The Elder Scrolls: Blades2020

The Elder Scrolls: Blades

2020 Bethesda Softworks44Bad

Playtime

ModerateIt typically takes about 15 hours to finish the game.

Playable on

Game modes

Details

First access
March 27, 2019
Launch
May 12, 2020

Overview

The Elder Scrolls: Blades Early Access Trailer

Take the Elder Scrolls anywhere you go with The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Revealed during the 2018 Bethesda E3 Showcase, Blades is an all-new Elder Scrolls game from Bethesda Game Studios. Launching in winter 2019, Blades will be free-to-play on iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

Screenshots

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Reception

I found myself looking to reload Skyrim the more I played.

The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a game with good ideas but bad implementation. While this story is scaled-down and has a unique twist to combat, this entry is riddled with bugs, monetization, and timers that can make this game a drag.

Bethesda clearly cannot decide on priorities, grabbing everything in a row and rushing from one extreme to the other. As a result, we get a crooked, boring and ugly semi-finished product - The Elder Scrolls: Blades on Switch. Yes, the game is F2P, but spending time in it is physically unpleasant. At the same time, a full-fledged version of The Elder...

Blades is a free to play dungeon crawler set in the Elder Scrolls universe, with some interesting ideas, but repetitive,
even boring, levels and poor combat mechanics.

Only for hardcore fans of Bethesda fantasy games, The Elder Scrolls: Blades on Nintendo Switch is still, at its core, more of the same of the mobile version.