Incline The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria - coop survival crafting game set during the Fourth Age

[ADL]

Welcome to The Lord of the Rings™: Return to Moria™, the only survival crafting video game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth™, the iconic fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. Summoned to the Misty Mountains by Lord Gimli Lockbearer, players take control of a company of Dwarves tasked to reclaim the lost spoils from the Dwarven homeland of Moria—known as Khazad-dûm or Dwarrowdelf—in the depths below their very feet. Their quest will require fortitude, delving deep into the Mines of Moria to recover its treasures.

Set in a procedurally generated Dwarven realm of Moria, no two adventures will be alike, and every expedition is traversable either solo or online with companions. Players can mine to craft greater gear and resources, but beware mining makes noise, and noise created in the quiet deep threatens to awaken the dangers below: where there's clatter, there's combat. Excavate the mysteries of three legendary mountains, extract precious metals, scrape to survive, and battle unspeakable forces to learn the secret of the Shadow that lurks within.
https://returntomoria.com/

I'll break my Epic Store boycott for this. Tolkien is the only thing that could ever get me interested in survival crafting shit. Between this and the Gollum game, I'm a fan of how they're licensing the book's IP so far.

 

[SilentSeeker]

If it doesn't have orcs riding on bulk detonators, I'll be... pleasantly surprised.

If it actually offers an explanation for why Durin's Bane STAYED in Moria after driving the dwarves out (the impossible has happened; Morgoth is vanquished! Better hide for five thousand years- then, after learning that the free peoples of Middle-Earth are exploring and expanding freely, I'll drive some off, explicitly NOT killing them all, and then just... wait. It's not like they could come back in force or anything!), I'll be downright pleased- so long as it maxes sense.

 

[Melcar]

If it doesn't have orcs riding on bulk detonators, I'll be... pleasantly surprised.

If it actually offers an explanation for why Durin's Bane STAYED in Moria after driving the dwarves out (the impossible has happened; Morgoth is vanquished! Better hide for five thousand years- then, after learning that the free peoples of Middle-Earth are exploring and expanding freely, I'll drive some off, explicitly NOT killing them all, and then just... wait. It's not like they could come back in force or anything!), I'll be downright pleased- so long as it maxes sense.

Probably was tired of all the bullshit and just wanted to chill.

 

[Zlaja]

Co-op

survival

crafting

 

[gerey]

Jesus Christ, for the love of all that is holy, just fucking stop.

 

[Zenithsan]

crafting and procedural
Worst insults in the whole english language after pedo and communist.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

going to use this thread to plug lotro because it's actually really good if you can get past the clunkiness and the Moria part is one of the best areas in the game
check the thread out in the mmo subsection
devs obviously cared a lot about lotr and even pulled from the more obscure sources like MERP when designing quests/areas/story

probably the last good lotr adaptation we'll see in our lifetimes

 

[Fedora Master]

"survival crafting video game"

Fuck off

 

[Haba]

Dwarves keep sending in "companies" of five dwarves in Moria and expect to get a better result each time.

Dwarves are not learning animals.

 

[Alienman]

A mod for Dwarf Fortress would probably be better.

 

[mindx2]

"crafting and procedural"

 

[Bester]

They should go meta and make a game about surviving through the era of companies killing your favorite franchises. Or maybe they did and I'm already playing it.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Hm... the general idea for a dorf game is not the worst.
But it smells like a skinner box popamole.

 

[mindx2]

Apparently this is out now... anyone brave enough to try it?

 

[DemonKing]

69 on Metacritic from 5 reviews (although 22 brave users have it rated 10 points higher ATM)

https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-lord-of-the-rings-return-to-moria/

 

[Ironmonk]

it seems isn't properly polished: