Survival Crafting Game Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Announced

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There is no shortage of survival crafting games for players to sink their teeth into. The Norse-inspired Valheim is one of the more prominent titles, along with games like Rust, Ark: Survival Evolved, and the early access V Rising. Fans might soon be adding another game to that list, with the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.

Developer Free Range Games announced The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria with a gameplay trailer on June 10th. The first survival crafting game set in The Lord of the Rings universe, players can delve into the depths when it arrives on PC next spring.

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Casual Lord of the Rings fans may remember Moria as the abandoned dwarven city home to the Balrog in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, as the trailer explains, the dwarves are being called back to the ancient, underground kingdom. Players can join bands of eight dwarven explorers to delve into the underground realm of Khazad-dûm, searching its crumbling mines and ruins for lost treasures and forgotten wealth. The trailer shows bands of player-controlled dwarves mining, crafting, and building as they fend off the forces of darkness infesting the halls of Moria.

The trailer certainly makes Return to Moria look big. Moria has an impressive amount of open space for an underground city, with some genuinely gorgeous vistas on display. Return to Moria also boasts a procedurally generated world, guaranteeing theoretically infinite replayability. Hopefully, the trailer is indicative of what players can expect from Return to Moria’s procedurally generated environments, and players won’t be spending all of their time in interchangeable, randomly generated caves.

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