Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare
Journey through “The Nightmare,” as Lara Croft faces off against familiar enemies and fallen friends. Explore Croft Manor in a harrowing trial unlike anything she has faced before. In order to obtain a…
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 22 January 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and Linux.
What Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare is
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2019. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Crystal Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lara Croft walks in on Uchu and Jonah Maiava swapping scar stories. When Uchu asked Lara to share hers, she brushes the subject off fast. Jonah then asks about Uchu's face scar. Uchu tells them about a poison that could help the rebellion, and that the scars were from his ultimately failed attempt to get it. To obtain the White Breath recipe, one must take the Path of fear alone. Lara offers to get the recipe. Lara follows the path and finds a woman on it, who doses Lara with the White Breath. Lara hallucinates about her family, and friends getting killed, and finally sees herself as the cause of it. She overcomes the effects of the poison, and presses onward to the trial, which held the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Tomb Raider series
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare is the 110th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Price of Survival in 2019. Its critic score of 54 is 18 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.
How it was received
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Nightmare launched on 22 January 2019, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire and Apex Legends. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends.
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