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Skyblivion’s release has been delayed to 2026, but you can check out an interactive version of its map

Skyblivion’s release has been delayed to 2026, but you can check out an interactive version of its map

Skyblivion, the massive mod remake of Oblivion in Skyrim‘s engine, won’t be making its previously announced 2025 release goal, the team behind it have confirmed. Instead, the mod’ll be coming out at some point in 2026, giving the team behind it extra time to overcome the final few hurdles and get it polished up.

This news comes a few months after ex-Skyblivion level and world designer Dee Keyes called the 2025 release goal the mod’s team set in 2023 “pointless and unachievable”. Keyes also accused Skyblivion project lead Kyle ‘Rebelzize’ Rebel and implementation lead Heavy Burns of rushing the project out the door and mismanaging communication within the team, subsequently sharing more of his perspective on the project in a video interview with RPS sister site Eurogamer. In a response to Keyes’ original claims, Heavy Burns asserted that “many of the statements in his post are either misrepresented or just untrue”.

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