Grab your potions of Fortify Hype, because rumor has it Bethesda is about to shadow drop a full-blown remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion—yes, that Oblivion, the game where you spent 200 hours saving the world and another 800 trying to stack floating paint brushes to climb like stairs to get to the top of the capital building.
According to Jeff Grubb of Giant Bomb—a man who leaks more gaming scoops than a Bethesda character pathfinding through a door—this remake could drop any day now. And he’s not just guessing. Grubb’s track record is the kind that makes even Todd Howard nervous. Apparently, Bethesda is locked and loaded to launch this thing out of nowhere, likely sometime this month. That’s right: no trailers a year before release, no press releases a month ahead of time, no E3 crowd-pleasers (or E3 at all)—just a poof, and suddenly we’re all back in the Imperial City wondering why Sir Patrick Stewart had only four voice lines and then straight up died.
But here’s where it gets even more Bethesda-y.
There’s been some shady activity around Oblivion‘s online presence lately. People have noticed Bethesda quietly scrubbing Oblivion-related media from its YouTube channel like someone trying to cover up a regrettable Facebook post from 2008. And over on Steam, Oblivion has been acting a little… odd. Like mysterious store page alterations and weird backend changes. If a game store starts twitching like it’s got a Daedric artifact stuck in its UI, something’s probably up.
Some whispers even suggest the game has been rebuilt—fully rebuilt—in Unreal Engine 5 by Virtuos, the team that lent a helping hand to colossal games like Hogwarts Legacy and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta. So, we’re not talking about a quick texture slap-on and a “Remastered” sticker on the box. No, this is allegedly a complete overhaul from scratch. Like, “burn it all down and start over” levels of remake. Which, let’s be honest, Oblivion could probably use. Those stiff potato-face animations and NPCs with the emotional range of a wet loaf? Yeah, they didn’t age like wine—they aged like milk in the sun.
Now, before you go yeeting gold at your monitor, let’s be real: this is still a rumor. A beautiful, sounds too-good-to-be-true, please-let-this-happen rumor. We’ve been hearing rumblings about Oblivion possibly getting remastered for years, but a full-blown remake? That’s next level. Of course, until Bethesda pulls a “Hey, it’s out now!” we can’t confirm squat.
Oh, and here’s a fun little wrinkle: the week of release might line up with the 10th Anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online, which hits on April 22nd. That timing seems just a little too convenient, doesn’t it? It’s like they’re trying to overshadow their own party. Classic Bethesda.
To further support this, chatter is all the buzz on social media with some stating “the biggest shadowdrop in the history of Xbox Game Pass could happen at any moment“. Keep in mind that Microsoft owns Bethesda now, so this totally tracks. So to sum up: We don’t know if it’s real, we don’t know when it’s coming, but if it is happening, it might be the biggest stealth drop in modern gaming history. Then again, some have already been wrong about the release window for this remake, too. So… take that as you will.
If nothing shows up this month, then we all got trolled harder than a naked Khajiit in a snowstorm. But if it does drop? Well, see you in Cyrodiil… again.
