LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Launch Trailer Is Here

Warner Bros. Games has released the launch trailer for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and it is an absolute gift to every Batman fan who’s ever existed. Set to a cinematic remix of Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” — yes, that song, from the Batman Forever soundtrack — the trailer runs through the sprawling, multi-era scope of what TT Games has built, and it looks genuinely spectacular.

The footage spans decades of Batman mythology: scenes inspired by Tim Burton’s Batman (1989), Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, and Matt Reeves’ The Batman are all in there, stitched together with the LEGO series’ signature humor and brick-built charm. You’ll spot Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Catwoman, and Talia al Ghul on the hero side, facing off against a villain roster that includes the Joker, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, Ra’s al Ghul, and Bane. Eagle-eyed fans are already freeze-framing every second of it looking for Easter eggs.

One moment already getting attention: a lift from the finale of Batman & Robin, widely considered one of the worst superhero films ever made. The fact that the game isn’t shying away from Batman’s more embarrassing cinematic history is exactly the kind of confident, self-aware move that makes this feel like a real love letter to the character rather than a sanitized greatest-hits package. There’s also a Mr. Freeze boss battle that appears to draw from Gotham Knights, of all places.

How the Game Weaves All the Batman Timelines Together

Legacy of the Dark Knight isn’t a direct adaptation of any single Batman film — it’s something more interesting than that. It takes characters, aesthetics, and iconic scenes from across Batman’s entire cinematic and comics history and blends them into one original story. And the blending is clever. Jack Napier — the Burton-era gangster who becomes the Joker — is here, but instead of working for Carl Grissom, he works for Carmine Falcone, who operates out of the Iceberg Lounge from The Batman. Napier also becomes the Red Hood before his Joker transformation, which is a nod to the comics. Similarly, Ra’s al Ghul recruits Bruce Wayne directly, rather than the Henri Ducard alias he used in Batman Begins — which, as any Nolan fan knows, is who he really was all along anyway.

In hands-on time with the game, players get to see Batman and Commissioner Gordon pull Falcone out of the Iceberg Lounge and hand him over to Harvey Dent, before Bruce Wayne later attends the circus from Batman Forever — the one where a young Dick Grayson and the Flying Graysons come face to face with a Tommy Lee Jones-style Two-Face. Three missions covered in two hours of play, which suggests the full game is going to be enormous.

TT Games appears to be leaning hard into the combat DNA of the Arkham series — punchy, rhythmic, satisfying — and applying it to the LEGO world. The open-world Gotham City also draws heavily from those games. For a franchise that hasn’t had a new mainline entry in a decade, it’s a welcome spiritual successor of sorts, even if it’s arriving in brick form.

One preview called it “a wonderful, joyful, and significant evolution of what Lego IP games have always been — movie tie-ins that let our inner seven-year-olds (or, indeed, our actual seven-year-olds) re-live the cinematic magic.” The one caveat worth flagging: there have been early concerns about PC performance, and whether the final build will be fully up to speed at launch.

The Song That Ties It All Together

Using “Kiss from a Rose” as the trailer’s backbone is a genuinely inspired choice — and the story behind the song is wilder than most people realize. Seal originally recorded it early in his career and, by his own account, was embarrassed by it. It wasn’t even supposed to be in Batman Forever as anything more than a credits addition. Director Joel Schumacher had wanted it for a love scene between Batman and Nicole Kidman, but it didn’t make it into the film itself. Schumacher did, however, direct the music video to help promote the movie, and it was included on the soundtrack — which is what sent the song rocketing up the charts and turned it into a ’90s classic.

Now, more than 30 years later, it’s the soundtrack to what might be the most ambitious LEGO game ever made. That’s a full-circle moment if there ever was one.

Pre-Order Perks and What’s Coming at Launch

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight launches May 22 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. The Nintendo Switch 2 version is coming later in 2026. Players who pre-order the Deluxe Edition get early access starting May 19 — three days ahead of everyone else — along with the iconic Arkham and Batman Beyond outfits as bonus cosmetics. All pre-orders, regardless of edition, receive The Dark Knight Returns Batsuit at launch, inspired by the acclaimed Frank Miller comic series.

Unlike many previous LEGO games with their massive rosters of unlockable characters, Legacy of the Dark Knight is focusing its depth elsewhere — with a huge variety of Batsuits to collect and costume variations for the rest of the playable cast. And for those already thinking about post-launch content, the Mayhem Pack DLC adds a full Story Mission and a Mayhem Mode built around Gotham’s most chaotic duo: the Joker and Harley Quinn.

It’s been four years since LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The wait is almost over.