- Publisher: Private Division
- Release Date: Jul 29, 2025
- Also On: Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, Switch
- Summary: Your cosy Hobbit life awaits in Tales of the Shire, a heart-warming, new, The Lord of the Rings game due out in 2024 on console and PC.
- Developer: Weta Workshop
- Genre(s): Simulation, Virtual, Virtual Life
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Jul 30, 2025Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings Game does the "cozy sim" genre well, and there is a lot of fun to be had with some of the minigames, especially the cooking.
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Jul 28, 2025Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game is quite simple as a social simulator, because of its simple mechanics and its monotonous gameplay loop, but it gets to make you feel like a hobbit, with your heart lying in peace and quiet and good tilled earth.
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Oct 26, 2025All of the groundwork is there for this Hobbit life simulator to be a delightful jaunt through the rolling hills of Tolkien’s imagination, but the execution is lacking on almost every front. From bugs and poor optimization to uninspired dialogue and ill-paced progression, Tales of the Shire takes what should be a reflection on the lessons we might learn from Middle-earth’s most humble of races and mangles it into a bleak reminder that the “simple life” is no fun at all.
