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Batman: The Telltale Series

Aug 2, 2016

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3.52 average rating based on 1322 ratings

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Batman: The Telltale Series is an episodic graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games, first released in 2016. The game offers a narrative-focused experience, where players control Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Batman, making choices that shape the story and relationships with characters. The plot explores Bruce Wayne’s struggle to uncover corruption in Gotham City, while confronting revelations about his family’s past. The game features dialogue-driven gameplay, quick-time combat, and detective sequences. Decisions carry over across episodes, influencing the narrative’s direction and character arcs.
Release Dates
Aug 02, 2016 (Worldwide)
PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Aug 02, 2016 (North_America)
Xbox One
Sep 13, 2016 (Worldwide)
PlayStation 3
Sep 14, 2016 (Worldwide)
Xbox 360
Sep 20, 2016 (North_America)
iOS
Sep 20, 2016 (Europe)
iOS
Sep 20, 2016 (Worldwide)
iOS
Oct 26, 2016 (Worldwide)
Android
Nov 14, 2017 (Worldwide)
Nintendo Switch
Nov 17, 2017 (Europe)
Nintendo Switch
Nov 17, 2017 (Australia)
Nintendo Switch
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User Stats
3937
In Collection
496
Wish Listed
115
Playing
1466
Backlogged
How Long Is Batman: The Telltale Series?
Main story: 9.1 hours
Main + extras: 9.2 hours
100% completion: 12.7 hours
Total completions: 59
MarcoHolland
MarcoHolland gave Jan 25, 2018
MarcoHolland gave Jan 25, 2018
Un'altra serie Telltale

Intelligente la scelta di allontanarsi da alcuni canoni classici di Batman, permette di rendere i colpi di scena della storia più imprevedibili. Il gioco è un classico Telltale con tutti i pregi (curato dal punto di vista narrativo e della scrittura) e i difetti del caso (i glitch grafici, fastidiosi, e la scarsa innovazione rispetto alle altre serie; ormai, tranne piccole variazioni, è sempre la solita solfa). Consigliato ai fan Telltale e dell'Uomo Pipistrello.

znfs
znfs gave Nov 22, 2017
znfs gave Nov 22, 2017
Batman: The Telltale Series

A good title, good batman story, very rich and very crowded of moral dilemmas (as a good batman comic).

About gameplay Nothing special and complicated at all, all commands are very simple and have no great influence in the scenes however if you do not hit that buttons on the right time, you will probably see a "try again screen".

In resume: telltale being telltale.

deepdoop
deepdoop gave Aug 9, 2016
deepdoop gave Aug 9, 2016
deepdoop's review of Batman: The Telltale Series

I'll probably just keep editing this to review each episode then when it's done I'll change the rating to something final once I find the average. I was really looking forward to this one because Batman lends himself so well to a great story, and even though gameplay is obviously lacking in Telltale games, their story can really be on point at times.

Episode 1 (9/10):

- Playing as Batman was a lot of fun, though planning the attack was really simplistic. However, it does suffer from the Telltale formula a bit since I don't think QTE is the way to represent Batman. We knew this was going to happen but it's probably the weakest link in the chain here. Still, the investigations were cool, and it does a good job of making Batman feel like Batman. It's cool being able to choose how brutal you want to be, knowing that there will be consequences.

- The Bruce Wayne parts are wonderful. Spoilers in this paragraph: I had decided to meet with Falcone because of Harvey but due to how ingrained Batman is into my brain, I just could not bring myself to shake his hand or treat him with …

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I'll probably just keep editing this to review each episode then when it's done I'll change the rating to something final once I find the average. I was really looking forward to this one because Batman lends himself so well to a great story, and even though gameplay is obviously lacking in Telltale games, their story can really be on point at times.

Episode 1 (9/10):

- Playing as Batman was a lot of fun, though planning the attack was really simplistic. However, it does suffer from the Telltale formula a bit since I don't think QTE is the way to represent Batman. We knew this was going to happen but it's probably the weakest link in the chain here. Still, the investigations were cool, and it does a good job of making Batman feel like Batman. It's cool being able to choose how brutal you want to be, knowing that there will be consequences.

- The Bruce Wayne parts are wonderful. Spoilers in this paragraph: I had decided to meet with Falcone because of Harvey but due to how ingrained Batman is into my brain, I just could not bring myself to shake his hand or treat him with respect. I was sitting there, frantically trying to decide, and ultimately I thought, "Batman could NEVER bring himself to shake this guy's hand." That's real power in narrative right there, but it does benefit from Batman being such a recognizable figure.

- Being the first episode, obviously the plot is just getting going, but it really hit me hard at the end with an excellent twist and voice acting. I cannot wait to see more because a fantastic Batman tale is hard to beat in any medium.

- The animations and graphics are a little wonky with some PC issues, but that seems to always happen.

Final thought on this episode: So far I'm really digging it. It's obviously not the Arkham series which succeeds on every level, but this is what I wanted from Telltale's take on it.



Episode 2 (8.5/10)

- I'm still bothered by the QTE, and I'm sure this will be the first criticism that you see in all of these episodes. It didn't bother me as much in The Wolf Among Us, but I still think this isn't a good way to represent Batman. I didn't feel that the planning of combat in this one was as good.

- When you first appear as Batman, it was incredibly wonky. However, you show up again as the Bat and those sequences are much cooler.

- None of the Bruce Wayne parts hit me as hard as in the first one, but it's still solid storytelling for the most part.

- The ending brought it together well, and the choice you have to make is setting a lot of things in motion. It didn't end with a big twist, especially to fans of Batman, but it was a narrative that had to happen... it was accomplished well.

Final thought on this episode: A bit of a step down in quality, ultimately, but still great stuff as a whole.

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rykoszet4
rykoszet4 gave Feb 15, 2025
rykoszet4 gave Feb 15, 2025
rykoszet4's review of Batman: The Telltale Series

Hell yeah. Another good telltale game with greate story and amazing plottwists

cagebox
cagebox gave Nov 16, 2024
cagebox gave Nov 16, 2024
Pretty Good
This review is for the Xbox One version

Batman Telltale is pretty good but not a standout. In other entries like The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones they used a universe that was popular but filled it with new characters to great effect. With Batman, they decide to subvert some of the Batman mythos to make it unique. The result is an interesting story but one that doesn't 100% ring true.

gkel
gkel gave Feb 19, 2022
gkel gave Feb 19, 2022
gkel's review of Batman: The Telltale Series

I LOVE CHOICE GAMES I LOVE CHOICE GAMES I LOVE CHOICE GAMES

GamesAndMarcel
GamesAndMarcel gave Dec 5, 2018
GamesAndMarcel gave Dec 5, 2018
Better than I expected

Overall solid experience. A few segments in some of the episodes ran a little long but other than that, I enjoyed my time with telltale's version of the caped crusader. Great voice acting, a few fun combat scenes and it was really fun developing some of Bruce's relationships. Telltale engine definitely hinders the experience, the overall FPS drop takes you out of the moment. But I'm still excited to check out season 2 for the right price. 7.8/10

giopep
giopep gave Aug 26, 2016
giopep gave Aug 26, 2016
giopep's review of Batman: The Telltale Series

È il Batman di Telltale e questo dice tutto. Il secondo episodio, comunque, segna un deciso passo avanti rispetto al primo e i successivi si mantengono su quei livelli.

anarchistica
anarchistica updated their status May 14, 2026
anarchistica updated their status May 14, 2026

Free @ Epic this week:

https://store.epicgames.com/p/the-telltale-batman

Next week we get another two mystery games.

Ismija
Ismija updated their status Sep 27, 2024
Ismija updated their status Sep 27, 2024

Well, the games from Telltale aren’t really a challenge; I’d say they’re more like an interactive movie and quite amusing overall. But why on earth can’t you skip scenes, especially the recaps? What annoys me the most about this game are the characters. I know it’s just a game and drama is necessary, but do the dialogues really have to be written in a way that you have to treat them like fragile eggs? Everyone is an emotional powder keg or a wimp, and I’m not talking about the complete insane enemies of Batman but the 'normal' people in the game. Has the dramatology gone completely overboard here, or does it partly reflect reality, where if you talk to someone and accidentally say something 'wrong,' they get offended, hurt, or sad right away? The characters in the game are extremely emotionally unstable, and that ruins the whole fun for me.

ComputerAbuser
ComputerAbuser updated their status Nov 12, 2020
ComputerAbuser updated their status Nov 12, 2020

Honestly, it's been a while since I finished it, but I have fond memories of playing this series and I believe I enjoyed it.

Novastar
Novastar updated their status Aug 14, 2018
Novastar updated their status Aug 14, 2018

Love Telltale games so much and Batman is a great addition!

JopZ
JopZ updated their status Jul 29, 2018
JopZ updated their status Jul 29, 2018

Well that was quite entertaining. I guess I understand Batman now. Lol.

JopZ
JopZ updated their status Jul 22, 2018
JopZ updated their status Jul 22, 2018

I wonder how this series will turn out. Not a fan of Batman but I enjoy choice-driven games so since I'm done with Detroit, I figured I'd give this game that I got on PS+ a shot.

StarscReen
StarscReen updated their status Jun 30, 2018
StarscReen updated their status Jun 30, 2018

So, I was halfway through episode two of this game (approx. 3 hours in) when it crashed in the middle of saving and this happened after reloading: Batman Telltale gamebreaking bugBatman Telltale gamebreaking bug

For some reason the environment I'm in is the police station, while Bruce Wayne seems to be already one scene ahead in the bat-cave, typing on his invisible bat-computer and sitting on his invisible chair. He also seems to be talking to somebody (the butler I think) but I can neither hear him nor see him and had to choose answers at random. I was hoping if I played like this until the next scene it'll be back to normal. No such luck, a few minutes into it, I couldn't progress anymore. I think I was supposed to do something but I couldn't see anything or click anything. Reloading again didn't help, using the local save file instead of the cloud save file didn't work either. I guess this is going into my discontinued folder. I'm not willing to play those three hours all over again. I wish Telltale would get their shit together and release working games, had a similar problem with TWD New Frontier where I played through the whole first …

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So, I was halfway through episode two of this game (approx. 3 hours in) when it crashed in the middle of saving and this happened after reloading: Batman Telltale gamebreaking bugBatman Telltale gamebreaking bug

For some reason the environment I'm in is the police station, while Bruce Wayne seems to be already one scene ahead in the bat-cave, typing on his invisible bat-computer and sitting on his invisible chair. He also seems to be talking to somebody (the butler I think) but I can neither hear him nor see him and had to choose answers at random. I was hoping if I played like this until the next scene it'll be back to normal. No such luck, a few minutes into it, I couldn't progress anymore. I think I was supposed to do something but I couldn't see anything or click anything. Reloading again didn't help, using the local save file instead of the cloud save file didn't work either. I guess this is going into my discontinued folder. I'm not willing to play those three hours all over again. I wish Telltale would get their shit together and release working games, had a similar problem with TWD New Frontier where I played through the whole first episode only to have my save file deleted the next time I started the game. Very disappointed and slightly angry.

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Mekime9
Mekime9 updated their status Jun 21, 2017
Mekime9 updated their status Jun 21, 2017

While the gameplay is still pretty much the same as any other telltale game and the plot twists weren't as bombastic as say The Walking Dead I still really enjoyd this game.

I really enjoyed intarecting with all the vilains and how they gave them a unique spin while still making them very recognazible.

4 out of 5 'cause I got to be Batman for a few hours :)

danielpholt
danielpholt updated their status May 16, 2017
danielpholt updated their status May 16, 2017

Batman: The Telltale Series

It took far longer than I expected, but I finally finished it with a breakneck 4 hour stint through the final 2 chapters this afternoon. As with most other Telltale games, I enjoyed it....even though I'm well aware of its faults.

And as with all other Telltale games before it, I'm going to vow never to play another of their games again. Until Game of Thrones S2 hits. Because I hate myself.

BlkHander
BlkHander updated their status Nov 29, 2016
BlkHander updated their status Nov 29, 2016

Episodes 1-3 have been awesome. Really looking forward to playing Episode 4.