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Next Big LEGO Game Should Be Based on This Franchise

It’s clear as day which mega franchise should get the new LEGO game treatment next.

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LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has been a big hit and it’s obvious where TT Games should go for its next big LEGO game outing.

These New lego games are celebrations

At the turn of the decade, LEGO game developer TT Games decided to scale back and slow things down after putting out annual licensed LEGO games every single year since 2005. This quantity-over-quality approach eventually led to suffering review scores and a reportedly burnt-out development team, and LEGO game fans began to feel tired of the same rehashed formula. TT Games’ new approach in the 2020s was to take more development time and really focus on one project at a time. In 2022, it put out LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to critical praise, and just this year, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight released and is being called one of 2026’s very best new games.

It’s become clear that these new LEGO games are treated as big celebrations of all things Star Wars and Batman. They each delve deeper into those worlds than any prior LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Batman game before, incorporating vast numbers of recognizable characters, fan-favorite vehicles, and major gameplay mechanics that are wholly unique to each one of those universes, like being able to grapple and glide around Gotham as LEGO Batman just like in Rocksteady’s Arkham games. These new games put the camera much closer to the characters than the near-isometric perspectives of past LEGO games, allowing the finer details and imperfections of the........

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