Lara Croft Go
Lara Croft GO expands the turn-based puzzle gameplay and takes you on an adventure set in a long-forgotten world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilization, discover hidden secrets and face deadly…
Lara Croft Go is an adventure developed by Square Enix Montréal, released 27 August 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Android and iOS. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Lara Croft Go is
Lara Croft Go is an adventure game developed by Square Enix Montréal and released in 2015. It was published by CDE Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lara Croft Go is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Square Enix Montreal and published by Square Enix. A spin-off of the Tomb Raider series. The player moves Lara Croft as a puzzle piece through a board game while avoiding obstacles and manipulating the environment. The developers distilled major series motifs, such as boulder-chases and reaction-based gameplay, to suit Lara Croft Go's time-independent gameplay. The game was developed as a spiritual successor to its 2014 Hitman Go, based on another Square Enix Europe franchise. It was released in August 2015 for Android, iOS, Windows, and Windows Phone devices. Versions for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Steam were released in…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Tomb Raider series
Lara Croft Go is the 89th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Rise of the Tomb Raider in 2015. Its critic score of 86 is 14 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.
How it was received
Lara Croft Go holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 103 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 310. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Lara Croft Go launched on 27 August 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn and Mad Max. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn, Mad Max.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lara Croft Go yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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