"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" is an action role-playing game, it uses first-person and third-person perspectives. The player can freely travel around Skyrim, it is an open-world game. It has wilderness, dungeons, cities, towns, fortresses, villages,and bandit bases. Players can travel the world using horses or by fast traveling which allows the player to travel to any discovered place. The game’s main quest can be completed or ignored, up to the players choice. Some quests rely on the main story's progression.