Is the Skyrim map bigger than GTA 5?

Yes, the Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) map is significantly larger than the Skyrim map, with GTA 5's playable area (including its detailed ocean) often cited as being roughly twice the size or more, encompassing around 27-31 square miles compared to Skyrim's roughly 14-16 square miles, though Skyrim feels expansive due to its density and slower travel.
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How big is the Skyrim map compared to GTA 5?

GTA V is twice the size of Skyrim's Map.
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How big is the Skyrim map?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's map covers about 37.1 square kilometers (14.3 square miles), making it feel larger due to mountains, dungeons, and detailed terrain, but it's smaller in actual area than many modern open-world games like The Witcher 3 or RDR2, comparable in size to Oblivion, and vast due to its rich, hand-placed content and verticality. 
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Is Skyrim or GTA more popular?

Grand Theft Auto V beats Skyrim's record for concurrent players on Steam. Grand Theft Auto is still enormously popular. Despite originally debuting on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 way back in 2013, Grand Theft Auto V's release on PC is setting a new record.
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What is the #1 game ever?

There's no single "#1 game ever" as it depends on criteria (sales, influence, ratings), but Tetris is often cited as the best-selling (520M+ copies across versions) and most accessible, while Minecraft (350M+ sold) and Grand Theft Auto V (220M+) lead modern sales. For critical acclaim, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time often tops lists, but Minecraft's cultural impact and longevity are huge. 
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How long is 100% in Skyrim?

To 100% Skyrim, including all DLC, quests, locations, achievements, and maxing skills, expect 200 to 300+ hours, with some estimates reaching 500 hours or more for a truly exhaustive playthrough, though a focused achievement run might be closer to 70-100 hours, making it a massive time commitment depending on your definition of "everything". 
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Has anyone ever 100% beaten Skyrim?

Skyrim finally truly beaten as fanatical player does 'everything that can be done' in the game, nabbing every item and perk in quest to hit level 1,337. This is how our grandparents felt watching the Moon landing.
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What game has the biggest map ever?

The game with the biggest map depends on definition, but Microsoft Flight Simulator has the largest map of Earth (197M sq miles), while No Man's Sky offers the largest procedural universe (18 quintillion planets). For traditional, single-world games, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is massive (62,000 sq miles), and games like Minecraft create virtually limitless procedural worlds, making definitive "biggest" tricky.
 
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How long does it take to walk the entire Skyrim map?

It took the player 14,000 steps over 2.5 hours with walking speed. With jogging speed, it took 5,000 steps over about 45 minutes. While 14,000 steps (around 11 kilometers or 7 miles) may not sound like a lot, considering that it is an entire country we're talking about, game-wise, the figure is indeed impressive.
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How big is Skyrim in miles?

The in-game map of Skyrim is surprisingly small, roughly 14 to 16 square miles (37-41 sq km), making it feel much larger due to varied terrain, dense content, and visual tricks like mountains creating barriers. In linear distances, it's often estimated to be around 3.2 to 3.5 miles wide (East-West) and 2 to 2.1 miles high (North-South) in its playable areas, though some calculations suggest it could be much larger (e.g., 80+ miles across) if using travel times as a scale, which often contradicts the game's actual cell structure.
 
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Which game has a better story?

Best Story Games of All Time
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  • Silent Hill. 1999MVideo Game. ...
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. 2000EVideo Game. ...
  • The Last of Us: Left Behind. 2014MVideo Game. ...
  • System Shock 2. 1999MVideo Game. ...
  • Resident Evil 2. 1998MVideo Game. ...
  • Gothic. 2001TVideo Game. ...
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. 2001MVideo Game.
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Is Skyrim bigger than Elden Ring?

Yes, Elden Ring's map is significantly larger than Skyrim's, offering a much bigger world to explore, especially when considering its dense content, multiple layers (underground areas), and varied locations compared to Skyrim's landmass. While estimates vary, Elden Ring's total explored area is around 79 km², dwarfing Skyrim's map size and providing far more to discover. 
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Is Elden Ring bigger than GTA 5?

What is the Elden Ring Map Size? The total explored Elden Ring map size is 79 km² or 30.5 square miles. To put that into perspective, this is bigger than the maps of Skyrim and GTA V (shock horror!) However, it isn't as big as Assassin's Creed Odyssey or Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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Is GTA V the biggest game ever?

In May 2025, TTWO reported the game had surpassed 215M copies. The recent number at 220M makes GTA V the third most-selling game in the world, trailing behind Minecraft and Tetris.
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Is Witcher 3 bigger than GTA 5?

The Witcher's map is almost two times the size of GTA V.
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Which game is No.1 in the world?

These are the most downloaded mobile games of all time, worldwide, on all app stores.
  • Subway Surfers (2.05 billion+)
  • Candy Crush Saga (1.36 billion+)
  • Free Fire (1.29 billion+)
  • Roblox (23 billion+)
  • 8 Ball Pool (1.20 billion+)
  • PUBG MOBILE (1.18 billion+)
  • Ludo King (1.14 billion+)
  • My Talking Tom (978 million+)
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Is GTA 5 map bigger than RDR2?

No, the GTA 5 map is generally considered slightly larger in total area (around 29-49 sq miles) than the RDR2 map (around 30 sq miles), but Red Dead Redemption 2 feels much bigger due to its denser environments, varied terrain (mountains, plains, swamps), slower horse-based travel, and inclusion of areas like New Austin, making exploration feel more extensive despite the similar or smaller overall footprint, as detailed in this Quora discussion, a Reddit thread on r/reddeadredemption, and this Steam Community discussion. 
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What game has the most detailed map?

The most detailed in-game maps in a videogame are found in Total War. The mapscover the whole of Europe and are generated from the real terrain of the area, giving it a working area of around 10,000,000 km² (400,000 miles²).
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Is Skyrim harder than Elden Ring?

Yes, Elden Ring is significantly harder than Skyrim, primarily due to its demanding, skill-based combat, tough bosses, and punishing mechanics, while Skyrim is known for its freedom, exploration, and adjustable difficulty where players can become overpowered, making Elden Ring the more challenging but rewarding experience.
 
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How many hours would it take to 100% Skyrim?

To 100% Skyrim, including all DLC, quests, locations, achievements, and maxing skills, expect 200 to 300+ hours, with some estimates reaching 500 hours or more for a truly exhaustive playthrough, though a focused achievement run might be closer to 70-100 hours, making it a massive time commitment depending on your definition of "everything". 
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What is the rarest thing in Skyrim?

The "rarest" item in Skyrim is subjective, but often cited are uniquely named, single-occurrence items like the Notched Pickaxe (found near a skeleton) or Cabo Zane's Fane (a dagger for slicing dragon scales), or quest-specific items like Barenziah's Crown or Colovian Brandy, which can be permanently missed if choices aren't made carefully, making them rare through player error rather than inherent scarcity. Truly rare items are often unique artifacts or quest rewards that have no other source in the game, like Daedric artifacts or unique weapons such as Firiniel's End, but many players consider quest-critical items that can be permanently lost to be the rarest. 
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Is Skyrim an infinite game?

Skyrim isn't technically endless, as its main story and major questlines have definite endings, but it offers a virtually infinite amount of content through its massive open world and procedurally generated "radiant quests," making it a game you can genuinely play forever, especially with mods. These looping, random quests from factions like the Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, and Companions keep generating tasks (fetch quests, dungeon clears, assassinations), ensuring there's always something to do after major stories conclude.
 
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Is there actually 7000 steps in Skyrim?

Trivia. In an interview, Todd Howard jokingly mentioned that he would count all the steps leading up to High Hrothgar to make sure it's 7,000. Counting each visible step will only get one to around 700–800, though the path itself is quite worn and snow seems to cover much of it.
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How long is one day in Skyrim?

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (UESP), a full 24-hour day passes in approximately 24 real-life minutes, as the default game time scale is set to 20:1 (20 minutes in-game for every 1 minute in real-time). This means that for every hour you play, roughly 20 hours pass in the game world, making an entire day just over an hour long in real-world time, though waiting in menus pauses this passage. 
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