Elder Scrolls has its own card game like Hearthstone on Steam, but after years without an update, the game must now close. A look at the player numbers reveals why.
What kind of game is this? The Elder Scrolls: Legends is an online card game for PC and mobile devices. The game is modeled after Hearthstone and relies on board effects and action to shed the dreary card game stigma.
In addition to playing against other players, gamers can also challenge the AI alone. Deck-building is also an important component of the game. However, the end of the card game has now come.
In the major competitor Hearthstone, the best WoW villain returned and died again immediately:
5 years without updates and now it’s over
How has the game performed lately? The Elder Scrolls: Legends has not been doing well lately. On Steam, the game reached only hundreds of fans at peak times.
Although the reviews on Steam were very good lately, there were probably too few players interested in the card game on Steam at the end. The interest on mobile devices also apparently wasn’t strong enough for The Elder Scrolls: Legends to keep the card game alive, even though many players might have liked the game here too, as evidenced by a rating of 3.8 stars in the Google Play Store.
When the game was released in 2017, there were still many updates and expansions for the card game. However, in 2019 it came to an end. The game went into maintenance mode and has not received any updates since.
Player numbers on Steam have since dropped to a few hundred per day and remained at this level until the news of the end of The Elder Scrolls: Legends appeared on players’ displays.
When is it over? The servers of The Elder Scrolls: Legends will be shut down on January 30, 2025. On January 25, the players will hold a tournament to celebrate the game one last time (via Reddit).
Players on Reddit have mixed reactions to the news. While many are saddened, others are still happy that the game was able to continue for so long without an update.
Even the model Hearthstone seems to be having difficulties. For the first time since the launch of the card game, the developers have not released a new game board, which has raised concerns among fans: Many thought Hearthstone was dead after the last update; now Blizzard comments on the concern
