Batman: The Telltale Series
Batman: The Telltale Series is an episodic graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games, first released in 2016. The game offers a narrative-focused experience, where players control Bruce Wayne and his…
Batman: The Telltale Series is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 2 August 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 14.3 hrs to finish.
What Batman: The Telltale Series is
Batman: The Telltale Series is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2016. It was published by LCG Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Batman: The Telltale Series is a 2016 episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment under its DC Entertainment label. The game is based on the DC Comics character Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, though not tied to any previous adaptation of the work in film or other media. Upon release, it received a mixed reception, with praise given for its atmosphere, action sequences, and faithfulness to the Batman mythos, but was criticized for its technical issues and plot. A second season, titled Batman: The Enemy Within, was released in 2017, and was viewed as an improvement over…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the DC Comics series
Batman: The Telltale Series is the 141st of 185 entries we hold in the DC Comics series. The next entry was Batman: Arkham Knight - Game of the Year Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 75 is 6 points above the series average of 69. The highest-rated entry is Batman: Arkham Knight at 92.
How it was received
Batman: The Telltale Series holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 408 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 3 GB RAM and Nvidia GTS 450+ with 1024MB+ VRAM (excluding GT) - LATEST DRIVERS REQUIRED. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Batman: The Telltale Series launched on 2 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Batman: The Telltale Series yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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