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Game description
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Basic info
| Developer | Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive (Mac), Nixxes |
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| Publisher | Crystal Dynamics, Feral Interactive (Mac) |
| Platforms | Windows · macOS |
| Steam Deck | Verified✓ |
| Release date | Mar 4, 2013 |
| Price |
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Minimum specs
| OS | Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista,7,8 (32bit/64bit) |
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| Processor | Dual core CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 2.1 Ghz (4050+), Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz (E6300) |
| Memory | 1 GB |
| Graphics | DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM: AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT, nVidia 8600 |
| Storage | 12 GB |
Review Analysis Score
Based on 429 reviews from the past 1 year
Review analysis summary (Reviewed Oct 20, 2026)
Action, puzzles and a coming-of-age story drive Tomb Raider Game of the Year, which scores 88.7, top 20% of the games we analyzed.
👍 Strengths
107 reviews enjoy it, the most upvoted saying it blew away their expectations and made them a fan of the series. 74 praise an emotional story with strong character growth and pacing, and Story & World ranks 403rd of 1096. 67 admire the graphics and audio, and Visuals & Sound ranks 242nd of 1249. Gameplay ranks 395th of 1396 and Content Volume ranks 413th of 1351.
👎 Where it falls short
Tech & Support ranks 672nd of 1399. 39 reviews report bugs, such as crashes, clipping and moments that force a checkpoint reload, and some blame a later update. 26 criticize the movement and camera, which shakes enough to make some players feel sick, and a few find jumps and ledge grabs unreliable or miss a sprint option. 25 find the puzzles and optional tombs too easy, even on hard mode, though a few find combat punishing instead.
Representative reviews Original reviews ↗
“blew away expectations, masterpiece experience, became huge fan of franchise” · 107 reviews
“emotional story with strong character growth and pacing” · 74 reviews
“graphics good, gameplay addictive, audio very good, story great” · 67 reviews
How it holds up
Grey means too few reviews mention it to trust. — means almost no reviews mention it.
Dashboard
Based on 429 reviews from the past 1 year
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By period
The overall score over shorter windows: has the game changed lately? A hollow grey point means fewer than 150 reviews in that window.
Past year 429 reviews · Past 6 months 192 reviews · Past 3 months 91 reviews
Steam review activity
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Across 9 languages, players disagree most about Gameplay.
English
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Based on 127 reviews from the past 1 year
Russian
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Based on 77 reviews from the past 1 year
Chinese
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Based on 73 reviews from the past 1 year
Portuguese
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Based on 51 reviews from the past 1 year
Spanish
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Based on 42 reviews from the past 1 year
Turkish
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Based on 22 reviews from the past 1 year
German
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Based on 9 reviews from the past 1 year
Ukrainian
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Based on 9 reviews from the past 1 year
French
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Based on 7 reviews from the past 1 year
25 indicators · 608 review reasons · 9 languages · data as of Sep 10, 2026
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Basic info
| Tomb Raider Game of the Year | Rise of the Tomb Raider™ | |
|---|---|---|
| Players now | 2,798 | 3,962 |
| Genre | Action · Adventure | Action · Adventure |
| Developer | Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive (Mac), Nixxes | Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux), Nixxes |
| Platforms | Windows · macOS | Windows · macOS · Linux |
| Steam Deck | Verified✓ | Playable! |
| Price | −90% | −90% |
| Release date | Mar 4, 2013 | Feb 9, 2016 |
| Tags | 10 in common | |
| Only this game | Only this game | |
Review scores
| Tomb Raider Game of the Year |  Rise of the Tomb Raider™ | |
|---|---|---|
| Gameplay | +1.52 | +1.69 |
| Story & World | +3.00 | +2.23 |
| Content Volume | +1.28 | +1.08 |
| Visuals & Sound | +3.71 | +4.01 |
| Multiplayer | -2.05 | -0.27 |
| Pricing & Fairness | +0.05 | -0.05 |
| Tech & Support | -0.11 | -0.03 |
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