Temperature, hunger, and sleep are all things that will need to be managed, and failing to manage them properly will limit your abilities if not kill you outright. Skyrim Special Edition‘s Survival Mode changes much of the title’s core gameplay. Everyone who takes advantage of that offer will have access to Survival Mode forever, so this isn’t a “free trial” in really any sense.

Though that isn’t very much in the grand scheme of things, free is always better, right? Back when Survival Mode went live with the launch of the Creation Club, Bethesda promised that it would be free to claim through October 10.