Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis is bringing Lara Croft back to the locations that started it all: the jungles of Peru, the ancient ruins of Greece, and the tombs of Egypt, in a full reimagining of the original 1996 game set for release on 12 February 2027. Alix Wilton Regan voices Lara in this new adventure, which follows the same hunt for the legendary Scion that players first undertook three decades ago.
Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis and the weight of the original
The original Tomb Raider is one of those games that genuinely changed what people thought a third-person action title could be. Its sense of scale, its lonely atmosphere, and Lara’s acrobatic movement across vast, geometry-heavy levels set a template that the industry spent years responding to. Legacy of Atlantis is the second full reimagining of that game, following Tomb Raider Anniversary in 2007, and it arrives at a moment when the gap between the original and a new audience is wider than ever. Thirty years of gaming advancement will be visible in every system the new title brings to bear.
Those new systems include a wrist-mounted grappling hook, a scanner for analysing artefacts and uncovering lore, and expanded environmental interaction that simply was not possible on the hardware of 1996. Lara’s iconic dual pistols and acrobatic moveset remain central to the experience, alongside what looks to be a generous helping of combat and puzzle-solving. The core identity is intact; the toolkit around it has been rebuilt from the ground up.
A new Lara Croft, and a new era of casting
Alix Wilton Regan’s casting as Lara marks a generational handover in how the character is voiced. According to TheGamer, Regan takes over from Camilla Luddington, whose portrayal of Lara defined the Survivor trilogy. That trilogy told a very different origin story, grittier and more grounded, and Luddington’s performance was central to it. Legacy of Atlantis charts a different course, returning to the pulpier, globe-trotting spirit of the series’ beginnings rather than continuing in the Survivor continuity.
Regan’s involvement does not stop with Legacy of Atlantis. TheGamer also reports that she will play Lara Croft in Catalyst, a wholly new adventure set across Northern India. That suggests this is a considered, long-term recasting rather than a one-title arrangement, and it gives Regan’s version of Lara room to develop across more than a single story.
Switch 2 players on day one
One detail that fans of Nintendo hardware will want to know: IGN Nordic reports that Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis will be available on Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day, 12 February 2027. That is not always a given with a title of this scale, and it means Switch 2 owners will not be waiting for a belated port. For anyone who wants to take Lara’s reworked Peruvian jungle opener on the move from the off, that confirmation matters.
The Tomb Raider series has always had a complicated relationship with legacy. The Survivor trilogy tried hard to distance itself from the globetrotting, trap-heavy adventure of the classic era, and succeeded on its own terms. Legacy of Atlantis is making a very different bet: that there is a large audience ready to experience that original adventure with modern controls, modern visuals, and a modern set of mechanical ideas layered over the bones of something that has been sitting in gaming’s collective memory for thirty years. The scanner that lets you study artefacts as you find them is a small detail, but it speaks to that philosophy: the original game asked you to move through ancient spaces without context; this one invites you to actually investigate them.
Whether you first played Tomb Raider on the PS1, caught it on a friend’s PC in the late 1990s, or only know the character from more recent entries, Legacy of Atlantis has been framed as a game that does not require prior knowledge to enjoy. It lands on 12 February 2027 across platforms including Nintendo Switch 2.
