When you play Gollum, you’ll play Sméagol at the same time. You need to make some decisions, maybe some decisions that are more or less from Sméagol, and some that are from Gollum. You can decide for yourself what you’d like to see more, Fichtelman said. When you decide some things, it could be—this is reflected in the mechanics. The game forces you to convince yourself and find one of these two positions. When it comes to other iconic characters in the universe, in Middle-earth, we’ll see what happens around Gollum.

The story takes place in the same timeframe of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book of The Lord of the Rings. It follows the path of Gollum and what happens before Frodo and his companions find him trailing them in the Mines of Moria.