Batman: Arkham Trilogy

Batman: Arkham Trilogy is a bundle released for the Nintendo Switch platform that includes the Batman: Arkham games developed by Rocksteady.

Additions

Batman: Arkham Asylum

There were not many additions for Batman: Arkham Asylum in the bundle, but it includes the previously exclusive PlayStation 3 and Mac OS X downloadable content such as Play as the Joker and Prey in the Darkness. A in-game language button was also implemented, along with two new languages that were added from the Return to Arkham version: Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Russian. There was also a new warning added when starting the game for epileptic people.

Batman: Arkham City

It is bundled with every downloadable content from the Game of the Year Edition, but it also includes the exclusive suits for Batman and Catwoman from Armored Edition that were previously exclusive to the Wii U platform. Like the previous game, it also included a in-game language button, but with no new languages. There was also a new warning added when starting the game for epileptic people.

Batman: Arkham Knight

It is bundled with every downloadable content from the Season Pass already included, as well as the PlayStation 4 exclusive skins and Scarecrow challenge maps. It also includes a new additional suit from the 2022 movie The Batman, that was a timed exclusive for the bundle until it released on every other platform on December 15, 2023. Like the previous games, it also included a in-game language button, but with no new languages. There was also a new warning added when starting the game for epileptic people.

Release

Batman: Arkham Trilogy was planned to release in October 13, 2023, but days before it released, it was delayed to December 1, 2023. It was also playable from launch day for the Nintendo Switch 2, as it was backwards compatible with the console.

Reception

Before Batman: Arkham Trilogy released, people were already skeptical regarding the performance of the games, especially Batman: Arkham Knight, for a small handheld console like the Nintendo Switch, since the game ran on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch had inferior power than those.

When the bundle released, the reception for the Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City versions included in the bundle were good, praised for it maintaining the visuals of the original PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC release, as well as having a great performance on the handheld console. On the contrary, Batman: Arkham Knight didn't do so well, as people immediately noticed that it had significantly reduced visuals and poor performance, but even worse, softlocks and constant crashes that prevented people from playing or completing the game. In response, they released continuous patches until February 2024, fixing the progression softlocks as well as other visual issues.