The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has suffered a further delay, since the co-developer and publisher Daedalic Entertainment has announced a new release window.
The third-person action-adventure game will give players the chance to control Gollum, the beloved character from The Lord of the Rings, in a story that takes place between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. This would be the fourth delay for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was first announced in March 2019, with a planned release in 2021. In January 2021, a press release was sent out announcing a new co-publisher, Nacon, a unique company that designs and manufactures gaming accessories such as third-party Xbox headsets and controllers, but also publishes games like Steelrising and Blood Bowl 3, a football game set in a Tolkien-style medical fantasy world.
The press release contained another release date change, this time to 2022, without specifying the month or quarter. On May 24, 2022, the game’s official Twitter account announced a fixed release date of September 1, 2022, with the Nintendo Switch version set to hit stores on November 30.
As September approached, the official Twitter account again tweeted the news of a delay, this time pushing Gollum back “a few months”. An imprecise launch window, without a doubt, especially considering the more specific date and day of the previous announcement. A few months passed. Now, instead of announcing an imminent release, Daedalic has announced another delay, this time promising that the game will launch sometime in the first half of the 2023-2024 fiscal year..
That puts the window between April and September 2023. This is yet another imprecise launch window, this time spanning five months. The announcement came hidden in Nacon’s Q3 2022/23 sales report, published on January 23.
