The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game - Definitive Edition
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 10.5h
- Value
- $1.90/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Build a deck of iconic heroes and challenge the forces of Sauron in this thrilling tactical card game. Travel through famous locations, complete story-driven quests and forge a new legend of Middle-earth on your own or with a friend in cooperative mode.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was August 2018. 8 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 50 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Deck of Ashes ($19.99, scores 28).
1 of the 416 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 157 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to <1% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 06:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A solid card battler driven by constant tactical choices: attack, defend, use special powers, play cards from hand, or charge the event meter to trigger positive effects. The depth means a slower start, though - newcomers need to take their time to grasp the mechanics before diving right in, but the tutorial does its job pretty well. The game leaves a great lasting impression, and the more I play it, the more it...
10/10 game. So sad that it died before it was finished. Example: There are anti-dragon cards that you can get in galadriel's mirror missions, but there are no dragons in the game. Also half of the playable cards are locked to story missions and not available in the deck builder. Also, the English translation of the game is criminally bad. They seriously needed to have spent more than $3.50 on the localization.
what a pleasent surprise of a game that i did not excpect. they pictures of the characters look NOT! familiar @ all but u can swap them out with alternative art so did a good part on that, the music during deckbuilding and some soundeffects do get boring pretty quickly. you have a wide barrage of option to tackle the card challanges ahead that will trigger your turbo autism to craft a nice well done deck. the rohan...
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Cite this score
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game - Definitive Edition scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/509580/the-lord-of-the-rings-adventure-card-game-definitive-editionReviews 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 Sep 26.
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