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The Elder Scrolls: Legends

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a strategy card game that explores the series' characters, creatures, deities, and lore. Whether you have 10 minutes or five hours, Legends provides a variety of gameplay modes…

77 9 March 2017

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a card & board game developed by Dire Wolf Digital, released 9 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.

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What The Elder Scrolls: Legends is

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a card & board game game developed by Dire Wolf Digital and released in 2017. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Elder Scrolls: Legends was a free-to-play digital collectible card video game, published by Bethesda Softworks for Microsoft Windows, iOS, macOS and Android in 2017.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 2 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is the 24th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was Bethesda Pinball in 2017. Its critic score of 77 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.

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How it was received

The Elder Scrolls: Legends holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 58% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium D or AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (256 MB) or ATI™ Radeon™ X1600 Pro (256 MB) or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Elder Scrolls: Legends launched on 9 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Elder Scrolls: Legends yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Quick answers

The Elder Scrolls: Legends — frequently asked questions

When did The Elder Scrolls: Legends come out?
The Elder Scrolls: Legends was released on 9 March 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Elder Scrolls: Legends?
At minimum, The Elder Scrolls: Legends needs Intel Pentium D or AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (256 MB) or ATI™ Radeon™ X1600 Pro (256 MB) or better graphics, 3 GB available space of storage.
Does The Elder Scrolls: Legends have multiplayer?
Yes. The Elder Scrolls: Legends supports multiplayer for up to 2 players online.
How many GB is The Elder Scrolls: Legends?
The PC version needs about 3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("3 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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