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Lara Croft searches ancient ruins across the globe for clues to her mother's fate, solving environmental puzzles and traversing perilous terrain.
Released 21 Nov 2008
Explore Underwater Ruins
Solve Multi-Stage Tombs
Climb with a Grapple
Tomb Raider: Underworld represents a new advancement in exploration-based gameplay. As fearless adventurer Lara Croft explore exotic locations around the world, each designed with an incredible attention to detail resulting in breathtaking high-definition visual fidelity that creates a truly believable world and delivers a new level of...
Developed by Crystal Dynamics · Published by Crystal Dynamics









Lara Croft follows clues about her missing mother through locations around the world, uncovering ancient ruins and mysteries tied to Norse mythology.
Explore temples, jungles, frozen regions, and underwater sites by climbing, jumping, swimming, and using a grapple to reach new paths and manipulate objects. An all-terrain motorbike also takes Lara across rough ground.
Each area combines traversal with multi-stage environmental puzzles. Lara can use an sonar device to map nearby surroundings, find hidden places, and collect treasures; combat includes targeting multiple enemies and fighting while suspended from the grapple.
Players who enjoy the game often highlight its globe-spanning exploration, memorable environments, environmental puzzles, and sense of adventure. Some also praise its visuals, animations, and climbing, while others find the camera and movement imprecise and report frustrating technical problems, especially with the PC version.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
| Multiplayer | The provided information identifies the game as single-player in the listed features. A Steam tag includes "Multiplayer," but no multiplayer mode, player count, or functionality is described in the provided text. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No information about mods or multiplayer mod support is provided. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Metacritic | 80/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |