Bethesda Quietly Releases New Elder Scrolls Castles Game

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

This is not Elder Scrolls VI, which is expected to be released in a few years, but a game for mobile phones.

The game is called The Elder Scrolls: Castles and has been released on Android, as spotted on Reddit. It doesn’t look like it’s available in the UK yet, but it could be by the time you read this.

The game’s description indicates that it is being released in “Early Access,” suggesting that it is a soft launch, hence the lack of publicity.

In The Elder Scrolls: Castles, “you take control of your own castle and dynasty.”

According to the game’s App Store page, you can also “create heroes, equip them with epic gear, and send them into battle against classic Elder Scrolls foes to earn valuable items.”

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

Both games seem to have similar dynamics. You have to balance the types of rooms in your castle to ensure the right resources flow.

One of your goals is to keep the castle’s inhabitants happy so that they don’t “plot an attack” on the ruler.

The game is free to download and play, and the Google Play Store page states that The Elder Scrolls: Castles was first released on September 27. To date, the game has been downloaded from the store “over 1,000 times.”

There is no sign yet that it will appear in the iOS App Store. But you can be sure that it will in time.

Fallout Shelter’s spiritual predecessor came out just a few months before Fallout 4 in 2015, but the latest information suggests that The Elder Scrolls 6 won’t release until at least 2026.

The suggestion comes in court documents disclosed as part of Microsoft’s dispute with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in which Microsoft intends to acquire publisher Activision Blizzard, as reported by The Verge.

In more recent news, Bethesda announced that Starfield had already passed 10 million people as of September 20, just a few weeks after the full game’s launch.