LEGO® The Hobbit™
Fair · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS or ATI Radeon X1950 Pro or better, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Reclaim the Lost Kingdom brick by brick! Join Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin and his company of Dwarves in an epic adventure across Middle-earth to recapture the Lonely Mountain in the most expansive LEGO game to date.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2017. 87 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® STAR WARS™: The Force Awakens ($19.99, scores 55).
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 467 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.8 hours; clearing it takes 37, which is 4.2 times the campaign.
At 8.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
59% 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
69 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
Unfortunately it is incomplete. End credits roll after Smaug flies out of Erebor towards laketown
LEGO® Bob™ Official Review: This game was such a let down. WB pulled the plug on this game, so you only get to play the first two movies. This was a copy/paste of LOTR with some named locations removed and some locations redesigned. I am not a fan of having to collect treasures in each level, especially when the red bricks tied to helping you locate the collectibles in each level are tied to - you guessed it - the...
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 Hobbit™ scores 61/100 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/285160/lego-the-hobbitThe 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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