How to migrate Bethesda games to Steam

DRM Sacha Loric - Apr 29, 2022, 4:08 PM

As reported earlier, by May 11 Bethesda will be shutting down its Launcher and going back to Steam. It’s highly advisable that those who bought games using this platform make sure their games have properly migrated to the new (old?) platform.

For most game owners, this isn’t a problem. To begin the process, this is what you should do:

Log into your Bethesda account on the website.
Click on your account name.
Select Transfer Library.
Click Start Steam Transfer.

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The transfer should begin immediately. It will migrate not just your games but your wallet as well.

There is no deadline for this process. You can still log in to your Bethesda account using the website even after May 11 and migrate your games. You just won’t be able to launch these games with it.

Manual Migration

In most cases, your saved games are migrated along with your base game. However, some titles require manual action to move saved games, as they have different locations for saved files. Bethesda provides a complete list of instructions per game on how to manually do this.

Here are games that require manual migration:

Arx Fatalis
Deathloop
Dishonored 2
Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider
DOOM
DOOM 2
DOOM ETERNAL
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Shelter
Fallout Tactics
Heretic
HeXen
HeXen 2
HeXen: Deathkings Of The Dark Citadel
Prey
Quake 2
Quake 3 Arena
RAGE 2
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
The Elder Scrolls Arena
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Evil Within
The Evil Within 2
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein II: New Colossus
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Please note that you will have to redownload your games in Steam before migrating your save files.