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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

ShooterPlatformPuzzleAdventure

Space needed: About 2.3 GB
Time to beat: about 14.3 hours

Overview

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android and iOS. It is part of the Tomb Raider series, but unlike previous games, the game does not carry the Tomb Raider brand and has a heavy emphasis on cooperative gameplay. In multiplayer, players take the role as either Lara Croft or a 2,000-year-old Mayan warrior named Totec. They must work together in order to stop the evil spirit Xolotl and retrieve the Mirror of Smoke. A single-player campaign mode is available that does not include the non-playable character AI following or helping Lara.

In the United States and United Kingdom, Guardian of Light was released for the Xbox Live Arcade on 18 August 2010; it was released a month later on 28 September for PlayStation Network and Steam. Though local cooperative was available at the initial release for all versions, online cooperative was later added. In North America, on 16 December, the video game was released for iOS devices which included cooperative with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth options. The first downloadable content (DLC) map pack was released for free for a limited time.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was well received by critics and has sold more than one million copies on all platforms. A sequel, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, was released in 2014. The game was released along with its successor as part of The Lara Croft Collection for Nintendo Switch by Feral Interactive on 29 June 2023.