The Elder Scrolls: Legends

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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 112 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 24 out of 112
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  1. Someonon
    Sep 8, 2017
    0
    The games core mechanics, ideas and the design are great, too bad the rigged AI ruins the experience for "solo" players. (higher solo arena ranks....)
  2. TheBestTCPlayer
    Dec 5, 2017
    0
    No fun at all as soon you complete decent the story line. Entering the solo arena to collect more cards gave me every time a cheating boss that instantly destroyed everything I put on the board. And going for the daily quests to collect some in-game gold only shows how less this game is actually "Free to Play". As soon as I started an daily quest did the server always connect me toNo fun at all as soon you complete decent the story line. Entering the solo arena to collect more cards gave me every time a cheating boss that instantly destroyed everything I put on the board. And going for the daily quests to collect some in-game gold only shows how less this game is actually "Free to Play". As soon as I started an daily quest did the server always connect me to opponents with the perfect counter cards for mine. Nothing with free to play or cheap play. Play the game without paying for all the cards makes you only become a victim for people who spend more money into this TradingCardGame than it properly will ever be worth it! Uninstalled after 4 weeks of wasted time.… Expand
  3. TXJacksen
    Oct 5, 2017
    1
    The game looks decent at it's first glance but turns into a whore soon.
    No balancing on the cards and even worse do I have to ask me WHY one player ALWAYS get a mana plus that he can use three!!! times to become ahead of his opponent?!
    I already played some online TCG (trading card games) and also one offline game but never saw such a ridiculousness! A duel starts and all you can do is    The game looks decent at it's first glance but turns into a whore soon.
    No balancing on the cards and even worse do I have to ask me WHY one player ALWAYS get a mana plus that he can use three!!! times to become ahead of his opponent?!
    I already played some online TCG (trading card games) and also one offline game but never saw such a ridiculousness! A duel starts and all you can do is to hope you become this advantage because it's ways to strong! With that as an basement do I understand why the creators do not even bother to balance the cards itself.    … Expand
  4. aberwitz
    Sep 11, 2017
    3
    Badly designed and balanced game, with a fraudulent pay to win business model.

    Legendary cards are super powerful in this game and most of them are not limited to 1, you can have 3 per deck. The minimum deck size in ladder games is 50, it´s not uncommon for decks to have 9+ legendarys, which means that building a competitive deck is super expensive. The chance to get legendarys from    Badly designed and balanced game, with a fraudulent pay to win business model.

    Legendary cards are super powerful in this game and most of them are not limited to 1, you can have 3 per deck. The minimum deck size in ladder games is 50, it´s not uncommon for decks to have 9+ legendarys, which means that building a competitive deck is super expensive. The chance to get legendarys from packs or rewards is very low, so the pressure to spend money on the game if you want to be competitive is extreme. Collecting cards in TESL is very slow and expensive. I´ve never played a ccg with such a shameless pay to win business model.

    The prophecy feature seems like a nice idea. Every time one of your runes is broken (at 25, 20, 15 health etc.) you draw a card and if that card is a prophecy you can play it for free. That seems like it´s intended to help against the "problem" of aggro-decks hat many ccgs have. However, while you have a chance to get a prophecy card based on how many prophecys you have in your deck (which adds a very strong rng element to the game), many aggro decks have cards that give them a guaranteed positive effect when an opponents' rune is broken. So the runes, that seem to be a counter to aggro, do the exact opposite.

    TESL has a lot of combos and card interactions that add nice complexity to the game. Sadly, many of those are so powerful and unbalanced that the game is simply decided by rng not by player decisions. Whoever draws his "killer-combos" first, wins. And those strong cards are hidden behind a pay wall.

    I really liked the PvE content of TESL, the story mode is very well done. The AI its much better than what other games have to offer. Sadly solo arena gets really frustrating at higher levels. The AI has strong rebuild decks with awesome interactions and also "magically" draws perfect, while you have to draft a deck and obviously the rng in draft can result in awful decks. I´ve reached rank 1 in solo arena and managed to win against all 9 opponents at rank 1 multiple times, I'm not saying this because I'm angry for losing. I'm angry that the developers use the decent rewards in PvE as carrot, a carrot you often can't reach because the difficulty level is designed in a way that most players will not make any profits out of PvE. But hey, you can spend money on arena tickets and try again. Just another cash grab.

    It takes months until balance changes are made, if that ever happens (no problem, most changes make no sense anyway). Player feedback is ignored and there is almost no developer interaction with the community.

    TESL had the potential to be an awesome ccg in the elder scrolls universe. Shameless greed and developer incompetence when it comes to game design and balancing prevent that.    … Expand
  5. PJack
    Nov 13, 2017
    0
    Do you call yourself a creative person? If yes, than better forget about this game!
    The balance is so incredible bad that 90% of all available cards aren't used on higher ranks or aren't used at all. Only a few, specific cards find there use in even fewer, even more specific decks. In fact, the entire game only relies on boring matches with those specific cards to unlock even more of them    Do you call yourself a creative person? If yes, than better forget about this game!
    The balance is so incredible bad that 90% of all available cards aren't used on higher ranks or aren't used at all. Only a few, specific cards find there use in even fewer, even more specific decks. In fact, the entire game only relies on boring matches with those specific cards to unlock even more of them for free OR to go the shortcut and buy them with money.    … Expand
  6. Zenren
    Sep 14, 2017
    0
    This game is horribly imbalanced and requires you to play one of twelve different types of decks in order to compete, and one of six different types in order to compete at the highest level. There is no creativity, just reading a deck list and collecting those cards. This isn't like Hearthstone where you can build a deck unlike other people's decks and still have fun, you are forced toThis game is horribly imbalanced and requires you to play one of twelve different types of decks in order to compete, and one of six different types in order to compete at the highest level. There is no creativity, just reading a deck list and collecting those cards. This isn't like Hearthstone where you can build a deck unlike other people's decks and still have fun, you are forced to play a specific type, most often based on Lethal or Mana Ramp, in order to compete. I discourage anyone from spending cash on this game, after spending $60 I got a total of 2 legendary and 4 epics. That was an average of $10 per card. The Skyrim story pack is also worthless in regards to rewards, so if you're completing it for cards, it's not going to help you much.… Expand
  7. Marcus1990
    Sep 26, 2017
    0
    This games should be "Play for Free"? Ridiculous!!! Ever PvP match is manipulated by an AI and if you don't play an specific deck on one of the eleven ranks on the letter let this AI always draw the wrong cards or on the other hand the perfect cards on your opponents site so you don't have any change but loose the match. Of course give the game you the illusion you can craft every card andThis games should be "Play for Free"? Ridiculous!!! Ever PvP match is manipulated by an AI and if you don't play an specific deck on one of the eleven ranks on the letter let this AI always draw the wrong cards or on the other hand the perfect cards on your opponents site so you don't have any change but loose the match. Of course give the game you the illusion you can craft every card and deck as long as you spent enough time with farming the PvE mode. But there works the same AI and cheats you so badly that I already swear several times to spent my next vacation in the USA to "visit"some developers. It's just ridicules what **** the AI produce game for game for game.

    Also the balancing is absolute trash. Yes, there are some interesting cards you might build an interesting deck. Buuutttt, any deck that has more depth than the most simple rush decks has an win-rate under 40 percentage so you have the choice - play an uninteresting most simple deck with success or an interesting deck just for fun until you get frustrated form the high losing rate!

    So it's definitive not a Free to Play game and an insistent cheating AI is for me reason enough to boycott the game! Cheating players are bad enough. But where do we come to when game manufacturers start to implement there homemade cheats into there computer games?
    A bad course that should never find support!    … Expand
  8. Gnomercy4U
    Mar 1, 2018
    0
    This game starts out looking and feeling alright. When you start clocking some hours it becomes painfully obvious just how overpowered the legendary cards are in an obvious ploy to get people to spend money buying packs or playing their ridiculously priced story mode campaigns.
  9. Acrobatreader
    Apr 26, 2018
    0
    Totaly disbalanced random free-to-play garbage. Bethesda who made zero good games since Morrowind should stop raping The Elder Scrolls universe. A couple of things you need to know about this money-sucking game:
    - There are many cards with random effects, random actions, random creatures. This is a cancer of this game
    - This game is about top-deck-to-win - You may draw all 3 copies of    Totaly disbalanced random free-to-play garbage. Bethesda who made zero good games since Morrowind should stop raping The Elder Scrolls universe. A couple of things you need to know about this money-sucking game:
    - There are many cards with random effects, random actions, random creatures. This is a cancer of this game
    - This game is about top-deck-to-win
    - You may draw all 3 copies of the same card from your deck, discard and then draw 2 of them again.
    - This game should be called The Elder Scrolls: Leegendaries, cause it's all that matters. To increase a win rate just increase the amount of legendaries in your deck.
    - You don't need skill, you don't need brain, you need luck and more legendaries.

    10 random score out of 10    … Expand
  10. hhha
    Jan 27, 2018
    2
    This game is by no means an 8/10 and I'll tell you why:

    1. Gameplay is terribly unbalanced/based on RNG so much that either you get stomped (esp. at the beginning) or you stomp other people every second game. Playing just feels like a f*king lottery. 2. Most of the cards are behind a paywall/blocked if you don't buy a campaign expansion and/or are very expensive and hard to get, even    This game is by no means an 8/10 and I'll tell you why:

    1. Gameplay is terribly unbalanced/based on RNG so much that either you get stomped (esp. at the beginning) or you stomp other people every second game. Playing just feels like a f*king lottery.

    2. Most of the cards are behind a paywall/blocked if you don't buy a campaign expansion and/or are very expensive and hard to get, even if you grind A LOT. Even if you scrap 80% of your collection, you won’t get a very competitive deck out of the scraps – good cards are just TOO EXPENSIVE.

    3. UI is f*king retarded, especially scrapping and creating cards is a pain in the a$$. Redundant animations and clicking buttons all the time will make you mad.

    4. After completing the short Campaign (a few hours of playtime), you either Practice with AI (which gets boring really fast), play Casual games (which are not casual at all - you'll face best decks out there), play Arena vs AI or another player (but you need to pay for it every f*king time, like WTF!) or you make another deck hoping this time it will be more consistent (it won't!) for your Ranked games (which are in 80% populated with decks better than yours, even at your starting Rank 12).

    5. Decks are very inconsistent because there is a hard limit of 50 cards (yes, you cannot have 49 or less!) and you start every match with 3(4) cards in your hand. Then you draw 1 card every turn, so you can imagine your hand will never be optimal. This causes so much frustration, as there is only one mulligan, at start. After that you just play what AI draws for you, which plainly sucks.

    6. At first ESL seems generous (you get like 500 gold and a few cardpacks after completing the free Campaign mode (several hours of playtime), but this is misleading. The rewards are really low after that and not worth your time. Often you get common cards you don't need or some gold but not much really (like 15 at a time). You need to GRIND a lot to get anything useful. The game is clearly designed to make you pay handsomely if you want to earn anything.

    The only positives are sounds and cards’ design. Other than that, I cannot recommend this game for anything.    … Expand
  11. JackOfAwesome
    May 19, 2018
    0
    Wow, after the last expansion - Morrowind - did I almost thought this game becomes finally good.
    New interesting cards was added, new game mechanics introduced, the ridiculous cheating AI was calmed down and the match matching was fair to PvP players.
    And now - just 6 weeks later - is everything the same evil as before! Every player use the very same overpowered tow deck - so you have    Wow, after the last expansion - Morrowind - did I almost thought this game becomes finally good.
    New interesting cards was added, new game mechanics introduced, the ridiculous cheating AI was calmed down and the match matching was fair to PvP players.

    And now - just 6 weeks later - is everything the same evil as before!
    Every player use the very same overpowered tow deck - so you have to decide between one of the both or skip PvP completely! Twitch drops are frozen and the AI becomes so extremely ridiculous cheating again that every match against it is a **** joke! Six weeks and all the streamers and the most of all players left the game already again.
    For **** sake I didn't stepped into there trap. No, I didn't spend one single penny into this expansion! - Not this time!    … Expand
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    May 30, 2022
    4
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  13. BestNoob
    Feb 18, 2020
    2
    Unfair, unbalanced and absolutely not recommended. The one with the strongest cards wins, skill is not required. Dear Hearthstone, you have such an imbalance and you don't need a skill either, but at least you have clever gameplay.

    Card effects and combos are often not displayed or explained etc. And now you are also bothered ala "Buy this, it is something special" or "This is what you    Unfair, unbalanced and absolutely not recommended. The one with the strongest cards wins, skill is not required. Dear Hearthstone, you have such an imbalance and you don't need a skill either, but at least you have clever gameplay.

    Card effects and combos are often not displayed or explained etc. And now you are also bothered ala "Buy this, it is something special" or "This is what you get!"

    I had to find out that there is no fair and balanced card game. Either the developers make it an indirect Pay2Win game or the balance is completely destroyed by questionable decisions by the developers. If you like balance and fair gameplay, you shouldn't do any of the card games.    … Expand
  14. Sassquatch
    Jul 9, 2018
    2
    A pretty frustrating game that hides its simplicity under a veneer of card choices and above-average graphics. The simplistic mechanics favor whoever happens to curve out better and get lucky with their card draws. The game isn't any more sophisticated than that.

    The game designers made it nearly impossible to get past a certain level on the ladder without investing money into a    A pretty frustrating game that hides its simplicity under a veneer of card choices and above-average graphics. The simplistic mechanics favor whoever happens to curve out better and get lucky with their card draws. The game isn't any more sophisticated than that.

    The game designers made it nearly impossible to get past a certain level on the ladder without investing money into a legendary-heavy deck. But hey, it's FTP so you cant exactly blame them for wanting to make some money. Unfortunately there is not a lot of variety out there. Most people simply download their deck ideas on the internet which leads to a deja-vu experience when one plays the game. Anyone with fifty bucks can just copy/paste whatever competitive deck is winning the most games in the community. But again, it’s not really skill, it’s simply stacking your deck and then waiting to see if you’re lucky enough to out-curve your opponent.

    As a minor aside, the voice overs are quite grating- especially the announcer in the arena area.    … Expand
  15. jorbo125
    Jan 16, 2019
    0
    A seriously pathetic cash grab, DO NOT PLAY. The game is unfortunately loaded with pay to win garbage and padded out with enough time wasting **** to make you feel invested. Frustrated and poorly balanced game design which heavily favors decks which cost exorbitant amounts of real life money.

    SAVE YOURSELF TIME AND MONEY AND SKIP THIS ONE
  16. Mercestes
    Feb 21, 2019
    0
    Trash card game. There are no interrupts (meaning no counters), the implementation of the cards makes zero sense, for example "silence" a creature makes them unequip all equipment they have, in fact, silence is the one/only response to pretty much anything, you can still target creatures under "concealment" with spells, and there are literal cards that make your "guard" cards immortal andTrash card game. There are no interrupts (meaning no counters), the implementation of the cards makes zero sense, for example "silence" a creature makes them unequip all equipment they have, in fact, silence is the one/only response to pretty much anything, you can still target creatures under "concealment" with spells, and there are literal cards that make your "guard" cards immortal and the game unwinnable unless you have the aforementioned silence cards. It's incredibly heavily slanted towards the pay to win crowd and simply a frustrating experience. Nothing about this game feels "Elder Scrolls."… Expand
  17. cauponor
    Oct 4, 2019
    0
    Used to be good the first year. Every since they added tri-color decks it's ruined. There's no more identity of the opponent because everyone has every possible card. Very long (20min+) boring games. Strategy is lost and required intellect is tailored to casual mobile gamers. Avoid at all costs.
  18. Artem666
    Oct 19, 2019
    0
    Casino. The server decides whether you win or lose. Plus a lot of donation, too frequent updates.
  19. sems
    Nov 5, 2019
    0
    The core mechanics of this game are really good, it's honestly a shame it's ruined by obnoxious pay to win elements and lazy game design.

    Do not play this game, it is, unfortunately, a shallow cash grab and a further display of how far the Elder Scrolls license will be dragged through the dirt for an extra few dollars.
  20. Mister_Jey
    Jan 12, 2021
    3
    → On se ferait pas un tarot plutôt ?
    Le jeu est sorti il y a quelques temps déjà, et comme un grand nombre de jeux de cartes, il faudra payer pour compléter sa collection et être ainsi un minimum compétitif. Pour ma part, n'ayant pas particulièrement accroché aux mécanismes de Legends, je n'investirai pas un kopeck !

    Sortie en mars 2017 / Développé par Bethesda Softworks.

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#69 Best PC Game of 2017
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#73 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. CD-Action
    Jun 7, 2017
    85
    It’s not as pretty as Hearthstone and its lack of responsiveness is sometimes annoying, but Dire Wolf Digital tackled gameplay mechanics expertly, making The Elder Scrolls Legends Hearthstone’s main rival. [06/2017, p.73]
  2. IGN Spain
    Apr 28, 2017
    80
    The Elder Scrolls: Legends does not invent the card, but adds its particular point of view with small innovations that result in interesting and fresh multiplayer matches.
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  3. GRYOnline.pl
    Apr 24, 2017
    70
    The Elder Scrolls: Legends offers lots of bells and whistles - a story-driven campaign, lots of ways to build your deck, and pretty graphics. But it lacks character; the game feels too mundane. After all the emotions of every combat there is almost nothing left that makes you want to play the game again.
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