Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™

100% Steam Deck banger @ medium settings with a 40hz cap. It also runs well on Windows 11 machines. I played this on PS4 at launch and hadn't touched it since. Shadow of Mordor aged like fine wine. It was great in 2014, and feels even better in 2026, all things considered with the current state of the gaming industry. Smooth, fluid combat and the Nemesis System is still satisfying twelve years later. It's a shame this system is locked to this title and its sequel, but here we are. RIP Monolith. You deserved so much more than what you got.

Um jogo esquecido por muitos, mas definitivamente muito bom! Para quem nunca jogou dê a oportunidade e não irá se arrepender, pois supera muitos jogos do gênero! O combate é divertido e brutal e, por fim, tem um protagonista F*D.Ã.O - 10/10

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I came into this hopeful. I’ve heard so much about how great the Nemesis system is, but honestly, it’s nothing special. Having used the SAIN AI mod in other games, I look at the Nemesis system and wonder what the hype was about—it's just a glorified database, not smart combat logic. As for the gameplay itself, it’s ass. It is completely asinine that the game chooses who I fight instead of giving me a hard lock-on. There is nothing worse than being close to beating a boss, only for the auto-targeting to randomly switch me to a grunt in the background while the main boss runs away and re-heals. I'll be frank, a good chunk of my struggle is probably due to user error, but the game fundamentally wrestling enemy selection away from the player ruins the entire experience. I did get this game super cheap so not really a loss but I was expecting more and better gameplay. I am going to see what the modding scene is like if that can help with some of the issues i am encountering. Will update review if anything changes.

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La verdad es un juegazo. Lo jugué en la PlayStation, me lo pasé 3 veces y ahora lo volví a jugar y me lo pasé en PC. Es un juego muy divertido y, aunque tal vez la historia no dure mucho, vale muchísimo la pena rejugarlo varias veces. Muy recomendado.

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