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.
- Length
- 125.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7XXX / ATI Radeon HD 3000 series, 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
Join the world’s greatest fellowship of players in the award-winning online re-creation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendary Middle-earth.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, EverQuest II (free, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28).
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.
It came out 14 years ago and 793 were still playing it at the last check.
It is still busy. 793 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: boost and cosmetic.
Players
793 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Lord of the Rings Online™ scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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-onlineThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1.
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