The Batman: Arkham titles are some of the most influential and straight up revolutionary experiences in modern gaming and on the off-chance that you haven’t played some of them yet, you can do so right now as Fanatical is offering huge discounts on all of those titles right now, which goes up to 88% cuts from their regular pricing. So if you’re relatively new to gaming and haven’t played the Batman: Arkham games and wonder why they’re regarded so highly, even though the last one came out over a decade ago, you can find out by getting some of them via Fanatical’s ongoing Batman sale.
Batman: Arkham Knight Premier Edition is available at a whopping 88% discount while you can also get the standard edition of the game at 83% reduced price. Arkham Asylum: Game of the Year Edition is available at 88% discount as well, and both Arkham City: Game of the Year as well as Arkham Origins can be bought at 83% reduced prices while the sale lasts, so make sure to get them if you don’t have these classics already.
More than just great games of the time they were released, Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham titles are timeless classics that have single handedly shaped the third-person-action-adventure genre. The biggest contribution of the Arkham games is the Freeflow combat system, which is now regarded as the blueprint for third person combat and is present in pretty much all AAA third person action titles you see now–from Insomniac’s acclaimed Spider-Man titles to their recent Wolverine, from Ghost of Tsushima to even 007 First Light, the influence of the freeflow combat system is easily felt in all of those titles and many more.
But of course, although all of the above mentioned games have borrowed it and even made it their own in varying degrees, there’s not a better combat system than in Batman: Arkham Knight which sees the biggest evolution of the Freeflow combat to deliver spectacular and consistently addictive gameplay that’s pretty much unmatched even in 2026 in terms of accessibility, depth and fluidity.
