The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

Los problemas de rendimiento siguen siendo una lacra para el juego. Por mucho que la comunidad reporte, por mucho que le des feedback, el rendimiento deja bastante que desear. Quizas algun dia (o nunca) lo arreglen, una pena porque la base del juego es muy buena.

I bought this game only because I love Middle-earth. Unfortunately, the game is incredibly frustrating. Fast travel is useless. You have to run back and forth everywhere, wasting a lot of time. Weapons and armor have no stats, so you don't know which is better and by how much. Establishing a larger base is pointless because you're constantly moving forward, so to avoid constantly returning to your base, you have to build a new one and transfer everything from the previous base in your backpack to the new one several times...

A sometimes frustratingly difficult game to find the next way to go due to utter vagueness in procedurally generated design. I nearly quite a couple times, but stuck it out due to my love of all things in the LOTR+ universe. I enjoyed it greatly at points and am very glad I played through it all. Every single aspect (mining, combat, building, exploring) of the game is clunky from start to finish but it definitely has its charm. I'd play through again with friends, and won't play through again alone. I'll likely buy the expansion because I can't get enough of the dwarven lore sprinkled throughout.

It's immersive and well done. But oh-so-lonely. If you're a solo player (unless you're REALLY into the LotR universe) then pass, or take it under heavy discount. It was lovely to wander the empty halls for a few hours, also very stressing for me. Still, I'll keep a good memory of the place - not the game. You won't cross path with anything alive and friendly for the whole campaign, except a raven every hour or so, that you'll talk to for 2 min. Then you're alone again. I want to see the Moria be lit corridor by corridor ! I want to see the rubble removed and walls erected again ! I want to go forth in the darkness to come back to a camp that's ever expanding thanks to the map and advanced information or materials I'm giving them ! I don't want to run and try to find enough materials to not have to rely on my 5th basic axe in a row that broke again. The trailers are misgiding, since all the dwarves you see are players. If you're solo... You are *utterly* alone in there.

Return to Moria – A Masterclass in Wasting Potential If you ever wanted to see a beloved franchise dragged into the mines and left there, Return to Moria delivers. This game feels less like a celebration of Tolkien’s world and more like a rushed, bare‑bones survival project wearing a Middle‑earth skin. Combat? A button‑mashing disaster. Enemies feel weightless, hit detection is inconsistent, and every fight is a repetitive slog. There’s no strategy, no impact, no satisfaction—just spam until something falls over. Crafting and progression? Tedious. Everything requires absurd amounts of resources, and the grind is so excessive it feels designed to pad out missing content. The crafting menus are clunky, the systems are shallow, and nothing you build feels meaningful. Polish? None. Visual glitches, audio bugs, UI issues, broken quests, missing features, and mechanics that simply don’t work. It feels like early access, except it’s not. Overall: Return to Moria is a clunky, shallow, buggy, uninspired survival game that fails to respect the source material or the player’s time. It’s not just disappointing—it’s genuinely hard to recommend in its current state. Fans deserved better, and Middle‑earth deserved far better than this.

If you like a mix of building, ressource gathering and killing orcs. I can highly recommend this game. Recent update to the map was a HUGE QoL update to make it easier to navigate through the vast maze of caves and massive ruins the game has to offer.

I had a full review written up, but apparently Steam has a word/letter limit, and it wouldn't all fit...if you would like to read it, you can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b1hNA73ZMiAmNUxx3dgNRoYbpzlgpeNQMr8RETg_mUs/edit?usp=sharing TL;DR The GAME underneath Mines of Moria is unfinished. A skeleton, an outline, a cornerstone upon which a great game COULD have been built, but wasn’t. If you are looking for a new survival-crafter to play, look elsewhere (might I recommend Wind Rose?). On the other hand, the lore and ambiance is fantastic: if you are a LOTR fan, pick this game up on DEEP DISCOUNT, bring your other LOTR fan friends, put the game on STORY difficulty, and try to ignore all the little things that will attempt to drive you mad. My playgroup will NOT be purchasing the DLC expansion. Reading about it seems to suggest it is little more than a massive grind-fest. We’ll pass. Time to try other survival-crafter games.