Skyrim Special Edition — Steam Gift

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition — buy the Steam Gift

Skyrim hardly needs an introduction. It's one of the most famous open-world RPGs ever made: a frozen northern province, ancient dragons returning to Tamriel, and you — the Dragonborn, fated to devour dragon souls. Bethesda Game Studios built a world where you decide who to become: a warrior, a mage, a thief, a sellsword, a blacksmith, or just a wanderer who picks flowers and brews potions. There's no "correct" way to play — only your story. Special Edition is a remaster of the 2011 original on a newer engine, with improved lighting, water, effects and full mod support. Here you buy it as a Steam Gift: after checkout our bot sends the game straight to your Steam.

What's inside Special Edition

Special Edition is the complete Skyrim, not a stripped-down base game. It includes:

• the base game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in its remastered form;
• the Dawnguard add-on — the clash between vampire hunters and an ancient vampire clan, new powers and the ability to become a Vampire Lord;
• the Hearthfire add-on — build your own home, adopt children, and run a small estate;
• the Dragonborn add-on — travel to the island of Solstheim, meet the first Dragonborn and revisit motifs from Morrowind;
• upgraded visuals: volumetric lighting, dynamic shadows, new water and snow effects.

In short, it's the entire "classic" Skyrim with every story add-on in a single gift — you can start right away with nothing else to buy.

What Anniversary Edition adds

If three add-ons still aren't enough, there's Anniversary Edition. It's the same Special Edition with a large Creation Club content bundle on top: around 74 packs adding more than 500 new elements in total — quests, weapons, armor, homes, creatures and gameplay systems. Highlights include the Saints & Seducers, Ghosts of the Tribunal and The Cause questlines, a Survival Mode with hunger, cold and fatigue, plus Fishing as a full mechanic. It's essentially "everything at once": if you want the maximum content without manually installing mods, go for Anniversary. Compare both versions in the "Editions 📀" block above and pick the one that suits you.

How we deliver the gift

This is a Steam Gift, not a key. The flow is simple and asks nothing weird from you:

• you provide your Steam friend invite link and your account region;
• our bot adds itself as your friend and sends the gift — usually within a couple of minutes;
• you don't need to accept the friend request — the bot handles everything;
• you accept the gift in Steam and the game appears in your library as your own;
• after delivery the bot automatically removes itself from your friends.

Steam Guard is not required for this. No prior activity on the account is needed either — the gift will be accepted even on a brand-new profile.

Region and important conditions

Because this is a gift, two Steam rules apply that are worth knowing up front. First, your account region must match the region of the chosen variant — we offer different regional versions, so pick the one that fits your account. Second, Skyrim must not already be in your library: Steam won't let you accept a gift for a game you already own, and that's the number one reason a gift fails. Meet both conditions and everything goes smoothly.

Why people keep coming back for years

The secret to the game's longevity is freedom. You can follow the main story about Alduin and the prophecy of the world's end, or forget it entirely and become the head of the Thieves Guild, Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold, or a Jarl's housecarl. The civil war between the Imperials and the Stormcloaks, the hunt for Words of Power that fuel your dragon Shouts, enchanting, alchemy, smithing — every pursuit pulls you into dozens of hours. That's exactly why Skyrim outlives console generations and still draws a huge audience.

Where to play

Skyrim Special Edition runs great on Windows PCs, feels right at home on Steam Deck, and is famous as a platform for thousands of community mods from the Steam Workshop and Nexus. So once you finish the vanilla game, an effectively endless second layer of community content awaits — graphics overhauls, new lands, quests and gameplay reworks from modders.

What else to check out

If you love Bethesda's sprawling RPG worlds, take a look at the space RPG Starfield and the post-apocalyptic Fallout 4. And if you want to stay in Tamriel but play with friends, check out the online universe of The Elder Scrolls Online. All three are a great way to extend the evenings you started in Skyrim.

🔗 From the same universe

Nearby in the catalog: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GOTY, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.