Lara Croft GO
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.27.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 310, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Lara Croft GO is a turn based puzzle-adventure set in a long-forgotten world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilization, discover well-kept secrets and face deadly challenges as you uncover the myth of the Queen of Venom.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
October 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.27, a level the record has reached 77 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Card City Nights ($9.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($4.99, scores 61).
2 of the 402 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 425 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.6 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 2.0 times as long.
At 3.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
71% start to 15% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:03 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Here's what you do: This is a puzzle game where every time you take a step, everything else moves, mainly enemies and rolling boulders. You can take out most enemies by walking into them from their back or their side which is when Lara will use her guns to take them out (apparently her guns have very short range). The walkable space is drawn out as lines. Additional tools and puzzle interactions are introduced, such...
Good game. The visuals and soundtrack give the whole adventure a relaxing atmosphere, while solving the later puzzles feels genuinely satisfying. It's a bit short and doesn't offer much replay value, but I had a good time from start to finish.
3.5 / 5 It has deeper mechanics than a simple mobile game but much less content than modern pc games. It's a good game, with some interesting puzzles, but it feels unfinished and small. The base game is too easy, and I finished it almost mindlessly, like a tutorial, but the game shines in the two DLCs, where the difficulty of puzzles is much greater, and I spend much more time solving them than in the base game...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Lara Croft GO scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/540840/lara-croft-goReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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