- Release
TBA
- Platforms
- PC
- PS3
- PSP
- PS1
- Nintendo 64
- +3
Release dates
North America dates- TBACancelled
- Nintendo 64
About
Tomb Raider is a 3D action game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. The game follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures. The objective of Tomb Raider is to guide Lara through a series of tombs and other locations in search of treasures and artifacts. On the way, she must kill dangerous animals and other creatures, while collecting objects and solving puzzles to gain access to an ultimate prize, usually a powerful artifact. The game was critically acclaimed and widely influential, it spawned a number of sequels and a franchise of related media.
Trailers
Screenshots
How long to beat
IGDB · 6 players- Rushed
- 9 h
- Normal
- 19 h
- 100%
- 24 h
Reviews
Game info
- Released
- 1996 · see every game from that year
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Core Design
Editions, DLC & expansions
Other versions
Studios
Age ratings
- ESRBTAnimated Blood, Animated Violence, Violence
- CLASS IND16Violência (Violence)
Languages
6 languagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Spain)
| Language | Audio | Subtitles | Interface |
|---|---|---|---|
| EnglishEnglish (US) | – | ||
| FrenchFrançais | – | ||
| GermanDeutsch | – | ||
| ItalianItaliano | – | ||
| Japanese日本語 | – | ||
| Spanish (Spain)Español (España) | – |
Themes & tags
- Action
- Survival
- 60 fps on consoles
- achievements
- action-adventure
- adapted to - movie
- airplane
- animal cruelty
- archeology
- artifacts
- audio logs
- auto-aim
- auto-saving
- backtracking
48 more tags
- backwards compatibility
- balance platforms
- based on - comics
- bats
- been here before
- behind the waterfall
- betrayal
- bink video
- bloody
- boar
- book adaptation
- boss assistance
- boss fight
- bow and arrow
- british accent
- burning
- camera
- camping
- centaurs
- challenges
- character models based on actual people
- chicken
- climbing
- collectibles
- coming of age
- context sensitive
- controversy
- corpse
- crab
- crow
- cult
- damsel in distress
- darkness
- day/night cycle
- death
- deer
- destructible environment
- detective mode
- difficulty level
- digital distribution
- dinosaurs
- downloadable content
- dual wielding
- ea app
- egypt
- environmental kill
- environmental puzzles
- escape from exploding building
Story & names
Lara Croft is a Tomb Raider, an archaeologist who explores ancient sites in search of valuable artifacts, who is hired to retrieve an artifact from a tomb in Peru, which turns out to be one of three parts of the Atlantean Scion. Soon betrayed by her employer, Lara Croft travels to Greece, Rome and Egypt to recover the other parts before this powerful device falls into the wrong hands.
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Also known as
- Tomb Raider 1Alternative spelling
- Tomb Raider featuring Lara CroftAlternative spelling
- Tomb Raider IAlternative spelling
- TRAcronym
- 古墓奇兵Chinese title - traditional
- 古墓丽影Chinese title - simplified
- Tomb RaidersJapanese title - romanization
- Tomb Raider starring Lara CroftAlternative spelling
- TR1Alternative spelling
- TRIAlternative spelling
Release dates by region
16 releases in 4 regions
worldwide
- Nov 28, 2012PC
- TBDNintendo 64Cancelled
north america
- Nov 14, 1996PS1
- Nov 14, 1996DOS
- Nov 14, 1996Sega Saturn
- Jul 2002Windows Mobile
- Aug 13, 2009PS3Digital Compatibility Release
- Aug 13, 2009PSPDigital Compatibility Release
europe
- Oct 24, 1996Sega Saturn
- Nov 22, 1996PS1
- Nov 22, 1996DOS
- Sep 01, 2010PS3Digital Compatibility Release
- Sep 01, 2010PSPDigital Compatibility Release
japan
- Jan 19, 1997DOS
- Jan 24, 1997Sega Saturn
- Feb 14, 1997PS1
The Tomb Raider series
All 47 games
This gameTomb Raider1996
Tomb Raider II1997
Tomb Raider: Gold1998 · Expanded edition
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft1998
Tomb Raider II: Gold1999 · Expanded edition
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation1999
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation - The Times1999 · Standalone expansion
Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact2000 · Standalone expansion
Tomb Raider Starring Lara Croft2000
Tomb Raider: Chronicles2000
Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword2001
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy2002
Showing 1–12 of 34 main games, in release order.
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Where to find it
Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.






