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Bethesda’s next The Elder Scrolls game is Castles – a mobile title

Developed by the team behind Fallout Shelter

Marco Wutz

Bethesda’s next The Elder Scrolls game is Castles – a mobile title
Bethesda’s next The Elder Scrolls game is Castles – a mobile title /

Bethesda has announced The Elder Scrolls: Castles, an upcoming mobile game coming to iOS and Android. Castles is made by the team that developed 2015’s Fallout Shelter.

“In Castles, you'll build your own dynasty where every day in our world is a year in the game's world. Citizens are born, they die, rulers change, and can be betrayed,” the announcement described what the game is all about.

The Elder Scrolls: Castles is now available in the Philippines and will come to other regions of the world over the coming months. Such soft-launches are common for mobile games, as they allow the developers to gather feedback and test various systems before expanding worldwide.

Yes, those are tiny baby Argonians walking around with their eggs' shells still around their bodies / Bethesda

Interested mobile gamers from outside the Philippines can pre-register on the App Store and Google Play to get notified whenever the title is unlocked in their country.

Limited playtests for The Elder Scrolls: Castles took place last year and revealed that the title’s gameplay is very much built on the foundation of Fallout Shelter, but obviously set in The Elder Scrolls’ medieval world as opposed to Fallout’s post-apocalyptic universe.

Players with access to the game have already been posting some screenshots and stories from their dynasties. One user’s starting queen apparently died on the first day, so they had to crown a baby as the next ruler – which sounds very authentic indeed, historically speaking. The game also features baby Argonians walking around with their legs sticking out from their egg shells, which is pretty adorable.

Core gamers, of course, are still desperately waiting for news on The Elder Scrolls 6, which has been announced to be in development eons ago, but likely had to wait for Starfield to be finished before production could go into full swing. We’ll probably see many dynasties rise and fall in the new mobile game before we hear anything concrete about TES 6.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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