The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 35h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 82% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 72% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 12,682 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 38.6h for positive, 9.8h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (71.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (27)
story milestone ending side
- Speak Friend Discover the Elven Quarter 100%
- Delving Onward Enter the Mines of Moria 77%
- Miner's Helper Craft a Steel Pickaxe 68%
- Line of Azog, Ended Defeat Bolgakh 54%
- To the Mountain's Roots Enter the Lower Deeps 53%
- Suit Up Craft the Iron Hills Chest, Gloves, and Shield 46%
- Remains To Be Seen Enter the Tomb 40%
- Risk a Little Real Light Enter Dwarrowdelf 38%
- Covered Head to Toe Craft the Erebor Chest, Boots, Gloves and Helm 32%
- False King, Deposed Defeat the Troll King 29%
- Caradhras The Cruel Enter the Angry Caverns 26%
- A Memory of this Place Enter the Highway 26%
- Darkness Is Passing Defeat the Shadow Dragon 22%
- Baruk Khazâd! Reforge Durin’s Axe 20%
- Shadow's Bane Craft the Dragon Spear 17%
- Battering Ram Craft a full set of Khazad armor 16%
- Decked Out Craft the Belegost Chest, Boots, Gloves, Shield, and Helm 11%
- Westgate Weaponcraft Crafted all weapons of the Western Slopes 9.7%
- Deeps Weaponcraft Crafted all weapons of the Deeps 8.8%
- Guarded from Despair Craft the Durin Chest, Boots, Gloves, Shield and Helm 6.7%
- True-silver Craft a full set of Mithril armor 6.6%
- Master of All Trades Craft all the Dwarven Masterworks 6.0%
- Eregion Weaponcraft Craft a full Elven set 4.9%
- Dimrill Weaponcraft Crafted all weapons of the East Slopes 4.2%
- Shielded Craft all the rare Shields 2.9%
- Hard-headed Craft all the rare Helms 2.7%
- We're Gonna Need More Mugs Craft a full set of Brews 2.5%