Tomb Raider II (1997)
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The second instalment in the Tomb Raider series invites you to join Lara as she travels around the globe to retrieve a precious artefact before it falls into the wrong hands. The legendary artefact, the Dagger of Xian, is said to give its possessor the power of a fire breathing dragon.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- 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.
The value story
November 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.97. 81 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 86 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tomb Raider: Anniversary ($8.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation (1999) ($6.99, scores 53).
This site sampled 452 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 521 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Players
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Tomb Raider II (1997) scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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/225300/tomb-raider-ii-1997The 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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