June is set to be a sad month for Bethesda fans, as it marks the final few weeks of The Elder Scrolls: Blades’ life. Back at the end of March, Bethesda confirmed that The Elder Scrolls: Blades would be shut down on June 30, with online access to the game being pulled completely. The game has already been delisted from storefronts, but will continue to be playable until the June 30 shutdown date.
For nearly six years, The Elder Scrolls: Blades has offered fans of Bethesda’s fantasy RPG series a mobile alternative to the core games. The Elder Scrolls: Blades was released in 2020 for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch, and features first-person dungeon-crawling gameplay and a story following the titular Blades faction. With The Elder Scrolls 6 leaked to be coming in 2028 or 2029, the loss of another Elder Scrolls experience in the meantime is a rough blow for the franchise.
PC is Getting the Perfect Elder Scrolls Replacement on June 2
Fans looking for an alternative to The Elder Scrolls as the wait for TES6 drags on may have the perfect replacement releasing on June 2.
An in-game announcement notified players that The Elder Scrolls: Blades would be permanently shutting down on June 30, 2026. The game was subsequently delisted from storefronts in anticipation of this shutdown, but players who had downloaded the game could still access it until the shutdown date. In an effort to give Elder Scrolls: Blades players access to everything the game had to offer, Bethesda made all items in the in-game store available for only one Gem or one Sigil each during this time.
Scratch & Peek
Identify the cover art while scratching off as little foil as
possible.
Identify the cover art while scratching off as little foil as possible.
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Despite receiving middling review scores when it launched back in 2020, The Elder Scrolls: Blades represented one of Bethesda’s major forays into the mobile gaming space. Another Elder Scrolls mobile game, the collectible card-battler Elder Scrolls: Legends, was officially shut down in January 2025 after six years of service, similar to The Elder Scrolls: Blades. After June 30, the only remaining Elder Scrolls mobile game will be 2024’s The Elder Scrolls: Castles, a construction and management simulator where players must build and maintain their castle to grow their kingdom.
Given the ultimate fates of The Elder Scrolls: Legends and now The Elder Scrolls: Blades, the future may look uncertain for Castles as well. However, Bethesda has other mobile titles still going strong, such as Fallout Shelter with its 230 million downloads and recent boom in popularity thanks to the Fallout Amazon Prime series. Other currently available mobile apps published by Bethesda include the Starfield Chronomark Watch, as well as ports of the original Doom and Doom 2 games.
Who’s That Character?
Identify the silhouettes before time runs out.
Identify the silhouettes before time runs out.
Easy (7.5s)Medium (5.0s)Hard (2.5s)Permadeath (2.5s)
The shutdown of The Elder Scrolls: Blades couldn’t come at a worse time for Elder Scrolls fans. The Elder Scrolls 6 is still years away, with very little information officially confirmed so far, and while fans may have received The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered last year, support for Oblivion Remastered has all but disappeared in the year since. Now with The Elder Scrolls: Blades counting down the final 30 days of its life, the pool of Elder Scrolls experiences available to players is shrinking ahead of the next mainline entry.
