Elder Scrolls 6 Sentinel: Release Date, Platforms & Setting

The Elder Scrolls 6 finally has a name: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. Bethesda confirmed it on Tuesday, November 3, at the end of a Todd Howard video marking 40 years of Bethesda Game Studios. There's still no release date, no release window and no announced platforms. Eight years after that first teaser, we got one word and a scroll in the sand.

Elder Scrolls 6 Sentinel: what's confirmed

• Full title: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel
• Release date: not announced
• Platforms: not announced, so nobody can say yet if it's on PS5 or day one on Game Pass
• Gameplay: none shown. The teaser shows a scroll buried in sand.
• Setting: Hammerfell, per the reveal's text and Push Square's report. Sentinel is a capital city and kingdom there, and Hammerfell is home to the Redguards.

Howard called this "what a perfect time" to reveal the name, according to Kotaku. Bethesda also says development continues, but "it'll be some time before we're ready to share more," per Push Square. The name matches The Verge's report from last week.

When could Elder Scrolls 6 come out?

Officially, nobody knows. Unofficially, don't plan your 2027 around it. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier posted that the game is "still more than 2 years away," as reported by Pure Xbox and Tech Insider. That's a reporter's estimate, not a Bethesda date, and it points to late 2028 at the earliest.

Pure Xbox floated the idea of a launch slot on Project Helix, Xbox's next console. That's speculation for now. Same goes for the PS5 question: Bethesda hasn't said a word either way.

The 2nd Shift take

A subtitle isn't a game, and Bethesda knows it. This was a birthday present, not a marketing beat, and that's fine. Sentinel still tells us something real: a desert kingdom, a port city and a region no mainline Elder Scrolls game has visited since the 1990s. After Skyrim's snow, that's the most exciting word Bethesda could've picked.

But set your clock accordingly. If Schreier's right, a kid who started Skyrim in 2011 could be pushing 30 before this ships. Enjoy the sand. Then go play something that's actually coming out.

What would you do with a Hammerfell game? Tell us in the 2nd Shift Discord. Someone is up.

Keep reading: Upcoming games release date calendar and the other sequel we've all been waiting on.

Sources: VGC, Kotaku, Pure Xbox, Push Square, Tech Insider, tbreak, Bethesda Softworks on YouTube.