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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
64 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Vanilla, this game is straight booty cheeks. With mods? This becomes the greatest VR experience on earth, no questions asked.”
“best way to play skyrim if you mod it, but still sucks as a 60$ product to sell”
“you need to mods it for it to function like a proper vr game, but once its done its leateraly one of the best game ever made!1”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“While I only have 10 hours as of writing, I have played 'flat' Skyrim for 70 hours as well, so am quite familiar with the game itself and now have enough experience with the VR implementation to judge it. Skyrim is…”
“I haven't touch Skyrim since it's launch on PS3, with the Dawnguard and Hearthfire DLCs. VR is, by far, the best way to experience Tamriel (with a good mod list, and the dedication to hours upon hours of troubleshooting…”
“i sat on the bridge near riverwood and admired the scenery while listening to music for half an hour”
4 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The fact that this game is still faithfully modded and played says it all.”
“Thank you Skyrim mod community for making this game so awesome. I'm playing a FUS minimal mod pack using wabbajack and it plays pretty well using my old potato :)”
4 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“While I only have 10 hours as of writing, I have played 'flat' Skyrim for 70 hours as well, so am quite familiar with the game itself and now have enough experience with the VR implementation to judge it. Skyrim is…”
“I haven't touch Skyrim since it's launch on PS3, with the Dawnguard and Hearthfire DLCs. VR is, by far, the best way to experience Tamriel (with a good mod list, and the dedication to hours upon hours of troubleshooting…”
“Climbing Apocrypha and slaying Alduin is an amazing achievement to have”
3 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I've been playing the Tahrovin modpack on my RTX 4060 laptop and it runs great! With a mix of medium and high settings (and a little help from AI for optimization), the performance is smooth. It wasn't love at first…”
“Thank you Skyrim mod community for making this game so awesome. I'm playing a FUS minimal mod pack using wabbajack and it plays pretty well using my old potato :)”
“I actually bought this game about 4-5 years ago and played it with customized mods that I picked and chose myself based on youtube videos. However, the mods eventually broke the game and it became unplayable. Fast…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Not saying it can't be fun, but i bought this expecting some level of combat physics or feedback, but it's basically just that gif of that angry little girl waving her hair brush back and forth.”
“Awesome game ! But as all Bethesda games, you'll need 1000+ mods to have a playable game and a pleasant experience. I highly recommend the MadGod overhaul modlist”
“Y'know how you need to spend an entire afternoon installing 200 mods to make Skyrim fun to revisit? Now up that to about 2000 for the VR version, and in order to run those 2000 mods a very high-end PC is the MINIMUM…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“best way to play skyrim if you mod it, but still sucks as a 60$ product to sell”
“The only epic thing here is Bethesda's greed. I've never even heard of another studio charging full price for VR use.”
“They barely changed the game when making this port. They do not deserve to charge you full price AGAIN. Buy a game key or repack.”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Literally unplayable. Fresh install no mods, the intro bugs out, horses and carts flying everywhere and dying.”
“The image quality is really bad. I couldn't get Community Shaders to work despite installing all the requirements, ensuring everything is enabled, and running the game through the Skyrim VR Script Extender. The shaders…”
“all of my current play time has been trying to make the game work. game will not progress past the character creation screen. worked once, hasn't again edit: fixed it, game's cool”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Downright horrible without mods. An overt cash-grab form Bethesda. However, I can totally recommend this if you really want to play Skyrim VR and are willing to spend some additional money and a lot of your time to mod…”
“Bethesda did their best. Modders did the rest.”
“you know the deal, unless you are willing to spend hours modding it dont buy it, the port to vr is extremelly bad and its the modders job to fix bethesda mistakes, but with mods its a good game, its skyrim”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The image quality is really bad. I couldn't get Community Shaders to work despite installing all the requirements, ensuring everything is enabled, and running the game through the Skyrim VR Script Extender. The shaders…”
“Great game ! if you like a world without color. Bathesda has a habit of making their games Grey. Grey and more grey, even the grass is technically green, and half gray. Fallout is the same, but with greyish green. But…”
“Terrible game. Perhaps if you were a fan of it when it first game out. Feels like an early 90s game. Graphics are bad and the game play is somehow worse. Clunky and you cannot interact with anything in the world. The…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 75.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Couldnt get through the intro sequences without mods, 100 GB of Mods later I can kill dragons by throwing cabbages at them - 10/10 Don't skip out on this because you don't feel tech savvy and don't want to mod, it's extremely easy to get an amazing experience by just installing…”
— a player, Steam review · 127 hrs played“TO ANYONE WHO SEES THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not play this game without mods. The vanilla experience is not great but with the FUS mod pack it becomes one of the best vr games to every exist maybe even the best. There are other great mod packs but I recommend FUS because…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“for much fun it is, its sad that i feel like giving a not reccomanded but here's why, this port is really fun most of the times and the setting works really well in vr, BUT base game is unpleyable, everything to the implementation of the vr mechanics to the graphics, everything…”
— a player, Steam review · 44 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:27 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | RPG |
| Player tags | Open World · RPG · VR · Singleplayer · Adventure · Fantasy · Magic · First-Person · Action · Dragons · Memes · Moddable (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Tracked Controller Support · VR Only · VR Support · SteamVR Collectibles · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Polish * , Russian * , Traditional Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 75 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions) Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD RX 480 8GB or better Storage: 15 GB available space VR Support: SteamVR