The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid! And Warhorse Studios shall answer! Yes, following numerous rumours, Warhose Studios, the developers of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games, has confirmed it is working on a Lord of the Rings game.
The studio popped up on social media to deliver the news, simply saying that they are working on “An open world Middle-earth RPG”. No other details were given, so we have no idea when the game might be set within Tolkien’s expansive world or anything else.
It’s a fairly big change of style for Warhorse, who have so far dealt in historically rooted adventures, where the only canon they had to adhere too was history itself. Kind of. Now, they have to venture into dealing with established lore for a massive franchise, plus fictional elements like magic and weirdness.
It’ll also be interesting to see how they hande difficulty. Warhorse’s games usually lean toward being quite challenging in terms of combat and other mechanics. But will they tone that down to make a more casual title?
In the very same tweet, Warhorse also announced they are working on a new Kingdom Come “adventure”. Notice that they very specifically did not call it Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3 or even use the Deliverance subtitle, so I have a feeling this might be some sort of small spin-off project. That would make sense because trying to work on the 3rd game in the series plus a new Middle-Earth game would be pretty demanding, whereas a smaller side-project is might be easier to handle.
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