Amazon Games has signed a woody with Crystal Dynamics to enactment the improvement of and people the adjacent mainline Tomb Raider crippled being made successful Unreal Engine 5.

The companies announced the concern today, December 15, saying they "have reached an statement nether which Crystal Dynamics volition make a caller multiplatform Tomb Raider title, with Amazon Games providing afloat enactment and publishing the crippled globally."

The crippled successful question is the next-gen Tomb Raider that was announced successful April 2022. Crystal Dynamics, which was purchased by Embracer Group successful August, noted that the acquisition has allowed for much unconventional publishing agreements specified arsenic the woody with Amazon.

"Crystal Dynamics has an bonzer accidental pursuing our acquisition by Embracer to redefine what a publishing narration is for Tomb Raider," said caput of Crystal Dynamics Scot Amos.

"Transformative is what we’re looking for, and with Amazon Games, we recovered a squad that shares our originative vision, ambitions, and values for a Lara Croft beingness crossed the spectrum of possibilities. They’re uniquely positioned to rewrite what publishing and improvement collaborations are, and we’re anxious to forge this caller way together, starting with gathering the biggest and champion Tomb Raider crippled yet."

A comparatively vague statement of the caller crippled was besides shared, though it fundamentally conforms to what players would expect from Crystal Dynamics' adjacent game. "The as-yet-untitled caller Tomb Raider crippled is simply a single-player, narrative-driven escapade that continues Lara Croft’s communicative successful the Tomb Raider series.

"It includes each the elements that person made Tomb Raider 1 of the astir revered franchises successful gaming, giving players power of the assured and multidimensional leader Lara Croft successful an situation that rewards exploration and originative pathfinding, with mind-bending puzzles to solve, and a wide assortment of enemies to look and overcome.

"Crystal Dynamics is drafting connected the powerfulness and cutting-edge exertion of Unreal Engine 5 to instrumentality storytelling to the adjacent level, successful the biggest, astir expansive Tomb Raider crippled to date. The rubric is presently successful aboriginal development, and further details volition beryllium announced astatine a aboriginal date."

Little other was said astir the crippled and, considering it's inactive successful aboriginal development, it volition apt beryllium a portion longer earlier Crystal Dynamics, Embracer, oregon Amazon Games shares more.

In our 9/10 reappraisal of the erstwhile game, IGN said: "Shadow of the Tomb Raider offers up a almighty finale to Lara Croft's root trilogy."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK quality editor. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.