Tomb Raider: Legend similar games & best alternatives

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Tomb Raider: Legend

OnLive Game System, PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2007

Should you play it?

Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.

What works

  • Engaging story and characters
  • Fluid and improved gameplay mechanics
  • Diverse and beautiful locations
  • Excellent soundtrack and voice acting
  • Collectibles and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Technical issues with pc port (crashes, bugs)
  • Awkward camera and controls at times
  • Some combat and ai weaknesses
  • Qte sequences and motorcycle sections criticized

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • CONTROL Ultimate Edition

  • God of War Ragnarök

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

  • Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition

  • Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

  • Dishonored

Less expressive

Games that feels like Tomb Raider: Legend but with less self-expression and customization

  • Deadfall Adventures

  • Shadow Complex Remastered

  • The Chant

  • Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition

  • Scars Above

  • Outcast - Second Contact

More intense

Games that feels like Tomb Raider: Legend but with a more intense feel

  • GRIME

  • Age of Barbarian Extended Cut

  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™

  • Painkiller Overdose

  • Blades of Fire

  • Painkiller: Black Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Tomb Raider: Underworld

  • Tomb Raider: Anniversary

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider™

  • Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered

  • Tomb Raider Game of the Year

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: Legend: 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 Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Strategy.

Last update: 03/08/2026