The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

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.

DEV: Bethesda Game StudiosPUB: Bethesda SoftworksAppID 22320

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Catch up on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition with the developer’s own announcements. Start with the newest recorded post, then explore the details before you return.

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95.0
Excellent

Elixir Rating

95.2% of 28,762 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 95. It is a finished game, so no support adjustment applies either way.

reception 95·support +0.0·Excellent

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Current price

$14.99

Development

Insufficient evidence

Last heard from developers

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Historical posting rhythm

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Substantial updates (6 mo)

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Current silence

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Last successful news check: Nov 12, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC. This is when we checked Steam, separate from when the developer last posted.

News & source history

30 recorded posts · includes developer announcements and press coverage

PlayGround.ru - официальная группаNov 4, 2026
Самого первого штатного тестировщика Bethesda взяли за то, что он любил тусоваться в студии во время создания Morrowind

Культовая студия Bethesda отмечает свое 40-летие и в честь этого события разработчики запустили юбилейный сат с интересными воспоминаниями ветеранов команды. Нынешний дизайн-директор студии Алан Нейнс, руководивший созданием компаньонов в S…

PC GamerNov 3, 2026
Morrowind's gravity is no longer '0.01% off' in the new release of its fan-made engine, finally making it playable

If you are playing Morrowind in 2026, my recommendation is that you do so using OpenMW, its 18-year-old fan-made and open-source engine reimplementation that makes it run smooth as butter on any modern machine you point it at, whether you'r…

PlayGround.ru - официальная группаNov 2, 2026
Движок OpenMW для The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind получил релиз-кандидат версии 0.52.0 с кластерным освещением

Команда открытого проекта OpenMW объявила о выходе первого публичного релиз-кандидата масштабного обновления 0.52.0. Сборки альтернативного движка для культовой ролевой игры The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind уже опубликованы на платформе Git…

GamingOnLinuxNov 2, 2026
OpenMW 0.52.0 for Morrowind gets a fresh release candidate to test new features

The amazing open source game engine OpenMW for the classic RPG Morrowind has released a release candidate for the upcoming 0.52.0 release. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/openmw-0-52-0-for-morrowind-gets-a-…

Rock, Paper, ShotgunAug 24, 2026
Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt's Poison Song expansion is out now, complete with new quests to join Great House Indoril and the Ordinators

Tamriel Rebuilt, the Morrowind modding project gradually adding the province's mainland to The Elder Scrolls 3's Vvardenfell-centric map, has gotten a fresh expansion over the weekend. Dubbed Poison Song, it's the long-teased update which l…

PC GamerJul 28, 2026
You can now play Morrowind entirely in your browser: 'Honestly just wanted to see if it could be done'

With Bethesda making us wait going on 15 long years for the next Elder Scrolls game (I'm not including Oblivion Remastered), we've been left to our own devices. A phenomenon I've noticed spike as of late is calls for a Morrowind remaster, a…

Rock, Paper, ShotgunJun 22, 2026
Accidentally thrusting Morrowind to death just got more difficult, thanks to engine reimplemention OpenMW's chunky new update

We've all done it. One moment, you're playing The Elder Scrolls 3. Then, boom, you pass the thrust and everything implodes. Thankfully, the latest update to OpenMW - the open source engine reimplementation that's one of the the best ways to…

PC GamerJun 21, 2026
One of the best ways to play Morrowind just got better with improved scripting support for magic mods and a host of crash fixes

Morrowind, the gloomiest and mushroomiest of all the Elder Scrolls games, is getting on in years—and it was never the most polished game in town, even upon its release a whopping 24 years ago. If you're sick of those rough edges, you need l…

PC GamerJun 3, 2026
Morrowind modder returns to remake a 20-year-old epic—a beloved 'Discworld, not Monty Python' project that's 'unexpectedly lore-friendly'

It is one of life's greatest privileges to witness the completion of a masterpiece. Imagine Michelangelo putting the final taut lines on David. Imagine shooting the final scene for Mulholland Drive. Now stop imagining. You're here. You're s…

PC GamerMay 8, 2026
Morrowind mega-mod Skywind looks so good, even if it's still not finished

May is finally upon us, and that means three things: The weather is starting to suck less, Canada's oldest official holiday is approaching (happy birthday, Queen Victoria), and it's time to catch up on what's happening with Skywind, the meg…

PC GamerMay 6, 2026
Disgusting! Depraved monster adds effective quest markers to Morrowind, shows no remorse

What makes The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind one of the greatest games of all time? Is it the complex imperial politics of its setting? The piquant mythopoeia? Fargoth?.. Read more.

PC GamerApr 27, 2026
New Morrowind mod not only adds Sekiro parry, it quietly overhauls the RPG's most controversial mechanic

Look, the Elder Scrolls series has never had great combat, but 2002's Morrowind and the games before it are the worst offenders. A new mod for the OpenMW source port could be just the thing to make the open world clunker sing, though: It ad…

Rock, Paper, ShotgunMar 16, 2026
Morrowind remake mod Skywind still looks like it could help my Skyrim-addled brain properly fall in love with the weirdest Elder Scrolls in latest showcase

While not as close to release as its sibling-of-sorts Skyblivion, we've been getting regular looks at what Morrowind remake mod Skywind for a looooong time now. The latest of these peeks at its team's efforts to reinvent The Elder Scrolls 3…

PC GamerFeb 12, 2026
This 8-bit Morrowind from someone with 'no experience with game making' will run on your actual Game Boy Color and is genuinely kind of great

I have one job here at PC Gamer and it's this: reminding you all that I really like Morrowind quite a lot. They tell me that's "not a personality," in response to which I begin levitating... Read more.

PC GamerFeb 10, 2026
Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered

I like to think I'm a relatively smart person; I can often remember most of my ABCs and it only takes me around five seconds to add seven to something. But one thing will remain forever beyond me: mahjong, the Chinese tile-based game that I…

PC GamerFeb 2, 2026
Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system 'would sell like f**king hotcakes'

Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda's greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which…

PC GamerJan 31, 2026
Skyrim's design lead says if you play Morrowind today, you will 'cringe': 'The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time'

The PC Gamer review of Morrowind scored it an 83 back in 2002, which as the disclaimer at the top will inform you, is the lowest score a mainline Elder Scrolls game has got from the UK mag to date. That may stir feelings of confusion and un…

PC GamerNov 25, 2025
Hero modder who started the Thomas the Tank Engine meme with Skyrim thumbs his nose at 'legal threats' and 'black vans with the Mattel logo' by modding Thomas into Morrowind: 'I have issues with authority'

For many years now, the children's character Thomas the Tank Engine has been something of a modding phenomenon. You can find Thomas in everything from Hogwarts Legacy to Elden Ring, but it all began with a 2013 Skyrim mod that replaced all …

PC GamerNov 7, 2025
23 years later, Morrowind on controller and Steam Deck just got a million times better: The latest version of OpenMW is out now

I've said it before and, unless PC Gamer fires me for all that embezzling I've been doing, I'm bound to say it again: OpenMW is one of the coolest mod projects out there. Much like DevilutionX does for Diablo or Daggerfall Unity does for Da…

PC GamerOct 21, 2025
Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Tamriel Rebuilt is one of the most impressive mod projects of all time. Its quest is to build every part of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind's titular province that Bethesda didn't get to, and it's b…

PC GamerSep 30, 2025
Morrowind gets way easier to play on your Steam Deck or sofa thanks to a new OpenMW release candidate that's all about gamepads, baby

Think fast, hotshot: after spending three years lovingly crafting July's 0.49 update, which dramatically buffed up its capacity to handle all-powerful lua modding, the crew at OpenMW have already turned around and put out their first candid…

PC GamerSep 15, 2025
'Because no one was paying attention we could just put anything into the game,' says the writer responsible for sneaking The Lusty Argonian Maid into Morrowind

Filmdeg Miniatures is a YouTube channel run by Tom Evans that is full of interviews with gaming luminaries. I know it mainly for unearthing Warhammer history on topics like the early editions of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Evans also covers v…

PC GamerJul 4, 2025
Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now

Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you play it with a minimum of fuss on pretty much any …

PC GamerMay 30, 2025
Hot off making the biggest city in any Elder Scrolls game, Tamriel Rebuilt is already eyeing one 'Twice the size'

Modding project Tamriel Rebuilt's quest to make the rest of Morrowind continues apace, even over two decades after it began. The team has just released Grasping Fortune, its biggest expansion yet, bringing with it the sprawling city of Nars…

PC GamerMay 29, 2025
Morrowind's new city from Tamriel Rebuilt is 'Bigger than any playable Elder Scrolls city in general,' and a single hero made its exterior

The modders at Tamriel Rebuilt have been building the rest of Morrowind for over two decades now, and the project just put out its ninth and largest expansion in the form of Grasping Fortune, which adds on an enormous chunk of the mainland …

PC GamerMay 29, 2025
Top-down modded Morrowind lets you experience Vvardenfell like it's Baldur's Gate

Morrowind came out in 2002, the same year as isometric RPGs like Icewind Dale 2, Divine Divinity, Freedom Force, and Dungeon Siege. Its first-person/third-person perspective was a selling point at the time, though some would argue that play…

PC GamerMay 28, 2025
Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt couldn't be less worried about Bethesda going for an Oblivion-style remaster: 'Modernising Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely'

These are heady days for Tamriel Rebuilt, the 24-year-old Morrowind mod that aims to build out—in a brilliant and fanatically lore-friendly way—all the parts of the titular province that Bethesda didn't get to. The team has just put out Gra…

PC GamerMay 26, 2025
Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream

In my early 20s, I hopped over to Amsterdam with some friends. I'd just ended a long-term relationship and was determined to melt my brain. On the third day of our trip, we rented a cabin outside the city, surrounded by farmland and chicken…

PCGamesNMay 25, 2025
'Morrowind in Skyrim' fan project Skywind demos underwater combat and new spells

It's a good time to be a fan of The Elder Scrolls. Oblivion Remastered has brought the classic Bethesda RPG back into the mainstream, and we've recently seen a major update for the Tamriel Rebuilt mod. Now comes another big reveal - a new 2…

PC GamerMay 14, 2025
I don't want a Morrowind remaster, I want Bethesda to write a fat cheque for the OpenMW team

t time of writing, the Oblivion remaster has generated enough money to buy France. Across the world, the gears of business churn inevitably: someone at Microsoft emails someone at Bethesda to ask, a little forcefully, which classic game the…