How to play the Tomb Raider games timeline

Every card is a Tomb Raider game: the original adventures, the reboots, handheld and mobile spin-offs, co-op side games, remakes and remaster collections. You place them by release year, with a short description under each title. One game opens the timeline with its year in view. Pick a gap for each new card. A clean placement reveals the year; a wrong one sends it to its real spot and takes one of your three lives.

Lara has been through more than one developer and a couple of big reinventions, so any mention of a studio, a platform or a story arc in the description is a strong clue. Mobile experiments and handheld outings are scattered across the deck and hard to pin down. Remakes and remasters are built to feel like the old games, which makes them easy to place too early.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Tomb Raider Core Design adventure on Saturn, PS1 and PC
Tomb Raider II The Dagger of Xian; Venice and Great Wall levels
Tomb Raider III Adventures of Lara Croft across four continents
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation Lara's Egyptian adventure with Von Croy
Tomb Raider Chronicles Four flashback tales after Lara's presumed death
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness Paris and Prague; PS2 and PC
Tomb Raider: Legend Crystal Dynamics’ Excalibur quest
Tomb Raider: Anniversary Remake of Lara’s hunt for the Scion
Tomb Raider: Underworld Norse mythology; PS3 and Xbox 360
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Isometric co-op downloadable spin-off
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Egyptian-themed four-player co-op
Rise of the Tomb Raider Siberia and the Divine Source
Lara Croft Go Turn-based mobile puzzle adventure
Lara Croft: Relic Run Endless runner for mobile
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Lara races a Maya apocalypse in Peru
Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword Game Boy Color adventure in New York
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy Game Boy Advance isometric outing
Lara Croft: Reflections Card-collecting mobile experiment
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Aspyr remaster collection of the classic trilogy
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Aspyr remaster of Last Revelation, Chronicles and Angel of Darkness
Tomb Raider: The Osiris Codex AR mobile spin-off
Tomb Raider: Puzzle Paradox Mobile puzzler tie-in
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Game Boy Advance action title
Tomb Raider Reloaded Free-to-play mobile arcade shooter
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Enhanced Yamatai adventure for PS4 and Xbox One
Tomb Raider (reboot) Shipwrecked on Yamatai, Lara fights to survive