Crystal Dynamics’ arcade-inspired Tomb Raider games – Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and Guardian of Light – will make their way to the Nintendo Switch sometime next year. Such releases will mark the long-running franchise debut on Nintendo’s latest hardware, though both originally hit digital storefronts several years ago.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light launched more than a decade ago on PC via Steam, PS3, and Xbox 360, offering up a different type of Tomb Raider adventure with an isometric camera, cooperative gameplay, and the ability to play as either Lara Croft or a Mayan warrior named Totec. Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix deployed a sequel, Temple of Osiris, approximately four years later on PC, PS4, and Xbox One platforms. Akin to its predecessor, it, too, boasted a fixed isometric camera and allowed players to team up in groups of four. Neither of these titles ever made their way to Nintendo platforms; fortunately, that will change in the not-so-distant future.
The latest news to come out of Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider 25th anniversary celebration features details about two titles that will migrate to Nintendo Switch in 2022 – Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. Square Enix announced the ports as a collaboration between Crystal Dynamics and Feral Interactive, the latter of which previously brought several Tomb Raider outings to Mac and Linux. As of writing, none of the companies have disclosed a firm 2022 due date for the newly announced Switch ports.
Given the nature of these particular Tomb Raider adventures, Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris should feel right at home on the hybrid console from Nintendo. This doesn’t only hold true for their isometric camera either; each game is replete with puzzles to solve and much to explore across less than a dozen hours of gameplay. Switch owners who’ve yet to experience Tomb Raider in this fashion are in for a treat.
Temple of Osiris launched in late 2014, over a year after Crystal Dynamics rebooted the franchise with its survival-focused 2013 adventure. The reboot ultimately spawned two sequels of its own – Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider – to round out a trilogy of games.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and Guardian of Light come to Nintendo Switch in 2022.
