r/ElderScrollsBlades • u/ZaxZone • Apr 28 '26

With Blades sadly coming to an end.. Here is your invitation to join r/TESTShadowkey and learn about the early days of The Elder Scrolls mobile gaming.

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Hail fellows well met!

r/TESTShadowkey is dedicated to the 2004 Elder Scrolls Travels mobile game Shadowkey which was developed by Vir2L Studios and TKO software exclusively for the Nokia N-Gage.

Feel free to post anything and everything related to Shadowkey. Share all your stories, theories, lore, and gameplay for this little known chapter of The Elder Scrolls.

"Shadows are not an absence of light, they are reflections from another world."

-- SKELOS UNDRIEL, SHADOWMAGE

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u/ImmediateImplement95 Apr 28 '26

I’ve never heard of shadowkey before! Is it something I can play?

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u/ZaxZone Apr 28 '26

Yup! You can play it on original hardware or emulate it:

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Mod:Shadowkey_Emulation_Guide

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u/ThatDrako Apr 29 '26

Damn…PC only… :c

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u/Linksjourney79 Apr 29 '26

Sorry dont have a PC

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u/Legitimate-Fox8439 Apr 29 '26

Must be possible to play on mobile to, only i do not get it to work on the EK emulator

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u/HowwNowBrownCoww Apr 29 '26

Just looked at some screenshots. Shocked that was an 04 mobile game. Looks fantastic, just look old elder scrolls games.

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u/mootmutemoat Apr 29 '26

Basically Elder Doom

https://youtu.be/iin9htrRzv0

Sad the mobile game can't be ported to mobile.

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u/HowwNowBrownCoww Apr 29 '26

That’s a shame. Maybe someone can make a really faithful doom.wad for it. Elder Doom sounds rly sick ngl