The Elder Scroll: Legends has confirmed that it is shutting down on January 30, 2025, removing players’ ability to play the digital card game for good. While The Elder Scrolls: Legends has already been delisted from Steam, players who have the game on PC and mobile can continue to play the game until this date.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends was first released back in 2017 when it faced a lot of competition in the digital card game genre. Other titles such as Hearthstone have something of a stronghold on the genre, and The Elder Scrolls: Legends largely failed to find an audience despite its connection to Bethesda’s wildly popular RPG franchise.
The game’s Steam population peaked at almost 9,000 players back in 2017, although this quickly cratered. By 2020, its Steam player count had fallen into the hundreds and never managed to recover, in part due to The Elder Scrolls: Legends being put on hold in late 2019. It hasn’t received any updates since.
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The Elder Scrolls: Legends Players Getting Closure Message
While the company has yet to release any statement on its social media channels or website, as reported by PCGamesN, players launching the game are now getting a message confirming the game’s imminent closure.
“The Elder Scrolls Legends servers will permanently shut down on January 30, 2025,” the message confirms, also revealing that "all items in the store and entry into in-game events will be available for one gold each, so you can enjoy all the content Legends has to offer."
The message reads that "the game will be inaccessible" after this date, so there’s no option to play it offline. Sadly the game never managed to fulfill its full potential to become one of the most popular card games out there.
Unfortunately, The Elder Scrolls: Legends has already been delisted from Steam as well, which means it won’t be able to bring in any new players as it hurtles towards closure. Although the game’s remaining audience was small, it did exist.
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The Elder Scrolls: Legends Shutting Down In January 2025
It’s a shame for people who continue to play the game that they won’t be able to access it in any offline capacity. There are live-service games being shut down after just one year nowadays, so while it’s good that The Elder Scrolls: Legends at least got seven years online, they will definitely be a part of the ongoing conversation surrounding the preservation of these kinds of games.
While the game might be shutting down, the franchise as a whole is ramping up to enter an entirely new era. With Starfield now launched, Bethesda is said to be developing The Elder Scrolls 6, although a release date for the long-awaited title has not yet been confirmed.