Lord of the Rings
An ambitious massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, developed by Amazon Games in partnership with Embracer Group. The game was intended to offer a fresh…
Lord of the Rings is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Athlon Games, released 1 April 2021 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Lord of the Rings is
Lord of the Rings is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Athlon Games and released in 2021. It was published by Amazon Game Studios. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
An ambitious massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, developed by Amazon Games in partnership with Embracer Group. The game was intended to offer a fresh twist on Tolkien's mythology rather than a standard recreation. The project was cancelled in 2024 as part of Amazon's strategic pivot away from first-party AAA MMO development.
How it plays
Its themes are action.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
Lord of the Rings is the 62nd of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. It arrived a year after The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game - Definitive Edition. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War in 2021.
What it launched against
Lord of the Rings launched on 1 April 2021, within three weeks of It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut and Monster Hunter Rise. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Monster Hunter Rise.
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