Top 10 Best DC Games
14.02.2024 - 20:03
/ ign.com
/ Harley Quinn
/ Mark Hamill
/ Nathan Drake
Deciding the 10 best DC video games requires superhuman stamina, because there a lot to choose from! DC Comics characters have been showing up in games since the very beginning, starting with Superman for the Atari 2600 way back in 1979 — just a year after Christopher Reeve’s iconic movie performance hit theaters. Since then, the number of DC games has flown up, up, and away, with over a 100 games to date. And half of them are Batman games!
Just kidding. Only 38 are.
DC’s world of superpowered heroes and larger-than-life villains has proven to be good for everything from side-scrolling beat-’em-ups to high-flying action adventures. They’ve made for games that range from family-friendly fun to disturbing crime thrillers, from cheap movie tie-ins to genre-defining masterpieces, and everything in-between.
To determine our ranking, IGN’s resident DC fans assembled to debate and shout about our favorites, not unlike all the DC villains used to do in the old Super Friends cartoon. The games had to be fun to play, obviously, but they also had to tell an entertaining story, be authentic to the DC characters we know and love, and capture the feeling of being a superhero.
Experience this article how you want. You can watch our video ranking in the player above, flip through the slideshow below, or keep scrolling to read it as an article.
After checking out the list, be sure to vote in our poll at the end of this page to tell us your favorite DC game.
Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, macOS
The first brick to build the foundation of this list is LEGO DC Super Villains. Yes, there are three other DC LEGO games, and we know LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is a fan-favorite (we like it, too!), but the baddies steal the win on this one. LEGO DC Super Villains incorporates all the great ideas that have made the LEGO games so popular, blending easily accessible gameplay with a silly sense of humor that has fun with the licensed property at hand. What sets DC Super Villains above the rest is the voice cast. While LEGO Batman 2 was the first to feature fully voice-acted dialogue, the third entry assembled a Mount Rushmore of familiar talent: Kevin Conroy as Batman, Mark Hamill as the Joker, and Tara Strong as Harley Quinn. Not only that, Nathan Drake’s Nolan North is the villainous Ultraman. Getting to experience the best of the best doing their thing while enjoying puzzles and collecting is sublime.
As the title suggests, the story mixes things up by focusing on the villains. Traditional DC baddies are forced to defend the world from a group of evil Justice League knockoffs, the Justice Syndicate, which leads to all manner of enjoyable plot twists and humorous interactions. A highlight of the