# The Elder Scrolls: Castles — user reviews > 1,179 indexed App Store user reviews of The Elder Scrolls by Bethesda, rated 4.60/5 from 13,152 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-elder-scrolls-castles/id1594657136/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-elder-scrolls-castles/id1594657136.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10,431 · 4★ 1,299 · 3★ 531 · 2★ 275 · 1★ 616 ## What do users think of The Elder Scrolls? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay - 👍 Unique Elder Scrolls-themed mechanics - 💡 Interesting character relationships and decision-making - 🎨 Beautiful visuals and music **Cons** - 🔋 Drains battery quickly - 💰 Aggressive monetization with paywall-locked content - 🐛 Frequent crashes and sync issues - 🕹️ Clunky controls and UI **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to select rooms without selecting characters - Accidental character movement due to poor UI - Inconsistent resource collection when game is closed **Most requested features** - Multiple save files or restart option - More customization options for castle and characters - Improved character management tools - Deeper integration with Elder Scrolls lore and characters ## Newest reviews (11 of 1,179) ### 4/5 — Please Add Chinese Localization to The Elder Scrolls: Castles *2026-08-18, version 1.7.9* I really enjoy this game and would love to keep playing, but the lack of Chinese localization makes the ruling system very difficult to enjoy. Since rulings require understanding detailed dialogue and consequences, language support is especially important in this game. Please consider adding Simplified and Traditional Chinese. I would gladly continue playing if Chinese localization were added. ### 3/5 — Cool concept, needs rebalancing *2026-08-09, version 1.7.9* First off this is not a reskin of Fallout Shelters, which I think deserves tons of credit and props. That said, they should’ve copied Fallout Shelters a little bit more than they did. Income desperately needs to be rebalanced. Most rulings either cause problems (upset a subject or start a longer bad arc) or they cost gold. Upgrading tools costs more copies of that tool plus gold. Upgrading rooms costs a mill resource plus gold. That all might be okay, but you only earn a significant amount of gold from orders, which still isn’t enough to keep up (not to mention that orders are often for resources you need for other things) The personality trait feature is unique, but it makes things way more complicated to optimize. Leveled skills would be a much more straightforward mechanic. I get the impression that this game was trying to be more story driven which I think is great, but the resource demands are so high that it pushes the player to treat the game like an optimization problem, which often feels like fighting against the game. Subjects unpredictably start interpersonal conflict or friendship, which would be fun if either (1) it didn’t have such a massive impact on resource production or (2) if resource production weren’t such an integral part of the game. I do like the game and I think it has potential to be super fun, but I think it needs to be rebalanced to get there ### 2/5 — This game is pretty boring *2026-07-28, version 1.7.9* Someone probably enjoys tapping things in order, and waiting for things so they can build and upgrade stuff. It's boring and slow. Not for me. I'm sure fans of this sort of game will love, I only gave it a try because there hasn't been an Elder Scrolls game in a long time. Within 20 minutes I was over it. ### 3/5 — Like the game but it has issues *2026-07-14, version 1.7.9* only having second workstations be attainable through getting quartz is really frustrating when balancing between the slow aging process + making babies. I understand that they are trying to make this separate game from fallout but having the aspect of buying new machines at an increased price w new villagers stopping buy could easily fix the of accidentally making way to many kids. That or kids should age into adults faster. The aging for children is way to slow and it’s super easy to over compensate for forgetting to make them. I also wish I got more people fleeing from other villages into mine, it would make the world outside of my castle feel more alive and less staged. (Maybe give options &repercussions to reject curtain people?) and we absolutely need more then 1 file. anyway, I like the game, hope it gets some updates that fixes these issues. ### 3/5 — It’s all right *2026-07-04, version 1.7.9* Been playing for a year now and bought the year pass and felt it wasn’t worth it tbh. And side note they should have rewards or something because after the pass is done they just lock everything and you lose the feeling of everything was for nothing but forgot it’s a phone game you need money to have a better looking castle but in other words you need money to get most cool stuff ### 2/5 — Deleting *2026-06-28, version 1.7.9* After playing this game since it came out, today, it was telling me to continue with game Center even though I had already clicked it three times and it wouldn’t let me load in so it closed itself. When I tried to open it back up it just said game center failed to connect. Please try again later. I was already thinking about deleting it because it’s repetitive and there’s not enough events and I have all this gold and items. And it got stagnant. ### 3/5 — Nothing to do *2026-06-26, version 1.7.9* Can’t think of a good reason to continue to log in. Collect resources to make items to make money to do… what? Buy more resources to increase item levels for… what? There’s a very basic linear combat quest that just seems like it’s just there to give you a few items to make and level. ### 3/5 — Potencial desperdiciado *2026-06-20, version 1.7.9* lleva más de un año sin ningún tipo de contenido nuevo, hasta Fallout Shelter tiene nuevas actualizaciones y más contenido, el juego s buenisimo, pero lo abandonaron ### 3/5 — It’s fun but then it gets repetitive *2026-05-20, version 1.7.9* After like a week it’s like okay is this it ### 3/5 — Un « Fallout Shelter » amélioré *2026-05-16* TES Castles est un super jeu. Il possède des mécaniques similaires à celles de Fallout Shelter, avec des nouveautés qui ont dépassé mes attentes. Le fait de diriger son peuple, de devoir prendre des décisions importantes, d’avoir une histoire principale ainsi que des quêtes secondaires est vraiment très intéressant ! Par contre, les mises à jour sont extrêmement rares. Il manque de diversité dans l’histoire principale et dans les quêtes. Nous sommes également limités en termes de décorations, de suivi des habitants (statistiques, historique, etc.) et, une fois qu’un(e) dirigeant(e) meurt, les changements restent assez mineurs. À quand la prochaine mise à jour ? ### 1/5 — Waste of time and money *2026-05-12, version 1.7.9* Waste of time and money ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Gay *2026-08-24, version 1.7.9* I played for 5 minutes and saw a khajit sexually assault my elder, deleted the game immediately ### 1/5 — Biggest waste of time ever! *2026-08-20, version 1.7.9* Find something worth playing! ### 1/5 — DEI slop and racist game *2026-08-18, version 1.7.9* Right off the get go, we’re crammed down our throats with DEI gaming decisions for picking our castle ruler. You get 4 options, from best to worst. A redguard (black male) that’s highly spoken of, a strong willed female with head garb, an emotional female kajiit, and a “volatile” white ruthless nord. The subliminal messaging of these developers is disgusting to include this into the game so strongly, especially right out of the gate. Take this garbage out already. ### 1/5 — Issues *2026-07-29, version 1.7.9* There is no option to log into it with my other Account because it just got me a new game ### 1/5 — How long till this gets shutdown *2026-07-14, version 1.7.9* Elder scrolls game graveyard :blades💀 :legends💀 :castles ? I tryed played it will not work keeps crashing ### 1/5 — abomination *2026-07-14, version 1.7.9* this not only makes a mockery of fans, your FIRST INTERACTION.... THE VERY FIRST THING YOU DO... is deal with game gems its a hot garbage fire shame on the devs that destroyed this IP ### 1/5 — Broken Game *2026-06-26, version 1.7.9* Loved this game for the month I had it. For some reason it stopped working and I can no longer get it (Game get’s stuck on the loading screen). Please fix this issue. ### 1/5 — :/ *2026-05-25, version 1.7.9* Great game. I really like the part where it’s impossible to progress after a certain point unless you spend the cash equivalent of 2-3 actual AAA games and a further £30 a month on subscriptions. Thank you Todd “it just works” Howard and thank you Bugthesda, you’ve done it again. All that’s left is to charge £20 for horse armour so you can pretend you’re in on the joke without realising why people make fun of you in the first place ### 1/5 — we need chinese copy please！ *2026-05-24, version 1.7.9* 请出汉语版本！ ### 1/5 — Meh *2026-05-19, version 1.7.9* Not interesting and too cartoonish ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — i love this game *2026-09-06, version 1.7.9* very fun to play. this is more like what i wanted fallout shelter to be. wish there was a family tree where you can track who is related to who ### 5/5 — UPDATE THE GAME *2026-09-03, version 1.7.9* It’s good game just to the same thing yall did with he fallout shelter ### 5/5 — Like Fallout Shelter but for TES *2026-08-31, version 1.7.9* Its a cute little game, I can definitely see myself spending a lot of time on it as a major fan of The Elder Scrolls series. ### 5/5 — Please make more cards *2026-08-25, version 1.7.9* It’s a great game but now it’s so repetitive ### 5/5 — สนุกมากกกกกกก *2026-06-16, version 1.7.9* สนุกกกกกกกกโคตรรรร ### 5/5 — Enjoying *2026-06-10, version 1.7.9* Thank you! I’m enjoying this game please keep updating it and making it unique ### 5/5 — Put this on pc *2026-06-01, version 1.7.9* I love this so much I just wish it was on steam. I would play it constantly on there, I already play fallout shelter on there almost everyday for a few hours I would do the same thing if this was on there. Please put this on pc and my life is yours!❤️❤️ ### 5/5 — Super mais a besoin d’une mise à jour *2026-05-05* Le jeu est super mais un peut répétitif se serait cool si il y avait plus de truc à faire dans le jeu par exemple des quêtes avec des perso particulier et un lore plus développé comme dans fallout shelter et la possibilité d’avoir son château attaqué avoir des actions en dehors de son château fin bref le jeu est bien mais il n’y a pas de mise à jour Iles est un peu abandonné donc je joue encore mais si ce rest comme ce je mettrais 2 étoiles sûrement 🧐 ### 5/5 — TES and… *2026-05-02* Story lads, just a quick one on the game. Honestly, why aren't we asking about Daggerfall and the other titles coming to mobile? The phones we have now are more than able for it, so it’s a no-brainer really. Also, I was expecting a bit more variety in the music, maybe a bit of Jeremy Soule, but look, it’s a grand game anyway. ### 5/5 — Crashes often, but has plenty of potential. *2026-03-26, version 1.7.9* Game crashes a lot. Playing it is spotty but still works so long as I keep the villager count low and castle small. I hope to see this game on PC soon, please bring this game to steam… --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*