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The game opens with Batman walking the Joker into Intensive Treatment, and most of the asylum's staff cross your path on that walk. Once the Joker breaks free you have only the Batarang, the grapnel and Detective Mode; scanning comes later, and riddles only count after the Riddler first calls in the next stretch. Everything listed here needs nothing more. Left for later, when you return with the right gadget: the Riddler's own cell in the Holding Cells, the upper grate and the Maxie Zeus cell in Patient Pacification, the gated office in Decontamination (a tape and a trophy), and the Chronicle and the Iceberg Lounge poster in the Transfer Loop. Decontamination holds this run's first missable trophy: read the warning before you go in.
The next room locks a trophy for this save. In Decontamination two guards and a thug hang from ledges over Joker toxin, and each lets go if you are slow. Go straight to them, in order: the guard on the ledge ahead of you as you come out of the vent, the second guard one level up, then the thug on a lower platform. Detective Mode shows all three. If any of them falls, open the pause menu and choose Restart From Checkpoint at once, before you leave the room; once you are out of Decontamination the room never comes back, and only the Hard run (run 2) gives another chance. The trophy pops when the gas is cleared.
This stretch starts after the mutated henchman in Secure Treatment Transfer and ends with the first walk around Arkham East. You have the Batarang, the grapnel and Detective Mode; scanning opens at the first Chronicle of Arkham on the Secure Transit climb. The Riddler's challenge starts when he calls Batman at Frank Boles' body in the Lobby: riddles only count from that call, while the trophies, teeth, tapes and Chronicles you picked up earlier count already. Everything else in Intensive Treatment needs a later visit with gadgets you don't have yet, in sections 11 and 14; the Cell Block Transfer office riddle and Harley's third tape in particular should only be taken in section 11. In Arkham East the gel and Sequencer challenges come in sections 6 and 9, and its Joker teeth only appear later in the story.
The trophy below is done during the Lobby stealth fight in the step after it, so read both before you go in. It needs the Inverted Takedown upgrade from section 1.
This stretch runs from the passage out of Arkham East to the roof of the Medical Facility. You arrive with the Batarang, the grapnel and Detective Mode, and pick up the Explosive Gel at the Batmobile; nothing below needs more than that. Arkham North and Arkham West hold many more Riddler challenges behind Security Gates, vent grates, gaps and high weak walls that need later gadgets (the Batclaw, the Cryptographic Sequencer, the Line Launcher and the Ultra Batclaw), and most of their Joker teeth only appear after later story events. The guide takes each one the next time the route passes with what it needs. The two gel spots in Arkham East, under the Botanical Gardens steps and in the courtyard by the Mansion, also wait until the route goes back there.
Back at the Batmobile, switch on Detective Mode and scan the pipe lying nearby: it starts a tobacco trail. The trail leads to the gate into Arkham West, which is locked. The wall to the right of the gate has a structural weakness: gel it, blow it, and take the tunnel beyond to the door into Arkham West.
Go in through the main doors to the Medical Foyer and walk forward to trigger a short scene. The way on is blocked from here, so head back outside; the way in is over the roof.
This stretch covers the first visit to the Medical Facility, from the roof vents to the last doctor's rescue in the Upper Corridor. You have the Batarang, the grapnel, Detective Mode and Explosive Gel; the Batclaw comes later. Several Medical Facility challenges need the Batclaw, the Cryptographic Sequencer or the Ultra Batclaw (high vent grates in the Sanatorium and Patient Observation, the locked stairs in the Surgery Room, two high weak walls, and the rooms off Secure Access), so they are left for later visits. Joker teeth here come in groups; four groups are taken in this section and more appear after the doctors are rescued.
The Upper Corridor leads to three rooms, each with staff to rescue: Patient Observation (blue line on the floor), the Surgery Room (red line) and the X-Ray Room (yellow line). The game lets you take them in any order; this guide goes Patient Observation, Surgery Room, X-Ray Room. A gift box of Joker teeth appears in the corridor after each rescue, whichever order you choose.
All the doctors are safe. Coming out of the X-Ray Room, the third gift box waits in the Upper Corridor, and the route then heads back to the Sanatorium and its elevator: the next section picks up from there.
This stretch takes you from the end of the doctor rescues down into the Medical Facility's lower floors, out across Arkham West to the hidden Batcave, and back to the surface through the sewers. You have the Batarang, the grapnel, Detective Mode, scanning and the Explosive Gel; the Batclaw arrives in the Batcave. Left for later on purpose: the Medical Facility challenges that need the Batclaw (Sanatorium and Patient Observation vent grates, Harley's old office in Secure Access) and the Experimental Chamber tape that only appears after this visit; the guide takes them on the next trip into the building, together with the Sequencer rooms. The Batcave and Dead Man's Point trophies need the Ultra Batclaw and the Line Launcher, so they wait for your second Batcave visit.
The next room is a stealth rescue. If any guard spots you, Gordon is shot and the game sends you back to the last checkpoint, and anything picked up since that checkpoint has to be taken again. Use the vents, take the guards down one at a time, and hide unconscious ones from patrols.
Two Joker teeth inside the guard tower in front of the Penitentiary may already be there when you come out, or may only appear on your next visit. The guide lists them in "The Library and the Warden's Office"; if you see them now, break them and tick that item early.
The Batcave and the rock pillars of Dead Man's Point outside it hold two Riddler trophies, but they need the Ultra Batclaw and the Line Launcher. The guide takes them on your second Batcave visit, later in the story.
This stretch starts at the Surface Access door into Arkham North and ends in the West Wing Corridor, with Dr. Young's fingerprint trail leading on into the South Corridor. You now have the Batarang, the grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel and the Batclaw, and the Batclaw opens the vent grates all over the Mansion. Left for later: the Mansion's Cryptographic Sequencer and Ultra Batclaw challenges (the Restricted Files room in the Records Room, which also needs the Line Launcher, and the weak wall on the West Wing Corridor landing), and the security-gated rooms in Arkham East.
Armed snipers now stand in the guard towers of Arkham North and Arkham East and on the roof over the Mansion entrance. Turn on Detective Mode to find them, ignore the laser sight, and wait for each one to look away before you grapple up behind him for a silent takedown. Clearing an area's snipers first makes its collectibles safe to pick up.
In Dr. Young's Office, scan the toe tag on the body bag at the mortuary wall (Riddle: Ra's al Ghul's body) before you do anything else there. The body is gone if you come back later, and the exact trigger isn't known, so treat leaving the office as the deadline. Missing it costs a Riddler challenge that 100% needs.
This stretch picks up at the West Wing Corridor gift box outside Dr. Young's Office and ends at the Penitentiary's front doors in Arkham West. You have the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel and the Batclaw, which is enough for every Mansion item on this pass except four: the Library interview tape (behind a security field: Cryptographic Sequencer), the Hugo Strange files in the Records Room (Sequencer and Line Launcher), and the high weak walls in the East Wing and West Wing corridors (Ultra Batclaw). The Arkham West items behind security gates also wait until you have the Sequencer.
Sharp's DNA trail leads back through the Main Hall, where armed thugs have moved in. Grapple onto the gargoyles at once and pick them off one at a time: each wears a collar that raises the alarm when he goes down, so get back up high after every takedown. Then go out through the Mansion Entrance Hall into Arkham East.
This stretch starts at the Penitentiary's front doors in Arkham West and ends in the Main Cell Block, outside the doors to Controlled Access. You come in with the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel and the Batclaw; Warden Sharp's codes complete the Cryptographic Sequencer halfway through. Three Guard Room items wait for a later visit (a vent route that needs the Ultra Batclaw and the Line Launcher, an invisible question mark and a wanted poster in the gassed room), and so does the Generator Access Chronicle across the electrified water (Line Launcher).
Back in the Main Cell Block, a few steps in, Harley switches on the Patient Pacification System and the floor turns deadly. Grapple up to the platforms above at once and fight the convicts there, some with stun batons. Take down first anyone running for the riot gun lockers, and keep the rest from picking up dropped guns. When the fight ends, go into the control room nearby, turn left and hack the panel to shut the floor down.
Keep heading west to the stairs up to the Guard Room. Inside, Harley has two guards, one of them Louie Green, hanging over electrified pools, and a toxin countdown of about two minutes begins. Order matters: hack a power box first and only then Batarang the rope above that pool, because a guard cut down into live water dies. A death or the clock running out is a Game Over and the scene restarts from the checkpoint, so nothing here is lost for good. The Chronicle below is an extra detour inside the timer: skip it if the clock is tight.
This stretch starts at the doors from the Main Cell Block into Controlled Access, right after the Guard Room, and ends on the middle floor of the Botanical Glasshouse. You now carry the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel, the Batclaw and the Cryptographic Sequencer, and with the Sequencer the security gates on the grounds open at last: the walk out takes every gated room in Arkham West and Arkham East that it passes. Two Arkham West items also need the Range Amplifier upgrade. Left for later: the Line Launcher gaps and the high weak walls (Ultra Batclaw) in Arkham West, and the Arkham North security offices, which the route reaches after the Gardens.
The next two items sit in a room over the Penitentiary entrance whose gate panel is inside its own electric field. Only the Range Amplifier lets you hack it from outside. If you have not been able to buy it yet, leave both for the island sweep before the finale, which passes this door again.
This stretch starts on the second floor of the Botanical Glasshouse and ends in the Titan Production Facility with the Line Launcher in hand. You carry the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel, the Batclaw and the Cryptographic Sequencer with its Range Amplifier. If you have not been yet, the Glasshouse's north door leads to the Flooded Corridor, where a short Joker scene shows that its water is live; that is why the way on is through the Statue Corridor. Left for later on purpose: the Flooded Corridor trophy and teeth across the big chasm (Line Launcher, next section, on the way to Poison Ivy), the Glasshouse Entrance teeth that appear only after you meet Ivy, the Flooded Corridor teeth that appear after Killer Croc, and the Abandoned Chamber and Titan Production Facility items behind high weak walls (Ultra Batclaw). The Line Launcher also opens a Mansion riddle and a Penitentiary Chronicle; the guide takes those later, because you should not leave the Gardens before you have met Ivy.
Two Arkham staff hang in cages over the Aviary. If an inmate spots you, or you knock one out, before the inmate in the control booth is down, the cages drop. Take the booth first and unseen; after that the hostages are safe and being spotted no longer matters.
This stretch starts in the Titan Production Facility with the Line Launcher just picked up and ends in the Secure Transit basement, at the door into the Caves. You have the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel, Batclaw, Cryptographic Sequencer with the Range Amplifier, and now the Line Launcher, which opens a run of Arkham North items and the way back into Intensive Treatment. Left for later on purpose: the Ultra Batclaw walls (the Abandoned Chamber trophy, the Arkham North cave trophy and others), the last three Flooded Corridor teeth (they only appear later in the story), and the Mansion's Library tape and Records Room files, which this pass over the toxic floor doesn't reach. In Intensive Treatment this route only takes what lies on the way from the roof down to the basement; the rest of the building waits for the island sweep before the finale.
From here, go straight to Ivy's glasshouse and don't leave the Botanical Gardens until you have talked to her. The three Joker teeth at the top of the Glasshouse Entrance stairs only appear after that talk, and one report says that leaving the Gardens first stops them from ever appearing, which would cost the 100% on this file. Break the three teeth on the far side of the chasm before you open Ivy's door, too. The story path already runs this way; just don't turn back early.
Both small offices in Cell Block Transfer hold Riddler items (Aaron Cash's family photo and a Harley Quinn tape), but walk past them on the way in. One player found that going into that corridor's side office before the nightmare left the story door stuck on "Door Opening". Take the right-hand of the two passages from the Lobby: both items are on that side, and you come back to them once Scarecrow is beaten.
This stretch starts at the door from the Secure Transit basement into Control Room Access and ends in the Pressure Control Junction, at the lift shaft that leads up to Arkham West. You come in with the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel, Batclaw, Cryptographic Sequencer and Line Launcher; the Ultra Batclaw is built in the Batcave halfway through, and from then on it pulls down the high weak walls and ceilings that the gel can't reach. Every Caves challenge on this route is taken as you pass it. Left for later on purpose: the weak ceiling in Croc's Lair (it is only there after the Poison Ivy fight) and the Ultra Batclaw walls in the Medical Facility, Arkham Mansion and Penitentiary, which this route never enters.
Running is loud and brings Croc to you: walk or crouch, and watch the on-screen meter, which shows your noise, the distance to the next goal and turns red when you take a wrong turn. When Croc charges out of the water, one Batarang to his shock collar drives him back; if he reaches you it is a Game Over and you restart from the last checkpoint.
The next two Riddler trophies sit on the rock pillars of Dead Man's Point outside the Batcave. The way out of that area is a glide down to a vent, the cave is wrecked by now, and this guide never comes back here. It is not clear that the area can be reached again later, so pick up both before you drop into the vent back to the Old Sewer.
From here on, the plants Ivy has grown in both the Main Sewer Junction and the Old Sewer shoot two glowing orbs at a time. Twin Batarang knocks both down with one throw; otherwise throw two Batarangs quickly, then destroy the plant once the orbs have burst.
The Control Room is a predator room with gunmen who stand close together and gargoyles in awkward spots (none of them rigged this time). Take down the first guard, who appears right in front of you, quietly, then back off into the corridor and grapple to the upper balcony. Stun guards with Batarangs and glide down to finish them, use the vents to move, and gel the breakable floors and walls: one charge can drop two guards standing together. More may arrive after each takedown.
This is the first Titan the story sets among ordinary thugs, so it is the guide's place for Freakshow Rodeo. The first one, in Intensive Treatment, has no health bar and can't be fought, and the two in the Titan Production Facility come without any thugs to knock over. Here Joker sends waves of thugs alongside it, and a new wave arrives each time you climb on its back. Leave the Titan standing until the thugs are down.
Carry on up the lift shaft: from the Chronicle ledge, turn round and rip down a second weak wall with the Ultra Batclaw to climb higher. At the top, jump to the small platform, gel the weak floor, step back and blow it. After the scene, pull down one last weak wall above you, grapple up and walk on to the door into Arkham West.
This stretch starts in the Pressure Control Junction lift shaft, just after the Titan fight, and ends in Arkham North after the Poison Ivy fight. You now have every gadget: Batarang, grapnel, Explosive Gel, Batclaw upgraded to the Ultra Batclaw, Cryptographic Sequencer and Line Launcher. The walk takes the long way round: Arkham West, the tunnel into Arkham North, Arkham North, then Arkham East (with a step back into the Abandoned Tunnel from its far end), which finishes all three outdoor areas apart from one Arkham North trophy you take after the fight. The Ultra Batclaw items inside the buildings (Medical Facility, Penitentiary, Mansion, Intensive Treatment and the Gardens' side rooms) are left for the island sweep that follows.
The island is overgrown now. Spore pods sit along every path and fire glowing orbs at you: Batarang the orbs, then the pod. Snipers are back on the guard towers in all three areas. Before you climb to one, check in Detective Mode which way he faces, and take him from behind or from a hanging ledge.
Three teeth appear by the Flooded Corridor door after the cutscene, and they are the Gardens' last. Count your Gardens teeth before you leave the door. If the three aren't there, restart from the last checkpoint while still in this room, which has brought them back before.
The fight has two halves, and the game checkpoints between them. Each half switches between two phases. In the first, roots burst up on the left, in the middle or on the right: keep moving away from them. In the second, dodge the red orbs and throw a quick Batarang (no aiming) whenever Ivy shows herself in the plant. When her health bar is empty, run in and gel her. In the second half, spore-controlled thugs join the root phases: keep to single hits and knock them into the pit.
After the fight you land in Arkham North, and the game points you to the Visitor Center in Arkham West. Don't go yet: take the trophy below, then the island sweep in the next section, and leave the Visitor Center for the finale.
This stretch starts in the Arkham North cave beside Intensive Treatment, where the last section ended, and ends in the Penitentiary's Guard Room, a short walk from the Visitor Center. You now carry everything: the Batarang, grapnel, Detective Mode, Explosive Gel, the Ultra Batclaw (it has replaced the Batclaw and does all its jobs), the Cryptographic Sequencer with the Range Amplifier, and the Line Launcher. The game's objective points to the party at the Visitor Center; ignore it until this loop is done. Nothing here is lost if you skip it: free roam carries on after the ending, and every Riddler challenge can still be taken then. Doing it now keeps Perfect Knight on track and means the finale is the last thing you do. The loop visits each building once, in an order that never doubles back across the island. Only one Riddler item is left after it: the 24th Chronicle, which appears once the other 23 are scanned and starts the next section.
Every location's Secrets Map marks its remaining Riddler items on the pause map, and the Riddler challenge list shows each location's count. Joker teeth are the exception: the map never shows them. Before you leave a building, check its count against the items below; anything an earlier section left unticked can be picked up on the same visit. That includes the items that needed the Range Amplifier if you bought it late: the gated balcony room over the Penitentiary entrance, the Glasshouse Generator Room trophy and Secrets Map, the Arkham North front-gate trophy and the Intensive Treatment tape behind a powered gate.
The Abandoned Chamber's question-mark riddle and the Chronicle in the alcove beside it were on the way out of the Gardens before the Croc chase. If either is still unticked, take it on this stop: pull down the weak wall on the chamber's east side with the Ultra Batclaw, Line Launch to the central platform and crawl north under the wreckage, then look down to line up the question mark. From that spot, jump the gap to the ledge ahead and shimmy left into the alcove for the Chronicle.
In Arkham West a crowd of the Joker's men stands outside the Visitor Center next to the Penitentiary. They won't attack you. Walk past them: Party Pooper needs all 20 knocked out in one go at the start of the finale, and going into the Visitor Center starts the ending.
If the clock made you skip the Chronicle during the timed Guard Room rescue, it is still there: a weak wall in the water in the left (south-west) corner of the room with the pools. Blow it with Explosive Gel and scan the tablet in the gap while you are in the Guard Room for the three items below.
That finishes every Riddler challenge the route can reach before the ending; check the Riddler page for anything still missing. Don't leave the building yet: the next section starts with the 24th Chronicle, in the Security Control Room along The Green Mile from the Main Cell Block.
By now the island sweep is done and you carry every gadget: the Ultra Batclaw, Explosive Gel, the Cryptographic Sequencer and the Line Launcher. No Riddler item is left for later: the sweep should have finished them, and anything missed can still be done in free roam after the credits. One thing is lost for good on this save: the Party Pooper trophy, decided by the fight outside and in the hallway of the Visitor Center. Take the last Chronicle first, while you are still in the Penitentiary and the party waits.
The door at the end of the Visitor Center hallway leads into the Visitor Room, and from there the game runs on to the ending with no way back out. Before you go through it, knock out all 20 party thugs: the 4 outside the Visitor Center front and the 16 in the hallway behind the red side entrance. They never strike first, so you have to start every fight. Down the outside four before you step into the hallway, as the way back out may close behind you. This is also the moment to finish anything else you want before the ending; Riddler challenges are not lost, because free roam returns after the credits. If a thug is left standing, pause and Restart From Checkpoint while you are still outside or in the hallway: it takes you back to just outside the Penitentiary. Once you are in the Visitor Room, only the Hard run (run 2) gives another chance.
Each of the three rounds runs the same way. Beat every thug the Joker sends and keep clear of the wind-up teeth, which blow about a second after their laugh (let them go off near thugs to stun them). Only when no thug and no tooth is left and he turns away to pose for the helicopter, fire the Ultra Batclaw at his back and mash the button to pull him off his balcony; a thug or a tooth breaking the pull means another, smaller wave first. Round two adds thugs with knives and stun batons. Round three adds a gun locker right under his balcony (keep the thugs from opening it, and keep any gun they get on the floor) and electrified barriers beside it, which you can knock thugs into. If he stands still and the round won't move on, or the camera drifts out of the arena, pause and Restart From Checkpoint.
Load the run-1 save once the credits have rolled. By now it holds every gadget, all 20 WayneTech upgrades and all 240 Riddler challenges, and each Riddler trophy below has already opened its map. The 16 base maps (four Combat, four Predator, plus an Extreme version of each) carry three medals apiece: all 48 are needed for 100%. Challenge maps always play at Normal difficulty, whatever the campaign was set to. The order here is the trophy warm-ups first, then the base Combat maps, the Extreme Combat maps, the base Predator maps and the Extreme Predator maps; the downloadable maps come after them and are optional. The maps where you play as the Joker are not covered.
The story, the 240 Riddler challenges and all 48 medals have to sit on one save for the 100% count. Do every map on the run-1 save, and start the Hard run (run 2) in a different slot; nothing on this page can be lost, so the two runs can be played in either order.
The trophies whose text says "any play mode" (the Freeflow Combo trophies, Rope-A-Dope-A-Dope, Mano-A-Mano, Catch! and Freakshow Rodeo) also count on challenge maps. Rumble in the Jungle brings Titans for the Titan ones, and any Predator map works for an Inverted Takedown string-up.
Each Combat map is four rounds, and the medals go by total score. A long combo multiplier is worth more than early finishers, so save the takedown finisher for knife and stun-baton thugs. Mix moves within one combo: the end-of-round bonus grows with every different move used, up to all nine. Bonuses also pay for a round without damage, a whole round in one combo and four rounds without damage. A combo breaks on a hit taken, a move that hits nothing or a pause of about a second; vaulting over a thug never breaks it. Knives need a cape stun or a finisher, not a plain strike; vault behind stun batons. Weapons dropped in one round stay on the floor for the next.
All nine have to land in one combo, in any order, with no hit taken and no miss: a plain strike; a Batclaw pull and then a strike on the thug as he comes in; a counter; a vault over a thug; a cape stun; the Special Combo Throw; the Special Combo Takedown; a quick Batarang throw (Combo Batarang); and a ground takedown, kept for the last thug standing. Both finishers need the combo built up, so you build it twice in the same chain; Special Combo Boost lowers the count needed.
The Extreme maps add gun cases on the walls: watch for thugs running to them and deal with an armed one first. Use the easy opening rounds to bank a no-damage or one-combo bonus, and aim for seven or more different moves in every combo. On a bad streak, stop and come back later.
Each Predator map has three set tasks, one medal each, and the clock does not affect the medals, so take your time. Do the tasks that need a group of thugs or a set-up first, while they are still walking their patrols, and finish the easy ones afterwards.
On every Extreme Predator map the gargoyles are wired with explosives and blow when you perch on one. Use it: the blast draws every thug to that spot, which sets up the tasks that need a group. These maps lean on late gadgets and upgrades, which the run-1 save already has.
The maps below came as downloadable content. Crime Alley and Nocturnal Hunter are in both editions this guide covers; Heart of Darkness and Hothouse Prey are in Return to Arkham only. Their medals are extra: they don't count toward the 48, the medal trophies or 100%. Two more bundled maps, Totally Insane (endless waves) and Scarecrow Nightmare (a skeleton-wave survival map that one hit ends), keep only a score and award no medals, so they have no entry here.
Run 1 earned everything except the Hard difficulty trophy. This run is the story again on a fresh save, nothing else: no Riddler hunt, no challenge maps. On Hard the counter warning over an attacking enemy is gone and every hit you take hurts more, so you counter by reading each enemy's wind-up. The route is run 1's story route: each step below names the run 1 section to follow, and you can skip every Riddler and optional item listed there. Your gadgets come back in the same story order as in run 1. Keep the run 1 save: the challenge maps and Perfect Knight belong to it, and those maps always play at Normal, so you can switch back to them whenever Hard wears you down.
Upgrades come from XP on this save too, and the Armor upgrades matter most on Hard. Solving Riddler challenges you happen to pass earns XP quickly and may restore some health as well. Buying an Armor upgrade may also refill your health, so a level-up saved for a hard fight can work as a spare health bar.
| # | Fight | Run 1 section | On Hard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor Zsasz, Patient Pacification Chamber | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Not a fight but a stealth takedown. Keep to the gargoyles and Glide Kick him when the prompt appears; if he spots you, the hostage dies and the checkpoint reloads. |
| 2 | Mutated henchman, Secure Treatment Transfer | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Don't hit it: it has no health bar and falls on its own after a while. Just keep dodging the charges and the bodies it hurls. |
| 3 | Scarecrow nightmare 1 | 5. The Morgue, the Boiler Room and the Batcave | No combat. Move only while the giant Scarecrow looks away, duck behind low walls, blow the one gel wall from cover, then reach the Bat-Signal. |
| 4 | Bane, Boiler Room | 5. The Morgue, the Boiler Room and the Batcave | Stand with a wall at your back, quick-Batarang his charge and sidestep so he hits the wall, punch, then back off. Once thugs join in, let his charges flatten them. |
| 5 | Scarecrow nightmare 2 | 7. The Library and the Warden's Office | More gaze dodging, using the two crates you pull with the Batclaw as cover. With no counter prompts, watch each skeleton's wind-up and clear every wave before you move on. |
| 6 | Zsasz and Dr. Young, Warden's Office | 7. The Library and the Warden's Office | Crouch behind the corner on the right and throw the Batarang only when he turns his head; be slow or seen and the hostage dies. In the brawl after, drop the stun-baton thug first. |
| 7 | Harley Quinn, Extreme Incarceration | 9. Extreme Incarceration and the way to the Gardens | Thug waves while the floor charges a section at a time: step off any section whose panels light up. Later waves bring knives and stun batons; Harley falls straight after the last one. |
| 8 | Two Titans, Titan Production Facility | 10. Botanical Gardens | Get them in a line so they ram each other; hit only a stunned Titan, and ride a kneeling one into the other. Both health bars sit top right. |
| 9 | Scarecrow nightmare 3 | 11. The Glasshouse, the Mansion and Intensive Treatment | The fake replay of the opening and the fake failure screen are part of it. Save your health for the closing arena: skeletons, then a big skeleton (Batarang and dodge), then both at once. |
| 10 | Killer Croc, Croc's Lair | 12. The sewers and the Ultra Batclaw | The stretch players dread most on Hard: see the tip before its step below. |
| 11 | Titan henchman, Pressure Control Junction | 12. The sewers and the Ultra Batclaw | Batarang and dodge it, steer it into the electrified barriers, and ride it into the thugs while it kneels; or keep moving and let its charges do the work. |
| 12 | Poison Ivy, Elizabeth Arkham Glasshouse | 13. Return to the Botanical Gardens | Far harder than on Normal: see the tip before its step below. |
| 13 | Throne Room, Visitor Center | 15. The finale | See the tip before the last step below. |
| 14 | The final boss, Penitentiary Roof | 15. The finale | See the tip before the last step below. |
Only if Leave No Man Behind did not unlock in run 1. The Decontamination rescue in the next step works exactly as before: two guards and a thug hang over the Joker toxin, and all three must be pulled up. If one falls, pause and Restart From Checkpoint before you leave the room; once you are out of Decontamination the chance is gone on this save too, and there is no third run in this guide.
Walk or crouch, never run: the noise meter also shows how close he is and turns red when you head the wrong way. When he bursts out of the water, one Batarang to his shock collar drives him back; if he reaches you it is a Game Over. Knock each glowing spore down with a Batarang, then pick it up (five in all), and keep running without a pause whenever the planks break under you.
Each half of the fight swaps between two phases. First, keep moving away from the roots that burst up on the left, in the middle or on the right; then, when she opens the plant, dodge her orbs and hit her with a quick Batarang. With her bar empty, gel her. The second half adds spore-controlled guards during the root phase: each goes down in one hit, so knock them into the pit.
Only if Party Pooper did not unlock in run 1. After Ivy the game sends you to the Visitor Center in Arkham West. Knock out all 20 party thugs, the 4 outside the front and the 16 in the hallway behind the red side entrance, before you go through the hallway's far door into the Visitor Room. They never attack first. Down the outside four before stepping into the hallway. If one is left standing, Restart From Checkpoint while you are still outside or in the hallway; once in the Visitor Room the story runs to the ending and the chance is gone.
Throne Room: thugs keep coming in a small room; dodge the two Titans first and stay near thugs so the charges hit them, and Batarang a Titan only while it runs at you. One Titan down and the rest is much easier. Roof, every round: clear every thug and keep away from the wind-up teeth, which go off about a second after their laugh. Only when nothing is left and he turns to the helicopter, pull him down with the Ultra Batclaw and hit him. If he freezes or the camera drifts out of the arena, Restart From Checkpoint.
There are 47 trophies and achievements, and PlayStation adds a platinum for earning them all. Two can be lost on a save: Leave No Man Behind at the very start and Party Pooper before the finale (both have warnings where they happen, and the Hard run repeats them as a backup). One Riddler riddle can be lost too, the body in Dr. Young's office on your first Mansion visit; without it the 240 cannot be finished on that save, which costs Crack The E Nigma and Perfect Knight. The difficulty trophies stack, so finishing on Hard also gives the Easy and Normal ones. Rows whose item names a late story moment are hidden until you reveal them.
| Trophy | PlayStation grade | Section | Item |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shocking Rescue | Bronze | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Victor Zsasz, Patient Pacification Chamber |
| Leave No Man Behind | Bronze | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Decontamination: rescue both guards and the thug, clear the toxin |
| Malpractice Needs More Practice | Bronze | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Mutated henchman, Secure Treatment Transfer |
| Born Free | Bronze | 2. Intensive Treatment to Arkham East | Escape to the island surface (Arkham East) |
| Just What The Doctors Ordered | Bronze | 4. Medical Facility | Rescue Dr. Young, X-Ray Room |
| Daydreamer | Bronze | 5. The Morgue, the Boiler Room and the Batcave | Scarecrow nightmare 1, Morgue |
| Baneful Payback | Silver | 5. The Morgue, the Boiler Room and the Batcave | Bane, Boiler Room |
| Breaking And Entering | Bronze | 6. Arkham Mansion | Clear the snipers and enter the Mansion by the roof vent |
| Recurring Nightmare | Bronze | 7. The Library and the Warden's Office | Scarecrow nightmare 2 |
| Zsasz Cut Down To Size | Bronze | 7. The Library and the Warden's Office | Warden's Office: save Dr. Young from Zsasz |
| Solitary Confinement | Silver | 9. Extreme Incarceration and the way to the Gardens | Harley Quinn, Extreme Incarceration |
| Double Trouble | Silver | 10. Botanical Gardens | Two Titans, Titan Production Facility |
| Resist The Fear | Silver | 11. The Glasshouse, the Mansion and Intensive Treatment | Scarecrow nightmare 3 |
| Crocodile Tears | Silver | 12. The sewers and the Ultra Batclaw | Killer Croc, Croc's Lair |
| Poisoned Ivy | Silver | 13. Return to the Botanical Gardens | Poison Ivy (Titan plant), Elizabeth Arkham Glasshouse |
| Big Bang | Silver | 15. The finale | Titan Joker, Penitentiary Roof |
| Bigger Bang | Silver | 15. The finale | Titan Joker, Penitentiary Roof |
| Biggest Bang | Silver | 17. Run 2: Hard | Hard run: Titan Joker |
| Party Pooper | Bronze | 15. The finale | Party Pooper: knock out all 20 party thugs |
| Freeflow Combo 20 | Silver | 4. Medical Facility | Freeflow Combo 20 |
| Freeflow Combo 40 | Silver | 15. The finale | Freeflow Combo 40: the party hallway |
| Night Glider | Bronze | 2. Intensive Treatment to Arkham East | Night Glider |
| Rope-A-Dope-A-Dope | Bronze | 2. Intensive Treatment to Arkham East | Rope-A-Dope-A-Dope |
| Mano-A-Mano | Silver | 10. Botanical Gardens | Mano-A-Mano |
| Catch! | Bronze | 2. Intensive Treatment to Arkham East | Catch! |
| Freeflow Combo 5 | Bronze | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Holding Cells: stop the Joker's thugs |
| Freeflow Combo 10 | Bronze | 1. Intensive Treatment: arrival | Holding Cells: stop the Joker's thugs |
| Freeflow Perfection | Silver | 16. Challenge maps | Freeflow Perfection: all nine moves in one combo |
| Freakshow Rodeo | Bronze | 12. The sewers and the Ultra Batclaw | Freakshow Rodeo |
| Freeflow Bronze | Bronze | 16. Challenge maps | Combat: Shock and Awe (3 medals) |
| Freeflow Silver | Bronze | 16. Challenge maps | Combat: Sewer Bat Extreme (3 medals) |
| Freeflow Gold | Silver | 16. Challenge maps | Combat: Rumble in the Jungle Extreme (3 medals) |
| Predator Bronze | Bronze | 16. Challenge maps | Predator: Survival Tactics (3 medals) |
| Predator Silver | Bronze | 16. Challenge maps | Predator: Record Breaker Extreme (3 medals) |
| Predator Gold | Silver | 16. Challenge maps | Predator: Invisible Predator Extreme (3 medals) |
| Invisible Predator | Bronze | 16. Challenge maps | Invisible Predator: clear Silent Knight unseen |
| Flawless Freeflow Fighter | Bronze | 16. Challenge maps | Flawless Freeflow Fighter: Intensive Treatment without a hit |
| Crack The E Nigma | Silver | 14. Island sweep before the finale | Riddle: Prometheus wanted poster |
| Arkham Analyst | Bronze | 2. Intensive Treatment to Arkham East | Interview tape: Harley Quinn #2 |
| Cryptic Investigator | Bronze | 2. Intensive Treatment to Arkham East | Riddle: clock-tower question mark |
| Lateral Thinker | Bronze | 4. Medical Facility | Riddle: Firefly news clipping |
| Mystery Solver | Bronze | 6. Arkham Mansion | Interview tape: Scarecrow #3 |
| Conundrum Cracker | Bronze | 9. Extreme Incarceration and the way to the Gardens | Secrets map: Penitentiary |
| Mental Athlete | Bronze | 10. Botanical Gardens | Riddler trophy: Titan Production Facility alcove |
| Riddle Resolver | Silver | 13. Return to the Botanical Gardens | Riddler trophy: grate on the arches, tunnel to Arkham North |
| World's Greatest Detective | Silver | 15. The finale | Chronicle of Arkham: Security Control Room floor (the 24th) |
| Perfect Knight | Gold | 16. Challenge maps | Perfect Knight: check 100% |
| Platform | List | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PlayStation 4 (Return to Arkham) | 48 trophies: 1 platinum, 1 gold, 18 silver, 28 bronze | The platinum unlocks once the other 47 are earned. |
| Steam (Game of the Year Edition) | 47 achievements | The same 47 as PlayStation without the platinum; none are hidden. A few names are spelled differently, for example "Freak Show Rodeo", and its text asks for fewer thugs (this guide asks for 10 everywhere). |
| Xbox One (Return to Arkham) | 47 achievements, 1,000 Gamerscore | The same 47 names. |
| PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (2009) | 48 trophies / 47 achievements | The original releases have lists of their own with the same names and grades; this guide follows the Return to Arkham and Game of the Year Edition versions. |