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oblivion how many quests

There are a lot of different numbers floating around for “how many quests are in Oblivion,” but we can pin it down pretty well.

Short answer

If you mean the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion plus Shivering Isles and the major DLCs, you’re looking at a little over 220 quests , with some community counts going up into the 240–250 range depending on what they classify as a “quest.”

Official‑guide style breakdown

One widely cited breakdown (based on the official game guide) lists the following for Oblivion and its expansions:

  • Main Quest: 18
  • Fighters Guild: 20
  • Mages Guild: 18
  • Thieves Guild: 13
  • Dark Brotherhood: 20
  • Arena: 2
  • Daedric quests: 15
  • Master Trainer quests: 21
  • City quests (Anvil, Bravil, Bruma, Cheydinhal, Chorrol, Imperial City, Kvatch, Leyawiin, Skingrad): 33 total
  • Settlement quests: 14
  • Wilderness quests: 3

Subtotal for base game: 177 quests

Then adding expansions:

  • Shivering Isles main quest: 13
  • Shivering Isles misc quests: 15
  • Knights of the Nine: 11
  • Other DLC quests: 6

That gives a total of 222 quests for Oblivion + Shivering Isles + Knights of the Nine + smaller DLC questlines.

Why you may see different numbers

Players and community threads often give higher totals like 219, 222, 248, or 251 quests.

This happens because:

  • Some people split multi‑stage quests into several separate “quests.”
  • Others count very small radiant/miscellaneous tasks, or treat some scripted events as full quests.
  • A Reddit thread that tried to include all ten DLCs reports 251 total quests , noting that only 248 can be completed in a single playthrough due to mutually exclusive choices.

So:

  • “Guide / structured list” answer: about 222 quests (base game + Shivering Isles + main DLCs).
  • “Completionist community” answer: around 250 quests , of which a few are mutually exclusive.

Mini FAQ

Q: Can one character do every quest?
Not quite. Because of a few mutually exclusive quest outcomes, completionists usually say you can finish slightly fewer quests than the absolute total (for example, 248/251).

Q: Does this include mod quests?
No. Once you include popular quest mods, the count becomes effectively infinite; all of the numbers above are for the vanilla game plus official expansions and DLC only.

Bottom note: Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.