It took 18 years, but we finally have the ultimate Lego Batman game — Legacy of the Dark Knight is creative, charming, and cohesive
Holy bricks, Batman!
by https://www.techradar.com/uk/author/josephine-watson · TechRadarFeatures By Josephine Watson published 5 May 2026
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You may assume Lego is running out of runway with licensed-IP games. You’d be wrong. I’ve spent two hours in the new Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and having played and loved the original Lego Batman trilogy, I’m now doubly excited to play this latest title.
One thing I appreciate about TT Games is its measured approach to changing the formula. A new Lego game will rarely feel like a total reinvention, but there’s almost always something fundamentally different that could make its way into future iterations.
In Batman’s Lego lifecycle, we’ve seen that a few times already: DC Superheroes introduced the first open world hub and voice acting, and Lego Batman: The Videogame was the first to feature an original storyline. Now, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight challenges Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga for its claim to fame as the biggest departure from the traditional Lego game formula, inheriting its RPG skill trees and combo system but adding a bunch of exciting new ideas, pushing the limits of what a Lego game can be.
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Some changes might feel like a loss; being limited to seven playable characters, for one, could raise some eyebrows. But more than ever, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight feels like a classic RPG, especially when compared to the older Lego action-adventure platformers of yore, and I think it’ll go down a treat when it releases soon on May 22, 2026.
OK, I’ll watch the Waynes die… again
One thing we’ve known for a while now is that Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will feature references to a far wider range of Bat-media than previous titles, including the 80s movies, the latest movie starring Robert Pattinson (swoon) and, of course, the comics.
You’ll play through from life as a young Bruce Wayne training with The League of Shadows, later build a family of allies to defeat some of Batman’s most legendary foes. It’s a real love song to one of the most enduring superheroes, and from what TT Games tells me, it’ll see Bruce Wayne’s origins and relationships explored in more depth than ever before… at least, in Lego form.
In my two-hour demo of the upcoming game, I was shown three different points in the game; the first was early-on in a The Batman (2022)-inspired sequence that saw Jim Gordon and the Bat navigate the lower levels of Falcone’s Iceberg Bar — which you learn are actually home to a giant soft-play for his henchmen called Falcone’s House of Fun.
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