It is a unhappy day for the handfuls of gamers nonetheless grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda introduced that it is completely shutting down the servers for its free-to-play cell spinoff on June 30. First noticed on Reddit, The Elder Scrolls: Blades has already been delisted from the App Retailer and Google Play retailer, and is at the moment unavailable on the Nintendo Retailer.
Within the meantime, gamers will obtain a free bundle of Gems and Sigils, whereas all objects within the in-game retailer can be found for only one Gem or Sigil every. With a server shutdown imminent, The Elder Scrolls: Blades’ will at the very least cross its six-year mark since its official launch was in 2020 for Android, iOS and Nintendo Change. The dungeon-crawling spinoff did see early success when a couple of million iOS customers downloaded the sport in the course of the first week of its early entry interval, nevertheless it by no means amounted to the industrial success of Bethesda’s mainline titles.
Ultimately, The Elder Scrolls: Blades ended up with a “Usually Unfavorable” rating on Metacritic, with critics calling it “repetitive” and stuffed with microtransactions. The shutdown does not come as a complete shock, since Bethesda additionally killed off its different spinoff, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, by halting growth in 2019 and in the end taking the sport’s servers offline in January 2025. For anybody who nonetheless needs to play a cell spinoff of Bethesda’s fantasy world, there’s nonetheless The Elder Scrolls: Castles.
