The Elder Scrolls vs Two Worlds
Two series side by side on the facts: how many games, the average GamingPickz Score, the best entry each, and the weight of reviews behind them. Across the games we can score, The Elder Scrolls averages the higher score.
The two series at a glance
| The Elder Scrolls | Two Worlds | |
|---|---|---|
| Games we hold | 7 ✓ | 2 |
| Scored (Steam data) | 7 | 2 |
| Average GamingPickz Score | 7.5 ✓ | 6.4 |
| Best entry | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition Deluxe (2009) (8.5) ✓ | Two Worlds Epic Edition (6.6) |
| Combined reviews | 702,941 ✓ | 12,938 |
| First release | 1994 | 2009 |
| Latest release | 2025 | 2011 |
A series average hides its highs and lows and rewards being prolific. It is a starting point, not a verdict; the individual games are on each franchise page.
Flagship head to head
The best-scored entry of each series is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition Deluxe (2009) (8.5) for The Elder Scrolls and Two Worlds Epic Edition (6.6) for Two Worlds.
Both series on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueEvery scorable The Elder Scrolls and Two Worlds game plotted on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from. Change either axis to see where each series clusters.
9 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 9 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
The full series, each
Common questions
Is The Elder Scrolls or Two Worlds the better series?
Across the games we can score, The Elder Scrolls averages a higher GamingPickz Score (7.5 to 6.4). That is the average of a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, not our taste, and a series average hides its highs and lows: see the best entry of each above.
Which has more games, The Elder Scrolls or Two Worlds?
We hold 7 The Elder Scrolls games and 2 Two Worlds games, the first from 1994. The full lists are on each franchise page.
What is the best game in each series?
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition Deluxe (2009) for The Elder Scrolls (8.5), and Two Worlds Epic Edition for Two Worlds (6.6), by the GamingPickz Score.