A player in Skyrim eliminates over 5,500 NPCs and receives an epic bounty on his character

The now 12-year-old Skyrim continues to enjoy great popularity among players on Steam. A reddit user has now announced that he has killed over 5,500 NPCs in the game and has accumulated an in-game bounty of a staggering 267,000 gold.

What has the player killed? According to his own statement, amelix34 has killed everything that could be killed. The posted stats are as follows:

• Killed people: 3,310
• Killed animals: 693
• Killed creatures: 401
• Killed undead: 947
• Killed Daedra: 55
• Killed automatons: 98

However, not one of the kills was from behind. amelix34 was fair in his playthrough, facing his opponents head-on. The total kill count is 5,504.

Is everything dead in the game world now? In Skyrim, not all NPCs can be killed: plot-relevant NPCs like Jarl Elisif in Solitude or Mjoll the Lioness, a potential companion, cannot be slain. amelix34 has also stated that he chose not to kill two NPCs specifically: the old dragon Paarthurnax and the mount Shadowmere.

Presumably, it was these surviving NPCs that imposed the excessively high bounty of 267,000 gold on amelix34’s character in light of the massacre. This means that every guard that keeps respawning will chase the character until the restart in a new game upon first sighting.

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Is Skyrim still played today? Bethesda’s role-playing game from 2011 remains highly popular even today. The Special Edition of the game that was released a bit later currently sees a 24-hour player peak of over 26,000 on Steam Charts. At the release of the news, the game recorded about 24,000 current players.

With these numbers, Skyrim surpasses even Bethesda’s latest game Starfield. The space adventure was released about three months ago and currently holds a 24-hour player peak of about 21,300 players. At the time of the news release, the current player numbers were around 17,000.

Skyrim’s age may be responsible for its continued success. Thanks to the high number of available mods, the 12-year-old game remains current and can even compete with the graphics of current AAA games:
A YouTuber is currently showing how fantastic a 12-year-old game can look on Steam with an RTX 4090