10 Best Batman Games of 2026

Batman: Arkham City takes the No. 1 spot because it offers the most complete Batman game for the money. Rocksteady built on Arkham Asylum and moved the action into Arkham City, a sealed-off district that the Steam page describes as five times larger than the first game's world. The villain list is the longest in the series up to that point: Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, The Penguin and Mr. Freeze all appear. The Game of the Year Edition on Steam bundles every add-on: the Catwoman, Nightwing and Robin packs, Harley Quinn's Revenge, seven challenge maps and 12 skins, all for $19.99. Its 96% positive score across 27,403 English Steam reviews ties Arkham Asylum for the highest on this list. The minimum hardware is modest at 2 GB of RAM and 17 GB of disk space. The drawbacks are age and scope: it came to Steam in 2012, its listed system requirements predate Windows 10, and there is no co-op.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is the game that set the template the rest of the series followed, and it still ranks second here. The Steam page lists the three pillars that later Arkham games kept: FreeFlow combat for chaining combos against crowds, Invisible Predator stealth with fear takedowns, and detective work with x-ray scans, fingerprint scans and a pheromone tracker. The whole game takes place on Arkham Island after The Joker takes control, with Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Killer Croc among the villains. The Game of the Year Edition adds four Challenge Maps: Crime Alley, Scarecrow Nightmare, Totally Insane and Nocturnal Hunter. English Steam reviews sit at 96% positive across 31,615 reviews, tied with Arkham City for the highest rate on this list. It is also the lightest Arkham game to run, at 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage. The trade-off is scale: the island is far smaller than the open cities in Arkham City and Arkham Knight.

Batman: Arkham Knight closes Rocksteady's trilogy and has the most Steam reviews of any game here, with 92% of 52,265 English reviews positive. Its headline addition is the Batmobile, which the Steam page says can switch from a high-speed pursuit mode to a military-grade battle mode and can be driven across the whole game world. That world is the entirety of Gotham City rather than a single district, and the story has Scarecrow uniting the city's criminals to destroy Batman. Combat, stealth and forensics carry over from Arkham City with updates. At $19.99 for the base game it costs the same as the two earlier Rocksteady games, but the Steam page lists 24 DLC items sold on top. It is also the most demanding of the trilogy: 6 GB of RAM, a GTX 660 or Radeon HD 7870 with 2 GB of memory, 45 GB of storage and a broadband connection. It ranks third because ease of setup and value trail Arkham City.

Batman: Arkham Origins is the Arkham prequel, set several years before Arkham Asylum. WB Games Montréal frames it around a single Christmas Eve on which eight assassins from the DC Comics universe are hired to kill a young, unrefined Batman, and the player meets many of his future enemies for the first time. Detective work gets a new Case File system that lets you rebuild crime scenes in real time using Batman's cowl sensors and the Batcomputer. The Steam page states that online services ended on December 4, 2016, so only the single-player campaign remains, though it can still be played offline. English Steam reviews are 89% positive across 22,255 reviews, below the three Rocksteady games and the LEGO and Telltale sequels. Hardware needs are light, at 2 GB of RAM and 20 GB of storage, and it costs $19.99. It ranks fourth because it repeats Arkham City's formula with fewer new ideas.

Batman: The Enemy Within is Telltale's second Batman season and the best-reviewed non-Arkham game on this list, with 94% of 4,395 English Steam reviews positive. It picks up after the first season: The Riddler returns to Gotham City, a ruthless federal agent arrives, and a still nascent Joker becomes a central character. The Steam page frames the main choice as which of Batman's new allies to trust and how far Bruce Wayne goes in a series of deceptions. All five episodes are included. Play is choice-driven, built on dialogue and timed actions rather than open-world fighting, which keeps the skill barrier low. The list price is $14.99, tied for the cheapest here, and Steam showed it at $7.49 during a 50% sale when we checked on November 11, 2026. Minimum hardware is 3 GB of RAM and 15 GB of storage, though Steam warns against Intel integrated graphics. It ranks fifth because it works best after the first season.

Batman: Arkham Shadow brings the Arkham series to virtual reality, nine years after Arkham Knight came to Steam. Camouflaj built it for Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and the Meta Quest Store page lists those as the only supported devices. The story is set on the Fourth of July, as a new villain called the Rat King and his followers push Gotham City into riots ahead of a so-called Day of Wrath. Meta describes the combat as made exclusively for VR, with gadgets and fighting styles, and the cast includes Dr. Quinzel and Dr. Crane before they became Harley Quinn and The Scarecrow, plus Harvey Dent and Jim Gordon. The store shows a 4.6 rating from 8.7K ratings, an 18.3 GB install, a moderate comfort level and no internet requirement. It costs $49.99, the highest price on this list, and it needs a headset. It ranks sixth because setup and price weigh on its score, not because of its content.

Batman: The Telltale Series puts Bruce Wayne at the center as much as Batman. Telltale, the studio behind The Walking Dead series, describes a gritty story where discoveries shatter Bruce's world and the stability of a corrupt Gotham City, and where your actions decide the fate of the Batman. The Steam purchase covers all five episodes, and Steam says all are available now. Play centers on dialogue choices and timed action scenes, so it suits players who find the Arkham combat too demanding. It costs $14.99, tied for the lowest list price on this list, and needs 3 GB of RAM, though Steam warns against Intel integrated graphics and asks laptop users to switch to dedicated graphics. English reviews are 86% positive across 7,899 reviews, below its sequel's 94%. It ranks seventh, one place behind The Enemy Within, mainly because of that review gap, though it is the season to play first.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is the newest game here, released on Steam on May 22, 2026, and its 95% positive score across 6,927 English reviews is close to the top Arkham games. TT Games, the studio behind LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, tells Batman's story from Bruce Wayne's training with the League of Shadows through building a family of allies: Jim Gordon, Catwoman, Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl. The villains include The Joker, The Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Bane. The Steam page describes a new combat system that mixes combos, stealth and detective skills, plus Batmobiles and Batcycles, the Tumbler among them, in an open Gotham City with landmarks such as Arkham Asylum, Ace Chemicals and Wayne Tower. Two things hold it back in our scoring. It costs $69.99, more than three Rocksteady games combined, and it needs Windows 11, 16 GB of RAM and 50 GB of storage. Those costs put it eighth.

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes replaces Batman Returns for the SNES on this list, because the SNES game is not sold in any current store we could find. TT Games' 2012 sequel pairs Batman and Robin with Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to stop Lex Luthor and The Joker. The Steam page lists 50 DC Comics characters to collect, powers such as flight, Super-Breath and Heat Vision, and vehicles including the Batmobile, Batwing and Batboat in a free-roaming Gotham City. It was also the first LEGO video game with spoken dialogue. Drop-in, drop-out co-op with dynamic split screen makes it the best local two-player pick on this list. English Steam reviews are 94% positive across 4,029, and the game runs on 1 GB of RAM and 10 GB of storage. It ranks ninth because Batman shares the game with other heroes and its combat is simple next to the Arkham series.

Gotham Knights opens with Batman dead and hands Gotham City to the Batman Family: Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin. Warner Bros. Games Montréal calls it an open-world action RPG, and the Steam page describes patrolling five boroughs alone or in co-op, solving mysteries tied to the city's history and facing notorious villains. Co-op is its main reason to exist on this list: it is the only pick here that lets two friends patrol together online. It falls to the bottom for three reasons. First, you never play as Batman, which matters for a list built around him. Second, English Steam reviews are 70% positive across 11,384, the lowest score here and well below every Arkham game. Third, it costs $59.99 and needs Windows 10, 8 GB of RAM, a GTX 1660 Ti or RX 590 and 45 GB of storage, so value and setup trail the $19.99 Arkham games that run on far less.