The Lara Croft Collection

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publisher: Feral Interactive
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Release Date: June 29, 2023

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'The Lara Croft Collection' Gets Limited Run Physical Editions On Nintendo Switch, Pre-Order Available

by Rainier on May 9, 2024 @ 8:45 a.m. PDT

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris are arcade-inspired action-adventure games that carry all the hallmarks of Tomb Raider.

Celebrating the debut of the Tomb Raider franchise on Nintendo Switch, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris are arcade-inspired action-adventure games that carry all the hallmarks of Tomb Raider, including exploration and discovery, platforming, and puzzle solving, with co-operative multiplayer, character progression and frantic fast-paced combat. 

Whether playing alone as Lara or teaming up with friends for up to four-player local co-op, The Lara Croft Collection is packed with exhilarating run-and-gun combat against undead hordes and creatures of dark myth, as well as fiendish puzzles and intricately designed Challenge Tombs to test players’ wits and reflexes.

Limited Run Games, in partnership with Feral Interactive and Crystal Dynamics, is excited to solidify Tomb Raider’s Nintendo Switch debut with a physical release of The Lara Croft Collection, coming later this year.

Pre-orders for standalone copies and Collector’s Editions will run from May 10th until June 9th, 2024, exclusively at limitedrungames.com.

This May, Limited Run Games will also open pre-orders for physical editions of Tomb Raider I–III Remastered — more details will be revealed in the coming weeks!

Limited Run’s premium Collector’s Edition of The Lara Croft Collection celebrates Lara’s 1990s roots and contains everything players want to commemorate their adventures in Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris. Included are a journal-styled SteelBook, art prints, CD soundtrack and more. The entire collection comes in a trapezoid-shaped box that will fit perfectly with collectors’ late 90s Eidos PC releases.


Standard Edition:

  • The Lara Croft Collection for the Nintendo Switch
  • Full-color booklet included

Collector’s Edition:

  • The Lara Croft Collection for the Nintendo Switch
  • Full-color booklet included
  • Trapezoid retro box
  • SteelBook
  • CD soundtrack
  • Art prints
  • Acrylic standee

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light follows Lara as she goes in search of the Mirror of Smoke, an ancient artifact located in a ruin known as the Temple of Light. When she finally reaches the mirror, she is ambushed by a mercenary army who takes the mirror and releases an evil entity.

Players will take control of Lara and an ancient warrior named Totec in an isometric adventure through sprawling landscapes, perilous puzzles and epic boss battles. Built with two player cooperative multiplayer in mind, players, however, can still experience the game as a solo adventure.

When Lara Croft finds the long lost Temple of Light in the mountains of Central America, she unwittingly frees an evil spirit determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Alongside Totec, a Mayan tribesman, you must hunt down the Mirror of Smoke in what will be a new and incredible adventure.

Key features:

  • First downloadable only title from Crystal Dynamics, and first downloadable only Lara Croft game.
  • A classic formula of puzzles, combat, exploration, and breathtaking visuals put through the lens of an isometric fast-paced gaming experience.
  • A wide range of options for solving puzzles and traversing deadly environmental traps, offering players an unprecedented level of freedom to choose their own solutions and explore various paths through the dense jungles of Central America.
  • Crystal Dynamics' proprietary engine delivers sprawling environments with no load-times and unbelievable vertical gameplay through tombs reaching deep into the Earth.
  • Face off against a myriad of undead warriors brought to life by the evil Xolotl, including a number of boss battles that are not to be missed!
  • First ever co-op multiplayer action/adventure game featuring Lara Croft. Fully cooperative online and offline story mode.

Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris

Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris is an action/adventure that takes place deep in the deserts of Egypt, where an ancient Temple to Set has just been discovered.

Set, the god of chaos, once ruled all of Egypt after murdering his brother Osiris and enslaving the other gods, but when Egypt was no longer enough, he vanished into the land of the dead intent on raising an army that could conquer the world, but he never returned.

Lara Croft, famed explorer, thought she would be first to arrive at the temple, but up-and-coming archeologist Carter Bell beat her to the entrance. They each hoped to find the mythical Staff of Osiris, but they discovered more than they bargained for.

The Temple was a prison for Horus and Isis, the last of the old gods not bound to Set. Seeing the Staff, Carter removed it from a mechanism, setting off the trap meant to keep Horus and Isis imprisoned. Lara and Carter now find themselves marked for death. Horus and Isis, freed from thousands of years in prison and in possession of the staff, promise Carter and Lara they will help them resurrect Osiris, the only god capable of saving Lara and Carter from judgment, and the only power that can hope to defeat Set. With a common goal of finding the fragments of Osiris, and stopping the return of Set, the companions form an alliance.

As they fight their way across the sands, they must face gods and monsters of myth and legend driven mad and controlled by Set. At stake is the fate of the world, as Set marshals his powers in order to return and reclaim his throne in the world of the living, with an army of the dead behind him. Set knows the prophecy has come, intent on remaking the world in his own image, a nightmare of storms and death.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris are available for Nintendo Switch.


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