Its video game adaptation of The Grand Tour in 2019 got such bad reviews that the game was pulled from storefronts. Since its launch in 2014, Amazon Game Studios has yet to release a successful video game, canceling some previously announced games and delaying others. “We love the Lord of the Rings IP, and are disappointed that we won’t be bringing this game to customers.” The team from the LOTR project will work on other games for the company, the spokesperson added. But Leyou was acquired by Tencent Holdings in December, and an Amazon spokesperson said in an email to The Verge that the company was “unable to secure terms to proceed with this title at this time.”
The game was to be set “at a time long before the events of The Lord of the Rings, exploring lands, people and creatures never seen before by fans of the Tolkien universe,” according to an announcement from Athlon at the time.
The company announced the project with Leyou-owned Athlon Games back in 2019, and planned it to be a free-to-play game for PC and consoles. Amazon Game Studios has canceled a Lord of the Rings online role-playing game, Bloomberg reported.
