Zodita Tells GameEmpress Its Android Versions of Skyrim and Other PC Games Are Not Licensed by Their Publishers

A new website called Zodita is taking pre-orders for Android versions of well-known PC games, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Half-Life 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. In written answers to GameEmpress on November 4, the team behind it confirmed what its own press page already says: no publisher has licensed or endorsed the ports.

“The press page is accurate today: the ports are unofficial community projects and no publisher endorses them,” wrote Atefeh Khaani, who signed as an adviser and founding member handling partnerships. Players do not need to own the original games, she said, and Zodita has not received any takedown requests.

What is on sale

Zodita’s press page lists seven PC games with a free demo and a pre-order for the full version: Half-Life 2, Skyrim, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (listed as “MDW1”), BioShock, F.E.A.R., Max Payne and Max Payne 2. The Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 are listed as announced. The same page calls the PC titles “unofficial community ports made by a small self-funded team” that “are not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by the original publishers.”

Each game is a separate Android app installed through Zodita’s own app, which is offered as a direct download from its website rather than through Google Play. Payment is by PayPal or USDT, a cryptocurrency, according to the homepage.

When we checked on November 5, Skyrim’s pre-order cost $11.99, shown as 40% off $19.98. Zodita told us the full version of Half-Life 2 costs $1.29. The press page says every game is 40% below its list price until November 30.

What Zodita told us

We sent Zodita five questions on November 3. Its answers, in short:

• Licences: none. Khaani said talks with publishers are confidential but have been about “platform traction as the condition for a partnership,” citing “in the region of 10,000 installs and active players” for Skyrim and the Call of Duty titles. She did not name any publisher, and none has confirmed such talks to us.
• Owning the PC game: not required. “Each title is a standalone build for Android that the player downloads from Zodita,” she wrote.
• What a purchase buys: a licence to the full version in the player’s Zodita library, including later updates of that port. Refunds are requested by email, and a refunded game goes back to the free demo.
• Who runs it: Zodita is “a brand of SYC, the team behind the SYC-AI platform,” working from Bristol, England. A separate company registration for Zodita is “in its final stages,” she said.
• Takedowns: “We have not received a takedown request from any rights holder.” Takedown notices are how rights holders ask a platform to remove material they say copies their work; GitHub alone published at least two dozen game-related ones in the first half of October.

Khaani also set out the goal: within six months, Zodita wants there to be “no major PC title that you cannot play natively on an Android phone.”

What we checked

Some of Zodita’s public details do not line up:

• Company: a search of the UK’s Companies House register on November 5 found no company named Zodita. Its terms of use, marked “Preview version,” do not name a company or give an address.
• Timeline: the zodita.com domain was registered on October 2, 2026, according to public WHOIS records. The press page gives October 13 as the Android launch date.
• Discounts: Zodita’s October 27 press release advertised pre-orders at 80% off. The website shows “-40%” next to a banner that says “pre-order prices cut in half.”
• Half-Life 2: Zodita’s email said the full game “is available now.” Its press page, checked the same day, still said the full game “is on pre-order” while the port is in testing.

The homepage showed 352 players signed up on November 5, up from 287 when we first looked on November 3.

What the publishers said

On November 3, GameEmpress asked the press teams at Xbox, whose parent Microsoft owns Bethesda and Activision; Take-Two Interactive, which owns the BioShock and Max Payne series; and CD Projekt Red, maker of The Witcher 3, whether they had authorized the ports. We could not find a press email for Valve, which owns Half-Life 2.

Xbox and CD Projekt Red sent automated acknowledgements. Take-Two had not replied by publication. We will update this story if any of them respond.

Before you install

GameEmpress did not download or install Zodita’s app or any of its games, so we cannot say how the ports run. Because they are installed outside Google Play, they do not go through Google Play’s app review, and Android asks users to allow installs from unknown sources first. Buyers should also note that, by Zodita’s own account, no publisher stands behind these versions.