LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™
Fair · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 7600, 7800, 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 1950 or higher, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2017. It has been discounted 91 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™ ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® The Hobbit™ ($19.99, scores 61).
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 10 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 862 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.1 hours; clearing it takes 34, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
76% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
154 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Great Lego adaptation. I've tried a few Lego games but could never really get into them. This was recommended to me to play alongside War in the North's 2026 re-release (which originally came out roughly in the same year), and I was pleasantly surprised with the Lego take on The Lord of the Rings story. Great experience - story, visuals, music, pacing and gameplay, even though it recycles a lot of movie audio. I...
I would say LEGO LotR is better than LEGO Hobbit, even though it is similar principle of playing. I like it and glad to recommend.
its 2 of the Greats all in 1, lego and lotr. enjoyable puzzles and fun cutscenes. great game for forgetting your mom is dead riding out of helms deep as King Théoden is PEAK
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ scores 67/100 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/214510/lego-the-lord-of-the-ringsThe 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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