Gollum had reached the confines of Mordor in 2980, meeting Shelob. In the year 3017 of the Third Age, 66 years after Bilbo Baggins obtains the One Ring from Gollum in the Misty Mountains, Aragorn captures Gollum in the Dead Marshes and turns him over to Gandalf. The game depicts Gollum's capture, written by J. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum occurs between the events of The Hobbit-when Bilbo Baggins obtains the One Ring-and The Fellowship of the Ring. The game is set primarily in Mordor and other areas within Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The failure of the game caused Daedalic Entertainment to cancel plans for a second game set in Middle-earth and shut down their development division, moving to a publishing only model. The game received generally negative reviews from critics. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum released on for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, while the Nintendo Switch version is scheduled for release later in 2023.

It was announced in March 2019 and delayed from its September 2021 launch window. The game is a departure from Daedalic Entertainment's usual genre of point-and-click adventure games. The player controls Gollum through a series of locations, such as Cirith Ungol, Barad-dûr, and Mirkwood, as he attempts to find Bilbo Baggins and retake the One Ring whilst battling and avoiding Sauron. Tolkien, takes place in between the events of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. The game, set in the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an action-adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment, who also published the game with Nacon. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.

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