Bethesda is quietly releasing a new game in the Elder Scrolls series – Castles

Skyrim, Starfield and Fallout 4 creator Bethesda has quietly released a new Elder Scrolls game.

This isn’t Elder Scrolls VI, which won’t be released for a few years, but a mobile game.

It’s called The Elder Scrolls: Castles and, as spotted on Reddit, it was released on Android. It doesn’t appear to be available in the UK yet, but it may be before you read this.

According to the app’s description, the game was released in “early access,” which suggests it’s a soft launch, hence the lack of fanfare.

The Elder Scrolls: Castles “puts you in control of your own castle and dynasty.”

According to the app store page, “you create heroes, equip them with epic gear, and send them into battle against classic Elder Scrolls enemies to collect valuable items.”

Avid mobile gamers will notice one of the screenshots that strongly resembles Fallout Shelter, a mobile game released in 2015 to support the launch of Fallout 4.

Both games seem to have the same dynamics. You need to balance the room types in your castle to ensure that the right resources are flowing.

One of your goals is to keep the inhabitants of the castle happy so that they do not “plan to assassinate” the ruler.

The game is free to download and play, and the Google Play Store page suggests that The Elder Scrolls: Castles was first published on September 27. So far, the game has been downloaded from the store over 1,000 times.

For now, there is no indication that this feature will appear in the iOS App Store. But you can be sure that with time.

Spiritual predecessor Fallout Shelter was released just a few months before Fallout 4 in 2015, but recent indications suggest that The Elder Scrolls 6 won’t be released until at least 2026.

This was suggested in court documents disclosed as part of Microsoft’s conflict with the US FTC, which aims to take over publisher Activision Blizzard, as reported by The Verge.

In more recent news, Bethesda announced that 10 million people have already played Starfield on September 20, just a few weeks after its full launch.