The Elder Scrolls: Blades
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…
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is an adventure developed by Bethesda Game Studios, released 12 May 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.
What The Elder Scrolls: Blades is
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is an adventure game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is the 40th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor in 2020. Its critic score of 30 is 47 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.
How it was received
The Elder Scrolls: Blades holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 43 points below the year average. Players rate it 40, 10 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
The Elder Scrolls: Blades launched on 12 May 2020, within three weeks of Valorant, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4 and Tetris Effect: Connected. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Valorant, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4, Tetris Effect: Connected.
Official trailer
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