The Lord of the Rings: Gollummanaged to enter UK’s boxed game sales figures from last week, which coincided with its release. Despite the fact thatGollumreceived negative reviews, it seems that a decent number of people decided to try the title after all.
To say thatThe Lord of the Rings: Gollumhad a bad launch is an understatement: the game faced a disastrous reception after its release.Gollumis the worst-rated game AAA of 2023at the moment, receiving abysmal scores from almost all gaming media outlets. On Metacritic, the game currently has a critic score of 35 and an even lower user score of 1.2. Most of the common complaints are regarding stealth being slow and repetitive, boring puzzles, several bugs, and unimpressive graphics. Despite such a weak critical reception, however, some people are still willing to giveGolluma chance.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollumappeared as sixth among the most sold games in the United Kingdom in the week ending on May 27. It’s behind much more popular games such as the newZelda,FIFA 23,Hogwarts Legacy,Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, andStar Wars Jedi: Survivor. According to the announcement, 70% of the sales were on PS5, and only 20% were on Xbox. However, it should be noted that these numbers come solely from physical sales in the United Kingdom, and the Xbox Series S does not use physical media, which may have impacted sales figures.
This game represented the release of a new game set in a beloved property, and theGollumdevelopers even had to apologizefor the state they launched the game in, so it’s not surprising that the sales are not as high as they could have been. However, due to theLotRname and future patches fixing some of the current bugs, perhaps the sales will pick up once more eventually.
Despite the disastrous launch, Daedelic is currently working onanother game set in theLord of the Ringsuniverse. Recently, it was divulged that the company received €2 million from the German government to create a second game set in the Middle-Earth universe. At the moment, not much is known about the title, but there are indications that it may be focused on wizards. The upcoming game is under work using the codename “It’s Magic,” and it does not have an intended release date yet.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollumis available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. A Switch version is in development.
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