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- € Standard · Europe · Kinguin
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Everything written about this one so far has been about how it plays: the shooting, the climbing, whether this is a Lara people will recognise. Fair enough. But there is a question that lands well before any of that matters. The game is not out, and the shops selling it already want very different amounts of money for exactly the same Steam key. Nothing has launched yet, so none of that gap is a sale.
Crystal Dynamics develops it, Amazon Game Studios publishes it, 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 price page, not from anybody's press release.
Why is there a price gap on a game nobody has played?
Because two separate markets are quoting it at the same time. The publisher picks one figure for the official store and leaves it alone. The resellers are independent shops, each one deciding for itself what a pre-launch key is worth and each one paying a different amount to get hold of it. Neither side is watching the other, which is how the distance between them gets this wide before a single review exists.
As things stand, the cheapest key we can find sits 36% below the official price, and it was already there the day the game went up for sale. 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 game, and only the first two are the same kind of purchase.
| Label | What you are buying | Entry today |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | The plain Steam key. It is the reference everything else is measured against, and it is what most buyers actually want. | € (with coupon SEPGOC10) |
| Deluxe Ed. | Several shops sell it, and they do not all describe it the same way — one advertises advanced access, others just print the word Deluxe and leave it there. When two shops describe the same edition differently, read the publisher's own store page before you pay the difference. | € (with coupon SEPGOC10) |
| Collector Ed. | A single general retailer stocks this one, at several times the price of the standard. It is only worth that difference if you specifically want the physical items its own page lists. |
For most people the real decision is not which edition but which shop: the distance between the cheapest and the dearest Standard here is wider than the step from Standard to Deluxe at any single seller. Seeing them stacked on one page makes that obvious, and that is where you would buy Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis key once you have picked.
Have the prices moved at all since it went on sale?
We have been reading it every day since it appeared. Three things stand out, and not one of them is a discount.
The official price has not changed once. Not a cent, across every single reading. The resellers behave very differently from each other: one 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 third shop is the one that tells you the most. Before release, shop prices wander because their stock and their margin wander, and not because anybody is running a campaign.
The last of the three is the one worth acting on. Today's cheapest price does not come from any of the shops that were there at the start; it comes from one that turned up later. Before release, the floor drops when a new seller arrives, and nobody, us included, can put a date on that.
Does the region tag change what you can redeem?
Both tags show up here, and they are not interchangeable.
| Tag | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Europe | The key is issued for European accounts. Try to redeem it from outside that area and it may well be refused, which is the most common way a cheap purchase turns into no purchase at all. |
| Global | No regional restriction declared on the key. It costs the shop more to source, which is part of why a Global key and a Europe key for the same edition rarely cost the same. |
Match the tag to the account you will actually redeem on, and do it before you start sorting by price. It is the one check you cannot repair afterwards.
Who are the shops selling it?
Public Trustpilot scores for the shops that have it in stock right now. They tell you how each one treats its customers; they say nothing about the game, and a high score will not fix 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.
- 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.
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 every drop so far has come from the shops. If your plan is to wait, what you are really waiting for is more of them stocking it, because that is the only thing that has lowered 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 resellers are comfortably under the official price and nothing in our readings suggests it drops much further before release. If you are not sure, waiting costs you nothing except the risk that today's cheapest shop sells out. The requirements are still unpublished and there are no reviews, and both of those things will change while an unopened key sits in your inbox.
The cheapest Standard key right now is at Kinguin, and you can see every tag and every edition side by side on the page where you buy Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis key.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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