Batman Arkham Trilogy Games Now Available Individually On Switch eShop

Got the trilogy earlier this year, skipped asylum because I had played it long ago. Played city and knight for the first time. I think City is the best of the three. Knight has a lot and I mean a lot of drive to this point and kill x number of tank missions. All three are fun but knight just kinda drags for me.

It's far too late now. I was forced to purchase all three in one package just to play Asylum and City while skipping Knight (there's a reason for that, at least for the Switch version)

It’s no exaggeration when they say Knight is unplayable. That said City and Asylum are a good time on the Switch

Definitely recommend picking up City in particular. I like Asylum more as a game but the Switch version of City is probably the best version of it.

Great news! I may actually pick up Asylum and City, as I've heard very good things about both! One can only hope that there's some sort of performance fix for Knight on Switch 2. Probably wishful thinking, but it's WB, they've got the means to do it. As is, I look forward to playing the first two!

I feel the batman games are better on steam deck vs switch but steam deck and other portable pc wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Nintendo success. So hopefully switch 2(or whatever it's called) brings something like better screen and better battery than it has now.

This is an odd coincidence as I just bought these a few days ago after randomly thinking about them one day. I ended up looking them up for PC and saw they were on sale both on Steam and GOG. I ended up going with GOG so that they are mine forever(maniacal laughter). I haven't really had much time to game lately so I haven't played beyond the opening sequence of Asylum but it seems cool and it was just nice seeing it running since I'm not running Windows which makes things a bit less straightforward.

Thank goodness. Knight on switch is basically unplayable. Though I would strongly recommend City for 25 bucks. It's a real good game.

@Lizuka PS4 disc version of Return to Arkham City runs at 60 on PS5, just don't update it.
It's like modern day cheat codes because the future is terrible.

I love the trilogy on my PS5 but having the option of carrying the first two games on the go is just spectacular!

So I’m guessing there was never any patches for Knight to at least make it more playable?

Alright, I'll bite on a physical edition of the trilogy (the file size is absolutely enormous).

@MontyCircus The cartridge doesn't contain all three games, you'll still have to download a large part of the data.

@awp69

So I’m guessing there was never any patches for Knight to at least make it more playable?

there were patches. i'm not sure how much difference they made. i bought the physical release for a very good price a couple months back, i loved Asylum on 360 so much 😍 i only really bought it for the first game. for anyone interested: when you insert the cartridge all 3 separate game tiles pop up, but only Asylum is playable. City & Knight require download. as the downloads are associated with the cartridge [rather than being via a single-use download code] resale is possible, as they can be downloaded & redownloaded as long as that remains available via servers

@tonyp1987 I found that too with Knight, it ran great on deck

@jco83 @awp69 from the little time I’ve had with it running the latest patch unfortunately not, SwitchUp confirmed this also in one of their all patched up videos from months ago. Maybe next Nintendo console could receive an update or just brute force it to work better with the more capable hardware

Knight, despite being a good game, is unplayable on Switch. The other two are superb.

I've never played City. I'll definitely pick it up individually at some point.

City is the best game in the trilogy as far as I'm concerned and Knight is the worst. Worse on the switch but even then, the game itself is the worst of the bunch.

It's good that they let you choose! Now I wonder what other collections could do that. Collections that make you buy bad games so that you can play the good one. cough both tomb raider collections cough

Oooo Arkham City is tempting. Best game out of the three followed by Asylum, then Knight. The Arkham universe building in City is superb.

Niiiiice finally! Arkham City directly to the wishlist. The only one I want to play now.

Never rub another man’s rhubarb!

But still no Origins... feels kinda incomplete imo.

@scottishwildcat and nobody ask you to reply to me with a rude comment.

@tonyp1987 Not sure what you're talking about. I bought the Arkham Collection on Steam only to find it's not supported on the Steam Deck.

EDIT: Just double checked and maybe it's only Asylum that's not supported. But that was the main one I really wanted to try.

I’ve been replaying the trilogy, one game per Winter. I’m just done Arkham City and they hold up amazingly well. Switch would not be my preferred platform, of course.

Too little too late for me, unfortunately. The first game purchase for my ROG Ally X was the Arkham Trilogy for $7.79, and I've already beaten Asylum.

I really wanted to get this on the Switch when it came out last year, but having a nearly unplayable game as part of the package was a deal breaker for me. Good that they broke it up though!

Trilogy is on sale constantly so don’t know why you would want to pay $25 each separately 😂 maybe if they go 50% off or less. That being said finally got to play asylum and city. City is probably one of the best games I’ve ever played.

Great to hear. I never got to play Arkham City, and I really didn't feel the need to get the whole trilogy.

Good news but I have already purchased all three.

Hopefully the Switch 2 gets a patch to run Arkham Knight more smoothly.

While I'm not saying Arkham Knight runs great, but I was surprisingly able to work with it even during the Batmobile sections.

Too bad they made it worse by attempting to decrease the resolution while still having the same performance. Thank goodness the next Nintendo console is backwards compatible!

@sketchturner you have to download a proton and it will work i have tried all 3 of them and they all work.

@ozwally ikr especially if you know how to tinker with the protons and settings lol

Tried playing Arkham Knight. It's rough. Terrible performance and really can't bring myself to enjoy it. Maybe I'll revisit it on Switch 2 and if developer bothers to upgrade it for Switch 2.

too late, and too expensive, they really doesn't want to sell those games on switch...

This is good news. Highly recommend Arkham Asylum, that is by far the best in the series. Arkham City is good too, and so is Arkham Knight but not on the Switch.

@Emacster Nobody wants to pay full price for them lol. But now they're in the wishlist, and we all know they will put them on sale soon, of course. Paying 10 or 12 for City sounds great to me.

Is there a specific order to the games?

@drypaphmrbro Yes. First is Arkham Asylum, then City and Knight is the last one.

Arkham Origins WHEEEEEN!?

That's cool. 3 Batman's that are nearly identical is just too much Batman. Doubt more than 2% of people who buy trilogies at once ever finish them all.

Might get the 3rd one when its down to 70% sales since I played the first a ton and midway through the second one my Xbox 360 decided it no longer was a disc reader.

Arkham Knight always played nice on the Switch, it was the first one I played, whenI got the collection for Switch, I wanted to give it another shot, after playing it on my PC, that ran the game worse than it does on Switch hahahaha. But, I prefer the Switch version, due to the stable performance and the portability. A little rough around the edges, yes, but it's still very playable. The game itself it's not that enjoyable, the Batmobile portions are terrible, they turned something that should be fun as hell to play, to be tedious and tiresome to play, to the point that, once you improve the glide stuff to the max, you just glide through the entire city. It's nice to change to other Batmobile models tho, but still, I think Knight is the worst game on the series. I'm playing through Asylum right now, what a great game it is. But, City is the best one, by far, followed by either Asylum or Origins.