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Tomb Raider Game of the Year

PlayStation 3, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox 360 • 2013

Should you play it?

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

What works

  • Strong narrative and character development
  • Beautiful graphics and immersive environments
  • Engaging combat and exploration gameplay
  • Well-designed progression and upgrade systems
  • Good value for price with replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Multiplayer mode is sparsely populated and underdeveloped
  • Quick-time events can be frustrating and poorly signaled
  • Some story elements and characters are clichéd or underdeveloped
  • Limited player creativity and customization options
  • Occasional bugs and technical issues reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider™

  • Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

  • Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

  • Batman™: Arkham Knight

  • Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition

Less competitive

Games that feels like Tomb Raider Game of the Year but with less competition against others

  • South of Midnight

  • Metro Exodus

  • Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition

  • Fallout 3

  • A Plague Tale: Innocence

  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider™

  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

  • Tomb Raider: Legend

  • Tomb Raider: Underworld

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Tomb Raider Game of the Year: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Story, Health.

Last update: 04/08/2026