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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentUpdated May 19, 2026How this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

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We filtered the 50 games similar to Batman: Arkham Asylum down to the 28 that fit the “Dark” category. Vampyr, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Prototype top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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The best dark games like Batman: Arkham Asylum

28 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Batman: Arkham Asylum. Each one has been evaluated across 13 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1VampyrClosest overall match

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SoloMeleeStealthNarrativeDarkOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 77%· 24KIGDB68· 17OC72· 172

Year 2018Dev Dontnod Eleven · Focus EntertainmentOn PS4 · PC · Xbox

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: horror tension, punishing difficulty and fantasy world, while skipping fighting mechanics

An RPG built on a real dilemma: every citizen you drain gives large experience but permanently degrades their district, and the game is genuinely playable without killing anyone. The London setting and dialogue are strong. Combat is stiff and repetitive, and pacifist runs leave you badly underlevelled for bosses the game does not scale down.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 8 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#2Vampire: The Masquerade - BloodlinesClosest on tone

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SoloMeleeStealthNarrativeDarkOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 95%· 15KRAWG👍 87%· 905MC80IGDB72· 3

Year 2004Dev Troika Games · Activision BlizzardPlaytime ~2hOn PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings horror tension, combat magic and fantasy world, while skipping fighting mechanics

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a story-driven action-RPG based on table-top role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the part of the World of Darkness franchise. The game is setting a gothic urban fantasy where vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings live secretly by humans.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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SoloMeleeStealthDarkNarrativeOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 80%· 14KRAWG👍 72%· 1.1KMC79IGDB78· 8

Year 2009Dev Activision · Activision BlizzardPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, sandbox freedom and survival mechanics, while skipping fighting mechanics

New York, Manhattan Peninsula (very detailed), our days. The townspeople are struck by a mutation that turns people into bloodthirsty monsters. The protagonist of the game is a seemingly unremarkable young man named Alex Mercer.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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SoloMeleeStealthDarkNarrativeOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 80%· 14KRAWG👍 72%· 1.1KMC79IGDB78· 8

Year 2009Dev Activision · Activision BlizzardPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: precision platforming, sandbox freedom and survival mechanics, while skipping fighting mechanics

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#5Prototype 2Closest on progression

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SoloMeleeStealthDarkNarrativeOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 77%· 16KIGDB77· 10

Year 2012Dev Radical Entertainment · ActivisionOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings precision platforming, sandbox freedom and survival mechanics, while skipping fighting mechanics

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#6Assassin's Creed Mirage

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SoloMeleeStealthDarkNarrativeOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 76%· 11KIGDB75· 9OC76· 194

Year 2023Dev Ubisoft Bordeaux · Ubisoft EntertainmentOn Xbox · PS4 · PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: historical setting, while skipping fighting mechanics

Where it drifts furthest from Batman: Arkham Asylum: setting.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 13 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#7The Sinking CityClosest on setting

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SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 76%· 5.3KIGDB70· 15OC69· 159

Year 2019Dev Frogwares · Bigben InteractiveOn Xbox · PS4 · PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: shooter, third-person shooting and horror tension, while skipping fighting mechanics

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 9 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#8Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2

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SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 85%· 6.4KIGDB63· 15OC61· 30

Year 2014Dev MercurySteam · KonamiOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings Metroidvania exploration, fantasy world and setting medieval, while skipping fighting mechanics

The close of the Lords of Shadow trilogy, alternating a weakened Dracula between his castle and a modern city, with the same weighty whip combat as the first game plus magic and platforming. Its reputation is deserved in one specific way: the modern-city stealth sections are widely disliked, and the game is poor at signposting where to go or what an acquired item is for.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 4 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#9Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

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SoloMeleeStealthDarkNarrativeOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 92%· 96KIGDB84· 18OC85· 103

Year 2014Dev Monolith Productions · WB GamesOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · Linux

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings sandbox freedom, sandbox world and ranged combat, while skipping fighting mechanics

Where it drifts furthest from Batman: Arkham Asylum: setting.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 4 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#10Deadpool

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SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeThird Person

Steam👍 91%· 3.3KIGDB70· 13

Year 2013Dev High Moon Studios · ActivisionOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings shooter, third-person shooting and first-person shooting, while skipping open world exploration

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 3 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#11Maneater

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SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 87%· 25KIGDB73· 14OC71· 168

Year 2020Dev Blindside Interactive · Deep SilverOn Xbox · PS4 · PC

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, while skipping fighting mechanics

You play the shark. Eat fish, wildlife and swimmers to evolve, upgrade your bite and hunt the hunters back, all narrated as a straight-faced wildlife documentary. The B-movie tone is the appeal and it commits to it. The recurring complaint is technical rather than creative: crashes, stutter and startup failures on modern Windows come up constantly, even from players who finished it.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 10 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#12Murdered: Soul Suspect

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SoloStealthMeleeNarrativeDarkOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 86%· 17KRAWG👍 58%· 992MC59IGDB61· 14OC61· 76

Year 2014Dev Square EnixPlaytime ~5hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus

≠ Where it differs: brings puzzle design, horror tension and ranged combat, while skipping action RPG combat

The hero is a policeman, talented and devoted to duty. But there is a clarification - this is a dead policeman, killed because of his work, but he did not leave the world, he turned into a ghost and did not lose his passion for investigations. A hero can do many things in our world, but not all.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 4 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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GenreRPGSubgenreAction RPGSub-subgenreThird-Person ARPG

SoloStealthMeleeNarrativeDarkOpen WorldHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 93%· 79KIGDB84· 17OC83· 203

Year 2019Dev Kojima Productions · Sony Interactive EntertainmentOn PS4 · PC

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus

≠ Where it differs: brings shooter, third-person shooting and survival mechanics, while skipping action RPG combat

Where it drifts furthest from Batman: Arkham Asylum: setting.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 9 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#14Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

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SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 85%· 8.7KIGDB78· 6OC80· 137

Year 2024Dev DON'T NOD · Focus EntertainmentOn Xbox · PC · PS5

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings horror tension and fantasy world, while skipping fighting mechanics

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Released 14 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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#15METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE

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SoloMeleeStealthDarkNarrativeThird Person

Steam👍 96%· 88KRAWG👍 87%· 1.3KMC83IGDB85· 17OC84· 19

Year 2013Dev Platinum Games · KonamiPlaytime ~6hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings shooter, third-person shooting and punishing difficulty, while skipping fighting mechanics

After the events of the uprising took four years. Naomi Hunter creates the FOXAVILE computer virus that destroys the system of "Sons of the Patriots", thereby putting an end to the military economy, what turned the war into a profitable business.

Where it drifts furthest from Batman: Arkham Asylum: setting.

Released 3 years after Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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