Rise of the Tomb Raider™
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $17.24.
- Length
- 13.3h
- Value
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 650 2GB or AMD HD7770 2GB, 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was February 2021. 47 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $17.24. The record reaches that level 27 times.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tomb Raider Game of the Year ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 50).
The press gave it 86; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. An 8-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 800 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 5,145 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.3 hours. Doing everything runs 35, 2.7 times as long.
Still 777 concurrent players, 10 years in.
The drop-off
89% start to 42% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
777 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
Graphics Improvements of Rise of the Tomb Raider on Steam Deck Purpose: Properly fix broken Anti-Aliasing implementation on this game using AMD FSR 4. What you need: Decky FrameGen - plugin Force use Proton Compatibility Layer What to expect: * No more annoying jagged edges or aliasing effects * Improved visual clarity * FPS is comparable to native Linux port Disclaimer: This is not intended as a tutorial but rather...
Loved this game in 2026! Played on the steam deck, and had such a great time exploring and finding all the relics, documents, survival and coin caches and trying to finish all the challenges. Going back even after finishing the story line. Absolutely recommend!
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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Rise of the Tomb Raider™ scores 75/100 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/391220/rise-of-the-tomb-raiderThe 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 12, price as of Sep 22.
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