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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 74% of players who started
Started playing 57% of owners
Steam reviews 96% positive of 271,363
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 10h it's 1 in 40 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 81% of games we track.
- 74% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “A Survivor Is Born ” (Complete the game): only 74% of starters get there.
- Only 57% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 272,835 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 279 reviews: 11.7h for positive, 6.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (56.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- A Survivor Is Born Complete the game. Most players quit here 74% −26
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (50)
story milestone ending side
- One Smart Cookie Complete one optional tomb. 100%
- Predator Kill 50 enemies with the bow. 97%
- Bookworm Find 25% of all documents. 96%
- Sharp Shooter Perform 50 headshot kills in the single player campaign. 95%
- Opportunist Kill 25 unaware enemies. 91%
- Gunslinger Kill 35 enemies with the pistol. 86%
- Scrounger Collect 5000 pieces of salvage. 78%
- Relic Hunter Collect 25% of all relics. 78%
- Picky Loot 200 enemies. 77%
- Big Game Hunter Kill and loot 10 large animals (deer, boar, wolves). 76%
- Epic Fumble Force an enemy to drop dynamite that kills two people when exploding. 75%
- A Survivor Is Born Complete the game. 74%
- Down and Dirty Perform 15 finishers. 64%
- Clever Girl Purchase all skills in one category. 62%
- Looking for Trouble Find 25% of GPS caches. 57%
- Equalizer Kill 75 enemies with the rifle. 57%
- Crab Cakes Kill FeeFee the crab. 47%
- Unfinished Business Complete one challenge. 46%
- Now We're Getting Serious Fully mod and completely upgrade any weapon. 41%
- Historian Find 75% of all documents. 39%
- Tastes Like Chicken! Kill and loot 10 small animals (rabbits, chickens, rats). 37%
- Widowmaker Kill 40 enemies with the shotgun. 35%
- Archaeologist Collect 75% of all relics. 30%
- Boom Goes the Dynamite Shoot a bundle of dynamite out of the air. 27%
- Intellectually Superior Complete all optional tombs. 27%
- Bag Full O' Cache Find 75% of GPS caches. 23%
- Lethal Purchase all skills in all categories. 22%
- The Professional Fully mod and completely upgrade all weapons. 15%
- No Stone Left Unturned Find all documents, relics and GPS caches. 15%
- Feather Duster Kill and loot 10 flying animals (crows and gulls). 12%
- Inconceivable! Complete all challenges. 12%
- Sole Survivor In multiplayer, be the only player on your team that isn't dead or downed. 11%
- Deadeye Shoot 10 enemies off zip lines. 8.8%
- Entrapment Catch a player in a snare trap in multiplayer. 7.1%
- On My Way Up Reach level 10 in multiplayer. 5.3%
- Narcissistic Purchase a new multiplayer character. 5.1%
- Get Over Here! Rope pull 5 enemies off edges. 4.2%
- Chatterbox Complete all conversations with the Endurance crew. 3.9%
- Down Boy! Kill a zip-lining enemy player in multiplayer. 3.9%
- Escapist Survive 10 explosions in multiplayer. 3.9%
- Good Samaritan Revive a teammate in a multiplayer match. 3.9%
- Former Adventurer Incapacitate 25 enemies with dodge counter. 3.7%
- Master Blaster Kill 2 multiplayer enemies with a single explosive. 3.7%
- Lights Out Kill 10 multiplayer enemies using your melee attack. 3.5%
- Adventurer Complete a match in all multiplayer modes. 3.5%
- Monkey Around In multiplayer, escape death 3 times by using the rope ascender. 3.2%
- Shopaholic Buy every upgrade and character in multiplayer. 3.2%
- True Commitment Reach level 60 in multiplayer. 3.2%
- Artilleryman Kill 20 enemy players in multiplayer using a turret. 3.2%
- I'm all that! Win a ranked match in every multiplayer mode. 3.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-22.