The Epic Games Store has lifted the curtain on this week's Mystery Game pair, and the headliner is a genuine catch: Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft is free for the taking through Thursday, May 28, 2026. The Aspyr-produced collection - bundling refreshed editions of the original three Tomb Raider games plus their expansions and the Challenge Mode update added last year - normally sells for $29.99 on PC, and Epic is handing it out at zero cost during the current weekly window. The second Mystery Game alongside it is the smaller indie title Down in Bermuda.
For anyone who hasn't tracked the remastered line: this is the bundle Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics put together in collaboration with Saber Interactive, originally released in February 2024, that pulled the first three Lara Croft adventures into modern PCs with rebuilt visuals, new control schemes, and platform support that finally gets them off the old Direct3D era and onto contemporary hardware without the usual mod-and-pray dance.
What's in the box is the full original trilogy - Tomb Raider (1996), Tomb Raider II (1997), and Tomb Raider III (1998) - plus every expansion: Unfinished Business, The Golden Mask, and The Lost Artifact. Each game ships with the option to toggle between the modern remastered visuals and the original PlayStation-era look at the press of a button, a feature that Aspyr has been quietly extending in subsequent patches. The Challenge Mode patch dropped earlier this year layered in customizable modifiers and bonus outfits on top of that, giving longtime fans new reasons to dig back into Lara's first three runs.
What you actually get for clicking claim
Aspyr's restoration work on this collection has held up better than most 'remaster' jobs. Lighting was rebuilt, character models were re-textured rather than smoothed into oblivion, and the camera now supports modern dual-stick controls without throwing the original tank-control purists out of the room - you can flip back to the classic input scheme at any time, mid-level, with no save penalty. The remastered Lara still moves with the same deliberate physics that defined her first run on PS1, but the readability of every tomb, every cliff edge, and every secret-hunting jump puzzle is night-and-day improved.
That readability matters more than you'd think on something this old. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered's most useful quality-of-life addition is arguably the photo mode, which makes the secret-hunting and route-planning loop more forgiving in long levels like City of Vilcabamba, Bartoli's Hideout, or the infamous Lost City of Tinnos. Aspyr also added gallery viewers, full unlockable concept art, and a built-in level-select system for replays, which means you don't need to grind through earlier sections to revisit a specific puzzle or secret.
Why the Mystery Game format is unusually generous this week
Epic's Mystery Game promo, which it has leaned on harder through 2026, normally drops smaller indies or back-catalog filler - the kind of titles you'd happily own but wouldn't necessarily pay for. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered is in a different tier. It's still actively patched, it shares engine and tooling work with Aspyr's separately sold Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered collection, and it's the kind of bundle that anchors a 'did I really get that for free?' moment in the Epic Games Store rotation. Even at the $9.99 launch sale point that the collection has occasionally hit on Steam, this is a solid offer; at zero cost on Epic, it borders on the absurd.
To grab it, head to the Epic Games Store from the desktop client or browser, find the Mystery Game tile on the storefront, and add Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft to your library before Thursday, May 28 at 11:00 a.m. ET. Down in Bermuda is the sister title in the same window. After that, Epic rotates to the next free pair - and the Aspyr remaster goes back to its standard $29.99 sticker on the Epic Games Store, with Steam's pricing unaffected by the promo.
