Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
Worth it · Action · 2024
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; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$11.9960% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.78/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 8,748
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 38.5h
- To 100%
- 92.8h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 284
Price and sales
- Sales
- 20 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 459 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
37% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Tomb Raider I (1996) ($6.99, scores 56).
More about Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 38.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,407 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
38.5 hours to finish it, 93 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Dec 4 and Dec 17, at about $5.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 86% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 66 days apart.
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
The definitive entry point to the classics, for better or worse. Continued support and recent patches have squashed most of the bugs people used to complain about. Note that F1 cycles between original and remastered graphics, but the former is where it's at. I like swapping back and forth out of curiosity, though. And tank controls are fun. Modern controls get a pretty bad rap, and understandably so, but they're...
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Always enjoyed playing this game as a little kid (It was "The Lara game" then) on the PS1 even though I had no idea what was going on other than running around the caves shooting vicious animals and opening doors and had no idea why Lara was there. So glad to see it going through a modernization/glow up so it can run better in todays world.
This game is not one that features interminable violence all the way through, which I find boring. Most of it requires you to use your head. When there are boss fights they are epic. Also this game is the iconic first in the Tomb Raider series,and is interesting for that reason alone, as it was the game that began all games! The pricing is very attractive - A$23.50 for a bundle of 6 remastered games which run on any...
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About the game
Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored – Now with New Challenge Mode
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDA GT730 or AMD R7 240, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft scores 68/100 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/2478970/tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered-starring-lara-croftReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.