Bethesda Is Shutting Down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30

Bethesda is permanently shutting down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30. The free-to-play mobile spinoff has already been delisted from the App Store, Google Play, and Nintendo Store. As a farewell, Bethesda is giving players a free bundle of Gems and Sigils and has dropped all in-game store items to one Gem or Sigil each.

The game launched in early access in 2019 before its official release in 2020 across iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. In its first week, over one million iOS users downloaded it. But the early momentum never built into sustained commercial success. Critics consistently called out its repetitive dungeon-crawling loop and aggressive microtransaction model. It currently holds a "Generally Unfavorable" score on Metacritic.

Bethesda's other mobile spinoff met a similar end. The Elder Scrolls: Legends had its development halted in 2019 and its servers taken offline in January 2025. Players looking for a mobile Elder Scrolls fix still have The Elder Scrolls: Castles, which remains active.

June 30 will be just over six years since Blades officially launched, closing the book on Bethesda's mobile push in the Elder Scrolls universe.