{"id":1360,"date":"2026-03-30T03:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/bethesda-is-shutting-down-the-elder-scrolls-blades-on-june-30\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:10:16","slug":"bethesda-is-shutting-down-the-elder-scrolls-blades-on-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/bethesda-is-shutting-down-the-elder-scrolls-blades-on-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda is shutting down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a sad day for the dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades<\/em><\/a>. Bethesda announced that it’s permanently shutting down the servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff on June 30. First spotted on Reddit<\/a>, The Elder Scrolls: Blades<\/em> has already been delisted from the App Store and Google Play store, and is currently unavailable on the Nintendo Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, players will receive a free bundle of Gems and Sigils, while all items in the in-game store are available for just one Gem or Sigil each. With a server shutdown imminent, The Elder Scrolls: Blades<\/em>‘ will at least cross its six-year mark since its official release was in 2020 for Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch. The dungeon-crawling spinoff did see early success<\/a> when more than one million<\/a> iOS users downloaded the game during the first week of its early access period, but it never amounted to the commercial success of Bethesda’s mainline titles.<\/p>\n

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In the end, The Elder Scrolls: Blades<\/em> ended up with a “Generally Unfavorable” score on Metacritic, with critics calling it “repetitive” and filled with microtransactions. The shutdown doesn’t come as a total surprise, since Bethesda also killed off its other spinoff, The Elder Scrolls: Legends<\/em><\/a>, by halting development in 2019 and ultimately taking the game’s servers offline in January 2025. For anyone who still wants to play a mobile spinoff of Bethesda’s fantasy world, there’s still The Elder Scrolls: Castles<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/bethesda-is-shutting-down-the-elder-scrolls-blades-on-june-30-191016852.html?src=rss<\/p>

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It’s a sad day for the dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it’s permanently shutting down the servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff on June 30. First spotted on Reddit, The Elder Scrolls: Blades has already been delisted from the App Store and Google Play store, and is currently unavailable on the Nintendo Store. In the meantime, players will receive a free bundle of Gems and Sigils, while all items in the in-game store are available for just one Gem or Sigil each. With a server shutdown imminent, The Elder Scrolls: Blades‘ will at least cross its six-year mark since its official release was in 2020 for Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch. The dungeon-crawling spinoff did see early success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}