Skyblivion hits eight years of development, still aiming for 2025 release

Oblivion in Skyrim‘s engine – what’s not to love?

While development is still going on, the team of volunteers behind the Skyrim/Oblivion mod Skyblivion has just a milestone, celebrating eight years of “non stop work”. However, the dedicated modders are not through yet, though it’s looking like the crew may be ready to launch sometime in 2025.

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the Skyblivion Twitter page, you’ll have seen a series of screenshots go up, showing the current progress of the modification. Many have been hoping the Elder Scrolls fan project was nearing completion by now, but there’s still a ways to go, it seems. But that’s okay. It looks like it’s going to be worth it.

8 years of non stop work by a group of passionate fans.
Happy anniversary to the entire Skyblivion team🎉 Heres to our release in 2025🥂 pic.twitter.com/kjOLJMjzzF

— Skyblivion (@TESRSkyblivion) June 20, 2023

For those of you who don’t know, Skyblivion aims to bring a complete — though unofficial — remake of Oblivion to the Skyrim engine, thereby giving it a more modern look. Of course, at this point, TES5‘s Creation Engine is also showing its age, but it will still give the 17-year-old Bethesda RPG a fresh coat of paint. It is, after all, a mammoth task that’s being made a that’s being coordinated by some very passionate fans.

The fact that there’s been continuous work on it for the past eight years puts the project back to 2015. However, according to the Skyblivion website, development officially started in 2012 with version 0.1. In 2014, the project entered a more stable phase, and things have been progressing since then.

The best part about it is it’s going to be completely free once it releases. The only stipulation is that if you do want to play it, you’ll need legitimate copies of both Skyrim and Oblivion, as well as all official DLCs. But that’s a small price to pay for what’s likely to be one of the most ambitious fan-made mods of all time. You can also join the Skyblivion Discord server to stay up to date.