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Welcome home, Hobbit! Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire. Discover, decorate, & share in this idyllic corner of Middle-earth. Join friendly Hobbits & familiar faces awaiting your arrival in Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings™ Game.
Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is a life sim, cozy and character customization game
developed by Wētā Workshop
and published by Fictions.
Released on July 29th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Spanish - Latin America and Turkish.
It has received 3,784 reviews of which 3,092 were positive and 692 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 32.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 15.75€ on Gamivo.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7600K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X, 4 GB or Intel Arc A580, 8 GB
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Details: 1080p Very Low @ 30 FPS
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What I like: (1) Feels like I'm a hobbit. (2) Looks like the Shire. (3) Very cozy. What I don't like: (1) Bugs (allll the time) when I'm decorating/gardening that freeze my game and remain bugged when I close and reload so that I have to go back to a prior load, making me constantly save. (2) Can't smoke or drink, can't grow pipeweed or brew ale. (FR they dropped the ball on this one) (3) Devs have dropped support already, game's only been out since 2024. That being said, it's fun. You can't fight, there's no health bar, and no jump scares. It's a lord of the rings skin for animal crossings with some less features and no dev support. I log in all the time and play, its a great destresser, but just know what you're buying. It's a dead game, and it is never going to get better or have new content.
Tales of the Shire is a complicated game to review. It feels like the game got really close to being finished, but then it was released, and now it's frozen in a sort of semi-unfinished state forever. Which is a tragedy, really, because this game has a lot going for it. If you're into cozy games, this one is a treat, as cozy as it gets. And if you're a LotR fan, you'll love the story easter eggs and the chance to visit Bywater. For me, a lover of cozy games who has always wanted to live as a hobbit? This game was created for me. First off, this game is about food. Cooking food, growing food, feeding people and about how food and community can go hand in hand (true in many cultures). No where is this more true than with hobbits, and this game really leans into that. You spend your days gardening, foraging, fishing, cooking and inviting some of the NPCs over for meals, hoping to satisfy their palates and grow the friendship between you. The dishes look divine; you can tell a lot of effort went into the 120 dishes you can make, and they look amazing. It's so satisfying to see one of your hobbit neighbors happily eat your food and smile with delight, especially after all the effort you put into it. One of the most amazing parts of the game is the house decorating. I've never seen such elaborate customization in a game before with where you can place items; maybe only in The Sims, and even then, only when using a cheat. You can place books on shelves, adjust artwork on the walls, and you get more and more beautiful furniture pieces from your neighbors as your friendships bloom. You can even choose the look of the windows, the doors, the support beams, the archways. Decorating really made me wish I were more creative when it came to interior design. If you're a Tolkien fan, some of the names are familiar - Farmer Cotton, Bywater, the Green Dragon, and of course, a few appearances by a certain fan-favorite wizard. There are even some mentions that you wouldn't know unless you are deep in the lore of Middle Earth. And this game is fun to play. I really enjoyed myself and I spent over 100 hours finishing this game. You can even keep playing, gardening, cooking and decorating your hobbit hole long after you finish the main quest. And now for the not so fun part; with all the good, there was quite a bit of bad. Little things add up here - features that are missing, writing that misses the mark...little things that add up and taste like a bad stew in your mouth. This game could definitely have benefitted from a romance system. I honestly think this is one of the biggest disappointments of this game; what point is my beautiful, cozy hobbit hole if my hobbit has no one to share it with? And there were options; if there had been a romance feature, Orlo would have found himself wifed up in an instant. The twins, Delphinium, Young Tom...if you like LotR, you know Rosie Cotton is off the table, but there were definitely options. Another sore spot; you have all this furniture and your hobbit cannot sit. So that oh-so-comfy chair you just placed next to the fire? You'll never see your hobbit sit in it. The hobbits at the Green Dragon stand around their tables, despite there being plenty of seating. Other small annoyances: - The clothing was just "ok" - You couldn't talk to the NPCs around the village - they just said random lines around you. You also couldn't stop and talk with the "friend" NPCs, because there was nothing for you to say. It feels wrong just running past them in the village square. - A mini-map and compass would have been lovely - Some of the furniture doesn't allow other things to be placed near it - Nefi, the only dwarf in the game, talks like she's stupid for some reason? She was such a cool character, but her writing was so poor - It drove me nuts that my doors were always open, even in the mid winter - There needed to be some sort of system to see plant stats, like how much longer until they were grown - This game is SO cozy, but there is a TERRIFYING sound near our hobbit hole in the winter? I can't tell you how many times it scared me - The flavor of the cooking ingredients wasn't explained well enough; I've seen many people think the flavors aren't defined at all - Why is there only one child in all the village? - You can finish the main quest in less than a year. I realized in winter that I was almost finished, and I hadn't even been through a Spring yet (it starts in Summer) - There is no way to buy any out of season produce But the worst, most egregious violation in all of this game; they give you chickens...and you cannot pet or greet them. That is DIABOLICAL. You can greet most animals and they will acknowledge you, but your chickens? The only animals that can live at your home? They run from you. Pure evil. But these complaints will fall on deaf ears, because this game is unfortunately finished and on its own now, despite how unfinished it feels. There's an article from The Verge ("Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game") that details all the bad luck Weta Workshop had creating this game, including that their publisher went under and was bought by someone else. As a result, they have seemingly cancelled the DLC they were working on and there is no more money to pay the team, so no updates are forthcoming. There's a really awful bug where the furniture you get from NPCs disappears from your inventory when you try to place it. I lost about half my furniture I had gotten from friend NPCs because of that bug. But if you write someone from Weta about the issue (or any issue really), you'll get a canned response back about how it's a known issue, but no future updates are planned, so looks like we're on our own here. There are a lot of really great small details in the game, too. The characters are likeable, the story is interesting, and they really thought about the sound design. Running with the fishing pole, you can hear the bobber and reel making noises. The emote system is incredible and expressive, and the beautiful landscape they created for Bywater makes the photo mode very satisfying. It's just that the feeling is a bit like being in the Shire during Frodo and Sam's quest to Mordor; things are lovely and calm and peaceful, but something feels just slightly off. There's a strange taste in this delicious stew, and it makes it a little less enjoyable. I could see me coming back to this game in the future, once I've forgotten some of the plot, and I'd definitely enjoy it then, too. For now, my journeys see me elsewhere, and I'll hope I can come home to the Shire again someday.
I've put in about 11 hours in to this game before writing this review. And so far I'm really enjoying it! This really pushes my mindset to "slow down, enjoy the view" more than any game before. GOOD: - The hobbit hole customization is great and I love being able to really make things feel "lived in" or natural. I do wish there was even more customization, but hopefully more will come out! - They did cooking so right! I love the ability to really mess with how the recipe comes together with seasonings. And the problem solving of trying to reach the correct texture. That is so smart! - The map style of following birds or butterflies was brilliant! It really immerses you rather than checking out the map every minute. MY WISHLIST FOR THE GAME: - The days goes by way too fast! This makes daily things so stressful. I wish the players were able to customize in the settings how long the days could be. I really want to play it slow and enjoy my day. - My hobbit wants to eat!! I love making the food, but I wish I could make a meal and then have my hobbit sit down to enjoy it! - I also want to be able to sit and enjoy the atmosphere. Let me interact with benches, chairs, or even flowers or decorations around my home or even the world! Overall a great game! But definitely slow paced compared to Animal Crossing or Palia. But what do you expect? YOU'RE A HOBBIT. I really hope this game can keep expanding with places to explore and things to interact with. There is so much potential there.
The first and foremost feature of this game is that IT. IS. SLOW. If you have any desire whatsoever for instant gratification, you want to see the next thing, right now, You want to get all the things you want, right now: You will not like this game. Unfortunately, that's kinda me. But I still recommend this game anyway, because it's... kinda complicated. The days are extremely chill. There are no enemies, no time limits, there's no real decisions you gotta make that will change anything. You spend them foraging for stuff, organizing your house, fishing, thinking, exploring. Bywater is surprisingly a big place and god forbid you wanna go anywhere fast. There is no run function, it is a SKIP MERRILY function, and you skipping is about the same pace if not vaguely slower than you just trotting along on your big hobbit feet. There is no running around finding people and giving them stuff. There is "invite them over for lunch and give them their favorite treats." Upgrading your house, getting farm animals, unlocking shops, unlocking fishing spots, they're all basically done through this function, and you can only organize it at the earliest the next day. "Clubs" are supposed to give you reason to DO foraging, cooking, and gardening, and fishing. But you don't turn it in, you're just checking a "I did it" and you keep your stuff, allowing you to expand your inventory, get more cooking utensils, etc. EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME IS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO SLOW YOU DOWN. But like, not as padding (although I can see that too), but to slow YOU down. You plan your routes, you water your plants, you collect your eggs, you gotta make the trip all the way down to the Mean Wheat Guy to buy his flour, make your meals, feed your friends. There's not so much going around talking to NPCs but that the NPCs have stories and quests and you happen to be there to be apart of them. It's interesting and nice. Pleasant. It makes you wanna know what's going to change if you keep at it. It doesn't ask a whole lot of you. It's very deliberately mundane. And that's not for everyone. But I think it's nice.
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Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is currently priced at 32.99€ on Steam.
No, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 32.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game received 3,092 positive votes out of a total of 3,784 achieving a rating of 7.91.
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Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game was developed by Wētā Workshop and published by Fictions.
Yes, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is not playable on MacOS.
No, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is not playable on Linux.
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No, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game does not support VR.
Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game. Explore additional content available for Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game on Steam.
No, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Wētā Workshop
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Fictions
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29 Jul 2025
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