Ten years after it first came out a new mod for Batman Arkham Knight is being made. It will add more difficulty settings new powers for Batman and less focus on using the Batmobile.
Rocksteady’s newer game Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League didn’t do as well as people hoped. So Batman: Arkham Knight still shows the studio at its best. All three Arkham games made by Rocksteady are great but after replaying them recently I think the last one Arkham Knight is the most fun to play. Whether you’re flying through Gotham’s dark skies or fighting a bunch of bad guys in fast action no other game makes you feel like Batman quite like this one.
When Batman Arkham Knight first came out on PC it had a lot of problems. The game was in such bad shape that Warner Bros removed it from sale for over two months. Even after it came back it still didn’t work well and our review gave it a Failed instead of a score. I was lucky because I had just bought a powerful graphics card and had a lot of RAM so the game ran okay for me most of the time even though it still crashed sometimes.
Thankfully things are much better now. In 2025 Arkham Knight runs great on PC. If you look on Steam you’ll see that 92% of nearly 100,000 players have given it a positive review. But modder GPUnity wants to improve it even more. They’re working on a big mod called the Master Overhaul. This mod adds new game features makes the game more challenging and even lets you cut down on how much time you spend in the Batmobile.
Now the game has three difficulty levels Regular, Insane and Chaos. As the difficulty goes up enemies become faster and stronger. You’ll also see tougher enemies like shield-carrying lieutenants and fast-moving ninjas. In special stealth parts of the game called predator sequences you’ll also face stronger enemies like heavy minigunners. The suits in the game now look better and are unlocked by finding chests hidden around the map which encourages you to explore more.
The skill tree has been changed a lot. Some of the most powerful skills have been completely removed. Others are now marked as legendary and need 25 Waynetech points to unlock which is quite a big investment. But to make up for this the final Smoke Pellet upgrade now covers a much larger area letting you block the vision of enemies in whole rooms. Also the Bat Swarm ability from Arkham City is back letting you quickly break up groups of enemies when things get tough.
To make Batmobile fights more fun each Batmobile skin now gives small stat changes. This means you can choose the one that fits your play style. If you like a tough challenge there’s an option to make enemy drones harder to beat. But if you don’t enjoy the Batmobile parts much the mod will also come with an anti-Batmobile version. This version will lower the amount of Batmobile gameplay.
About the release of the Batman Arkham Knight Master Overhaul mod the creator GPUnity says it’s almost ready for campaign testing. They also shared that they have some small new ideas for the story to make it more fun for players who are playing the game again. However they made it clear that these changes will not use any AI.
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