Uncategorized · September 30, 2014
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ (2014)
Note: certain features for the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor videogame will no longer be available beginning Dec. 31, 2020. Affected Features: • The Nemesis Forge feature will no longer be available. Therefore, players will no longer be able to transfer their in-game Nemeses from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor to Middle-earth: Shadow of War. • Vendetta missions and Leaderboards will no longer be available. • WBPlay will no longer be available, but the epic runes 'Orc Hunter' and 'Gravewalker' will automatically be awarded to all players. Winner of over 50 “Best of 2014” Awards including Game of the Year, Best Action Game and Most Innovative Game.
Community Tag Signals
Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.
- Open World · 1.6k
- Action · 1.4k
- Fantasy · 1.1k
- Adventure · 1.1k
- Third Person · 1.0k
- Stealth · 940
- Singleplayer · 923
- RPG · 863
- Action RPG · 639
- Assassin · 592
- Hack and Slash · 579
- Gore · 536
- Parkour · 513
- Story Rich · 463
- Atmospheric · 458
Localization Coverage
Interface / Subtitles (8)
- English volume_up
- French volume_up
- Italian volume_up
- German volume_up
- Spanish - Spain volume_up
- Polish
- Portuguese - Brazil volume_up
- Russian volume_up
Full audio (7)
- English
- French
- Italian
- German
- Spanish - Spain
- Portuguese - Brazil
- Russian
Reception Metrics
Steam community
92%Very Positive · 90.7k reviews
83.5k positive · 7.3k negative
Metacritic
84/100 critic aggregate
Metacritic user score
8.0/10
Curator recommendations
60.9k
Peak concurrent players
441
Press Quotes
“AMAZING” 9.3/10 – IGN “Revolutionary” 5/5 – Joystiq “Remarkable” 4.5/5 – VideoGamer
Engagement Profile
All-time avg
19h
moderate (15–40 hours)
Median
12h
Typical completion time
2-week avg
3h
Current engagement
Achievements
74
Steam unlocks available
Release & Availability
| Release date | Sep 30, 2014 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Monolith Productions |
| Publisher | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Games |
| Base price | $3.99 -80% |
| DLC / Add-ons | 16 released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Estimated owners | 10M–100M |
| External links | Official site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected] or [email protected] |
Features & Capabilities
Community
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
- Steam Cloud
Input & Comfort
- Full controller support
Other
- Single-player
- Family Sharing
Editions & Packages
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