Bethesda is retiring its free-to-play Elder Scrolls Blades in June, and has already delisted the game from Switch, iOS, and Android.
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The unpopular Elder Scrolls Blades has been removed from all storefronts and is no longer available to download. Bethesda announced that the free-to-play game will also be pulled offline on June 30, 2026, and from then on will no longer be able to be accessed.
As a farewell to players, the studio has opened up the floodgates to Blades’ microtransaction storefront, reducing the costs of all items while giving users a batch of free currency.
Blades was originally announced in 2019, and released on mobile phones in 2020, eventually coming to the Nintendo Switch with cross-play intact.
While the game may have been successful to a degree, providing Bethesda with supplemental income, it was far from a hit and was widely criticized for its aggressive pay-to-win monetization structure. Even still, estimates say that Blades may have made around $1.5 million its first month of early access on the App Store with users spending around $50,000 on in-game currency per day.
This spending has slowed to a crawl, though; according to Sensor Tower’s estimates, Blades only made around $20,000 in revenue last month, and it’s possible that Bethesda was spending more money to keep the game online than Blades was actually making.
The studio currently has two mobile games at the ready: Fallout Shelter, which remains the most popular Fallout game ever released (which makes sense because it’s free-to-play), and Elder Scrolls Castles, which is basically the Fallout Shelter version of the TES universe.