Best Adventure Games Like Tomb Raider

The best adventure games like Tomb Raider are Rise of the Tomb Raider, Uncharted 4 and Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.

Why Adventure Is a Good Answer for Tomb Raider

Filtering to adventure means the place and the story are what you want back, not the challenge. It is the right filter when the thing you remember is where you were rather than what you did.

What you get: A world with a reason to wander it, and writing that survives being read rather than skipped.

What made Tomb Raider worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the adventure part of that answer, and only the adventure part.

9 Adventure Games Like Tomb Raider

  1. 1. Rise of the Tomb Raider

    The best of the reboot trilogy, with the strongest actual tombs.

  2. 2. Uncharted 4

    The reboot's closest peer, and better written.

  3. 3. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

    The classic games, restored, if you meant the originals.

  4. 4. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    Puzzle-led adventuring in the genre's original clothes.

  5. 5. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

    Classic Tomb Raider's puzzle-platforming with a better camera.

  6. 6. Horizon Zero Dawn

    Open-world adventuring with far better combat.

  7. 7. Kena: Bridge of Spirits

    Traversal, puzzles and combat in a beautiful world.

  8. 8. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

    The same shape of climbing, exploring and unlocking shortcuts.

  9. 9. The Talos Principle 2

    If the ancient-ruins puzzling was the real draw.

What This Filter Leaves Out

Mechanical depth. Several of the best adventure games have combat that is deliberately unsatisfying, because they want your attention somewhere else.

The full list is on games like Tomb Raider — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best adventure game like Tomb Raider?

Rise of the Tomb Raider. The best of the reboot trilogy, with the strongest actual tombs.

Are all of these on the PlayStation?

No. Tomb Raider released on the PlayStation, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.

What counts as an adventure game?

Anywhere the story and the place matter more than the skill ceiling — point-and-click, walking sims, narrative thrillers and most open worlds. The label alone tells you very little, which is why each pick here says what it actually is.

Are adventure games long?

They split hard. Open-world adventures run to a hundred hours; the narrative ones are often finishable in an evening, and the short ones are usually the better written.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Tomb Raider list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is adventure — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.

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