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The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth

Fantasy Flight Games · 2019-04-18

Steam

AdventureRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 18, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A companion app for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth board game from Fantasy Flight Games, a fully-cooperative board game for one to five players! This companion app dictates the setup of each encounter, tracks your party’s inventory and skills, and resolves combat while you brave the looming forests, quiet clearings, and...

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth is an Adventure, RPG, Strategy game released in 2019, free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 935 reviews).

17
playing now
91%
positive of 935 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 17 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 49 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
363620192026Week of 2019-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8602026-09-15 00:00 — 12 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 20 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 24 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 12 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 14 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 6 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 14 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 56 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 23 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 9 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 21 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 41 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 8 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 24 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 21 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 31 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 34 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
8122Apr 2019Aug 2026Apr 2019 — avg 65 · peak 204Jul 2019 — avg 31 · peak 103Oct 2019 — avg 24 · peak 93Jan 2020 — avg 41 · peak 160Apr 2020 — avg 46 · peak 156Jul 2020 — avg 55 · peak 205Oct 2020 — avg 48 · peak 202Jan 2021 — avg 81 · peak 327Apr 2021 — avg 54 · peak 208Jul 2021 — avg 41 · peak 138Oct 2021 — avg 41 · peak 148Jan 2022 — avg 78 · peak 288Apr 2022 — avg 49 · peak 191Jul 2022 — avg 45 · peak 148Oct 2022 — avg 50 · peak 181Jan 2023 — avg 77 · peak 327Apr 2023 — avg 49 · peak 201Jul 2023 — avg 42 · peak 146Oct 2023 — avg 36 · peak 145Jan 2024 — avg 58 · peak 235Apr 2024 — avg 36 · peak 151Jul 2024 — avg 35 · peak 123Oct 2024 — avg 33 · peak 153Jan 2025 — avg 49 · peak 198Apr 2025 — avg 31 · peak 130Jul 2025 — avg 28 · peak 112Oct 2025 — avg 28 · peak 106Jan 2026 — avg 44 · peak 173Apr 2026 — avg 24 · peak 100Jul 2026 — avg 23 · peak 82Aug 2026 — avg 25 · peak 84
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing3 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Russian, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2019-08-02, latest 2022-10-25 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGFantasyStrategyAdventureBoard GameMultiplayerFree to Play

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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