Journeys in Middle-earth

Fantasy Flight Games

In-app purchases

About this game

A companion app for the Journeys in Middle-earth board game from Fantasy Flight Games.

Embark on your own adventures in J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic world with The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth, a fully-cooperative board game for one to five players! During every game, heroes must band together on a perilous adventure to battle powerful foes, discover lost treasures, uncover forgotten lore, and customize their skills according to their role within their Fellowship.

This companion app dictates the setup of each encounter, tracks your party’s inventory and skills, and resolves combat while you brave the looming forests, quiet clearings, and ancient halls of Middle-earth.

Ratings and reviews

I see no dev responses to bug reports in the reviews, so I doubt they read these, but they should. The game, itself, is really fun with a few house rules. Game balance for 4-5 players is insanely difficult, 2-3 is great. An "Undo" button is a critically missing feature. You really don't get your money's worth out of an $80 campaign with so few variety of monsters & heroes (but they're limited to Tolkien cannon), and replayability is meh with only one campaign. Need more voiceovers for immersion!

The game is fun. However the save feature is almost useless in the middle of a game, as there is no way to view where enemies and characters were or note character status for later. Even just a "notes" section would be great. a BIG issue with the app:there is no go back or cancel if you hit the wrong button. You NEED to be able to undo a button push. You also cannot review an initial placement of some elements. If you miss it, you can never check. Still fun, but the app needs some improvement.

This app was unavailable to use on Android for over 2 weeks. This is unacceptable considering you need the app to play the game. I understand issues arise, but if something like an app is necessary to play a game you paid for, then fantasy flight games needs to allocate more resources to ensure this never happens again. On top of that there was ZERO communication from the publisher on social media. The only thing we got was a reply on a single forum about the issue. Do better, FFG.

What’s new

- Minor bug fixes