Batman games in order: Arkham & beyond in story or release order - Radio Times

If you've ne'er tried the games retired before, past you are successful for a dainty arsenic they are, mostly, fantastic titles that inactive clasp up years aboriginal with a stellar dependable formed including the late, great, Kevin Conroy.

If you’re a newbie to them, oregon you fancy revisiting them, present are each the games successful the bid they were released, and chronologically if you privation to spell the communicative bid route.

How to play the Batman Arkham games successful communicative order

If you privation to play done the Batman Arkham games successful communicative order, truthful you tin truly get into the caput of Bruce Wayne without breaking the continuity astatine immoderate point, this is however it goes:

• Arkham Origins
• Arkham Asylum
• Arkham City
• Arkham VR
• Arkham Knight

Those 4 games, positive a VR spinoff, should support you engaged for a while! You'll beryllium successful afloat Dark Knight mode, sleeping upside down and berating your imaginary butler by the clip you're finished with them.

Batman Arkham games successful merchandise day order

If you'd alternatively play done these games successful the bid they came out, truthful you spot the graphics and gameplay improving (in theory) with each instalment, this merchandise day bid volition service you well...

Arkham Asylum (2009)

Available on: PC, Mac, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

To some, this is inactive the champion of the clump of the Arkham games and it is casual to spot why. Restricting the crippled to the confines of the titular and iconic asylum was a superb determination that afloat absorbs the subordinate successful the twisted mode the spot is being tally nether the power of Joker. It dazzled america upon merchandise and it remains re-playable each these years later.

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Arkham City (2011)

Available on: PC, Mac, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Wii U

Leaving the asylum behind, Arkham City erstwhile again pits Bats against Joker, on with galore different foes, and takes america to the streets of Gotham. This is simply a acold bigger crippled than the archetypal and 1 that is conscionable arsenic good regarded by astir fans arsenic Asylum. We get different choky communicative present excessively that is compelling from commencement to finish, and the Riddler challenges are taken to different level with the larger playing field.

• Buy Arkham City from Amazon (prices from £14.95)

Arkham Origins (2013)

Available on: PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Wii U

While Rocksteady Studios were down the Arkham series, it was WB Games Montréal that took the reins for Arkham Origins - and it would beryllium just to accidental the crippled is not connected galore people's favourites list. It isn't a atrocious crippled by immoderate agelong of the imagination, but this prequel lacks the spark of the erstwhile entries - though we did admit the thin into Batman's detective skills.

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Arkham Knight (2015)

Available on: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

The last crippled successful the bid was the biggest, but not rather the best. There is simply a batch to emotion astir Arkham Knight, particularly the story, and it features immoderate superb acceptable pieces that stay riveting to play adjacent the 2nd clip around. But determination were immoderate issues, mostly surrounding the overused Batmobile (we inactive aftermath up successful a acold sweat reasoning astir vessel fights), that made it consciousness similar a disappointment to immoderate - but it does capable close to marque it consciousness satisfying overall.

• Buy Arkham Knight connected Amazon (prices from £12.85)

Arkham VR (2016)

Available on: PC, PS4, PS5 (PSVR, HTC Vive oregon Meta headset required)

The lone crippled successful this bid to clasp virtual reality, Batman: Arkham VR lets you acquisition Detective Mode similar ne'er before. Playing from a first-person perspective, you volition lick puzzles and usage gadgets to unravel a enigma involving sidekicks going missing.

The crippled is rather short, clocking successful astatine nether 2 hours for its main story, truthful we wouldn't accidental it's essential. If you person a VR set-up, though, wherefore not springiness it a go? Although it's the past crippled to motorboat with 'Arkham' successful its title, it really fits into the communicative timeline betwixt City and Knight.

• Buy Arkham VR connected the PS Store (£15.99) oregon CD Keys (£2.99)

What astir Gotham Knights?

Available on: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The makers of Arkham Origins, WB Montreal, released a crippled called Gotham Knights successful 2022. It follows Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl and Red Hood connected a ngo to cleanable up Gotham without The Dark Knight's help.

If you're readying connected playing each the Batman games, we'd urge playing Gotham Knights last. Gotham Knights is technically acceptable successful a antithetic beingness to the Arkham games — truthful you tin play it whenever you like, to beryllium honorable — but it does presume a batch of cognition astir Batman's past and each his sidekicks.

• Buy Gotham Knights connected Amazon (prices from £29.99)

What astir Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League?

Rocksteady

Coming to: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The makers of each the different Arkham games, Rocksteady, volition merchandise a crippled called Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League successful 2023. This 1 is believed to beryllium acceptable successful the aforesaid timeline arsenic the Arkham games, aft the events of Arkham Knight, truthful we'd besides urge playing it after you've done the others.

Until the crippled comes out, though, we can't beryllium excessively definite astir wherever it fits oregon however overmuch it volition telephone backmost to anything. Things that hap successful the game's trailers surely look to play accelerated and escaped with the ending of Arkham Knight. To beryllium safe, play the Arkham games earlier you effort this spin-off.

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