Batman: Arkham VR
Your quest to clean up Gotham has only just begun – and now it’s even more terrifying than it’s ever been. Exclusive to PlayStation VR, Batman: Arkham VR lets you become the Dark Knight in a virtual reality…
Batman: Arkham VR is an adventure developed by Rocksteady Studios, released 13 October 2016 on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Batman: Arkham VR is
Batman: Arkham VR is an adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released in 2016. It was published by WB Games. It is available on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Batman: Arkham VR is a virtual reality adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4 and Windows. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, it is part of the Batman: Arkham series and the first installment to use virtual reality headsets, allowing players to experience the game world from Batman's perspective. Arkham VR was released worldwide on October 11, 2016, for PlayStation 4 and on April 25, 2017, for Windows for VR headsets.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 13 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the DC Comics series
Batman: Arkham VR is the 143rd of 185 entries we hold in the DC Comics series. The next entry was Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham Asylum in 2016. Its critic score of 73 is 4 points above the series average of 69. The highest-rated entry is Batman: Arkham Knight at 92.
How it was received
Batman: Arkham VR holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 5 hrs, roughly 2.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 equivalent or greater, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1060 / GTX 970 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 10GB.
What it launched against
Batman: Arkham VR launched on 13 October 2016, within three weeks of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Batman: Arkham VR yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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