We haven't seen Lara Croft for a little while now, but that's set to change — in about three to five years, that is. This week, Crystal Dynamics announced that the next mainline Tomb Raider game is now under development, and the studio is using the all-new Unreal Engine 5 to put it together.
What exactly the next Tomb Raider will look like is very much an open question at this point. As true Crofters (that's what we call ourselves) will recall, 2018's Shadow of the Tomb Raider closed the book on what Crystal Dynamics called the "Survivor trilogy," which set out to explain how Lara first became the dual-wielding treasure hunter (and notorious animal killer) that we saw in the first few Tomb Raider games. Personally, we think that mission could've been achieved in a single entry, but hey, gotta make money somehow.
