Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9985% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.77/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 272,432
- Critics
- 86 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.3h
- To 100%
- 20.9h 1.8x the story
- Finish
- 42% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 102 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,890 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 42% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
102 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $14.71, a level the record has reached 112 times.
Its score puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Rise of the Tomb Raider™ ($29.99, scores 75) and Tomb Raider: Legend ($6.99, scores 73).
More about Tomb Raider Game of the Year
The press gave it 86; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 4 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 8,985 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The rating rests on 272,432 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended yesterday.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
My favorite game out of the survivor trilogy, it strikes a great balance in all things I appreciate in a game. The gameplay was the most fun for me, hte collectibles and upgrading my tools was time consuming but fun to do. The supporting characters and story is for me the best out of the three games. Graphically might be the only way it comes short from the other two (for me Rise of the Tomb Raider is the one that...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Nothing like a little threat of imminent danger to kickstart the survival adventure! The 2013 Tomb Raider reboot is a game that set out to reinvent the Lara Croft wheel, and people seemed to really like it! I've never actually finished in the past, on account of my rather bad tendencies with game commitment when I was a kid (I was 10 years old when this game released). But now as a 23 year old man, one who developed...
Tomb Raiders was actually quite a fun & enjoyable game for the portion that I played; Unfortunately, I encountered a softlock related to FPS in the geothermal caverns that would've required me to restart the entire game as the saves were automatic. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed by that to the point I never got around to beating it. I'd argue the game is otherwise good but the glitches related to frame...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM: AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT, nVidia 8600, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Tomb Raider Game of the Year scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/203160/tomb-raider-game-of-the-yearReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.