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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 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>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n