The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

I had some fun with this game, but was really excited for the Durin Folk update to improve the overall game. Downloaded it back, only to realize it's a paid DLC that improves the campaign. Makes no sense. Predatory business practice IMO. Even has negative reviews, so no reason to invest. Not sure if this company realizes but when you improve the actual main game it should be an update not a paid DLC.

not very interesting, kind of repetitive. every time we upgraded the weapons the orcs would also get stronger and my character would continue saying "i need a better weapon". we spent half, if not more, of our playtime at base cooking food and sleeping and putting things in chests, because we would get tired and hungry so quickly and our inventories were always full. i liked the singing, especially when characters with different voices did harmonies with each other.

There is no redeeming quality to this game. You probably will have more fun playing Minecraft over it. However, like any game... It's worth it only because it has online. Been enjoying spending time with my friends on it and that's the only reason, however, that's not going to be a reason for me to give it a positive review.

UPDATE: Durin's Folk expansion attempts to be a new resource dump + solve the exploration aspect with additional regions to explore. However, the expansion falls flat for me still. It changes the game from an repetitive exploration game (with very light survival elements) to a light colony-management/shopkeeper-simulator post-game: you recruit NPC Dwarves to craft orders for you, and then you sell the orders to traders to then buy trader-specific items to then have your NPC Dwarves craft more things so you can sell more things. There are not enough equipable awards from these traders to show off your wealth--just more trade-good icons you dump into a chest. The expedition system is not very fun for me. It is essentially a lore-sanctioned version of opening up a new sandbox server for you to export resources back into your main world, except this time you don't need to quit out to the main menu. Ultimately, I find this game to be very ambitious with lots of cool systems and ideas, but none of them are fleshed out enough for me to really dive into--even considering the newest expansion. The only excellent thing about it remains the LotR paintjob and its faithfulness to source mater…

It's unplayable - simple as that. It's super laggy, and whenever you come to a new area you get a loading screen for that area which takes so long, but it gets even better. You'll go through that area, then go back and do something else and then when you try and re-enter the new area again it'll give you that same loading screen even though you were there 2 secs ago. If you want to play a game that will stress you out not just from gameplay but also by it's prefromance then this is for you!!

Was playing the campaign with a friend, game was simple but fine for the price. Then our playthrough bricked. Just a low quality game overall...