Games Like Batman Arkham Asylum
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The closest games to Batman Arkham Asylum are Batman: Arkham City, Marvel's Spider-Man, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Metroid Dread and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Batman Arkham Asylum, and what does not.
What Made Batman Arkham Asylum Work
Arkham Asylum is a metroidvania in a cape. One building that opens up as you get gadgets, freeflow combat that reads like choreography, and predator rooms where you are the thing being feared. Almost every licensed action game since has copied the combat and missed why the building mattered.
9 Games Like Batman Arkham Asylum
2.Marvel's Spider-Man
The same combat lineage with the best traversal ever put in a city.
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Freeflow combat plus a nemesis system nothing else has matched.
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If the one-building-that-opens-up structure was the real appeal.
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Gadget-gated traversal with a combat system that asks more.
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For the predator rooms — patience, observation, and a plan.
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How These Picks Match Batman Arkham Asylum
Batman Arkham Asylum is catalogued here as an action-adventure and stealth game on the Xbox 360. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine action games and nine adventures among them.
Two of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 4.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Batman Arkham Asylum |
|---|---|---|
| Batman: Arkham City | Action, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Marvel's Spider-Man | Action, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor | Action, Adventure, RPG | Action, Adventure |
| Metroid Dread | Platformer, Action, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | Action, Adventure, Platformer | Action, Adventure |
| Sleeping Dogs | Action, Adventure, Fighting | Action, Adventure |
| Hitman: World of Assassination | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Action, Adventure |
| Control | Action, Shooter, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
| Dishonored | Action, Shooter, Adventure | Action, Adventure |
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