Tomb Raider I (1996)
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 4,652
- Genre rank
- Top 31% Shooter
Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 86% off
- Steam low
- $0.97 November 2017
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 65% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 69% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 83 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 86 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 31 percent. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tomb Raider II (1997) ($6.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation (1999) ($6.99, scores 53).
More about Tomb Raider I (1996)
This site sampled 560 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 1,315 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended yesterday.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Adventurer Lara Croft has been hired to recover the pieces of an ancient artifact known as the Scion. With her fearless acrobatic style she runs, jumps, swims and climbs her way towards the truth of its origin and powers - leaving only a trail of empty tombs and gun-cartridges in her wake.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Tomb Raider I (1996) scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224960/tomb-raider-i-1996Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.