Fus Roh management sim
Downloadableon Android in early access form- though sadly, only in the US at the time of writing - the game sees you adding rooms, dropping monuments, and positioning your subjects so as to help your Elder Scrolls kingdom flourish. There are familiar Elder Scrolls races such as Argonians, and you can hire and train up warriors equipped with Elder Scrolls abilities like Whirlwind.
Overarching goals include appointing an heir, managing the food supply and not getting assassinated by those disgusting peasants. There are quests, too, with dragons and such, but the emphasis is on being a manager rather than a hero. It looks very jolly, though I do wish the art direction were a shade more Skyrimmy - it’s closer toMy Time At Portiaright now. Fallout Shelter had the advantage of leaning intoFallout’s satirical VaultBoy art, whereas Castles is more generic. Still, perhaps they could have modelled it after one of the Elder Scrolls series' in-game lorebooks?
Assuminghistory repeats itself, The Elder Scrolls: Castle will eventually end up on PC, after languishing for a few months in that plane of Oblivion known as mobile gaming. I’ll keep you posted.
As forThe Elder Scrolls VI, we learned from Microsoft’s legal fight with the FTC over the Activision buyout thatthe much-demanded RPG is at least five years away. “It’s so far out it’s hard to understand what the platforms will even be at this point,” Thane of Xbox Phil Spencer told audiences, to much lamenting.
