The exceptional Tomb Raider reboot, a game with 140K 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews, is on-sale for the price of a cup of coffee

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider's hero, staring out at the viewer with a wrecked ship on a coast depicted in the background
(Image credit: Crystal Dynamics)

Ten years later the fantastic job that Crystal Dynamics' did with its 2013 Tomb Raider reboot has become even more apparent to me. The mature, 18-rated game took the campy, bright and cartoonish Lara Croft of earlier games and, instead, delivered a dark, hyper violent and at times gripping coming of age origin story with a strong female protagonist.

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Yes, there's absolutely no doubting that this game, as well as its sequels Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, owed a lot to the excellent Uncharted series of games, but Crystal Dynamics delivered an action adventure platformer with a markedly different tone, protagonist and cast of supporting characters. It was a hit.

Fast forward and that hit Tomb Raider reboot is now $2.99/£2.49 at Steam, and after picking it up myself, I thought I would bring it to the PC Gamer community's attention, as I think it's a great PC gaming experience to get stuck into in the January gaming doldrums. You can check out the full details of the game below.

Tomb Raider | $2.99/£2.49 at Steam (80% off)

Tomb Raider | $2.99/£2.49 at Steam (80% off)
With over 140,000 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews from PC gamers on Steam, Crystal Dynamics' dark and violent Tomb Raider reboot from 2013 is a lot of quality PC gaming for, right now, very little spend. I've played this myself and rate it highly. The second game in the series, Rise of the Tomb Raider, is well worth a play, too.

If you're a big fan of Tomb Raider already, I'd also suggest checking out the series on CDKeys. The Tomb Raider reboot isn't quiet as cheap there, but there are plenty of options to pick up editions of the game (and its sequels) with bonus DLC bundled in for a bit more spend. Many of these extras are cosmetics, but there are a few extra playable tombs to raid, for example. Here's my top pick from what CDKeys offers.

Tomb Raider - Game of The Year Edition | $4.39/£2.99 at Steam (92% off)

Tomb Raider - Game of The Year Edition | $4.39/£2.99 at Steam (92% off)
This version of the reboot includes a few extra things, such as the Tomb of the Lost Adventurer DLC and some extra player outfits for Lara. There's multiplayer extras, too, but I doubt anyone is still playing this game's online offering. Still, if you can spare the extra cents/pennies, it may be the better edition for you.

I've also noticed that both sequels, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, are also heavily discounted right now on Steam. I've played and completed Rise of the Tomb Raider and, while the narrative is maybe not quite as impactful as the first game, it does offer plenty more action and tomb raiding, as well as a few graphical upgrades. Well worth a look if you've got six bucks to spare.

Rise of the Tomb Raider | $5.99/£4.99 at Steam (80% off)

Rise of the Tomb Raider | $5.99/£4.99 at Steam (80% off)
This sequel to Tomb Raider is even more polished and offers plenty more exhilarating action and tomb raiding. The narrative isn't quite as hot, but aside from that it's well worth its low entry price right now. This special edition includes the base game and all the content from its season pass, too.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider| $9.88/£8.24 at Steam (89% off)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider| $9.88/£8.24 at Steam (89% off)
Rounding off the trilogy, Shadow of the Tomb Raider delivers arguably the most atmospheric environments of all three games, as well as plenty more highly polished gameplay, but never takes Lara on the character journey its premise and opening hours indicate. Still, a great game at a discounted price.

As for how Tomb Raider runs today, on my PC gaming rig, which is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, and a RTX 3090 Ti, I could turn every single setting up to 'Ultimate' and get an average frame rate of 118.7 fps. So, yeah, I can almost guarantee that this game will run flawlessly on your system. The two sequels run improved versions of the same base engine, so I'm also confident both of those will run great on basically any modern gaming PC, too.

For even more information on this entire trilogy of Tomb Raider games, you can check out PC Gamer's own verdicts in our Tomb Raider review, Rise of the Tomb Raider review, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider review.

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Rob is editor of PC Gamer magazine and has been PC gaming since the early 1990s, an experience that has left him with a life-long passion for first person shooters, isometric RPGs and point and click adventures. Professionally Rob has written about games, gaming hardware and consumer technology for almost twenty years, and before joining the PC Gamer team was deputy editor of T3.com, where he oversaw the website's gaming and tech content as well its news and ecommerce teams. You can also find Rob's words in a series of other gaming magazines and books such as Future Publishing's own Retro Gamer magazine and numerous titles from Bitmap Books. In addition, he is the author of Super Red Green Blue, a semi-autobiographical novel about games and gaming culture. Recreationally, Rob loves motorbikes, skiing and snowboarding, as well as team sports such as football and cricket.

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