Batman: The Telltale Series
LumiScore
Growth
49/100
Growth Value
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical Reasoning
- Problem Solving
Risk
LOW
Engagement Patterns
Minimal pressure to spend or play excessively.
Heads up
Parent Pro-Tip
Play the first episode together to assess whether your teen is ready for the mature themes and violence. Use the decision points as discussion opportunities about ethics and consequences.
Top Skills Developed
Development Areas
Representation?How diverse the game's characters are in gender and ethnicity. Higher = more authentic representation. Display only — does not affect time recommendation.
Bechdel Test?The Bechdel Test checks whether a game has at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. A simple measure of representation.— Passes the test
Features multiple female characters including Selina Kyle and others who interact about plot-relevant topics beyond male characters
Parent Pro-Tip
The game's moral dilemmas provide excellent conversation starters about justice, accountability, and the complexity of right and wrong - discuss your teen's choices and reasoning to deepen critical thinking skills and explore how they weigh competing values when making difficult decisions.
What your child develops
Batman: The Telltale Series excels at developing critical thinking and ethical reasoning through its branching narrative structure. Players must constantly weigh complex moral decisions with real consequences, analyzing situations from both Bruce Wayne's and Batman's perspectives. The game strongly emphasizes problem-solving through investigation sequences where players examine crime scenes and piece together evidence. Reading and comprehension skills are essential as the story unfolds through extensive dialogue and text. The game promotes empathy by presenting multifaceted characters with understandable motivations, even antagonists, and forces players to consider multiple perspectives. Strategic thinking is required as players must anticipate how current choices will affect future relationships and plot developments. The mature themes around justice, corruption, and personal responsibility offer valuable opportunities for emotional regulation and understanding moral ambiguity.
Regulatory Compliance
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About this game
Batman: The Enemy Within, 2017, is an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game, a sequel to 2016's Batman: The Telltale Series. The player controls the character, who, on the one hand, is the well-known billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bruce Wayne, and on the other hand, a crime fighter named Batman, hiding his real name from people.