The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dawnguard

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Dawnguard™ is the first official game add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim® - the 2011 Game of the Year. The Vampire Lord Harkon has returned to power.

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Developer:
Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher:
Bethesda Softworks
Engine:
Creation Engine
Release date:
02 August 2012
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All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (893)

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Description

Dawnguard™ is the first official game add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim® - the 2011 Game of the Year. The Vampire Lord Harkon has returned to power. By using the Elder Scrolls, he seeks to do the unthinkable - to end the sun itself. Will you join the ancient order of the Dawnguard and stop him? Or will you become a Vampire Lord yourself? Featuring an all new faction questline and locations, the ultimate choice will be yours.

Key Features:

  • New Weapons, Armor, Spells and Shouts. Join the Dawnguard and wield all new crossbows and craft your own arrows, bolts, and Dragonbone weapons. Use new weapons, armor, spells and shouts, including the Soul Tear shout – that rips the souls from your enemies and turns them into your minions.
  • Become a Vampire Lord. Side with the vampires and become a Vampire Lord yourself. Hover across the ground, turn yourself into bats, levitate your enemies as you drain their life, and more. The Vampire Lord features its own upgradable perk system.
  • Werewolf Perks added. Playing as a werewolf now has its own upgradable perk system including Bestial Strength, Animal Vigor, and Savage Feeding.
  • New Locations and Creatures. Choose from two new fortresses to upgrade and call home, Castle Volkihar or Fort Dawnguard. Discover lost valleys and travel to a new realm of Oblivion, the Soul Cairn. Battle new creatures including Death Hounds, Gargoyles, Armored Trolls, and all new vampires and dragons.
  • Change Your Appearance. Visit Riften’s Ratway and find the woman who can change your appearance, altering your face or hair.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor:
Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB of RAM
DirectX®:
9.0c
Hard Drive:
6 GB HD space
Sound:
DirectX compatible sound card

recommended*

Processor:
Quad-core intel or AMD CPU
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher)
DirectX®:
9.0c
Hard Drive:
6 GB HD space
Sound:
DirectX compatible sound card

User reviews

Rancho Relaxer
Recommended | 11 Apr 2022

I saw that Bethesda delisted the DLC from the store pages and people have been complaining about having to indirectly click links to buy them, but you can always grab them through the Properties DLC tab. Bethesda is

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Paentimexi
Not recommended | 02 Jul 2023

The entirety of this DLC revolves around vampires. If you're like me - this neither interests nor excites you. The additions to enemies and armor can be worthwhile in many ways, but the quest is long and dry - the

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newtmonkey
Not recommended | 24 Dec 2025

A tedious, unfocused mess Dawnguard seems promising at first; after all, who doesn't want to either kill or be a vampire? However, instead of interacting with vampires in one form or another, you instead spend much of

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good chicken
Not recommended | 12 Apr 2025

white bread with butter on for the most part, dawnguard suffers from everything skyrim does - cool lore at points peppered throughout mediocre gameplay, utterly flavourless and bland characters, and dungeons that go on

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Jahzik
Recommended | 07 May 2025

This DLC was rather short, but other than that it was great! I enjoyed this very much. It was a lot of fun with a lot of new quests and achievements to do as well. You get to turn in to a vampire and get additional

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AscendedViking7
Recommended | 28 Jan 2025

I love Dawnguard with all my heart. Vampires, crossbows, husky and troll companions, awesome atmosphere and fantastic areas to traverse. Castle Volkihar, Darkfall Passage and especially The Forgotten Vale are major

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