Secret best Tolkien game Return To Moria gets Steam release with Steam Deck support and new sandbox mode | Gaming

The dwarven engineers of The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria have formally entered the Golden Age of Steam. The game is now available on Valve’s digital storefront, after a year in the comparatively barren underdark of the Epic Games Store, and developers Free Range Games have also released a Golden Update, which adds offline single player pausing, around 100 building objects, and a sandbox mode allowing for non-story-led excavation and settlement of the game’s procedurally generated mountains. Plus, new hats and axes! Try not to get dragon sickness.

I haven’t played Return To Moria since October last year. Back then, it was a comfortingly vast survival game with crunchy torch-lit aesthetics, many gorgeous biomes…