“Tomb Raider” star Lara Croft has it all: Beauty, brains, big guns… and one really killer house.

Her stately abode, known as Croft Manor, has always been one of my favorite things about the character

since first tackling a training level there in 1996’s original “Tomb Raider”. It made her seem even more like a superhero,

on the level of greats like Batman and Iron Man, who both have their own opulent pads (in Chicago, IL and Malibu, CA, respectively).

Unlike theirs, though, this one had the distinction of being in Jolly Old England. Given that we’ve been evaluating some of the most memorable

homes in all of video gaming since the early days of the Movoto Real Estate Blog, I figured it was about time that Ms. Croft’s mansion finally made the cut.

It might not technically be a castle in the strictest terms like those belonging to Princess Peach or Princess Zelda, but Lara is, nonetheless, bona-fide gaming royalty.

After some spelunking in the catacombs of fictional real estate evaluation, I managed to emerge with quite the find: If placed on the market today,

Croft Manor would pull in a tidy $43.2 million—not including all of Lara’s fancy gadgets or the countless artifacts the adventuress has collected during her years of globetrotting.

If you’d like to go on an adventure of your own, join me as I dig up the details on how I arrived at a price tag for the famous fictional archaeologist’s abode.

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If only I had a spare $43.2 million lying around, I could have my very own Croft Manor