Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
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Action-driven Tomb Raider entry from eidos-montr-al, with Crystal Dynamics listed as publisher. Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition launched in 2018 at $39.99 and has 70,887 Steam reviews with 85% positive, rated mostly positive.
Overview
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is a 2018 Action game developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Crystal Dynamics. On Steam it has gathered 70,908 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Eidos-Montréal with publisher Crystal Dynamics is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.4 million to 7.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
70,908
Positive
85%
Steam appid
750920
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.03.4M to 7.9M
units (median: 5.7M)
≈ $77.7M to $181.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_85% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition at roughly 3.4 million to 7.9 million copies, with a median around 5.7 million, derived from its 70,908 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $129.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $23.40Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $23.40 to $39.99, averaging $37.95 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $23.40 on 2026-06-07.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition has sold between 3,403,584 and 7,941,696 units (median 5,672,640), derived from its 70,908 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition?
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition was developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Crystal Dynamics.
- When was Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition released?
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition have on Steam?
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition has 70,908 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Eidos-Montréal's other releases and Crystal Dynamics's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.