Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 09:25 pm
Lara Croft GO – Puzzle Game Review
Lara Croft GO is a Puzzle/Adventure game from Deca Live Operations GmbH, first launched in 27th August 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 4,517+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Lara Croft GO Stand Out
Apple's iPhone Game of the Year 2015
Best Mobile/Handheld Game – The Game Awards 2015
Lara Croft GO is a turn based puzzle-adventure set in a long-forgotten world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilization, discover well-kept secrets and face deadly challenges as you uncover the myth of the Queen of Venom.
• Experience lush visuals and a captivating soundtrack
• Navigate using simple swipe-to-move controls
• Fight menacing enemies, overcome dangerous obstacles and escape deadly traps
• Solve more than 115 puzzles split into 7 chapters
• Collect ancient relics and unlock new outfits for Lara
A legit masterpiece – The App Store
A classic Tomb Raider experience – IGN
A journey well worth taking – Entertainment Weekly
A really great puzzle game- The Verge
Please note:
Lara Croft GO is not compatible with the iPhone 4.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Lara Croft GO is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th July 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Minor fixes & improvements
Download & Availability
Lara Croft GO is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Lara Croft GO on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It's a fun a nd fairly intuitive game. There are a lot of interesting puzzles to solve.
They fixed a crasher that prevented people from solving one puzzle. Finally after years of neglect, Lara lives.
If you love puzzles and the theme of tomb raider stories this will keep you entertained for hours.
Terrific puzzles with some being quite challenging.
We really like the game and its really coming. We keep thinking of whatever time we play this game we think of a time in Lauras life when she was a kid like in the 70s or 60s just photos inside our head we get the game doesnt have to show us what happened. Its just the game, speaks it, and the graphics are magnificent to look at our God its just its what can we say? Its a really good game if you havent played it yet.
This game is gorgeous and calming, while also being quite a challenge that slowly builds. Truly a masterpiece of the genre.
Deceptively simple, but immediately engaging. We really enjoyed our time with this game.
Top notch game! Visually stunning, interactive, addictive. 4 stars as the Apps icon remains bright when we turn on the night mode switch.
UPDATE! They fixed it!!! Thank you all so much for bothering! Ive been replaying this game for years. We put it aside and forget enough to start over. But after the last update, the game crashes on the Cave of Fire chapter on level 5, A Restless Chase every time you kill a fire lizard. We skipped to the next level to see if it was just a glitch there, but it happed on level 6 too. So we reinstalled and reset and started the game from the beginning, but same thing on L5 of CoF. Mirror of Spirits seems to be working. We know this is an old game but it remains a favorite and would love to see that section fixed. Thanks! (Some new chapters would be pretty great too.).
Ive been a huge fan of Lara Croft GO since day one, and Im thrilled to see the developers finally fix the game-breaking bug in Level 5, The Cave of Fire. Thank you SO much for listening to the feedback and making this incredible game even better! This game is an absolute masterpiece. The puzzles are clever, the visuals are stunning, and the atmosphere is so immersive it feels like youre right there with Lara on her adventure. The attention to detail and the way the game balances challenge and fun is just perfect. We were so frustrated when we hit that bug in Level 5, but now that its fixed, we can confidently say this is one of the best mobile games out there. Its clear the developers care about their players, and that makes us love the game even more. If youre looking for a game thats equal parts brain-teasing and breathtaking, Lara Croft GO is it. Thank you, developers, for making such an amazing experience and for fixing the issues that mattered to us. Youve earned a lifelong fan.
Love the game, please make another.
This is one of our all-time favorite games we have ever played. Sure you have Legend of Zelda, Assassins Creed, and Skyrim, but this one stands out. Though this is just a simple puzzle game that doesnt necessarily fit into the Tomb Raider canon, it captures the feel of the saga beautifully. The sense of mystery that lurks around every corner is just as present here as it is in the original Tomb Raider games. We highly recommend this one even if you arent familiar with the saga. Please make a sequel.
Truly a marvelous game, if you want to have a fun and yet challenging mobile puzzle game this is the game to play. The best part is: there is no ads. The only thing that we would recommend to be added is a level editor where you could create your own levels. This would really spark curiosity among users and would improve the greatness of this game even more. All in all, it is one of the best games out there, it is good for all ages, (we showed it to our grandsons when they were 7 and they still loved it just as much as we did) You should definitely give it a go.
Great game! Amazing graphics, wonderful and challenging puzzles. We wish there were games of this caliber out there. Great job.
Game crashes … Dead after Apple updated to newer iOS VERSION a couple years ago and the developers haven't been able to fix or don't want to fix the issues. Emailed to tech support with no answers nor results. Huge disappointment… Update 2024: still crashed level Cave of Fire when killing lizard. DO NOT SPEND MONEY ON THIS GAME. SCAM.
We love this game, we used to play it growing up with our grandma. Runs smoothly, fun game good puzzles.
Great game love it. However we cant finish it, our game keeps crashing in the second puzzle of A restless chase. HELP SOMEONE. What can we do to fix it? Level 5 plese fix so we can finish it. Thank you.
This game was so awesome we want to create our own puzzles Please make a sandbox mode, we know that one Go game in the past (a cyber punk) was indeed sandbox we got confused with its triangle format. Is one is simple squares so that shouldnt be a problem also to publish a level make it so a person has to finish the puzzle successfully first. That way all puzzles published are solvable and even better you dont have to come up with puzzles as your fan base (us included) would be making puzzles all the time. Even better is that the Game makes all the mechanisms nonverbal so no swearing ever. God bless you.
The app crashes in Cave of Fire level 5. We reported this a year ago but it seems there are no developers assigned to maintain this. Well, its kind of near the end so most of the puzzles are playable.
One of our most favorite games we have ever played on iOS however, we have been experiencing crashes whenever you kill a salamander in the fire levels and we cant continue please fix.
When we kill the lizard, whether by shooting it or with the spear, the game shuts down. Ive tried it several times and even updated our software. All of the other levels before then work, but for some reason that level shuts down by killing the lizard.
Love the puzzles. Love the game. However it crashes every time we shoot the lizard in level one of the The Cave of Fire. We really wish we could play through all of the levels.
We got excited when we saw a new update, but no, they still havent fixed the bug where the game crashes whenever a fire lizard is attacked. This game worked beautifully on our old iPad. Surely it cant be too difficult to fix.
Its a beautiful game but some of us use controllers and not tough input :(.
Wonderful game except you cant finish it! On the fifth level of the Cave of Fire, when you spear the lizard the game crashes and thats the only way to beat the level. Please patch this. We really want to see the rest of the levels.
Great game, worth the price. However, a bug in level 6-5 causes it to crash. Rebooted both game and iPad but cant get past it. Needs a fix asap.
When we killed the fire lizard it keeps crashing the game.
We love this game, but unfortunately we encountered a critical error and can't go further. It constantly kicks us out of the game on the Fifth level in the Cave of Fire. It kicks us out as soon as we try to throw a spear at an alligator. It kicks us out both on the tablet and on the phone (regardless of the iOS version, since it crashed both before and after the already new system updates). The game is amazing but we can't play it. Please fix it.
This is by far the best game we've played on our iPhone. We love the Tomb Raider series and have played most of them. Lara Croft Go is more than a loving tribute; while the iconic sounds, classic Lara garb, and signature Lara acrobatics warmly announced the return of an old friend, the purely puzzle gameplay is refreshingly new and increasingly challenging – we found the puzzles in the last several books/chapters to be far from trivial! The world design, style of art, sound affects, creature design, and story arch faithfully captured and preserved (throughout game play) the feel of the original games – we savored every moment…. Great Job.
Im not a huge fan of puzzle games, but this one kept us engrossed. The graphics and BGM do not distract from the gameplay. It looks great when mirrored through our Apple TV.
We love games, where no timer is involved. Played so far 6 little stories and each swipe responded perfectly. No crazy tipping for shooting or crazy stunts! Background music is comfortable to listen. Lara moved the way we wanted and the scene shows clearly where to go.
It has been a while since Ive enjoyed a game this much! We like casual games; games that you can put down and pick up whenever you want without the need to finish a level; games that are simple enough to understand so that you dont need a tutorial to play. This is one such game. Plus, the graphics are incredible. The puzzles are challenge, yet not frustrating. And it has become our favorite game on our iPhone. We hope they make a sequel.
It's nice to see Lara back in action. This is more reminiscent of the look of the original Tomb Raider games rather than some of the more recent games. To us this is a good thing. Good puzzles of average difficulty. No required in-app purchases.
We installed this game awhile ago and at first we just wasnt into it. But we reinstalled it again a few months later and have it another shot, and Im glad we did. We just finished the entire game from beginning to end, collecting every gem and relic possible, and unlocking every new outfit. Had a blast playing the game. The puzzles are incredibly clever, especially the two newer levels that were added (Ill admit we checked YouTube on only two of the levels total). Our only gripe is that while playing a level, theres no way to see how many gems/relic pieces there are on that level. We found ourselves constantly going back to the book where it tells you on each page how many there should be. Some kind of notice at the beginning of each level would be great. We had to replay a number of levels to collect items we didnt know we had even missed. But still a five star game. Hoping they add more levels in the future.
This game really helps to unlock that thinking part of your brain! Not like other mindless apps that dont challenge the analytical part. Please provide a new update soon. We have already run through all the adventures and can feel that part of our brain fading into non-existence. HURRY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.
Thoroughly enjoy this game. Feel sorry for Laura when it takes us several tries to move her along! We get exhausted after a while and shes the one doing all the work.
We havent played an arcade type game in a looong time. This one really makes you think about how to get through the various obstacles, snakes, etc. The best thing is that you never run out of lives. For us its an incentive to keep playing.
We're fine with free games, but this one is so beautiful and worth however much we paid for it. Worth every penny. Also great music and fun puzzle style game.
Love the elegant simplicity of this game! We would love to see more Journals.
Incredible graphics coupled with puzzling gameplay; the perfect combination. We bought Hitman Go for 5.00 and had this and Deus Ex on the back burner; we happened upon the Go bundle and got the other two games for free because of our previous purchase. An incredible game for pretty much nothing; couldnt ask for more.
The ambiance of this unique puzzle game was very surprising to us. From the music to the sound effects to the fluid movements and crisp animation, this game is a must for anyone who loves challenge. While not terribly difficult, the aha moments will have you smiling and feeling accomplished. Ive been a huge fan of Tomb Raider since the first game on PS1 in 1996! This game really makes us feel nostalgic.
This is better than Deus Ex Go. We wish battery life was better but this game offers a nice depth of challenges.
Love the game make more keep getting yo money tomb raider.
Im always amazed at how smart this game is. We dont replay mobile games often, but this one im always happy to come back to.
Super fun single player adventure.
This game is truly beautiful, when we were around 10 we couldn't possibly finish the game but after some years we have came back to it and we are grateful we did so. Everyone should experience this game, just from the art to the amazing puzzles. Definitely a good buy.
May seem easy at first, but it gets challenging as you progress.
Its truly the essence of playing as Lara on the Go.
Ultimate puzzle game. Tig Ole Bitties.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.6
- Size: 1,056.25 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Deca Live Operations GmbH
Last updated: 11th July 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Deca Live Operations GmbH