Arkham order
Origins to Suicide Squad is the principal route. DLC is placed by its story events and tie-ins remain optional.
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Batman: Arkham Games in Chronological Order
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Follow the Arkhamverse through games, story DLC, VR, the animated film and optional reading.
Follow Batman’s Arkham universe across games, story DLC, VR, the animated film and grouped comic and novel tie-ins. Gotham Knights, Injustice and Telltale Batman belong to other continuities.
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Enter Gotham. Follow the Arkhamverse.
The quick answer
Chronology runs Origins → Blackgate → Shadow → Assault on Arkham → Asylum → City → VR → Knight → Suicide Squad. For a first playthrough, Asylum is a simpler introduction before exploring the prequels.
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The Batman: Arkham universe, story by story
Follow Batman’s Arkham universe across games, story DLC, VR, the animated film and grouped comic and novel tie-ins. Gotham Knights, Injustice and Telltale Batman belong to other continuities.
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Story chronology · Core route
Optional DLC appears where its events occur. Batgirl: A Matter of Family is an Arkham Knight expansion set before Asylum. Film and comic tie-ins can conflict with later games; uncertain placements remain labelled.
Showing 9 of 22 released stories.
- GameCanon
Batman: Arkham Origins
Batman faces a Christmas Eve bounty and encounters future Arkham villains.
- GameCanon
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
Companion sequel set during an uprising at Blackgate Prison.
- VR gameCanon
Batman: Arkham Shadow
The Day of Wrath story sits between Origins and Asylum.
- FilmCanon
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Suicide Squad animated film in the Arkham setting. Ordering relative to Shadow is approximate; later stories create continuity tensions.
- GameCanon
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman becomes trapped in the asylum during Joker’s takeover.
- GameCanon
Batman: Arkham City
Batman investigates Hugo Strange and Protocol 10 in Gotham’s prison district.
- VR gameCanon
Batman: Arkham VR
Bruce’s fear, guilt and mental state form a short VR story.
- GameCanon
Batman: Arkham Knight
Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight attack Gotham in the Rocksteady trilogy finale.
- GameCanon
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Rocksteady’s later Arkhamverse continuation. Seasonal Brainiac and Elseworld invasion stories remain attached to this game.
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Batman: Arkham order guide
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Suggested routes
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Origins to Suicide Squad
Use Core for nine principal game and film stories.
Return to earlier Gotham
Batgirl and Initiation are historical prequels despite being expansions of later games.
Add the tie-ins
Comic families stay grouped; the Riddler’s Gambit is a prose prequel to Knight.
Story versions
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Researched editions and adaptations stay together under one story.
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What anchors this order.
Official franchise, creator and publisher sources anchor the chronology. Conflicts and uncertain placements are labelled.
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