Summary
- The Skyrim Together team have released a new mod for Oblivion Remastered — Ghosts of Tamriel.
- It lets you leave Elden Ring-style messages for other players to read in their own worlds.
- However, it isn’t prompt-based. You can type whatever you want, which has some players concerned.
It can get a little lonely charting the vast wilderness of Cyrodiil by yourself, so for Oblivion Remastered, the Skyrim Together team have reunited with a new, Souls-inspired project: Ghosts of Tamriel.
The mod lets you scribble messages on Welkynd Stones for other players to read in their own game, complete with an upvote and downvote system. Granted, unlike Dark Souls and Elden Ring (or really, Demon’s Souls — the first to do it), it isn’t a fantasy game of Mad Libs where you fill in the gaps with a bunch of themed prompts. Instead, you can just type freely.
Allowing the text to be freeform rather than selecting presets seems… brave and way too optimistic about the community.
It’s a little risky, handing anonymous players the ability to write whatever they want in someone else’s game, but so far, it’s been mostly wholesome (well, if you count ‘Try Finger But Hole’ as wholesome). However, a lot of fans are understandably concerned about what the mod might spiral into as it gets more popular, and are calling on the team to either strengthen moderation or make it prompt-only. There’s a reason Dark Souls chose the latter.
How It Works
As for how the mod works: when you write a message, it stays in the world for 24 hours. If you get an upvote, the timer resets, but if your comment gets too many downvotes, it will automatically be removed, essentially giving the community a way to self-moderate. You can also hide messages in your game for whatever reason, whether they’re offensive or just getting in the way.
Graves will also be left behind with a message when you die, think Dark Souls bloodstains.
The mod is still a work-in-progress, with the team taking on community feedback and rolling out quality-of-life updates, such as the recent 0.2 patch which added controller support, but it’s already a hit. With 925 unique downloads and 17,000 views, a number that grows every time you refresh the page, yamashi and jay-jay are bringing the community together once again. Let’s just hope the messages stay wholesome.