Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Action AdventurePlatformerPuzzleRole-Playing
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- Released
- 1996
- Developer
- Core Design
- Platforms
- 12 systems
- Critics
- 86
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- Not stated
What is Tomb Raider?
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 25 October 1996 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Core Design |
| Publisher | Golden Disc Electronic, Suntendy Interactive Multimedia Co.,Ltd., Victor Interactive Software |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, iPad, Android Tablet, PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Role-Playing |
| Languages | 13 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q317620, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Tomb Raider received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | Not stated |
| Add-on content | None listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Tomb Raider worth it?
96% of 269,385 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. It costs $2.99 on Steam, on sale from $19.99, and critics score it 86/100.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Tomb Raider? How long to beat it
Total play time for Tomb Raider is about 20.1 hours to do everything, and around 15.6 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 15.6h | 289 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 17.9h | 198 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 20.1h | 79 |
At its current price of $2.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.19 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Tomb Raider system requirements
The minimum requirements from Tomb Raider's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 1 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Dual core CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 2.1 Ghz (4050+), Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz (E6300) |
| Graphics | DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM: AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT · runs on a low-end GPU |
Where Tomb Raider sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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How positions are decided
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- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Tomb Raider
These are estimates, not reported figures. Core Design has not published unit sales for Tomb Raider, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 269,385 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $19.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Core Design publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Tomb Raider price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $2.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Tomb Raider updates & patch notes
Pulled from Tomb Raider's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- Tomb Raider: Catalyst delayed to 2028
- Pre-Purchase is now open for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
- Two and a half months into the filming of Amazon's big budget Tomb Raider TV show, star Sophie Turner has suffered an on-set injury that has 'paused' production
- Tomb Raider is fine, Crystal Dynamics says, as it lays off employees for the fourth time in the past 12 months
- Inside PC gaming's wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: 'Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept'
- Lara Croft's design could've gone full FF7/Street Fighter in Japan to appeal to audiences in the mid-'90s, says co-creator, but 'All that was changed was the manuals & guide'
What readers say about Tomb Raider
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Tomb Raider on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes23 of 300 (8%)
And it runs like buttholes always freezing here and there during the cutscenes and cinematic camera action shots.
Steam review, 12 June 2026 · 2 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpfulI don't know if it's only my game or what,but after 7h played game start to crash,some bug in game,after crash he change my desktop resolution,it is frustrating,i think i will not play anymore.Someone had this problems ?
Steam review, 22 February 2026 · 8 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful - Softlocks and broken quests15 of 300 (5%)
Ran into the bug in the Geothermal Caves where my box straight up disappeared and soft locked my game.
Steam review, 10 March 2026 · 6 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpfulI'm currently softlocked in the Geothermal Caverns and have tried everything to be able to progress, but nothing has worked so I have no choice but to abandon this game.
Steam review, 23 May 2026 · 6 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful - Motion sickness and comfort12 of 300 (4%)
For someone who rarely gets motion sickness, the camera shake was so excessive and dizzying, it was unplayable, even for me.
Steam review, 19 July 2026 · 1 hours played · 9 readers marked it helpfulthey are trying to make it so soooo soooo cinematic that it just causes motion sickness.
Steam review, 12 June 2026 · 2 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful
A further 38 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Where Tomb Raider appears
The ranked lists and finder pages Tomb Raider qualifies for, from its own genre and platform to what it takes to run.
- Best action adventure games
- Best platformer games
- Best puzzle games
- Best role-playing games
- Best iOS games
- Best Android games
- Best iPad games
- Best Android Tablet games
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- Best PlayStation games
- Best PlayStation 4 games
- Best PlayStation 5 games
- Best Xbox One games
- Best Xbox Series X and Series S games
- Best Nintendo Switch games
- Best Steam Deck games
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Tomb Raider head to head
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Common questions about Tomb Raider
What platforms is Tomb Raider on?
Tomb Raider is available on iOS, Android, iPad, Android Tablet, PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck. It first released in 1996.
How much does Tomb Raider cost?
$2.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Tomb Raider?
96% of 269,385 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for Tomb Raider?
86 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does Tomb Raider work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Tomb Raider as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
Who made Tomb Raider?
Tomb Raider was developed by Core Design and published by Golden Disc Electronic, Suntendy Interactive Multimedia Co.,Ltd., Victor Interactive Software.
Is Tomb Raider worth it in 2026?
96% of 269,385 Steam reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive), and it is $2.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Tomb Raider on sale?
Yes, right now. Tomb Raider is $2.99 on Steam, down from its $19.99 list price (about 85% off), read on 30 August 2026. Prices move, so check the store.
What are the system requirements for Tomb Raider?
At minimum, Tomb Raider needs 1 GB RAM, a Dual core CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 2.1 Ghz (4050+), Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz (E6300), a DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM: AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Tomb Raider?
about 15.6 hours for the main story, 17.9 hours with the main extras, 20.1 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.