Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Only Has 7 Playable Characters Because They Are “More Differentiated With Much Deeper Gameplay” | IGN Fan Fest 2026

Ever since Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’s uncover astatine gamescom 2025, 1 of the hottest topics surrounding it has been the amazingly tiny fig of playable characters connected its roster. But developer TT Games promises that there’s a precise bully crushed for this.

Over the past decennary oregon so, Lego games ranging from DC and Marvel superheroes to Star Wars and Harry Potter droids and wizards person included unlockable playable quality numbers stretching into the hundreds, but successful the upcoming Legacy of the Dark Knight, that full astatine motorboat is conscionable seven. Those that made the chopped see the Bat household and a fewer friends: Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Jim Gordon, Talia Al Ghul, and Catwoman.

IGN precocious spoke to the caput of the TT Games improvement team, Jonathan Smith, to find retired wherefore this fig has been reduced truthful drastically by comparison. “We're taking these idiosyncratic characters connected a journey,” Smith explains. “So you are perpetually upgrading and processing caller skills and opening up caller abilities for each of those characters. Within the Bat family, arsenic well, we truly wanted to absorption connected making those characters truly unique, making their personalities travel crossed and their abilities precise distinct.”

For example, Batman tin propulsion batarangs and usage his grapple to assistance successful combat arsenic good arsenic lick puzzles, but Catwoman tin utilise her rangy whip and telephone successful the assistance of her kittens by triggering a laser pointer connected a target. Those aforesaid cats tin besides beryllium straight controlled by the subordinate to assistance entree to tiny vents and distract unsuspecting guards with a delightful “meow”.

You inactive get that infinitesimal successful the Bat Cave wherever you've got each the antithetic suits from each the antithetic characters arrayed successful beforehand of you.“

While the absorption is seemingly connected a deeper gameplay acquisition this clip around, with a Rocksteady Arkham-influenced combo-based combat strategy starring that charge, fans of old-school Lego games shouldn’t fearfulness excessively much, arsenic Smith promises determination volition inactive beryllium plentifulness to cod crossed its unfastened satellite and movie-inspired levels.

“The communicative is much focused connected a tighter roster of characters that are present much differentiated with overmuch deeper gameplay,” confirms Smith. “So they enactment good successful concern with each other, and we past privation to springiness you tons and tons of options to spot the afloat scope of what those characters tin beryllium by giving you much than a 100 antithetic suits to collect. So you inactive get that infinitesimal successful the Bat Cave wherever you've got each the antithetic suits from each the antithetic characters arrayed successful beforehand of you, colorful and glorious. You're inactive compelled to privation to implicit that collection.”

For much connected Bat Suits, instrumentality a look astatine each 1 confirmed to beryllium successful Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight truthful far, and if you privation to cognize a batch much astir the game, cheque retired much from our interrogation with the workplace arsenic portion of IGN Fan Fest 2026.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.