The Lord of the Rings: Return To Moria PlayStation 5 Version Delayed

Resource management plays a critical role in , and keeping an eye on the most essential ones is the best way to keep pace with everything the game demands. As a survival crafting experience, progression hinges on collecting the necessary components and ingredients to craft equipment, build bases, and stay supplied with basics like food. Supplies that are both plentiful in supply and niche in application are easy to keep on hand, but others can bleed dry at the most inconvenient moments.

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria treads a very familiar gameplay loop in a world that isn’t quite fit for purpose. The premise is one that should fill any Lord of the Rings fan with feelings of excitement and wonder: being able to explore Moria to your heart’s content is almost unheard of in video games, with the exception being the Mines of Moria expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online. But Return to Moria is an open-world survival game shoehorned into a linear environment. Its mechanics constantly battle against one another and frustrate more than they entertain.

In the shadowy depths of Middle-earth, a new epic tale unfolds: Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria , developed by Free Range Games and published by North Beach Games, beckons brave dwarves to rediscover the ancient mysteries and face the challenges lurking beneath the mountains. Also, there are female dwarves. With beards.

Even among Hideo Kojima's most diehard fans (not to be confused with Die-Hardman), I think it's a damn near universal opinion that Kojima made the wrong call when he replaced longtime voice actor David Hayter with Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid 5. It didn't help that compared to Hayter's gravelly-but-slightly-goofy performance, Sutherland seemed a bit subdued—or phoned in, depending on who you ask. 

Any well-read fan of The Lord of the Rings will know that the main action in JRR Tolkien's book series took place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, with most of the major adaptations over the years (including the Peter Jackson films) sticking to that time period.

Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is the exciting new survival exploration game set in the perilous hallways of Moria. With fantastic multiplayer features and the legendary settings, people will want to know if all of that is available on the Steam Deck.

Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is a new MMORPG game set in the perilous labyrinth of Moria. Best experienced with friends, you can set out on expeditions and build up your camp together.

Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria has finally been released after a delay. Players will be wondering on what platforms they can play the game, to see if they’ll be able to.

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is out now on PC through the Epic Games Store. Set in the Fourth Age in Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is a survival/crafting game where players take on the role of a group of Dwarves. Check out the launch trailer below.

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria might lovingly depict one of the most recognizable fantasy worlds ever created, but to my surprise, that’s not actually the most recognizable thing about it. This is a survival game first and a Lord of the Rings game second, content to replicate all the familiar mechanics of the genre while leaning heavily on its Tolkien backdrop to compensate for a lack of original ideas. If you’ve played any survival game in the last 15 years, you’ll immediately know what you’re in for as you build bases, upgrade your pickaxes to mine better ores, craft armor and weapons to fight hordes of enemies, and run back home when it gets dark. The loop of exploring deeper and deeper into a dangerous mine filled with monsters as you collect resources and improve your character can be entertaining, but in the 20 hours I’ve played so far, there’s also no part of that tried and true blueprint that Return to Moria does better than any of the games that came before it.

With only hours separating us from the debut of The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria on PC (the PlayStation 5 version has suffered a last-minute delay to December 5th, while the Xbox Series S|X version won't land until early next year), we've got an exclusive interview with Game Director Jon-Paul Dumont to keep you busy until then.

is on the way, and many are wondering if it will be on Steam. The game is due to launch on October 24, 2023 on Windows and PlayStation 5, with an Xbox Series X/S release expected at some point in the first half of 2024. The crafting-survival title can be played both in single-player or with a party of up to eight players and will focus on the dwarves of Middle-earth during the Fourth Age, with the movies' John Rhys-Davies returning as Gimli.