Elder Scrolls mobile spinoff Blades is shutting down this summer after eight years, but at least all its store items are ultra-cheap now

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Count me in, right up until I saw some gameplay and it was a pretty meh-looking phone game with oodles of in-app purchases.Still, it raked in some cash when it first dropped and presumably had its fans, so I might have given it a go had it ever come to PC. That day hasn’t come, and now, it probably never will: as user Avian81 shared on Reddit, an in-game banner and notice on the Nintendo eShop declare that it will permanently shut down on June 30.Until then, all its store items will be available for a single point of currency, and players will get a free bundle of both gems and sigils “so you can enjoy all the content Blades has to offer.” The announcement ends by saying “Thank you for playing and we hope you have enjoyed your time in Blades.”Article continues below You may like Despite an incredibly tough 2025 for ZeniMax, The Elder Scrolls Online’s leadership is hopeful: ‘We’ve definitely got our eyes on the future, because this is our home’ You’ve got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft’s 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: ‘Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create’ It’s the second Elder Scrolls game to call it quits in a little over a year: The digital card game Legends shut down in January 2025 afte