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Tomb Raider Game of the Year

Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.

Developer
Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive (Mac), Nixxes
Publisher
Crystal Dynamics, Feral Interactive (Mac)
Franchise
Tomb Raider
Release date
Mar 4, 2013
Store page updated
Dec 8, 2025
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

88.9/ 100

Based on 429 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 1,248
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 270,378
“blew away expectations, masterpiece experience, became huge fan of franchise”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.52
Controls & feel +1.97 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle
“fun gameplay with gritty combat and hunting for upgrades” (35)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.00
Story +2.83 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“emotional story with strong character growth and pacing” (74)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.28
Volume +2.35 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

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Visuals & Sound
+3.71
Visuals +3.85 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“graphics good, gameplay addictive, audio very good, story great” (67)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-2.03

Not enough data — only 10% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -1.44 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

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Pricing & Fairness
+0.98

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +1.27 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

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Tech & Support
-0.54
Stability -2.14 · Crashes, freezes, save loss, and game-breaking bugs
“old game has multiple bugs including crashes and screen clipping issues” (39)
重启三部曲中最爽的一部,剧情紧凑解密也是挺有意思的,爬信号塔真是名场面了,老游戏bug有点多,闪退崩溃开无边框窗口模式别开全屏,解谜卡关bug读档检查点就行。 流落荒岛的无助女孩✕ 女武神屠岛记‌✓

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Mar 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,241 reviews, peak 74/day
050100
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 429 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English30%
  • Russian18%
  • Chinese17%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Spanish10%
  • Turkish5%
  • Other9%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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