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1990
A classic 1990 arcade-adventure where you work through 20 treacherous pyramid levels filled with traps and puzzles. With only five lives and a handful of spears, careful play is essential.
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The closest matches for Pharaoh's Tomb are Arctic Adventure, Umihara Kawase and Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Pharaoh's Tomb special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
96 %
Best match
1991
A classic DOS platformer with 80 tricky levels where Nevada must get past ice patches, traps and snowmen. It blends precise platforming with level-based puzzle solving.
93 % −80 %Puzzles and brain teasers
A physics-driven platformer where you use a fishing line as a grappling hook to swing through surreal stages. Mastering the momentum is tricky but deeply satisfying.
91 % −50 %Pure single-player experience
Lara Croft travels the globe through perilous ruins and temples, mixing tricky jumping and climbing sections with puzzles and gunfights. Controls are blocky and levels are sprawling and unforgiving, with hidden artifacts and secrets to find.
90 % 10.25 €
Challenging difficulty
A 2D physics-based motorbike game where you use precise weight shifting and throttle control to collect every apple and then reach the flower. Easy to grasp but hard to master, with a dedicated speedrunning community.
88 %
Puzzles and brain teasers
A 1984 classic in which you play a secret agent searching rooms of Elvin's fortress for puzzle pieces, dodging robots and racing the clock to stop a missile launch.
86 %
Gameplay comes before story
The freeware classic sends you through randomly generated caves full of traps, monsters and treasure. Death is permanent, and you get deeper through experimentation, quick reflexes and smart item use.
86 % −50 %Pure single-player experience
Lara Croft explores ancient Egyptian tombs full of traps, tricky platforming and sprawling puzzles that sometimes span multiple levels. The classic, blocky Tomb Raider style favors exploration and head-scratching over pure gunplay.
86 % −50 %Puzzles and brain teasers
The classic sends Lara Croft through perilous tombs full of traps, puzzles and wildlife. Precise platforming, exploration and a lonely atmosphere define the experience.
86 % 4.99 €
Pure single-player experience
A tight puzzle platformer in which a goat wrongly jailed for witchcraft breaks out of prison using its horns, jumping skills and a magic mouse companion. Room-by-room puzzles with switches, blocks and traps are clever and charming in a pixel-art style.
86 % −50 %Puzzles and brain teasers
Lara Croft hunts the Dagger of Xian across Venice, an offshore oil rig, a sunken wreck and Tibetan monasteries. This classic demands precise jumps, solves tricky environmental puzzles and adds more gunfights against human foes than its predecessor, plus vehicles like a speedboat and a snowmobile.
