The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $11.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 35.9h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 55% ($13.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $11.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Valheim ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Smalland: Survive the Wilds ($34.99, scores 56).
7 of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 700 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
72% start to 2% 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
624 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 18:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very enjoyable for LOTR fans. Great mining features and combat. Needs some patch work. But I have greatly enjoyed it thus far.
This game is crazy good in coop. True LOTR spirit. Lots of fun. Combat is a bit clunky. Don't buy dlc.
Game starts of pretty good, but once you start progressing, you realize how horribly paced progression actually is. About mid-game, you'll constantly hear your dwarf say "I need a better weapon!" up until you clear the game even if you keep up on upgrading weapons. The combat and enemy AI is abysmal, there is no challenge, and your armor gets chunked away after 3 hits, even with the best available armor. Besides...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2933130/the-lord-of-the-rings-return-to-moriaReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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