Tomb Raider (2013) is currently Free to keep on Steam

AndyJ · Mar 21, 2020

I'm sure a lot us could do with some distractions right now.

So a heads up for anyone that doesn't have the Tomb Raider 2013 reboot game and fancies adding it to their Steam account.

~~It's free to grab up this weekend, until 7am Tuesday March 24th.~~ [ENDED]

It supports Windows, Mac OS X and SteamOS + Linux.

Tomb Raider on Steam

Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.

store.steampowered.com

CMDR Karrde Sun · Mar 22, 2020

That was the best one. The second one i could barely make it though, and the third one was painful to watch on youtube even. Games are the new movies?

EUS · Mar 22, 2020

Weird how my steam account is 16yrs old, but at times I still need to choose a random birthday date to access content.

Northpin · Mar 22, 2020

cheers, i just added it to my library
Now what i miss is 2-3 months of paid leave. (which obviously won't happen)

shreddog · Mar 23, 2020

The action reboot ruined the series.
The old games were the best.
Now it's all about gory violence and 'follow the markings' level design.
No thanks.
They even changed Lara's look

Vasea Azure · Mar 23, 2020

shreddog said:
The action reboot ruined the series.
The old games were the best.
Now it's all about gory violence and 'follow the markings' level design.
No thanks.
They even changed Lara's look

I`m with you on this one. They gave Tomb Raider the same "treatment" as to 007. No fun or attractive people allowed.
I really don't like the new games, new Croft and the games overall tone- now get off my lawn!

Steve · Mar 23, 2020

I'm enjoying this far more than I thought I would. Half the fun is the way it takes me back to playing the original game on Playstation in... 1996

EUS · Mar 23, 2020

Spent all Sunday playing. SteamOS (native linux) too!

Leper Messiah · Mar 23, 2020

Loved the reboots, excellent graphics.....ok so the gameplay was more shooty, but I was ok with that. I like how the first game let us see how Lara became so tough! Recently 100%'d the first again and today 100%'d the second again...now onto the 3rd that I got in a sale few weeks ago!

Darkfyre99 · Mar 25, 2020

AndyJ said:
I'm sure a lot us could do with some distractions right now.

So a heads up for anyone that doesn't have the Tomb Raider 2013 reboot game and fancies adding it to their Steam account.

~~It's free to grab up this weekend, until 7am Tuesday March 24th.~~ [ENDED]

It supports Windows, Mac OS X and SteamOS + Linux.

Tomb Raider on Steam

Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.

store.steampowered.com

Dang it, I bought it at 50% off a while ago, but never got around to playing it. C’est la vie.

Mole HD · Mar 26, 2020

shreddog said:
...They even changed Lara's look

Thankfully... they did

shreddog · Mar 26, 2020

She doesn't have any resemblance.

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Sad how they consistently managed to keep the integrity of her overall aesthetics from the first low poly game, all the way up to Underworld.
Then threw it all out the window with the reboot, that had a totally new Lara, and cookie cutter shooty bang bang gameplay, that is about you following the marked trail. Yes, literally follow the marked trail. Even the spots where you are supposed to shoot those silly rope arrows are all conveniently marked with white paint!

Might as well have created a new franchise and given the Tomb Raider license to some other company who actually cared about the original concept.

Now, it's a loong time since I played the classics. But I remember it being quite an adventure in itself just figuring how to get to the top of features, say a ravine or some ancient temple. There was no hand holding, no showing the obvious path. You had to figure the way up yourself.
You timed your jumps and angles perfectly, you failed and tried again. Getting to the top was quite a feeling of achievement.
And there was all a sense of mystery and wonder about everything.

The classics had a Lara that looked like a supermodel, with a posh upper class attitude, with almost superhero abilities. Violence was superficial cartoon like. And it was all unrealistic as could be. That was what was so great.