Single-player games like The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Seers of Ages Past: The Harbinger of Mah
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Seers of Ages Past 1: The Harbinger of Mah is an indie third-person open-world Action RPG where you play the origin story of the dwarven warpriest archvillain Tarbeard, the first Seer, who battles alongside his minions in the fast-paced arcade-like slaughter of the beasts and monsters of Yvermist.
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Fable
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Become the Hero you want to be in an immersive open-world action-RPG where each choice shapes your journey, reputation is everything, and fairytale endings are never guaranteed.
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Sun's Edge
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Slash your way into the Crimson Wilds of Cipactlan, a dangerous land being consumed by corruption. Fight monsters, collect specimens, and explore the world to find the lost Crystal Shards before your world is consumed.
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Phantom Blade Zero
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
S-GAME presents Phantom Blade Zero, a fusion of classic Wuxia storytelling and exhilarating action powered by Unreal Engine 5. You play as Soul, a warrior with only sixty-six days left to live. Fend off assassins, unravel world-ending conspiracies, and defend your values with your life.
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YerAna: The Tree of Life
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
A story-driven action-adventure blending exploration, platforming, puzzles, and combat. Join young apprentice Ana in the corrupted layers of the Tree of Life to find her lost master. Wield Yada Stones, cross Sky Portals, and restore nature's broken balance.
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Swords of Legends
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Swords of Legends is a single-player action-adventure RPG set in the primordial age, a world drawn from the strange tales of classical Chinese literature, where mortals, gods, and wandering souls walk the same earth.
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Pumpkin Jack
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
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The Lantern of the Laughless Saint
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
A solo or co-op RPG inspired by Morrowind. Drawn by a shared dream, you awaken on an isolated island crowned by a silent Tower. Unravel the mystery of the Laughless Saint, confront the weight of human desire, and decide what deserves to be saved when the light beneath the world finally stirs.
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Styx: Master of Shadows
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.
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Styx: Shards of Darkness
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
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LEGO® The Hobbit™
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Reclaim the Lost Kingdom brick by brick! Join Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin and his company of Dwarves in an epic adventure across Middle-earth to recapture the Lonely Mountain in the most expansive LEGO game to date.
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Fellowship of the Oak
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fellowship of the Oak is a cozy crafting sim where you gather a fellowship of heroes, providing them with everything they need to succeed on their adventures. Build cozy homes, craft gear, farm provisions and manage expeditions in order to collect powerful loot!
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Deponia
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
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Deponia: The Complete Journey
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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Deponia Doomsday
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
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Chaos on Deponia
Single-player alternative to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.