They’re taking the Hobbits to 2025 - cosy life-sim Tales Of The Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game catches a delay

A new release date is right around the corner though.

Image credit:Weta Workshop

Apologies to those of you hoping to escape to a cosy Hobbit life, but Tales of the Shire has been delayed into 2025.

While there’s a seemingly infinite number of cosy games to play at any given moment, Lord of the Rings fans were unsurprisingly particularly excited by Tales of the Shire. You get to be a Hobbit and do things like fish, farm, cook, and explore the world of Lord of the Rings in a low-stakes manner, what’s not to love? It was originally due out sometime this year, but as the year gets closer and closer towards its end, Wētā Workshop Game Studio has some bad news: the game has been delayed into 2025. It’s obviously not the news you’d want to hear, especially when one of the most recent video game entries in the world of Middle-earth was The Lord of the Rings: Gollum .

An important update for all Hobbits. pic.twitter.com/NuhOrdmvWX — Tales of the Shire (@talesoftheshire) September 12, 2024

The good news there is that a more concrete release date is right around the corner, which should hopefully lighten the blow a touch.

Tales of the Shire will just be the latest in a string of newer Lord of the Rings projects, with the films seeing some new additions too - like a new Gollum-centric movie , that might actually be two movies .

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