He began designing Lara Croft’s Tomb Raiders in 2007 and started playtesting it internally around 2009. The announcement said the RPG has been the passion project of senior technical designer Matthew Gaston for more than a decade. Listen, nobody has any illusions about what the British heir’s unconventional field work really amounts to.
Publisher Square Enix provided the first details, including a rough release date of “later this year” and a look at some of the foes standing between groups and their treasure.įirst reported by Wargamer, Lara Croft’s Tomb Raiders will let players team up with seasoned adventurer Lara Croft as they delve into crypts, sepulchers and other adjectival burial grounds to “procure artefacts” from their resting place, likely sending them to museums and other colonial repositories. An official Tomb Raider tabletop RPG was announced as part of the series’ 25th anniversary celebration.