Bethesda has shared an update for The Elder Scrolls 6, the follow-up to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. A month after confirming that the game is “a long way off,” Bethesda director Todd Howard said development is “going very well” and that most of the studio is working on the project. However, nearly eight years after The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced, Bethesda still hasn’t revealed a release date.
Bethesda shares latest updates on The Elder Scrolls 6
Howard, who serves as director of the next Elder Scrolls, and other Bethesda executives shared an update on the project with Game Informer, but did not provide any timelines or details.
“It’s going really well,” Howard told the magazine. “Most of the work in the studio is doing VI, but I will say this: We always overlap. So, we’re very used to overlapping development. And we pre-produce things for a long time so that we feel good about them. It’s a process. We all wish it went a little faster – or a lot faster – but we hope it’s the right process.”
Studio director Angela Browder has revealed the technological advancements The Elder Scrolls 6 will bring, calling the game’s “endless possibilities” “exciting.”
“Honestly, for me, there are times when I see something that’s going on and I’m like, ‘Angela from the Skyrim era would never have imagined seeing something like this now,’ and it’s a cool thing to be a part of,” Browder said.
Finally, studio design director Emil Pagliarulo said that development of the game is “a work in progress” – which isn’t very enlightening. But he said the studio isn’t putting time pressure on itself and will spend as much time as possible making the game great.
“I know this can be frustrating for gamers who are eager to play games. Games take a long time, and games are pushed all the time; GTA just got pushed again, which is the smartest thing they could do, because with games of the size of these, they not only take a long time to make, but they also take a long time to spit out, polish, and iron out bugs,” Pagliarulo said.
The latest status of The Elder Scrolls 6 comes a month after Howard said the game was “still a long way off.”
“I advocate patience,” he told GQ last month. “I don’t want to make fans anxious.”
There’s no release window, and no real trailer to suggest that The Elder Scrolls 6 is indeed still years away from release – it could be on next-gen consoles. In 2023, Bethesda confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 was in the early stages of development.
The Elder Scrolls 6 was released in June 2018, and a trailer was released confirming that the game was in pre-production. Bethesda has yet to share footage or gameplay from the role-playing game.
