Rise of the Tomb Raider: Cold Darkness Awakened

Rise of the Tomb Raider: Cold Darkness Awakened is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix Europe. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Rise of the Tomb Raider: Cold Darkness Awakened is the 93rd of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration in 2016. Its critic score of 70 is 2 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.

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Rise of the Tomb Raider: Cold Darkness Awakened holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD equivalent, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 650 2GB or AMD HD7770 2GB. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Rise of the Tomb Raider: Cold Darkness Awakened launched on 29 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.