A new surprise from Xbox includes not one, but two Elder Scrolls games for PC Game Pass subscribers. The Elder Scrolls 6 release date is getting closer, according to the latest reports; however, it’s still not that close. Fans of the Bethesda RPG who are tired of playing Skyrim for the 57th time and are tired of grinding The Elder Scrolls Online, may want to check out older games in the series. To this end, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was stealth-released earlier this year, and now two even older games from the series have been stealth-released on PC Game Pass.
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One of these Elder Scrolls games is The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, which is now available via both PC Game Pass Premium and PC Game Pass Ultimate. The 1998 MS-DOS game is unique in the series as it is the only game in the RPG franchise with a predetermined character and a forced third-person point of view. While the name suggests the game is set in Hammerfell — the expected setting of The Elder Scrolls 6 — it’s actually not. Rather, it is set on Stros M’Kai, an island off the coast of the Redguard province.
About The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard is the fourth installment in the series, but not a mainline installment. It is actually a spin-off. Upon release, the RPG was not overly received that well, as evidenced by its 78% on GameRankings, a solid return but far off from the highs of the Bethesda series. That said, this was four years before the series broke out into the RPG powerhouse we know it as today, when The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind stunned the industry.
About An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
The other new PC Game Pass release is Redguard’s predecessor, An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, another unique entry in the series. The third release in the RPG franchise, which is also a spin-off, is notably set in Battlespire, a magical academy connected to Oblivion. This makes it the only game in the series not set in Tamriel. In addition to this, the game is far more linear than open-world; there are no NPC hubs, no towns, no merchants, and there’s even a multiplayer mode. Where its successor had a decent reception, though, Battlespire really underwhelmed, as evidenced by its 63% on GameRankings.
Both of these games are Bethesda games, which means Xbox games, so they should be permanent additions to PC Game Pass. Meanwhile, neither is available on console, so don’t expect either to come to Xbox Game Pass. All of that said, and as always, feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you think, or join the conversation over on the ComicBook Forum.
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