Rise of the Tomb Raider™

Always have been fan of the franchise, great game - always seen as "like uncharted" but I like to think that it is almost at the same level as the uncharted series and has its own personality as a franchise

Don't know why took me this long to play the game. Have only completed 15% so far but it is so thrilling! Loved every second of it!

amazing gameplay and story . puzzles and mechanics are gripping too

Peep how all the positive reviews rarely surpass 20h and look at my playtime. I was going to recommend it because it's a really good game, but the team that did the "gamification" needs to suffer a tedious demise. Add on top of that the complete idiot that designed the achievements requiring you to grind for over 100h from what it seems like, replaying the same levels to get a gold score for which you need expendable multiplier cards etc etc. Wish I had realized this before having my 1st playthrough be on "Extreme Survivor" which forces you to replay game progress from the last campsite save, effectively limiting daring exploration which is essential in a game like this. Wish I'd have played on Survivor then speedran it on Extreme Survivor but anyway, that would have only been a single achievement. I've 100% the game and I'm at 50% achievements with at least a dozen being things I'd never would have done if I didn't look them up as achievements. That pretty much says it all. The game "achieves" to make me concede not being able to 100% it. They can have that, I'm good. Got better stuff to do. The welcome has been overstayed by a whole lot.
I will add that there are a few DLC and game modes that actually extend the gameplay outside the base game by natural means.. "Expenditions" add a survival element with heat and hunger in a randomized map and it's definitely worth an extra 10-20h in itself. Base game is about 30h, 40+ if you're naive like me and go in blind on hardest difficulty.

On a normal mode, this game is chill. Good combat. Mechanics and graphics are smooth. The storyline and voice acting are top notch!

Very good game. Its polished well enough. But not better than Tomb Raider 2013. This game still have little things missing but its still a amazing game.

Я играю в томб райдер 5 лет ето для меня часть просто имба сюжет интересний паркур хороший спасиба за ето шедевр

To be honest, I really tried to like this game, I saw the reviews for it and was expecting much more, I quite enjoyed the previous one (2013 version) but was left nonetheless disappointed. The story felt boring and couldn't wait to finish it, but Jacob carried it a little bit, he was a cutie.

The game improves on its predecessor in every way and the pace is really fun. The graphics and overall gameplay hold up well even years later, and it is definitely worth picking it up on sale. Had a blast exploring and there were a few neat twists in the story.

I just finished playing through the main story line completely on Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon. My verdict: Excellent story, great voice acting, intuitive mechanics/gameplay, stunning visuals, and runs flawlessly on Linux. Thank you Crystal Dynamics, Eidos, Feral Interactive and Nixxes for making this happen!

Really good story,really fun to ply. I wish it was longer

This is a good classic story adventure triple a game.
This game kept all the basics what a story game should have.

However, that was just it.
Nothing much different from the first series.
It felt like doing side quests and raiding optional tombs weren't worth it.
With the eyes I now have in 2025, this game is good enough but no better than that.

This game did keep me hooked into the game for a while.
Maybe it's because I'm old But I had to half-force myself to play it till the very end.

Overall 7/10.

Hey dears, I just started playing the game, I saved at a spot where all my arrows are gone and I can’t find anything to build new ones. It’s to kill the bear. Do I have to start a new game or is there any other way?
Thanks in advance

This is straight up one of the best story game i have ever played omfg

I wish the platforming was more engaging and challenging, but fun experience nonetheless

The improvement from previous is optical with some new crafting element, its definitely fun to play with!

For me, this was the first game from the Reboot that I played. Got it as the Ultimate Edition on sale, best choice ever.
Main Story is aight, tombs are nice and everything but what really did it for me were the extra modes.
Cold Darkness is honestly one of the best horror-ish Zombie modes I've ever played, and trying to beat my record in endurance still keeps me having fun in an almost 10 year old game.
In my Opinion, ROTTR is much better than SOTTR, as Shadow lacked the extras and replayability. Just doing tombs or trying to beat my record time in the story doesn't sound all that exciting.
So, Rise of the Tomb Raider remains the best one from the Survivor Trilogy for me.

I would rate the game a 7/10. Never played a game before where i constantly had to go look for video's to solve a mission/challenge which kind of sucks. I liked the graphic and storyline however.

Gran juego, con muy buena duración, muy entretenido y con una historia atrapante. De a ratos muy intenso y disfrutable. Thumbs up!

This was a good game but i think that the first one was better overall.

First, the obvious things; The game is extremely immersive, even more so than the first, and it looks phenomenal and runs great for how it looks. There's still barely any HUD at all which i still am very happy about. the environments are still the best part of the game.

The game starts of great, setting up a good mystery and giving you a great view and a great touch of the immersion to come. so good in fact, i fully completed the first open area because i wanted to spend some more time immersing myself in the wilderness.

I found the progression in this game to be still pretty good, but a step down from the first. My review of the previous game praised the character development of lara, being a core element of the progression. that is largely gone here, which is sad to see but understandable. gameplay wise they still provide you with various new things throughout the game but much more spread out than the first. the weapon upgrade system is a downgrade, now being just stat boosts. the skill trees are not very interesting, since some are just the same from the first game, and others provide unnoticeable stat boosts. they also try to do a shop system where you can unlock new gear, but going through the game in a linear manner doesnt give you enough for any of it, basically discarding the whole system for those who just like to go through the campaign.

the overall gunplay and combat feels better now, especially the sound design and impact from bullets, even if it isnt as good as other games. its still quite 'soft' id say.

Something i found great in the first game was the amount of set pieces and the variety in them. And though it sucks to say, they are worse here. they are fewer and further between, and pretty much all of them consists of running while things fall around you or bullets are being fired.

the story is told in a similar manner to the first, having both a mystery to be told and a story of the characters. basically, theres the Tomb story and the Raider story. so how is it?
Its just ok. nothing more, nothing less. it has some good moments, and then some mediocre ones, and then some predictable ones. It evens out to what i consider to be just okay.

one thing i was surprised to find is that the game is surprisingly buggy. 'most' of it doesn't affect gameplay,
but there's a ton of bugs wehter that be clipping, floating, a certain item you get flickering and not working whatsoever on the visual side, or enemies spawning right in front of you and being flung at the speed of light when you kill them. theres alot here and there thats definitely noticeable.

as a side note - turn off teselation as it produces some pretty major visual bugs.

Heres some other random thoughts;

- The last few combat sections are pretty damn bad. they try something new and it just doesnt pay off, id rather have just shot some guys than whatvever that was.

- The dlc 'baba yaga' was pretty horrible and i recommend skipping it.

- weapon upgrading at the later stage of the game becomes another target of having to go out of your way to progress since it requires exotic pelt, and from there on i didnt upgrade another weapon.

- the major plot twist in the game is very predictable.

- optional tombs feel worthwhile due them often rewarding new skills

- the puzzles are too easy

Overall i give it an 8/10 because it does some things better than the first, mostly in way of the core gameplay experience, but lacks some more meat on the bones in the campaign itself.

A great sequel to a great first game. Combat could be better. Puzzles were on point. Story was fantastic. Crafting could be better. More versatility on the skill tree. More variety in stealth would have been nice. Overall a great experience.

i want to love this game, the mechanicsw have so much potential, but holy fuck this game is buggy. Constant default posing enemies, janky ass puzles and playforming in general (that one boat tomb and that one document in the baba yaga dlc) and in the end of the game lara froze in place multiple times and no mater what buttons I pushed it didn't work. I had to drop the game because it couldn't function properly. This game somehow manages to be buggier than the first game, without enough improvements for it to be tolerable. I didn't have this problem on console, so if you wanna play the game, i'd reccomend buying for a console.

Pretty good. Plays nice, and it's not bloated. Very reasonable length, it's focused and it delivers. Graphically it shows that it's not the newest game but gameplay-wise it's really good.

Massive graphical upgrade from Tomb Raider(2013), with some new mechanics and crafting system. I admired the visuals in both SOTTR and ROTTR, but I prefer this game’s overall atmosphere. The gameplay is easy to pick up, and not sure if it's me overcoming my own skill issues or the game being more intuitive, tracking challenges and collectibles feels smoother than before. The puzzles are satisfying and rewarding. 10/10

Game is great, Has great detail and lots of puzzles to solve. I miss the Triangles, Other than that It has a good story

Good game which performs better than Tomb Raider, i can recommend

Replayed this game after many years. Remember playing in Xbox 360. A timeless master piece. Graphics, mechanics, story and optimization is excellent, Tomb raider gamed are the is the best female protagonist games in my opinion. Original Tomb raider is still my favorite, but this one is also amazing. A Must Recommend Game !

The Tomb Raider Reboot Trilogy is essentially The Dark Knight trilogy of the TR franchise, & Rise of the Tomb Raider is arguably the best Tomb Raider game of all time. Great gameplay, breathtaking graphics on the level of The Last of Us & Uncharted, an outstanding story & an absurd level of detail.

Nothing more to say other then I love this game. The story is better then the last and the visuals are amazing.

Probably the best of the 3 games, even though all of them are 11/10, so theres really no difference. The balance between combat and puzzles is perfect. Storyline is insanely good.

Very fun and adventures game for action seekers. I really love the video scenes and the storyline

Great game but wtf were they doing with the weird DLC add ons. Feels like developers pet projects shoved into the game to make money. Doesn't take anything away from the actual game but still weird.

Great story and gameplay. Glad I finally got to play it.

What a masterpiece. It takes everything the already great Tomb Raider reboot did and pushes it to a whole new level. Well written story and characters, beautiful and diverse world, the exploration and specifically the optional tombs are really memorable, gameplay is much deeper with more tools and weapons and finally graphics that look way ahead of their time. Must own

Tomb Raider 2013 had some of the best gunplay I have ever experienced. Sharp, impactful, snappy and fun. Rise gunplay felt squishy and not fun at all. I really did not enjoy the game. The game is flat, the story is boring, Tomb Raider 2013 made me want to research more about Yamatai, this game I don't even remember the story properly. Tomb's are boring. Crafting and such are just methods to bloat the game.

Graphically one of the best games I have ever seen... but that is it.

I usually enjoy the best story-driven and adventure games, especially those with nail-biting action scenes and thrilling journeys. If you love such role-playing games, I can confidently say you'll love the journey of Lara Croft. This game never gets boring for me—I’ve played it countless times and still enjoy it just as much. The action, puzzles, and exploration keep me hooked every time. Definitely a must-play for adventure game fans!

Out of the reboot trilogy, I found this to be the strongest entry, both story-wise and setting-wise. I focused on the main storyline and was left satisfied. For me what stood out the most was the setting, I thought it to be very original and very well-done. The game didn't feel repetitive and both the exploration parts and the combat parts were good. I played on highest difficulty and thought that the game really didn't feel that difficult, but it was very enjoyable to play through.

horrible mechanics bad sequel

Great game, a few points towards the end that drug out, but it was a lot of fun. Would play agian

This game is really enjoyable but kinda felt bad for lara to go through of this dangerous situations

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Meh, so-so
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you care about Leaderboards/Ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average (I only did the main campaign with some exploring, which took me about 14 hours)
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If you have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Looks really good even after 9 years but the story and gameplay is just meh

The exploration and puzzle-solving are satisfying, and the island setting is stunning yet haunting. The overall experience is unforgettable. And I love Lara too. Highly recommended!

This was one of the three games that Reignited my hope for gaming, back when it came out.
I wish more people had a chance to experience this when it was new, and suggest it to fans of the Action/Adventure genre whenever I can.

Easily a 10/10.

Whats good?
Combat is stealthy, but fair, and fun, and no point do you ever feel like what went wrong was not 100% your fault for trying to roll dodge towards a guy who had a shotgun, in hopes you could kill him with your climbing axe.
Pro-tip: Shotgun beats climbing axe.

Deaths are brutal, and hammer home the idea that "What you just did, not only did not work, but was incredibly stupid. Do it again, but better."
Most of teh deaths are like...
"Ah.. there was dried blood, holes in the wall, and skeletons around. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I got turned into a Laura-Kabob."

The puzzles make you feel like you're some kind of Genius Indiana Jones Type who can just know the answers, and see the path.

Progression feels good, crafting is fun and intuitive, and all the weapons just... feel shiny and polished. Well-designed and implemented.

The Storyline is exactly what you expect out of a Tomb Raider. You raid tombs. What do you expect?
Its good stuff.
Get it.
Now.

Played on Survivor and I expected more TBH. A lot of the climbing in this game is linear and filled with unnecessary "jump-scares" that make the gameplay more slow and QTE based (although in this case the QTE isn't some annoying reflex thing but more of a bureaucracy).

I felt like there weren't that many animals to hunt, nor any good rewards to keep hunting after a while. Also, the dodge button is really broken against the animals that attack you (wolves, bears and leopards), as they don't punish you for spamming dodge, so you can easily create distance and shoot them again.

There's not much creativity to be had with the crafting system, as all recipes for special arrows come from tutorials in the main story and the special ammo recipes (that you unlock in the skill tree) have similar effects to the special arrows. Talking about it, the leveling up system is too bloated with unnecessary skills.

And lastly, the human enemies don't feel compelling enough. Nine times out of ten I felt like it was easy to stun lock them by shooting them repeatedly (since their hurt animations even popped them out of cover), a lot of enemies trying to flank just walked in my direction without shooting, making them free targets, and the shield variety of enemies, that could have been interesting, throw explosives and walk right into it, committing suicide.

So, I think this game could have been great if
1: The climbing was more optional and filled with more than 1 path.
2: There was more variety of animals to hunt (think MGS3 or Far Cry 3) and harder combat for dangerous animals.
3: The crafting system allowed you to create more random stuff, unrelated to story.
4: The leveling up system had fewer upgrades but each was more meaningful.
5: The human enemies used smarter tactics of trying to kill you, either by not blindly running at you without aggro, not managing cover badly or not committing suicide by being the shield variety and walking into their own grenades.

Now this is a proper game, it doesn't feel 9 years old at all. It builds on top of the previous one so well (not story wise, those have nothing to do with each other). It is a massive improvement 2-3x in every aspect imagineable. A proper AAA title, if modern AAA games were half as good, I wouldn't be complaining about them. Also you do get to raid some tombs.

STORY
An insult to one's intelligence, so many plotholes and absolutely retarded character decisions that you can just skip all cutscenes.


GAMEPLAY
Most importantly, the game is fun - you can hunt rabbits with a deagle. Compared to the previous game, it is waaaaaay better. Overall it no longer feels like a console experience, but a proper PC game.

Progression system has been taken to the next level. More of the skills feel useful. Hunting, tens of crafting resources, some of which obtainable from appropriate places - e.g. bear hide you get only from killing bears. Upgrades of weapons and inventory feel good. Environmental puzzles are really nice and diverse.

Going out of your way to do side quests, pick up items, complete tombs is (usually) worth it. The game offers way more content than the previous one. For 18 hours I completed the game with 75% completion, compared to tomb raider 2013, where I did the same for 10 hours.

You are given new tools to play with throughout the entire campaign, so it remains fresh. There is even a grappling hook.

Movement and parkour feel great. Sprinting, climbing, jumping, swinging, grappling all very nice and responsive. Stealth is also improved, feels fair, I never felt scammed during stealth. Combat is also fine. Game rewards skillful play (e.g. extra exp for stealth kills or headshot kills). However, it does feel to easy even on survivor difficulty.

There is some pay to win - DLCs award you with weapon skills, which also unlock the weapon itself before you collect the parts for it. Also there's DLC outfits which give you a passive skill. This is a minor issue, given the game with all DLCs on sale is like 5 EUR.

GRAPHICS
Game looks great, there's many modern games that don't look any better (but run at 1/4 of the FPS). You can't tell it's a very old game really. Where it feels a bit dated is maybe fire effects, explosions and a tiny bit in the lighting. Beautiful scenery is also available. Native ultrawide support, thank you. Cutscenes are 16:9 though.

Motion blur can be turned off, depth of field can be turned off. All BS post processing can be disabled. Except for camera shake, but is way less noticeable than in tomb raider 2013 and does not ruin the experience at all. I would still disable it if given the chance though. And the blurry slop called TAA is not an option in this game. Thank god. So many modern games force this garbage that makes 4k look like 720p at best. Seriously try this game and some modern title and see how crisp it is in comparison. And the game looks just fine even with AA off.


PERFORMANCE
Overall decent performance.
At native 3440x1440, radeon 7900 XTX (4080 super equivalent), ryzen 9800X3D, maxed out settings, SMAA - I get 130 to 250 FPS depending on the area. I get avg 183 FPS in the benchmark.

Which for how great the game looks, feels fair. Had 3-4 crashes while loading into the game, but never during gameplay.

It's sad how bad modern games perform without looking any better really. This game is proof that developers could optimise their games properly 10 years ago, but somehow nowadays they refuse to do so.

I wrote a long critique, but after I changed my mind, so I just summarized it.

Rise improved a lot in gameplay: the bad side: the story is so terrible. The first game had a fairly okay story, setup, characters, and even some plot twists, here all I remember is Lara is whining about her father or the divine source. (and Jonah is just a decoration)

Rise gives and takes away: Side missions, fetch quests, more weapons, and a crazy amount of collectables - but I felt this is all just filler. If you are willing to skip the story, it is an okay game, but why would anyone play it then? I personally can't convince myself to finish it.

At the end, the TR13 was enjoyable and felt compact - with simple gameplay and dumb button mashing here and there - if you want a decent story, play that instead.

Peak. Good story, good character development, BEAUTIFUL scenery, decent mechanics, etc. IMO its better than 2013 Tomb Raider, but some might disagree.

Lush scenery, beautifully drawn and voiced characters, BUT it's really a 3D platformer. If that is your type of game then it's worth your time and money. I picked it up on sale hoping that it would be a bit better than the early Lara Croft platformers, but no. It quickly reminded me that I really don't like platformers and especially those that require two hands to execute one move.

In the absence of a neutral review symbol I'll give it a yes because buying it was my own stupid fault for not checking more deeply.

AND DON'T STARE AT LARA'S BUM!!!! :-P

such a great upgrade from the already excellent 2013 game. improved in every way. i love everything about it. story, mood, gameplay. iconic