Rise of the Tomb Raider surfaced on Steam — out in January

We knew Rise of the Tomb Raider would reach PC in early 2016. What nobody expected was how quickly the machine moved: the game’s Steam listing appeared in late December, with a January release in tow.

The store page was live but incomplete — no pre-orders yet, no exact day, and a spec sheet still missing. What it confirmed was the headline: 2016 would start with one of 2015’s best games, previously stranded on Xbox 360 and Xbox One since its November 13 launch.

The quick PC turnaround settled a couple of questions, though. The season pass wouldn’t ride along with the base edition — the first DLC, the temple of the witch Baba Yaga, was separately targeted for early 2016 — and the PC price landed below the Xbox One’s, as has become tradition.

The open questions were the interesting ones. The listing then showed English only, for a game famously dubbed in a dozen languages, and the January window read more like mid-to-late month than the first week. (The mystery didn’t last: the port arrived January 28 and ran beautifully.)

Steam listing: Rise of the Tomb Raider — and if you’d rather own it physically, Rise of the Tomb Raider console editions are still easy to find.