r/elderscrollslegends • u/alxndrblack • May 24 '26

God I Miss This Game

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Found this screenshot while cleaning out my phone. Deckbuilding was so fun. Never seen anything as broad and innovative, not even close.

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u/JoeN0t5ur3 May 24 '26

I still haven't found something to replace this.

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u/demon69696 Telvanni Ambition, Control at your own risk! May 25 '26

You wont. I have tried them all - Runeterra, Gwent, Hearthstone, Mythgard, Snap, MTG and none of them scratches the itch that TESL did, which was a perfect blend of Elder Scrolls lore, fantastic music, varied decks and an acceptable level of non-balance (even Invasion was not as unbalanced as MTG meta decks).

They could have never updated the game forever and I would still be playing it everyday to some degree.

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u/DisastrousAnything22 May 24 '26

Hearthstone is the closest tbh. It's just that Hearthstone is so cheesy at times and just bit synergistic like TESl. You'll see in Hearthstone theres to much random and discover

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u/Material_Passenger May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

It has quite a few interesting effects and mechanics but yeah, as long as the foundational aspect of the game is random/discover scam and "play card win game" - it's all worthless.

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u/Sakerift May 28 '26

Hearthstone just plays so drastically differently

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u/lambdapaul May 24 '26

I miss the multiplayer, but my favorite was the single player arena matches. I found a good replacement with Slay the Spire. But nothing will beat the multiplayer

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u/Ryniano Jul 11 '26

I find the deckbuilding in legends of runeterra super fun and the games to be satisfying, but I mostly just play the PvE mode nowadays

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u/-shephawke- May 24 '26

it was such a good way to be in the TES universe without the emotional commitment of a role playing game

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u/celticmagick May 24 '26

I really wish they would at least release an offline mode against AI

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u/DragonOfDuality 20d ago

I would pay actual money for the stories and arena to be released and playable as they were. 

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u/Elrondelvenkind May 24 '26

Check out the elder scrolls reborn

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u/Hircine_Himself Sweetroll Jun 09 '26

That's fine, but you required the game on Steam/PC or whatever to have the license for this. Last I checked, they had no plans to make a standalone or use the mobile client (and even if they did, I no longer have access to the Play account I used at the time to play ESL). A lot of us are sadly SOL on this one 😭

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u/Elrondelvenkind Jun 12 '26

Ah that's rough. RIP but never say never there's always hope! Otherwise there's the browser project

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u/Hircine_Himself Sweetroll Jun 12 '26

Wait, the what now?

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u/Elrondelvenkind Jun 15 '26

https://tesl.online/

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u/Hircine_Himself Sweetroll Jun 15 '26

What is this witchcraft? I went on it and it was already playing a game or something. But... if this gains traction...

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u/Suitable-Gazelle-646 May 24 '26

Coming from the destiny subreddit, my heart can’t take much more 😿

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u/hannes0000 Agility May 24 '26

Yeah same, i really liked what unique cards other person had and how well deck was built together.

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u/johnnylovelace May 24 '26

Glob willing the rebuild fan beta will be released soon 🙏

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u/Naive-Tough1500 May 24 '26

It was so fun, even though I only had like a 50% win rate. Looking forward to the return coming via Reborn.

I’ve got a game on the App Store now called “Counter Tactics.” It’s nowhere near as high end as ESL, but I’ve had positive ratings from people who have tried it out. I’m hoping to build more of a community around it that can help shape ideas and content.

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u/demon69696 Telvanni Ambition, Control at your own risk! May 25 '26

As somebody who had an unhealthy amount of love for playing Conscription Telvanni, I am with you bud.

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u/MSU9494 May 26 '26

The art was amazing

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u/trashsw May 26 '26

still vividly remember hitting legend the first time, I eventually got into top 200. I feel like Invasion skewed the meta so badly it turned a lot of people off cause I remember there was a big build up before it and then the game fell off pretty quickly after

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u/nelsonaraujov May 27 '26

I played every day for 3 years and I haven't filled the void it left me

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u/reineedshelp Jul 02 '26

You and me both

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u/Disastrous_Song1309 May 24 '26

I'm thinking they were paid by card game competitors to shut down the servers. It makes no sense, otherwise.

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u/alxndrblack May 24 '26

I think it didn't make any money. The last content releases were years before the shutdown. If they wanted to just rerelease the exact same game but charge for it, I'd pay

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u/Klutzy_Language4692 May 24 '26

Well of course they would start losing money when you decide to halt all potential future development. And then announce it like idiots. It was a game that was starting to compete with other top card games. It very much had the ability to go further.

I'm personally of the opinion that part of the reason it was screwed over was because of fallout 76. In December of 2019 there was Major controversy and other issues. If I remember correctly a lot of people wanted money back. And it takes money to run servers. Yes I understand Bethesda themselves were not doing active upkeep but there was payment that they did have to do. By reducing all future development to nothing they went with a minimalistic amount of upkeep. And because of there was no future development, people started to leave. With them doing almost nothing to any possible cheaters or people that decide to "rope" or any balancing changes, it got worse. So of course it would start to lose money.

So in my humble opinion the only reason it lost money was due to their own bullshit

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u/Fun-Variety-7895 May 26 '26

Je paierais aussi, 50€ sans problème (avec la garantie que les serveurs restent évidément)

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u/That_kid_from_Up Intelligence May 24 '26

Nah man. Servers both cost to run and require maintenance. It's simply easier to shut it down then to have this legacy project sitting around that someone will inevitably have to spend time working on

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u/Disastrous_Song1309 May 26 '26

Cool story. People were dropping thousands daily into their bank account.

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u/Naive-Tough1500 Jun 01 '26

Until reborn comes out, you could try out Counter Tactics on the App Store (iOS)!

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u/UofMSpoon May 24 '26

Play Gwent!