After the rather excellent Tomb Raider I-III Remastered landed on Switch earlier this year, we wondered whether the Darkness Trilogy would end up getting the same treatment. Well, it is! Aspyr has today announced that Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered will be heading to the Nintendo hybrid exactly one year after its predecessor on 14th February 2025.
Compiling The Last Revelation, Chronicles and Angel of Darkness, this follow-up collection appears to have the same updated visuals as its predecessor — and the ability to switch between the polygonal and modern styles returns too.
Now, this trilogy tends to be considered a somewhat lesser trio than last year's bundle — we're looking at you, Angel of Darkness — but it'll be nice to have the full set on Switch.
Here's an official rundown of each game and a handful of screenshots from Aspyr:
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (1999)
Lara Croft uncovers the lost tomb of the Egyptian God Set, unwittingly unleashing him and fulfilling an ancient prophecy—one that plunges mankind into darkness. Pursued at every turn by her arch-rival, the unscrupulous archaeologist Werner Von Croy, Lara embarks on a journey of discovery across Egypt, where she must overcome the most ingenious puzzles and infernal traps ever devised while facing terrifying evil from beyond the grave.Tomb Raider: Chronicles (2000)
Following the events of The Last Revelation, Lara Croft is buried in an Egyptian tomb and presumed dead. At her memorial, those closest to her reminisce about secrets from her past. Travel back and experience Lara’s untold adventures, introducing new gameplay mechanics like stealth and tightrope balancing!Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (2003)
Accused of murder, Lara becomes a fugitive on the run, uncovering a sinister conspiracy involving alchemical experiments and the search for ancient artifacts. It’s up to Lara to stop this unholy alliance from unleashing its incredible powers on the world.
We were particularly hot on last year's collection, calling it "the best way to experience the original trilogy" in our review. Let's hope the follow-up can bring more of the good stuff.
Will you be picking up this collection next year? Let us know in the comments.
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Did not realize there were this many Tomb Raider games.
Huh...they included "Angel of Darkness, did they? I remember when that title came out, a lotta folks were lambasting it.
Great news for those nostalgic for these games (or otherwise wanting to try them) but...eh, I had my fill this year. I think I've had enough classic TR for a lifetime.
Will happily take either of the two more modern trilogies though.
I love that they’re taking the best approach possible and not changing the games/gameplay AT ALL beyond an optional graphics quality increase.
This definitely sounds like a, "Maybe get it very cheap for Last Revelation, otherwise stay away," collection.
@Lizuka I take it, aside from IV, these aren't as good as the first three games?
Glad even supposedly lesser gamers, such as Angel of Darkness, are getting preserved. This looks like a great collection but not willing to pay Aspyr full price for anything after I bought Battlefront Collection day 1 (yes I'm that dumb).
This has a very good chance of being my 2025 GotY. So excited to replay The Last Revelation and Chronicles.
Angel of Darkness is for sure the weakest entry in the franchise but it's still appreciated that the game is going to be playable on current hardware.
The speed at which Tomb Raider games are being brought over to current platforms makes me think the Survivor Trilogy (2013, Rise, Shadow) will come to Switch 2.
Tomb Raider: The Bad Collection
@Bigmanfan The series initially had yearly releases (1,2,3,4,5). The team was so tired on working on those games that they tried to kill Lara, but they were asked to continue even though Lara was supposed to be dead.
Love to see it no matter if these (or at the very least one of them according to comments here) aren't as good as the previous entries, will eventually get it for sure although I should play I-III first - in a week I'll have that as the deluxe physical edition was finally available for preorder slightly discounted on my usual Italian retailer's site!
Chronicles was prity good
And i would not mind playing angel of darkness again😁
Nice to see more older TR games getting preserved, including the infamous AoD.
I never got a chance to play these back in the day, so, I'm here for it!
This would be a great remaster if they actually fixed Angel of Darkness, it was too frustrating to play originally. I imagine they aren't though.
@Bigmanfan There are basically 4 trilogies lol!
I can't help but feel that Phil is stretching Aspyr a bit thin and running through games a bit too quickly...
@Bigmanfan likewise, I thought one of them was going to be Tomb Raider Anniversary
@TheExile285 Pretty much. Angel of Darkness had a very troubled production and the only reason Chronicles even exists is it was a rushed quickie money grab to make up for the production troubles Angel of Darkness was having.
I'm happy to see the second trilogy coming to modern platforms.
@AStupidID That is one of my favourite music albums!
We are getting every Tomb Raider game except Tomb Raider 2013.
Seriously, why can’t we get Tomb Raider 2013? The game was on the 7th gen consoles. It’s an early 8th gen game. Switch can handle it.
Imagine if Nintendo had put this kind of effort into Mario 3D All Stars. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Poor, destitute Nintendo...
@SillyG Imagine anyone but Nintendo excluding one of the highlights (Super Mario Galaxy 2) from the collection...
Like how Mega Man 1-3 were considered the good Mega Man games and Mega Man 4-6 were the mediocre ones, Tomb Raiders are the same. While Tomb Raider 1-3 were good, Tomb Raider 4-6 imo were some of the most mediocre as mediocre could be. I guess if you had nostalgia for these then this is an okay collection, Last Revelation and Chronicles are decent but Angel of Darkness is the biggest stinker of the three.
I'm shocked they're remastering Angel of Darkness. Pretty infamous game.
@Serpenterror Mega Man 4-6 are actually great games, especially 4 and 6. People just don't have as much nostalgia for them due to them being late cycle NES titles and not innovating as much. Honestly more consistently quality games though without stuff like the Doc Robot stages in MM3 or the Wily Stage 3 boss in MM2 (I still like MM2 better but hey).
@SillyG Yeah but do remember that while Nintendo doesn't have to give us those games, they still do anyways. This on top of giving us consoles, toys, controllers and peripherals too. People always put Nintendo in the same status as third party without knowing that Nintendo is not third party. Nintendo is above third parties and already made millions their own ways. Their games won't be price the same as third party titles nor will they feature them like what third party does. The only way Nintendo will ever make a full collection of all their IPs together is if they no longer made consoles.
I am very much here for a re-master of Angel of Darkness.
That game is... not great. So at least a remake won't make it worse!
@HammerKirby That's what I mean by mediocre cause by the 4th entry the formula gets old. That and the fact that they are still just 8-Bit games and with Mega Man X already on the market. Tomb Raider 4-6 are like those, they are not bad games but by the time Last Revelations comes out, everyone already move on to the PS2 so nobody was impress by those blocky PS1 graphics anymore. Angel of Darkness would had been interesting had it not transfer those mediocrity to the PS2 as it was just a PS1 game that happen to be released for the PS2. It was not made with the PS2 in mind.
I only wante Tomb Raider 4 as it is by far the best of all the older games. It is a shame you can't buy them individiually.
@Banjo- : That too.
@Lizuka Angel of Darkness is historically bad - in fact it could have killed the franchise it was so broken. That's in part because the game before it Chronicles is the definition of 'average'. Last Revelations also has issues - it's the longest and hardest game of the entire series - so really most recommended for people who love the franchise.
From the Trio none of the games are individual games are as strong as the first trilogy - but AoD is the only objectively 'bad' game - and that is in part due to bugs and loading times. However - ported to modern consoles - with bugs removed and no obnoxious PS2 loading times... it could become passable?!? Who knows. I'm excited to have the whole set - I was betting it would be further off than this so clearly first trilogy sold well enough to justify it - so good news all around!
square enix and feral should put sleeping dogs and just cause 2 on the switch
@anoyonmus I would say the Nintendo Switch can handle all three last Tomb Raider games. 2013 and Rise of the Tomb Raider where released on the Xbox 360. And while Shadow of the Tomb Raider might be more difficult to port we have seen some impressive ports already.
But you can't blame Aspyr for porting only the old games. It's the only thing they are capable of. It is this or nothing. But no idea why the owner of the Tomb Raider games didn't port the last games. I expected them years ago.
There is a part of me that has been waiting patiently for a rerelease of Anniversary, Legend, and Underworld. Feeling like “okay they’ve done all the TR games I don’t want, next time I’ll get it.”
But at the point it’s like, are they going to do the Ngage port before they get to the ones I actually want? Lol
You’ve played the best, now here’s the rest.
@DjinnFighter That's..... like really funny. They tried to kill her off cause they were tired of making the games. I mean, fair play I suppose.
@DjinnFighter - We already have that with The Lara Croft Collection.
This one is more "The Signs of Decline Collection."
@Yosti Shadow is way too demanding so Switch can't run it. But 2013 and Rise is doable on Switch.
But the Switch 2 can handle Shadow.
If there gonna do angel of darkness they had better fill in the missing content or yeah it gonna be rough.
@HandheldHaunter Given they won't have new voice acting, unlikely.
@ScalenePowers Glad I'm not the only one hoping for Legend and Underworld! Anniversary can understand more if it got skipped but not those two.
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Not only was it lambasted, it nearly killed the franchise.
Switch should definitely get the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot & Rise of the Tomb Raider, especially as both had absolutely excellent ports in the Xbox 360 (please watch YouTube comparisons to the Xbox One/PS4 to see how good they were).
@TheExile285
I recently started playing IV and it is better than i thought.
III is the weakest so far, big surprise is the lost Artefact, it is sooooo good.
But i wonder what they do with VI.
I tried it and i really wanted to like it, but the Combat is soo bad.
Even with the Fan Patch it was Crap.
@anoyonmus There where more impossible ports on the Switch?
Those to two links in your text for Last Revelation and Chronicles are nearly as disappointing as playing the Angel of Darkness game
This probably won’t be as popular but I’m really excited as I’ve never played the 5th or the 6th games and whilst I’ve played 4 like the 3rd one it’s one I’ve never finished
İ have never played a Tomb Raider game so İ can say nothing about the games but the graphics looks beautiful and this games are so old games. İt is been many years. İ was like in 1999 11 years old. İn 2000 12 years old. İn 2003 15 years old. İ was going to school then. İt was beautiful days at the school.
Just like for the first trilogy, I would like to be able to purchase separate games.
I did not buy the trilogy because only the first one is interesting to me, being the only true classic of the bunch with 2 being notably worse and 3 generally pretty bad. Well here it's the same really. 4 is great and the second best game of the series, 5 is terrible probably the worst actually and 6 is only average.
I'd love to buy 1 and 4, they're really good games, but I don't want to pay or even eat up space for the rest of these. 2 could be an exception but honestly once you've got 1 and 4, it does not hold up.
Bought the first one on sale yesterday and it was a huge mistake. The tank controls do not properly match the originals as there’s no way to side-step like the original. It doesn’t even let you remap the lower to L/R buttons to that. I’m glad I still own the originals.
Yeah, at this point it's just for nostalgia and preservation purposes. 4's great, 5 turned into TR4 Gold, and we don't talk about AoD. They had their moments, but it would take a complete reboot from the ground up to make them playable.
Finally remakes of bad games, exactly what I've been advocating for. Anyone can remake a good game but it takes real effort to improve a flawed game.
@Banjo- Same saw them earlier this year, it was amazing.
Yeah I want a new tomb raider or the latest release on switch. Really stupid there not been brand new open world tomb raider on switch yet
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