Rumor has it a new The Lord of the Rings game is in development by none other than Warhorse Studios, creator of the beloved Kingdom Come: Deliverance duology. The project leaked last year, and subsequent rumblings suggested Warhorse's trademark, systems-heavy, immersive gameplay would be grafted onto Middle-earth. The studio has more recently been embroiled in controversy, though, and the only official word on the supposed open-world LOTR RPG has come during a truly disastrous Q&A session hosted by the developers.
A group of high-level developers from Warhorse Studios held an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit, and most of the questions posed scathingly inquired about the company's recent firing of a translator, who suggested they'd been made obsolete in favor of AI-generated localization. One question, however, fished for some sort of confirmation on the leaked LOTR project, assuming "there won't be a response," but Warhorse Content Director Ondřej Bittner gave the studio's first official stance on the rumors:
"Voilá there is a response! But unfortunately not the one you hope for. We are hard at work on ... something. I cannot disclose details but I can tell it is a huge, immersive RPG."
–Ondřej Bittner, Content...
