Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls: Blades it will be permanently closed on June 30, 2026 and has already been removed from shop windows. The mobile spin-off game was originally released for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch in May 2020 and featured classic first-person dungeon crawling gameplay and a story following the titular Blades, who were deported after the Great War. Now, after six years of service, The Elder Scrolls: Blades after June it will no longer be accessible to players.
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is just one of Bethesda's mobile games, with other titles like Fallout Shelter and The Elder Scrolls: Castles remains active for now. Compared to the mostly positive reception of these other titles The Elder Scrolls: Blades it received mostly negative reviews and received a score of 37 on OpenCritic. Part of this criticism came from the game's monetization model, a free-to-play game with microtransactions that many players believed encouraged pay-to-win strategies.
In-game message for The Elder Scrolls: Blades players announced plans to shut down the game's servers on June 30. The players found out too The Elder Scrolls: Blades it has already been removed from stores like Google Play, Apple App Store and Nintendo eShop in anticipation of this shutdown. Players who already have the game installed on their device can continue to play until the end date of June 30, but players who want to run it for the first time will not be able to access the game.
One of the benefits of this early stop is that Bethesda is offering a deep discount on all items offered in the The Elder Scrolls: Blades' shop in the game. Items will only cost 1 gem or 1 sigil and all players will receive a pack of these currencies to access all content. The Elder Scrolls: Blades must offer before the game goes offline for good. While the news of this shutdown may be disappointing for fans, they can at least have a free hand over the game's content for the next two months.
The Elder Scrolls: Blades' Shutdown comes at a time of stagnation for the franchise
The Elder Scrolls fans are currently in a state of limbo, with another major game on the horizon, but nothing else to get excited about. Last year's edition The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered marked a significant entry into the long wait for the release of the next major game series, but few updates The Elder Scrolls 6The company's development after its initial announcement at E3 2018 only built up expectations. While Bethesda's Todd Howard confirmed that most of the studio is now working on The Elder Scrolls 6the game is probably still a few years away from release.
The Elder Scrolls: Blades serves as one option for fans to find refuge during this long wait, but that option will soon be taken off the table. Fortunately, there are still other ways to pass the time like the ones mentioned above Oblivion Remastered. For Nintendo Switch 2 owners, Skyrim We've just received the 60 FPS update on console, so it's the perfect time to get back to playing more. Mobile Elder Scrolls: Blades players can switch to playing instead The Elder Scrolls: Castleswhere they can manage their kingdom, expand and modify their castle, and send items to explore and collect valuable items from dungeons. Although these games may not exactly fill the void left behind The Elder Scrolls: BladesAt least until then, players can keep busy in the world of Tamriel The Elder Scrolls 6 edition.
