Lara Croft’s adjacent large adventure from Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Games is inactive a fewer years away, but her adjacent tiny escapade drops aboriginal this month. Tomb Raider Reloaded, Lara’s archetypal foray into the roguelike genre, volition beryllium released Feb. 14 — Ms. Croft’s birthday, according to the “Survivor” trilogy timeline — connected Android and iOS devices. It volition beryllium disposable done Netflix astatine motorboat arsenic portion of the streaming service’s crippled offerings.
Tomb Raider Reloaded looks starkly antithetic from the action-adventure-platforming games that starred the classical Lara Croft seen successful the mobile roguelike game. It’s a top-down, room-clearing workout successful raiding tombs, featuring the expected obstacles: traps, animated stone monsters, yeti, bow-wielding guards, and Tyrannosaurus rex. The roguelike draws connected acquainted Tomb Raider locations for its levels, including Vilcabamba, the Lost Valley, and St. Francis’ Folly.
Developers Emerald City Games and CDE Entertainment (part of Crystal Dynamics/Eidos) accidental that players tin expect “ever-changing rooms” and gameplay modifiers similar XP boosts, craftable weapons, runes (which boost Lara’s stats), and cosmetic upgrades (like Lara’s celebrated bomber jacket) to support things caller successful the run-based game. Returning to dependable Lara Croft successful Tomb Raider Reloaded is Keeley Hawes, the seasoned histrion who has brought Lara to beingness successful Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and different games.
Tomb Raider Reloaded appears to beryllium a nudge successful a larger propulsion to bring Lara Croft backmost to screens everywhere. Netflix has a Tomb Raider anime successful the works, and Amazon is making a live-action series with the assistance of writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, known for her roles successful Fleabag and the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Then, of course, there’s the adjacent Tomb Raider video game, an Unreal Engine 5-powered follow-up to Crystal Dynamics’ Survivor trilogy, which capped disconnected with 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
While we hold for each that, mobile gamers tin effort their manus astatine Tomb Raider Reloaded, which is disposable for pre-registration done the game’s authoritative website and Google Play Store now.