Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · LDShop
- Live offers
- 10 offers · 7 stores
Everything written about this one so far is about how it plays: the shooting, the climbing, the shape of a Lara people recognise. Fair enough. There is a second question, though, and it lands well before any of that matters — the game is not out, and the sellers listing it are already several tiers apart on what they want for the same activation. That gap is not a sale, because nothing has launched yet to be cut from.
It is a Crystal Dynamics game published by Amazon Game Studios, and the version covered here is the PC one, redeemed on Steam. What follows comes from our own daily readings of the Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis listing, not from anybody's announcement.
Why does a game nobody has played already have a spread?
Because two different markets are quoting it at the same time. The publisher sets one figure on the official store and leaves it there. The reseller board is a set of independent shops, each deciding on its own what a pre-launch code is worth to them, and each carrying a different cost of getting hold of one. Neither number is reacting to the other, which is why the distance between them can be large before a single review exists.
As things stand, the cheapest activation on the board sits 37% below the official line, and that gap was there the day the listing opened. Nobody ran a promotion to create it.
Standard, Deluxe or Collector: which of the three is a real decision?
Three labels turn up on this listing, and only the first two are the same kind of purchase.
| Label | What the line is | Entry today |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | The plain Steam activation. It is the reference every other line is measured against, and it is what most buyers actually want. | € |
| Deluxe Ed. | Sold by several shops, but not described identically by all of them — one seller advertises advanced access on its deluxe line while others just print the word Deluxe. When two shops describe the same edition differently, read the publisher's own store page before paying the difference. | € (with coupon AUGGOC10) |
| Collector Ed. | A single general retailer carries this one, at several times the standard entry. A collector line is only worth that difference if you specifically want the things it names on its own page. | € |
For most people the decision is not which edition, it is which seller — the distance between the cheapest and the dearest standard line on this board is bigger than the distance between standard and deluxe at the same shop. That is easier to see with all of them stacked on one page, which is where you would buy Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis key once you have picked.
Has the board moved at all since the listing opened?
We have been reading it every day since it appeared, and three things stand out. None of them looks like a discount.
The official line has not changed once. Not a cent, across every reading. On the reseller side the behaviour splits: one shop has held exactly the same figure the whole time, another has drifted by a couple of per cent, and a third has swung by roughly a sixth of its own value in a matter of weeks — upwards as often as down. That last one is the useful signal: pre-launch, seller prices wander because stock and margin wander, not because anyone is running a campaign.
The third thing is the one worth acting on. The cheapest line on the board today does not belong to any of the shops that were there when the listing opened. It belongs to one that joined later. Before release, the floor moves when a new seller arrives — and nobody, including us, can put a date on that.
Does the region tag change what you can redeem?
Both tags show up on this listing, and they are not interchangeable.
| Tag | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Europe | The code is issued for European accounts. Redeeming it from outside that area is where activations get refused, and a refused code is the most common way a cheap purchase turns into no purchase at all. |
| Global | No regional restriction declared on the code. It costs the seller more to source, which is part of why a Global line and a Europe line for the same edition rarely sit at the same figure. |
Match the tag to the account you will actually redeem on before you sort anything by price. It is the one check that cannot be undone afterwards.
Who is behind the lines on that board?
Public Trustpilot scores for the shops currently listing it. They describe the shop, not the game, and a high score does not improve a region tag that does not match your account.
- Kinguin — 4.6 / 5 over 120,000+ reviews.
- Eneba — 4.4 / 5 over 312,000+ reviews.
- LDShop — 4.2 / 5 over 3,000+ reviews.
- Difmark Digital Keys — 4.1 / 5 over 14,000+ reviews.
- G2A — 4.0 / 5 over 346,000+ reviews.
- Steam — 1.8 / 5 over 3,000+ reviews.
- Fnac ES — 1.2 / 5 over 1,000+ reviews.
Questions that decide whether you press pre-order
Is it cheaper to wait until after release?
Possibly, and nobody can promise it. What our record does show is that the publisher has not moved its figure once, so any drop so far has come from the seller side. If your plan is to wait, what you are waiting for is more sellers on the board, because that is what has moved the floor here.
Can I check whether my PC will run it?
Not yet. The system requirements on the store page are still marked as to be decided. That is a genuine argument for waiting: pre-ordering now means paying for a game you cannot yet confirm your machine handles.
Does it come in English?
Yes, with full English audio. The store page also lists full audio for French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish and Simplified Chinese, with Italian, European Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese as text.
What happens if the release date slips?
A reseller code has no date of its own; it becomes usable when the game unlocks, whenever that is. What does change between shops is the refund window, which belongs to the seller and not to the publisher. Read that page before you pay rather than after.
Are there reviews to read yet?
None. The store page shows no user reviews at all, which is exactly what you would expect and exactly what a pre-order asks you to accept.
So: pre-order now, or hold?
If you already know you want it and the region tag matches your account, the board is comfortably under the official line and there is no pattern in our readings that says it falls much further before release. If you are unsure, holding costs you nothing but the risk that the current floor holder runs out — the requirements are unpublished, there are no reviews, and both of those will change while an unopened code sits in your inbox.
The cheapest standard activation right now is at LDShop, and the full board with every tag and edition visible is on the page where you buy Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis key.
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