Because a game being free to play tends to have pretty significant implications for how it's designed. If they can't get your money by charging upfront, they need to get it by selling you in-game items, in-game currency, experience points, etc. which will usually result in the game being designed in a way that actively pushes you towards making those in-game purchases. This will result in a greatly inferior gameplay experience because the game designers' primary objective wasn't to make a fun game, it was to make an exploitative game. (And there are exceptions. Some free-to-play games manage to straddle the line and provide an experience that's both fun and profitable but especially mobile free-to-play games are notorious for being exploitative and badly designed.)

They really try to get out of the way to do a proper Game with Classic Lara

Indeed. I hope when Square Enix London engaged them, they have a more ambitious and different product in mind.

https://i.imgur.com/aBPQX8A.png

That's on the Google Play page of this studios other released mobile game. Could mean nothing, but I'm worried.

I'm praying. But they've gotta get money from somewhere if it's free.

Meh... glad they're acknowledging TR1 and classic Lara, but a mobile game instead of a full platform release? The dislikes on the video are wild... yikes!

OMG! It's Classic Lara! And the classic sounds!

I really dig the art style.

A mobile game though... a tad disappointing. But I'll reserve judgement until I see more of it.

I like to think they are paving the way for such game by doing something like this.

Literally give it to ANYONE but crystal dynamics to give Lara's appearance justice.
/tea

She does look good! Mop hair no more!!

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She does! And if gives me LIFE that it's actual Classic Lara iconography and not LAU (that they've been trying to pass for Classic for years!)