The Tomb Raider video game series has sold nearly 100 million copies since its debut in 1996

Since its initial release in 1996, the Tomb Raider franchise has sold nearly 100 million copies.

Lara Croft's iconic decade-spanning adventures have resulted in nearly 100 million game sales worldwide since the heroine's first expedition in 1996.

According to Crystal Dynamics, Lara Croft's iconic adventures have resulted in nearly 100 million game sales worldwide.

The Tomb Raider franchise has sold a total of 95 million copies across multiple titles over the last 26 years. Crystal Dynamics recently announced that its new Unreal Engine 5-powered Tomb Raider game would be published by Amazon's gaming division, according to a new press release.

"The Tomb Raider franchise includes over 20 video games, is loved by over 170 million people worldwide, and has sold over 95 million copies since the first entry was released in 1996," according to the press release.

This is an increase over the previous figures. Embracer Group purchased Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and several video games franchises, including Tomb Raider, earlier this year. The company released an info deck confirming that the Tomb Raider series sold 88 million copies of its AAA games between 2013 and 2018, nearly half of which were from the new reboot trilogy.

That's a 7 million sales difference over the course of 2022, demonstrating that the franchise is quite valuable to any major publisher. Square Enix, on the other hand, believed that it had overinvested in the games and that the Tomb Raider titles had "failed to meet expectations."

Crystal Dynamics is currently developing a new single-player action-adventure game in the Tomb Raider series, with the goal of making it the "biggest and best" Tomb Raider yet.