Games like Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
If Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™, Portal 2 and Bleed 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its completionist challenges unlock upgrades, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a 2010 isometric action-adventure that shifts from the series' third-person exploration to fast-paced combat and puzzle-platforming. Players control Lara and her companion Totec, a Mayan warrior, pursuing an ancient artifact through stages built around local two-player co-op. The mechanics include grapple-hook platforming, bomb detonation, physics-based puzzles, and score challenges that unlock upgrades for completionists. Reviewers highlight how co-op puzzles are redesigned around complementary character abilities, tactical positioning matters in combat, and twin-stick shooting feels arcade-like. Players describe the atmosphere as epic and whimsical, with challenging gameplay throughout. The game holds a 92% positive rating from over 1,500 Steam reviews, costs $9.99, and is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: Take control of Lara and her new partner Totec, a Mayan tribesman, and uncover the ancient artifact known as the "Mirror of Smoke" in this all new action adventure game.
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LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Top pick for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and the first-ever four-player co-op experience with Lara Croft.
Portal 2
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Shares a whimsical mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Second-strongest match for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Third-strongest match for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
EDGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Ranked #4 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!
Aeon Drive
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Ranked #5 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and a whimsical mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Ranked #6 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Ranked #7 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.
ibb & obb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Ranked #8 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
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Tomb Raider: Legend
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Reviewers of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
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Reviewers of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Reviewers of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and the first-ever four-player co-op experience with Lara Croft.
OSIRIS
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Reviewers of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Dark history about OSIRIS corporation, which performs experiments in the field of teleportation of human souls to the Heaven on the artificial planet G6. Inspired by Deep Dark Dubstep music.
Ittle Dew
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Shares a whimsical mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Reviewers of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.
Brothers
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Reviewers of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Take care of your family! A family is under threat from a group of people, help them find a safe place, go through chases, create ways to escape the danger, and see the end of this story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
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Priced ~63% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Crystal Dynamics
Other recommendable Steam games by Crystal Dynamics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
WHY THIS
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Rise of the Tomb Raider™
WHY THIS
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.
Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Assemble your team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, embrace your powers, and live your Super Hero dreams.
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored – Now with New Challenge Mode
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Tomb Raider: Anniversary retraces Lara Croft's original genre-defining adventure globe-trotting 3rd person action-adventure in pursuit of the legendary Scion artifact. Using an enhanced 'Tomb Raider: Legend' game engine, the graphics, technology and physics bring Lara's adventure and pursuit of a mystical artifact known only as the...
Tomb Raider: Underworld
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Tomb Raider: Underworld represents a new advancement in exploration-based gameplay. As fearless adventurer Lara Croft explore exotic locations around the world, each designed with an incredible attention to detail resulting in breathtaking high-definition visual fidelity that creates a truly believable world and delivers a new level of...
Tomb Raider: Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Another title from Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.
ibb & obb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
Frequently asked about Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
- Does Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light work on Steam Deck?
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light cost?
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light are LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS™, Portal 2, Bleed 2.
- Who developed Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light?
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was developed by Crystal Dynamics.
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