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The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game

Jan 28, 2018

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2.95 average rating based on 19 ratings

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Choose your Heroes, build your deck and face the dark forces of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings Adventure Card Game. Battle Uruks, spiders, orcs, and more as you journey through the world of Tolkein's fantasy, earning cards and devising new tactics along the way. Armed with your fully customizable 30-card deck, you will lead a band of three heroes through campaigns reaching the darkest corners of Middle-earth. Guide your own fellowship through quests that will test your leadership, tactics, knowledge, and spirit.
Release Dates
Dec 09, 2017 Early Access (Worldwide)
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jan 28, 2018 Full Release (Worldwide)
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
TBD Cancelled (Worldwide)
Android, iOS
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User Stats
559
In Collection
15
Wish Listed
6
Playing
383
Backlogged
How Long Is The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game?
Main + extras: 47.0 hours
Total completions: 1
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anarchistica
anarchistica gave Mar 30, 2026 (edited)
anarchistica gave Mar 30, 2026 (edited)
Good deck-building game with some bizarre flaws

Playtime: 30,7 hours (only failed to beat final boss)

Played: 2025

Context: I actually owned a deck of the physical game back in the 90s, i remembered it being decent.

The Good

  • Really strong core gameplay, in part because of the third attribute (fate).
  • Actual deck-building. You pick every card yourself.
  • Multiple adventures with multiple paths.
  • It's always nice to have pre-movies LOTR stuff.

The Bad

  • There aren't that many cards and some are just plainly better.
  • Each hero has a quest you need to complete to unlock its special card, some of these are a bit too annoying.
  • Some of the art is really ugly.
  • The final boss seems completely unbalanced. I didn't even remotely stand a chance.

The Ugly

  • By playing game you get gold. The game locks a ton of card art, card backs, etc. behind this system. Worse, it locks certain cards too, behind an insane cost. Winning a campaign gets you maybe a few thousand gold, depending on optional objectives completed. The two locked hero cards cost 50.000 each. After 30 hours i don't think i had enough gold to unlock the second one, let alone all other things. It's a bizarre and completely pointless …
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Playtime: 30,7 hours (only failed to beat final boss)

Played: 2025

Context: I actually owned a deck of the physical game back in the 90s, i remembered it being decent.

The Good

  • Really strong core gameplay, in part because of the third attribute (fate).
  • Actual deck-building. You pick every card yourself.
  • Multiple adventures with multiple paths.
  • It's always nice to have pre-movies LOTR stuff.

The Bad

  • There aren't that many cards and some are just plainly better.
  • Each hero has a quest you need to complete to unlock its special card, some of these are a bit too annoying.
  • Some of the art is really ugly.
  • The final boss seems completely unbalanced. I didn't even remotely stand a chance.

The Ugly

  • By playing game you get gold. The game locks a ton of card art, card backs, etc. behind this system. Worse, it locks certain cards too, behind an insane cost. Winning a campaign gets you maybe a few thousand gold, depending on optional objectives completed. The two locked hero cards cost 50.000 each. After 30 hours i don't think i had enough gold to unlock the second one, let alone all other things. It's a bizarre and completely pointless system.
  • The menu is truly terrible. It takes so many clicks to start a game or edit a deck.
  • The game has built-in standard decks that you cannot delete and that will always be listed first during deck selection. Wow.

Conclusion

LOTR:ACG is a really fun game that anyone who likes the genre will likely enjoy - until they get tired of the bad menus, like me.

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LackoJacoSnacko
LackoJacoSnacko gave Oct 1, 2020
LackoJacoSnacko gave Oct 1, 2020
garbage
This review is for the Xbox One version

shitty card game with too much story and Warner brothers original story and art style. (Which is awful)