The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $3.79/hr
- Reviews
- 41% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060, 6GB / AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4GB, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
Play as Gollum on his quest to retrieve his Precious. You will need to climb the mountains of Mordor, sneak around Mirkwood and make difficult choices. Who will gain the upper hand: the cunning Gollum or the innocent Smeagol?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was December 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden ($49.99, scores 55) and Dragon Age™: The Veilguard ($59.99, scores 18) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 784 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 171 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 21 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 287 reviews written there were positive, against 41 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.2 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
60% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
forget bad reviews if you do not care about graphics... the story, music and gameplay is wonderful... I recommend
I played this game after buying it for 3 hours it made me think outside the box, but there was a glitch I could't pass so I left it for about 12months and I came back today the issue had been fixed so now getting bacl into the game. It's a lot of fun. Sneaking and Tricksing, It takes a bit to get used to the controls. But all in all it looks great and is unique. I really like the immersiveness, I am on the edge of...
Though the mechanics are a bit lacking, I mainly wanted it for the story aspect. Even as such between what seems like constant loading screens for every little thing, and a faulty reload checkpoint that had me constantly instant death falling within the first chapter making it impossible to continue. So I can't honestly recommend this game since it's been 3 years and I'm sure I'm not the only one experiencing this...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1265780/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollumReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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