Puzzle · 2026 · Traveller's Tales · local
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
Batman’s beginnings in LEGO bricks, with Arkham-style combat and an open Gotham — the whole story for two on a split screen.
What it is about
Bruce Wayne’s road to becoming Batman, in LEGO bricks: training with the League of Shadows, then an open Gotham with the familiar villains in it.
The fighting works like the Arkham games — strike, counter at the right moment — just without their harshness. The entire story can be played by two on a split screen.
Our verdict for couples
For an evening for two this is one of the most convenient recommendations going: one copy, two controllers, and both of you can start playing without anyone having to learn anything. Dying costs a few LEGO bricks and not one second of progress — so the evening cannot go wrong, it can only end sooner or later. What carries it is Gotham itself: you glide to wherever something is blinking and find things nobody was looking for. What slows it down is repetition. After a few hours you know the moves, and the levels vary them more than they extend them. One point concerns the co-op specifically: the split screen is fixed, so in tight rooms you see nearly the same thing twice.
Pros
- The full campaign and the open Gotham both work for two
- One copy covers you both at the television
- Arkham-style combat that anyone can pick up immediately
- Dying costs a few bricks, never your progress
Cons
- The split screen is fixed — in tight rooms both of you see nearly the same thing
- After a few hours the tasks start noticeably repeating
- Over distance only as a stream from the buyer’s machine; there is no real online co-op
- On PC many report frame drops, especially during cutscenes
Suitable from
Casual
- Conflict potential
- Harmonious
- Cosiness
- Cosy
- When you can stop
- After 15 minutes
- How long it lasts
- 15–40 hours
What other co-op fans say
At 96 percent approval from more than nine thousand reviews the picture is clear, and the people playing as a pair say it most plainly: that the whole campaign runs on a split screen comes up again and again as the actual reason to buy it. The Arkham-style combat gets praised, and a Gotham you get lost in. Two objections recur, and neither is about the game itself: the frame rate on PC, and — described most precisely in a German review — that the older LEGO games’ travelling split screen is gone, which makes the multiplayer harder to read.
- “it can be played entirely on split screen coop as well, probably one of the best lego games out there.”
- “Plays well in couch co-op mode. The jokes are funny and the combat is entertaining.”
- “It is a ton of fun in local cooperative play, and is an enjoyable return to the Lego Batman universe.”
- “this is a game that the entire household can enjoy”
- “The levels feel extremely repetitive, the story never really grabbed me”
Summarised by machine from 60 Steam reviews, not written by our editors. The quotes appear verbatim in those reviews.
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