The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an action-adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment. The game, set in the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien, takes place in between the…
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an adventure developed by Daedalic Entertainment, released 25 May 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $9.99 at Steam.
What The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum tells a story that unfolds in the years between the events of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. The player takes on the role of the wretched, ring-obsessed creature Gollum, following his desperate travels after the loss of his precious One Ring to Bilbo Baggins. Consumed by the desire to reclaim it, Gollum makes his way across perilous corners of Middle-earth, from the shadowed passes of Cirith Ungol to the dark heart of Barad-dur and the tangled depths of Mirkwood. Along the way he must slink past guards, scale treacherous ledges, and hide in shadow and long grass to survive, for capture by the servants of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is the 66th of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. The next entry was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria in 2023. Its critic score of 46 is 28 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring at 91.
How it was received
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 30 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum launched on 25 May 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, System Shock and Street Fighter 6. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, System Shock, Street Fighter 6.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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