Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider closes out the rebooted trilogy that took Lara Croft from a shipwrecked grad student to the survivor who eventually earns the “Tomb Raider” title for real. This Definitive Edition bundles the full campaign with every challenge tomb and cosmetic add-on that came out after launch, so you’re getting the complete version of Lara’s last origin chapter in one package instead of piecing it together later.

How it plays

The structure will feel familiar if you’ve played the previous two games: you move between a hub-style jungle or ruin area and tighter, puzzle-driven tombs, mixing climbing, swimming, and environmental traversal with stealth and third-person combat. This entry leans harder into exploration and puzzle-solving than its predecessors, with the underwater and cave sections in particular asking you to slow down and actually read the environment instead of just running and gunning. Since this package folds in all seven DLC challenge tombs plus the extra weapons, outfits, and skills that were sold separately, you get the intended difficulty curve and variety without having to track down add-ons individually.

Who it’s for

If you like methodical exploration, environmental puzzles, and a story that treats its main character as someone actually changing under pressure, this is a satisfying way to spend time. It also suits anyone who enjoyed the first two rebooted games and wants to see how Lara’s arc wraps up, or anyone who prefers to buy a game once and get everything rather than chase DLC later. It’s less of a fit if you were hoping for a pure shooter or a game built around fast, reflex-heavy combat. The pacing here rewards patience, so if backtracking through ruins and puzzle rooms sounds tedious rather than relaxing, you’ll probably bounce off it.

Is it worth it?

For the kind of player who enjoys tomb-raiding puzzles and a grounded adventure story, this is a substantial single-player package: a full campaign plus every piece of bonus content that originally trickled out after release. That combination makes it a solid pickup for anyone who missed the individual DLC drops the first time around, since you’re not stuck deciding which add-ons are worth chasing down separately. Story-driven action-adventure games like this tend to age well since the appeal is the world and the writing rather than live-service systems that can go stale, so it’s a reasonable one to add to a wishlist and grab whenever it goes on sale rather than rushing to buy at full price.

Quick facts

Genre: Action & adventure. Developer: Eidos Montreal. Publisher: Crystal Dynamics. Platform: PC (Xbox store). Release date: November 5, 2019.