Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a platform action video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS as part of the Tomb Raider…
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 18 August 2010 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Android. It currently starts at $1.49 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 14.3 hrs to finish.
What Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2010. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, Google Stadia, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android and iOS. It is part of the Tomb Raider series, but unlike previous games, the game does not carry the Tomb Raider brand and has a heavy emphasis on cooperative gameplay. In multiplayer, players take the role as either Lara Croft or a 2,000-year-old Mayan warrior named Totec. They must work together in order to stop the evil spirit Xolotl and retrieve the Mirror of Smoke. A single-player campaign mode is available that does not include the non-playable character AI following or helping Lara.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Tomb Raider series
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is the 47th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. It arrived a year after Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow. The next entry was Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: All the Trappings - Challenge Pack 1 in 2011. Its critic score of 79 is 7 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.
How it was received
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 127 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14.3 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.49, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3+ GHz Intel or 2.5+ GHZ AMD, 1 GB RAM (XP) / 2 GB RAM (Vista) and NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series (6800GT or better) / ATI 1300XT or better. 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 7GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at Humble Store, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light launched on 18 August 2010, within three weeks of Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Mafia II and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Mafia II, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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