While the original release featured a difficulty slider, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered includes five distinct difficulty levels to bring things more in line with modern Bethesda RPGs like Skyrim and Starfield. Even though Oblivion Remastered makes significant tweaks to the game's level scaling, some players can still find the game too easy or too hard.

Since Oblivion Remastered is still mostly the same game under the hood, the difficulty levels in the new version of the game are mostly equivalent to the stages of the difficulty slider in the original release, just without as much granularity. The changes between difficulty levels are easy to understand in Oblivion Remastered, and players will easily be able to tell if a difficulty setting is too hard or too easy for them after just one or two enemy encounters. They can be changed at any time, too, so experimentation is encouraged.

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All Difficulty Levels in Oblivion Remastered

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There are five difficulty settings to choose from in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

  • Novice
  • Apprentice
  • Adept (Default)
  • Expert
  • Master

At the default difficulty level of Adept, players and enemies both deal the same amount of damage. As the difficulty levels move from easier to harder, player and enemy damage values are modified. Here are the damage values for all five Oblivion Remastered difficulty settings.

Difficulty Level

Enemy Damage Taken

Player Damage Taken

Novice

6x

0.167x

Apprentice

3.5x

0.286x

Adept

1x

1x

Expert

0.286x

3.5x

Master

0.167x

6x

What is the Best Difficulty Setting in Oblivion Remastered?

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Since the difficulty levels in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered only affect the amount of damage taken by players and enemies, it's best to leave the game at the default Adept setting. Enemies can already be fairly tanky on the standard difficulty level (especially rarer foes like vampires), and reducing the player's outgoing damage is only going to make things more frustrating. The same goes for increasing the amount of damage the player takes. It'll just result in players getting destroyed by goblins as soon as they enter a cave.

Thankfully, there are no difficulty achievements/trophies in Oblivion Remastered, and the difficulty level can be changed at any time. Turning up the difficulty level and reducing the amount of damage enemies take does have some benefits in Oblivion Remastered, however, since more hits mean more XP for leveling up skills and attributes.

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
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April 22, 2025
ESRB
Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Violence
Developer(s)
Virtuos, Bethesda
Publisher(s)
Bethesda
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Engine
Unreal Engine 5
Franchise
The Elder Scrolls
Number of Players
Single-player
Steam Deck Compatibility
Verified
PC Release Date
April 22, 2025
Xbox Series X|S Release Date
April 22, 2025