The Elder Scrolls: Blades
- March 27, 2019
- Bethesda Game Studios
- 4h median play time
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a game with good ideas but bad implementation. While this story is scaled-down and has a unique twist to combat, this entry is riddled with bugs, monetization, and timers that can make this game a drag.
"The Elder Scrolls: Blades" is a Role Playing game with a good story, beautiful game mechanics, ingenious visuals, and fantastic music. However, it requires lots of grinding, has some bugs, and features humor that will make you laugh. This classic dungeon crawler, developed by Bethesda Game Studios, offers a beautiful atmosphere that draws players into its world.
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Reviews
- story2,430 mentions
- 23 % positive mentions
- 71 % neutral mentions
- 6 % negative mentions
- graphics1,838 mentions
- 72 % positive mentions
- 26 % neutral mentions
- 2 % negative mentions
- gameplay1,265 mentions
- 47 % positive mentions
- 44 % neutral mentions
- 9 % negative mentions
- stability443 mentions
- 3 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 97 % negative mentions
- grinding322 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 2 % neutral mentions
- 98 % negative mentions
- optimization173 mentions
- 28 % positive mentions
- 51 % neutral mentions
- 20 % negative mentions
- ads167 mentions
- 21 % positive mentions
- 2 % neutral mentions
- 77 % negative mentions
- music119 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 48 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- atmosphere27 mentions
- 48 % positive mentions
- 52 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- character development19 mentions
- 47 % positive mentions
- 47 % neutral mentions
- 5 % negative mentions
- replayability10 mentions
- 30 % positive mentions
- 70 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- funny9 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- emotional7 mentions
- 86 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
The Elder Scrolls: Blades Review – Stick With Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls: Blades uses its nature as a mobile-first title as a thin excuse for being a boring, mundane, monotonous experience. It may be free, so there's no point asking if this is worth your money- but is it worth your time? Absolutely not.
30%The Elder Scrolls: Blades Review
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a bland and repetitive grind, a free-to-play mobile game all dressed up like a proper Elder Scrolls title but lacking in any of the adventure, exploration, wit or charm of a mainline entry in the franchise. Combat here is dull, levels are small and linear, town-building is boring and everything is designed to frustrate you into spending your money on the gems required to override the constant timers that impede your progress as you level up and make your way through the barely existent story. It's a free-to-play title so you won't lose anything (other than your time) by giving it a whirl, but we reckon you'll have had your fill of this one in pretty short order, and there are lots of much better freemium experiences available on Switch to spend your precious time on.
30%The Elder Scrolls: Blades Review – Stick With Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls: Blades uses its nature as a mobile-first title as a thin excuse for being a boring, mundane, monotonous experience. It may be free, so there's no point asking if this is worth your money- but is it worth your time? Absolutely not.
30%
