The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

Released2007
In the Shivering Isles expansion, see a world created in Sheogorath's own image, one divided between Mania and Dementia and unlike anything you've experienced in Oblivion.
83Wit Score

Details

DeveloperBethesda Game Studios
Publisher2K Games, Bethesda Softworks
ReleasedMarch 26, 2007
StatusReleased
GenresRole-playing (RPG)
ThemesFantasyHistoricalOpen worldSandbox
PlatformsPC (Microsoft Windows) PC (Microsoft Windows)PlayStation 3 PlayStation 3Xbox 360 Xbox 360
ModesSingle player
SeriesThe Elder Scrolls

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Community Score
Highly Recommended83/100

About This Game

A player character is transported to the Shivering Isles, a fractured realm divided between the euphoric chaos of Mania and the oppressive gloom of Dementia, both governed by Sheogorath, a Daedric Prince consumed by madness. As the dreaded Greymarch approaches—a cyclical apocalypse triggered by Jyggalog, the opposing Prince of Order—the realm faces imminent destruction unless someone intervenes. After defeating the monstrous Gatekeeper guarding the Fringe borderlands, the protagonist earns an audience with Sheogorath himself, who recognizes in them the potential to become his instrument against the coming catastrophe. Desperate to prevent his chaotic domain from being erased, the mad god enlists the newcomer as his chosen champion, dispatching them across the realm's treacherous and surreal landscape to uncover the means to stop the Greymarch and preserve what remains of Sheogorath's world.