The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
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Action-focused survival crafting set in the iconic Mines of Moria. Released in 2024, this title by Free Range Games has garnered 11,945 Steam reviews with an 82% positive rating. Players explore, build bases, and survive as dwarves.
Overview
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ is a 2024 Action game developed by Free Range Games and published by North Beach Games. On Steam it has gathered 11,985 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Free Range Games with publisher North Beach Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 396,000 to 923,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
11,985
Positive
81%
Steam appid
2933130
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0396K to 923K
units (median: 659K)
≈ $6.8M to $15.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 55 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ at roughly 396,000 to 923,000 copies, with a median around 659,000, derived from its 11,985 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $16.17Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $16.17 to $29.99, averaging $27.82 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $16.17 on 2026-04-30.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -55%$13.49 Buy
- Humble Store$29.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$30.20 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open World Survival CraftBase-BuildingDwarfSurvivalExplorationCraftingOnline Co-OpBuildingAdventureAction-AdventureOpen WorldMultiplayerPvESandboxRPGActionCharacter CustomizationThird PersonSingleplayer3D
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ sold?
- indielist estimates The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ has sold between 395,505 and 922,845 units (median 659,175), derived from its 11,985 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™?
- The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ was developed by Free Range Games and published by North Beach Games.
- When was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ released?
- The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ have on Steam?
- The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ has 11,985 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Free Range Games's other releases and North Beach Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.