Bethesda's Oblivion Remastered reaches massive milestone that makes it the Xbox Game Pass hit of the summer — but 'Mixed' Steam reviews highlight a huge problem

A screenshot from The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered showing a king up close.

There have been quite a few great new games made available on Microsoft's widely used subscription service Xbox Game Pass this summer, ranging from Xbox's own DOOM: The Dark Ages to critically acclaimed surprises like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and The Alters. Perhaps the most popular of them all, though, is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

I say that because on Friday morning, it was announced that Bethesda and Virtuos Games' modernized Unreal Engine 5 version of the 2006 RPG classic has hit over 9 million players across all of its platforms. This includes Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC (on both Xbox PC and Steam), and PS5.