The Lord of the Rings Online™
Fair · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 23,390
- Genre rank
- Top 17% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization, DRM
Time and effort
- Main story
- 125.2h
- To 100%
- 1698.2h 13.6x the story
Players and genre
- Online
- 523 now
- Recent reviews
- 76% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28) and Runes of Magic (free, scores 23).
It is still busy. 523 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 8, 05:45 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.
More about The Lord of the Rings Online™
It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
125.2 hours to finish it, 1698 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 14 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Join the world’s greatest fellowship of players in the award-winning online re-creation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendary Middle-earth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7XXX / ATI Radeon HD 3000 series, 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Lord of the Rings Online™ scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/212500/the-lord-of-the-rings-onlineReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.