Technically, a new Elder Scrolls game just launched
A new game set in The Elder Scrolls franchise is now available for Android devices through the Google Play Store. It’s called The Elder Scrolls: Castles, and it looks a lot like another Bethesda Game Studios game, Fallout Shelter, but set in the medieval fantasy world of Nirn.
Bethesda hasn’t said much, if anything, about The Elder Scrolls: Castles beyond what’s in the game’s listing on the Google Play Store. Castles is described as a simulation in which players manage, customize, and staff a castle; rule their kingdom by making tough decisions; and undertake “epic quests” by creating heroes and battling “classic Elder Scrolls foes.” Imagery of The Elder Scrolls: Castles shows armored soldiers battling dragons, and royalty of Argonian and Khajiit descent overseeing their kingdoms. The store description notes that Castles is an early access release.
One screenshot of The Elder Scrolls: Castles immediately brings to mind the Vault management of Fallout Shelter, the successful free-to-play Fallout spinoff first released on mobile platforms in 2015.
A trio of unannounced mobile titles in development at Bethesda Softworks were recently outed as part of a leaked document from the FTC v. Microsoft trial. Those projects were codenamed Project Ubu, Project Wanderer, and Project Whirlwind — and it’s possible that The Elder Scrolls: Castles may be the third of those three names, given the prominence of Whirlwind as skills and spells in The Elder Scrolls franchise.
Bethesda Game Studios previously experimented with The Elder Scrolls brand in a mobile setting with The Elder Scrolls: Blades, a first-person action role-playing game.
The Elder Scrolls: Castles is currently available for Android, and the game does not appear to be
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