The journey continues in the magical world of Middle-earth in The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game, a narrative-driven co-operative card game that lets players take on the roles of heroes and villains in Tolkien's legendary work, The Two Towers. This standalone game follows 2025's The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game with chapters 19-36 of gameplay. The chapters can be played in any order and playing the earlier game isn't required, but ideally you play them in sequence.
In each chapter, each player takes a different character role and each character has a condition that must be met in order to pass the chapter and advance in the story. As you advance through the chapters, new characters, items, and challenges are introduced to the game. The One Ring is the game's only trump card, but initially rings can't be led until someone plays one off-suit.
(from BoardGameGeek)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game
Number of players
1 to 4 players
Age
10+
Play time
20 minutes
Complexity (according to BGG)
2.12 out of 5
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Reviews
We haven't played the Fellowship but it was easy enough to get into this and we enjoyed it. My ten year old could play it and working together to complete each round was a nice change of pace. That said, we only got through four chapters before we'd had enough of it. My hard-to-please partner enjoyed though - which is high praise indeed.