8 Treasure Hunts in SFF for Fans of Tomb Raider

Imagine life in an ironically magical world where 144,000 doors separate fiction from reality. That's the way things are at Castle Perilous. Nothing is as it seems and it feels like everything is out to get you. When a party at the castle comes to an end after the body of Viscount Oren is discovered, foul play is suspected. There might be a killer on the loose and the culprit could be anywhere in this place where real and fake blend together. The partygoers at Castle P. must now join in a treasure hunt for party favors that will help them find the murderer. They just need to find the answer behind one of 144,000 doors …

Jonathan Bing is a humble cheesemaker who was once sent out on a quest to discover why trade to his river town was suddenly and inexplicably halted. Since then, he's become rather bored with his normal life. So, when Professor Wurzle suggests a trip downriver, Jonathan jumps at the chance. 

A visit to the Evil Dwarf Selznak’s abandoned castle leads to a treasure hunt but also to the discovery that Jonathan’s old friend the Squire has vanished, and that Selznak may be involved. It's time for another adventure, but now his ragtag team includes Selznak, who can never fully be trusted.

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure, but locating it is an altogether more perilous task. To attain this treasure for his king, the scholar needs a thief. He chooses Gen, a prisoner who claims he can steal anything, to fulfil the task. But what does Gen get out of this dangerous mission? Only he knows. The magus and the thief journey together towards the treasure, sharing their stories. What if the real treasure is something deep within them?

High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. In the depths of the Amazon, his nephew Sam stumbles upon a mythic site that's been hidden from civilization for thousands of years. Whoever left it behind didn't want it to be found, and traps have been laid to ensure that nobody finds its most incredible secrets. 

Sam Conklin, however, is not a man easily dissuaded. He wants to take the perilous journey into the heart of the jungle and towards a legendary treasure that will change his life. But there's something else within, a thing created by man but not humanly possible …

In the slowly sinking city of Coconino, Arizona, the rain never stops and life is hard. For Jin Haldar, things are especially tough since her father died in a diving accident, leaving her behind to raise her younger sister, Thara. She needs money, and when a drifter named Bhili offers the sisters a chance to locate a massive stash of gold hidden in the sunken ruins of Las Vegas, they can't refuse. 

Jin stopped diving after her father’s accident, but she has to make it work. A ragtag crew is assembled, including Jin’s ex, and they're sent on a high-stakes mission that will take them to the deepest recesses of the water beyond life and death.

Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down, and the head of the company, Eli Glinn, has all but vanished. Gideon Crew is a former master thief who only has a few months left to live. After years of dedicated service and several high-risk missions, he's also lost his job at EES, but then he and his colleague Manuel Garza make an extraordinary discovery: After centuries of silence, a code-breaking machine at EES has cracked the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet, the Phaistos Disc. 

The mysteries of the universe are about to be solved. It's up to Gideon and Manuel to solve the mystery of the disc's message and split whatever riches it uncovers. What lies at the end of the trail may save Gideon's life-or end it prematurely.

A murderous band of criminals is on a mission. The group includes a paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar, and the odds are against them. They've been thrown together with a high-stakes task: to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that have the power to destroy the Dowager's city. If they succeed, they could become rich beyond their wildest dreams. If they fail, it will end in disaster. It's a suicide mission … and that's assuming they don't all kill one another first.

Amina al-Sirafi was once one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates. After a life of treachery, glory, and romantic drama, she feels ready to retire peacefully and life a normal life with her family. But when she's tracked down by the rich mother of a former crewman with a job she can't refuse, she finds herself back on the high seas. She's been hired to retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter, so it's time to reunite her loyal crew for one last jaunt. But it's not so simple. There's more to this job (and the girl’s disappearance) than she was led to believe.