Batman: Arkham City

Playtime: 16.9 Hours

Finished 11 April 2026.

Played on the Steam Deck, just like Asylum; running the installer required switching to Desktop mode and a lot of the cutscenes (seemingly both live-action and pre-rendered) had some really weird framerate hitches, but the game otherwise ran flawlessly throughout, not even crashing once during my playthrough. I didn't have to change Proton settings or anything this time. It still looks and feels great for its time!

There's a lot more side content in this game, largely in the form of over 400 Riddler trophies... I don't really like the game enough to pursue full completion, especially since the estimate is that it'll take another ~30-40 hours to do everything. I ended up doing about half of the side quests, but otherwise focused mostly on the main story - the main menu shows 51% completion. After finishing the main story, I didn't bother finishing the Catwoman DLC because the final boss fight against Two-Face featuring INFINITELY RESPAWNING ENEMIES with guns was awful, and burned any interest I had in wasting my time on the other DLCs too.

In all fairness, I was already starting to tire of the game by the end so I feel like I was just looking for a good excuse to stop and avoid getting sucked into the well of completionism. I've got another 2 games in this series so I doubt I'll ever come back to this, but this was quite fun and well worth playing.

ASDF