Bethesda Is Shutting Down The Elder Scrolls: Blades On June 30

It's a sad time for nan dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it's permanently shutting down nan servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff connected June 30. First spotted connected Reddit, The Elder Scrolls: Blades has already been delisted from nan App Store and Google Play store, and is presently unavailable connected nan Nintendo Store.

In nan meantime, players will person a free bundle of Gems and Sigils, while each items successful nan in-game shop are disposable for conscionable 1 Gem aliases Sigil each. With a server shutdown imminent, The Elder Scrolls: Blades' will astatine slightest transverse its six-year people since its charismatic merchandise was successful 2020 for Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch. The dungeon-crawling spinoff did spot early success erstwhile much than one million iOS users downloaded nan crippled during nan first week of its early entree period, but it ne'er amounted to nan commercialized occurrence of Bethesda's mainline titles.

In nan end, The Elder Scrolls: Blades ended up pinch a "Generally Unfavorable" people connected Metacritic, pinch critics calling it "repetitive" and filled pinch microtransactions. The shutdown doesn't travel arsenic a full surprise, since Bethesda besides killed disconnected its different spinoff, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, by halting improvement successful 2019 and yet taking nan game's servers offline successful January 2025. For anyone who still wants to play a mobile spinoff of Bethesda's imagination world, there's still The Elder Scrolls: Castles.