Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.8h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660/GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon HD 7770, 40 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.00. That was December 2025. 69 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 82 percent off, roughly 5 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 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rise of the Tomb Raider™ ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Darksiders III ($39.99, scores 35).
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 8 points higher at 85 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 2,208 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.8 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
Still 582 concurrent players, 8 years in.
The drop-off
90% start to 2% 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
582 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
Really enjoyed this game! The story is really good and there's loads of stuff to explore. I'd give it a 9.5/10 though because I kept getting this annoying bug where the characters had no voice audio every time I loaded the game, even though all the other sounds were working fine. had to restart the game every single time to get the voices back, which got pretty annoying. Other than that, I really enjoyed playing it...
The story has its weak points, but the gameplay is cinematic and action packed, what you would expect from a Tomb Raider game. Jonah has to be on one the most insufferable side characters I have ever come across in a video game. All in all, it's a great ending to the trilogy.
Some of yall gotta be getting paid to give positive reviews this game is so boring it hurts. The combat just really sucks its not even trying but like half of these games combat just flatout isn't good. The story is here is just as generic as a Triple A tomb raider can get and somehow I have no interest in ANY of Lara side cast because they are just her sidekicks that will sometimes do something remotely interesting...
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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Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/750920/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-definitive-editionThe 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 24.
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