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The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

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...

What works

  • Immersive app integration acting as dm
  • Strong cooperative gameplay
  • High replayability with campaigns and expansions
  • Rich tolkien fantasy theme
  • Character progression and customization

Things to keep in mind

  • Requires physical board game purchase
  • Lack of undo function in app
  • Some difficulty balancing issues
  • Small card size
  • App performance and ui limitations

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Descent: Legends of the Dark

  • Mansions of Madness

  • Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

  • We Need To Go Deeper

  • Sunderfolk

  • Ravenswatch

Less social

Games that feels like The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Deck of Ashes

  • Chained Echoes

  • WindStop Strategy

  • Thea: The Awakening

  • Swords and Sandals Immortals

  • Gordian Quest

More competitive

Games that feels like The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth but with more competition against others

  • Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition

  • Talisman: Digital 5th Edition

  • HELLCARD

  • Legends of Callasia

  • Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition

  • Journey to the West

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The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 04/08/2026