Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Worth it · Action · 2010
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; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.4985% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.56/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 4,836
- Critics
- 82 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.4h
- To 100%
- 16.2h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 100 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 November 2017
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
67% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 100 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.91. The record reaches that level 98 times.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™ ($19.99, scores 19).
More about Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 10 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
None of the 424 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 535 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
6.4 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.4 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
A game from the Xbox 360 era that still holds to this day! Brillant game, playing it in Co-Op was a lot of fun, the mechanics are nice, the game is smooth and very responsive, the graphics do not feel dated and the level design is fun but sometimes can get tedious, the combat is great too. If you want a couple of hours of fun with a buddy playing Co-Op this game is highly recommended, it features the old school Lara...
1 more review
Please make it Compatible with the Steam Machine, My wife & I would greatly appreciate it. We would love to play it in our living room on the New Device. Wonderful game, plenty of co-op playability. We have completed the game 3 times already over the years.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Take control of Lara and her new partner Totec, a Mayan tribesman, and uncover the ancient artifact known as the "Mirror of Smoke" in this all new action adventure game.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
Cite this score
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light scores 73/100 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/35130/lara-croft-and-the-guardian-of-lightReviews 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 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.