This article was updated by Andrea Trama on April 8, 2026, with a brief history of The Elder Scrolls: Blades, from its reveal to its shutdown. It was first published on March 28.
Bethesda has announced that The Elder Scrolls: Blades will be permanently shut down on June 30, 2026, and has already been delisted from storefronts. 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 have become exiled after the Great War. Now, after six years of service, The Elder Scrolls: Blades will no longer be accessible to players after June.
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is just one of Bethesda's mobile games, with other titles like Fallout Shelter and The Elder Scrolls: Castles remaining active for the time being. Compared to the mostly positive reception of these other titles, The Elder Scrolls: Blades received largely negative reviews, garnering a score of 37 on OpenCritic. Part of these criticisms came from the game's monetization model, being a free-to-play game with microtransactions that many players felt encouraged pay-to-win strategies.
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