No quest to save the world. This is Middle-earth at its most comfortable, and the game is about the small things on purpose.

Your own Hobbit hole

Create your Hobbit, settle into Bywater and make the place yours: decorate the hole, tend the garden, fish the ponds and forage the hedgerows.

Feed people

Cooking is the heart of it. Homemade meals shared with neighbours are how friendships get built, and the relationships are the actual progression.

Help the village grow

Bywater is not officially a village yet. Trading with townsfolk and bringing the community together is what changes that, across forests, lakes and pasture worth walking slowly through.