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Tomb Raider

ShooterPlatformPuzzleAdventure

Steam
Release

TBA

Platforms
  • PC
  • PS3
  • PSP
  • PS1
  • Nintendo 64
  • +3

Release dates

North America dates
  1. TBA
    Cancelled
    • 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

Steam85%Very Positive · 4,561 reviews
Critics (IGDB)85/1001 review
IGDB players83/100486 ratings

Game info

Released
1996 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player
Perspective
Third person

Editions, DLC & expansions

Other versions

Studios

Age ratings

  • ESRBTAnimated Blood, Animated Violence, Violence
  • CLASS IND16Violência (Violence)

Languages

6 languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Spain)
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
EnglishEnglish (US)–
FrenchFrançais–
GermanDeutsch–
ItalianItaliano–
Japanese日本語–
Spanish (Spain)Español (España)–

Themes & tags

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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

north america

europe

  • Oct 24, 1996Sega Saturn
  • Nov 22, 1996PS1
  • Nov 22, 1996DOS
  • Sep 01, 2010PS3Digital Compatibility Release
  • Sep 01, 2010PSPDigital Compatibility Release

japan

The Tomb Raider series

All 47 games
  1. This gameTomb Raider1996
  2. Tomb Raider II1997
  3. Tomb Raider: Gold1998 · Expanded edition
  4. Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft1998
  5. Tomb Raider II: Gold1999 · Expanded edition
  6. Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation1999
  7. Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation - The Times1999 · Standalone expansion
  8. Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact2000 · Standalone expansion
  9. Tomb Raider Starring Lara Croft2000
  10. Tomb Raider: Chronicles2000
  11. Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword2001
  12. 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.