Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.74.
- Length
- 11.3h
- Value
- $1.77/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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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.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.00. 100 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $14.74, a level the record has reached 111 times.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 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).
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 8. 4 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 8,967 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.
It came out 13 years ago and 556 were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
57% start to 42% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
556 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
After playing this game for the first time, I came to the conclusion that it is an excellent adventure game that still looks and plays remarkably well even today. It has truly stood the test of time and doesn't need all those modern "innovations" like loot boxes, boosters, DRM, or woke content where Lara would have to do push- ups because she accidentally used the wrong pronouncing of someone gender etc. I think the...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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-yearThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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