system enhancements and Steam Deck verified. Experience the complete saga— from the fall of Ascalon to the desperate stand against Nightfall. Your adventure is just getting started!

Why similar: RPG 19.1%, Fantasy 16.3%, Magic 11%, Character Customization 10.3%, Medieval 9%

Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.

Why similar: RPG 25.1%, Open World 18.9%, Classic 17.6% ★, Fantasy 9.2%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%

You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Why similar: RPG 32.6%, Open World 30.9%, Classic 25.5% ★, Exploration 2.9%, Atmospheric 2.3%

The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.

Why similar: RPG 33.4%, Action RPG 14.4%, Character Customization 13.1%, First-Person 12.5%, Exploration 11.7%

The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.

Why similar: Open World 30%, RPG 27.4%, Action RPG 8.3%, First-Person 8%, Character Customization 7.5%

Dragons: they have been hunted, they have been slain, but now the hour to strike back has come.

Why similar: Open World 27.6%, RPG 24.7%, Fantasy 12.9%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%, Action RPG 5.1%

ONE MAN AGAINST AN EMPIRE

Why similar: RPG 37.1%, Fantasy 22.5%, Action RPG 11.5%, Classic 8.1% ★, Action 7.5%

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.

Why similar: Open World 28.8%, Magic 13%, RPG 12.7%, Fantasy 12%, Character Customization 7.8%

Return to the Forgotten Realms in this bestselling Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Combines all the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition with all-new enhanced features. Includes 100+ hours of award-winning adventures and the tools to create your own!

Why similar: Moddable 30.8%, RPG 19.8%, Fantasy 12.2%, Character Customization 10.2%, Magic 8.7%

It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?

Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Classic 20% ★, Moddable 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%, Story Rich 5.5%

The best retro fantasy MMORPG on the planet. Old School is RuneScape but… older! This is the open world you know and love, but as it was in 2007. Saying that, it’s even better than that – Old School is shaped by you, its players, with regular new content, fixes and expansions voted for by the fans!

Why similar: Open World 21.8%, RPG 15.4%, Fantasy 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.4%, Classic 11.3% ★

The year is 2052. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider. Worst of all, an ages old conspiracy bent on world domination has decided that the time is right to emerge from the shadows and take control.

Why similar: Classic 25.6% ★, RPG 25.2%, Moddable 18.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, First-Person 4.5%

The Legend is Back - Return to the Valley of the Mines in this faithful remake of the genre-defining classic RPG. Explore a hand-crafted, organic open world that reacts dynamically to your actions in a gritty, unrestricted experience like no other.

Why similar: RPG 20.2%, Fantasy 13.1%, Magic 10.9%, Medieval 9.5%, Action RPG 8.5%

War covers the southern islands until it finally reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr. You take on the role as the new nameless hero after your village has been pillaged and destroyed by paladins of the king. Seeking revenge, you soon realize that this cowardly attack did not just happen on a reckless mercenary`s whim.

Why similar: RPG 33.3%, Open World 32.2%, Fantasy 10.7%, Action RPG 4.2%, Third Person 3.4%

Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

Why similar: Open World 28.9%, RPG 20.9%, Moddable 15.3%, Medieval 12%, Sandbox 5.9%

Dungeon Siege® combines the immersive elements of a role-playing game with over-the-top intensity and non-stop action. Dungeon Siege plunges you into a continuous 3D fantasy world where you face off against an army of evil that has been unleashed.

Why similar: RPG 33.3%, Classic 18.5% ★, Fantasy 15.9%, Open World 9.9%, Action RPG 8.8%