Tomb Raider (2013)
Tomb Raider is a 2013 shooter video game made by Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix.
Shipwrecked on a remote island off the coast of Japan, a young Lara Croft has to figure out how to survive before she can even think about rescue. The 2013 reboot strips the character back to her beginnings, trading confident adventurer for frightened archaeology graduate. Hostile survivors, brutal weather, and ancient ruins conspire against her as she scavenges for weapons and answers. The tone is grounded and brutal, each small victory costing something, building a portrait of a woman finding her nerve under extreme pressure.
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What is Tomb Raider about?
Shipwrecked on a remote island off the coast of Japan, a young Lara Croft has to figure out how to survive before she can even think about rescue. The 2013 reboot strips the character back to her beginnings, trading confident adventurer for frightened archaeology graduate. Hostile survivors, brutal weather, and ancient ruins conspire against her as she scavenges for weapons and answers. The tone is grounded and brutal, each small victory costing something, building a portrait of a woman finding her nerve under extreme pressure.
When was Tomb Raider released?
Tomb Raider was released on 4 March 2013.
Who made Tomb Raider?
Tomb Raider was made by Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix.
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- Companion guide: Treasure Hunts & Adventure
A few thoughts on Tomb Raider
The 2018 film Tomb Raider covers very similar origin-story ground with the same island premise, making it the natural companion. For the full Lara mythology, the animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft picks up a more seasoned version of this exact character.
Lara Croft's story, in film and animation too
This reboot strips Lara back to a scared graduate scavenging for survival, and that same character carries into her other screen incarnations. The 2018 film revisits her origin from a different angle, the animated series keeps building her world forward, Wild follows a real woman testing her own nerve alone against the wilderness, and The Walking Dead strands its cast in a world that offers no easy rescue either.
Adventurers chasing secrets buried older than any map
Lara's hunt for Himiko's tomb is a hunt for a truth someone tried to erase centuries ago, and these titles chase that same buried history. Attack on Titan slowly uncovers a founding lie behind its walls, One Piece sails toward an ancient kingdom nobody's supposed to find, Largo Winch untangles conspiracies hidden inside old family fortunes, and Matahari follows a woman caught inside a secret bigger than she is.