The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced back in 2018, and with few signs that the next chapter in Bethesda's flagship fantasy franchise will be at E3 next month, fans are looking to get their Elder Scrolls fix any way they can. From Arena to The Elder Scrolls Online, the series provides a variety of stories ranging across different RPG sub-genres.

In an ideal world, to enter The Elder Scrolls 6 with the best possible understanding of the series so far, a completionist would have to beat every available Elder Scrolls game. Not only that, but the open-ended nature of Elder Scrolls games mark a clear difference between beating the main quest, beating every questline, and completing everything the game has to offer. Here's a breakdown of just how long it would take to beat every Elder Scrolls game, and some of the different ways players might consider the games completed.

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Finishing The Main Quest of Every Elder Scrolls Game

Skyrim's main quest lasts around 33 hours, from the Helgen Execution sequence to defeating Alduin in Sovngarde. Oblivion's main quest comes in slightly shorter — it takes around 28 hours from escaping the Imperial prison to witnessing Martin Septim's sacrifice in the Imperial City.

Although Morrowind's world is smaller, the lack of fast travel or quest markers makes Morrowind's main quest a little longer. It can take around 45 hours for an average Morrowind run, from the player's release in Seyda Neen to defeating Dagoth-Ur. Daggerfall's main quest is closer to Skyrim's in length, coming in at an average of 31 hours. Shortest of all the main Elder Scrolls games is Arena, with a main quest coming in at roughly 23 hours.

This puts completing the main quest of every main Elder Scrolls game at 160 hours, or over six straight days of playing. There are more Elder Scrolls games than just the main series, however. Assuming the player only focused on the main quest in The Elder Scrolls Online, it would take them around 41 hours to defeat Molag Bal. This number is ultimately harder to determine — there are far more factors at play in an online game, from PvP to world events, that might slow a player down. Nonetheless, this brings the average total up to 201 hours — over eight full days of playing The Elder Scrolls.

The Elder Scrolls 6 is likely years away, however. Players who need even more Elder Scrolls in their lives can add Battlespire and Redguard to their lists. An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire's main quest adds 15 hours, while Redguard adds another 18 hours. Together, this brings the total for every main questline so far to 234 hours. The Elder Scrolls: Blades adds 10 more hours, bringing the total up to 244 hours.

Every Major Questline

The Thieves Guild

The Elder Scrolls games aren't just about their main questlines, however. The franchise has always prioritized freedom, allowing players to complete a multitude of questlines in almost any order. Most fans complete the main quest as well as the main supplementary questlines like the Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves Guild.

Completing all the major Skyrim questlines takes about 118 hours, according to howlongtobeat.com. Completing all the major questlines in Oblivion takes 86 hours, and Morrowind takes 109. Daggerfall would take 91 hours to complete, and Arena would take 45 hours.

In total, completing every major questline in every main Elder Scrolls game would take 449 hours, or nearly 19 straight days of The Elder Scrolls. Fans who want hours upon hours more of content, however, can add far more to that time by adding every major questline in The Elder Scrolls Online. That adds up to 142 hours, bringing the total up to 591 hours.

Completing most of Battlespire's quests adds 28 hours. The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard is a more set story, and so still only adds around 18 hours of gameplay. Completing most main objectives in Blades adds 15 hours, however, bringing the total for completing most major quests across The Elder Scrolls series to 652 hours, or just over 27 days of played time.

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The Completionist Run

It's been over 1000 days since The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced, and it's likely to be a long time until it finally hits the shelves. Players who find themselves tempted to do a completionist run of The Elder Scrolls series can expect to spend a very long time with the games.

Competing every objective in Skyrim would take about 230 hours and leave the player the head of the Thieves Guild, the Skyrim Dark Brotherhood, and the College of Winterhold. A completionist run of Oblivion would take 183 hours, Morrowind would take 397, Daggerfall would take 306, and Arena would take 84 hours. Completing every single main Elder Scrolls game to the best of the player's ability would take an average 1200 hours, or exactly 50 days of playing The Elder Scrolls.

With PvP and world events The Elder Scrolls Online can technically be played forever, with steady content patches like the upcoming Gates of Oblivion expansion. However, a true completionist run is estimated to take roughly 360 hours, bringing the total up to 1560 hours. Throw in Battlespire, Redguard, and Blades — 41, 18, and 24 hours respectively — brings that to 1643, or nearly 70 unbroken days of The Elder Scrolls.

Even Elder Scrolls fans need sleep, however. Assuming that the player sleeps the recommended 8 hours a day and works eight hours a day, that leaves eight hours in a day to play as much Elder Scrolls as possible. In other words, it would take 210 days of playing eight hours a day to complete every Elder Scrolls game. Knock the daily played hours down to far healthier two hours per day, and completing every Elder Scrolls game would take 840 days, or nearly 28 months.

Of course, there are so many games involved with so many different factors at play that this would vary significantly per player. Nonetheless, it shows just how much Elder Scrolls content is out there, not to mention the huge number of Elder Scrolls mods - including some that add huge new areas and questlines — that the community has created for all the main Elder Scrolls games. If fans finish those, there's always Skyrim: Very Special Edition on the Amazon Echo.

The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently in development.

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