Tomb Raider: Underworld similar games & best alternatives

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Tomb Raider: Underworld

Web browser, OnLive Game System, PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360 • 2008

Should you play it?

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...

What works

  • Engaging exploration and puzzles
  • Strong narrative and mythology
  • Beautiful and diverse environments
  • Nostalgic appeal and character design
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Camera and control issues
  • Combat is simplistic and frustrating
  • Some bugs and glitches
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Shorter length and linear progression

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Somber Echoes

  • The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition

  • BLACKTAIL

  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

  • Venetica - Gold Edition

  • Vigil: The Longest Night

Less expressive

Games that feels like Tomb Raider: Underworld but with less self-expression and customization

  • Akimbot

  • Outcast - Second Contact

  • The Chant

  • Deadfall Adventures

  • SOMA

  • Ori and the Blind Forest

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Tomb Raider: Legend

  • Tomb Raider: Anniversary

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider™

  • Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered

  • Tomb Raider Game of the Year

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Tomb Raider: Underworld. These titles are not in What to play next.

Tomb Raider: Underworld: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Survival.

Last update: 21/08/2026