The Elder Scrolls Online has been celebrated their 10th anniversary this year with cool free stuff as part of their daily rewards for logging into the game.
I play the Elder Scrolls Online exclusively on my SteamDeck. It's listed as Unsupported, but it works with a few caveats.
* The game has a ZeniMax Launcher that handles patching and logging in. It will always run first. Steam doesn't keep the game up-to-date, the launcher does. Steam doesn't even fully install the game the first time, the launcher does.
* The launcher itself does not support a controller. You have to push the "Play the game" button with the touchscreen.
* The first time you launch it, you need to launch it in keyboard and mouse mode because you have to choose a region and that interface also does not support a controller.
* So you will enter the game the first time without controller support enabled. You might want to use an external keyboard for this.
* Logout and go back to the launcher.
* You can use the options here to enable Controller / Console mode.
* "Play" the game again.
* You should never have to modify these settings again.
* Once you launch the game, you can use the Steam button and then Kill the launcher process. The game will keep running and this will slightly improve performance.
TESO is designed to be fun at any level and has really great scaling. I've been playing it as a Massively Single Player Online RPG since the beginning and I have had fun the whole time.
It helps to be familiar with the lore, but since it is set *before* all the other games, all the big events you played through haven't happened yet.
The Elder Scrolls VI isn't out. TESO releases a new chapter every year, of varying quality.
It's free to play the basic version but you won't have access to skills, regions, and game mechanics that are locked behind DLC.
When you buy DLC, you unlock all previous DLC. So if you buy The Gold Road, you get everything from all the previous chapters, too, including new game mechanics.
Unfortunately, the classes are completely different from TES stand-alone games so you should probably read up on that or just play around.
And I haven't found a way to play a viable stealth archer. Archery in general is just not a viable play-style as far as I'm concerned. Maybe at higher levels but I'm not leveling it up because ew.
:EA DATA. SF: 
