It’s a sad day for dozens of players who are still struggling The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it is permanently shutting down the servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff on June 30. First seen on RedditThe Elder Scrolls: Blades It has already been removed from the App Store and Google Play Store, and is not currently available on the Nintendo Store.
Meanwhile, players will get a free bundle of Gems and Sigils, while all items in the in-game store are only available for one Gem or Sigil. Due to imminent server shutdown, The Elder Scrolls: Blades‘It will cross the mark of at least six years since its official release for Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch in 2020. The dungeon-crawling spinoff found early success when over one million iOS users downloaded the game during the first week of the early access period, but it did not match the commercial success of Bethesda’s mainline titles.
Ultimately, The Elder Scrolls: Blades It received a “generally unfavorable” score on Metacritic, with critics calling it “repetitive” and full of micro-transactions. The shutdown doesn’t come as a complete surprise, as Bethesda has also killed off its other spinoffs, The Elder Scrolls: LegendsDevelopment was halted in 2019 and the game’s servers were eventually taken offline in January 2025. For anyone who still wants to play the mobile spinoff of Bethesda’s fantasy world, there’s still The Elder Scrolls: Castle.
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