Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Fun but short game, gave me a few good laughs with some of the dialogue.
Recommend picking this up on sale only

The worst parts of the game are the tutorials, some UI functionality and Waller. The rest is on par if not better than the competition. Game is a lot of fun when the tutorials are not stopping you at every possible moment but then you have people praise Doom Eternal despite it doing the same things.

Why this got as much hate as it did is beyond me.

This is honestly the worst game they have ever made and with every update they do it just gets worse. They have lost my trust in making any good games.

This game is sadly an empty shell of what couldve been an absolutely phenomenal game

Semi fun gameplay with very poor optimization and extremely crappy agenda pushing. No one wants this lmao the ppl who made this were just bullied growing up and somehow got to where they are now and just make everything bad. Why not just create your own thing that you like not ruin something for thousands maybe millions of people. Also the only reason i bought it was because it was 12 bucks usd and my buddy wanted me to play with him. i could have had a whole burger instead

I've played all of the Arkham games and from those games to this game, what HAPPENED?!?! Rocksteady was great and now I feel like they are just trying to make this game just for the money and not for the fans. The story is ok, the game play could be wayyyyy better, the repetitive missions are a joke (same missions for every season) and the new characters make no sense (really gotta think about it). This game could've been great, if they listened to the fans.

it's games like this one what makes me wish steam's rating system had a neutral option, beyond "yes, would recommend" and "no, would not recommend".
because what is fundamentally a solid gameplay loop gets dragged down, down, down by the wholly uneccessary live service aspect. but then again, it is just an aspect - and if the core is fine, then who cares, right?
right. wrong. i mean, i guess?
the combat is fun. moving around - especially as boomerang - has that signature, zippy, smooth feel to it that the arkham trilogy is known for. and when it comes to writing dc characters - no one does it like rocksteady.
but then you remember this is a live service game with a battle pass and seasonal content.
for what it's worth, the core game is fun. just don't get it at full price. wait for a sale, like i did.

Bought the game with huge discount out of pure curiosity to see the game who ruined Arkham series game itself is 4/10 it has 7 repeatable missions and 3 boss fights and I can hardly say anything positive about the game maybe cutscenes were ok, everything else trash

Despite being out for so long, it's still riddled with bugs and generally just being an unfun game. Nothing Burger of all Nothing Burgers. Not to mention the amount of augments you get for your loadout. Augments for your guns, grenades, all chips, then afflictions, just clustered and overwhelming for no reason. Even with being 80% off it still costs too much. Would have been better as an animated show.

10/05/24 Edit: Nevermind all that, the grind is so tedious and boring that I am just done. This is terrible. $5 is fair for the main campaign and then just stop. The devs just gave up after you kill Brainiac. Or just watch a YouTube video with all of the cutscenes, they are the best parts.

I'm very conflicted by this game. On one hand, I am greatly enjoying my time with this game and the characters (haven't gotten to the Seasonal content yet but Joker looks horrendous), but on the other, this is a p*ss-poor "live service" trash heap. All the cool skins are locked behind real money ($8/$10 for a basic and $24 for a complete skin and there are a lot) and the content is stupid grindy. But it does give me Sunset Overdrive vibes as you run-n-gun through Metropolis. And the DC comic-y moments are great.

I got the deluxe for $20 but I think you should get it for much less. And don't buy anything period, there is premium currency (aka Lex Coin) in the "Battle Passes" that allow you to get the next pass for basically free, if you don't buy an extra character like I did (cuz I'm dumb and forgot you can get them for free by just playing the game). I bet this game will go the way of The Avengers and give away the skins for free in a year or two, or maybe when the seasons are over. I highly recommend using some external tools to boost your gains as that's taken the "grind" out of the experience.

Definitely get the game sub $10 or $15-ish for the deluxe.

there is a game somewhere buried under questionable business decisions

pros -

+ fun gun game
+ good, responsive traversal (i played deadshot)
+ location looks interesting

cons -

- story sucks major a s s
- unlikable characters in terms of writing (from main to side characters)
- repetitive and boring missions inspired by the most uninspiring F2P games
- micro-transactions for basically almost all cosmetics that does not even look decent
- ugly character design
- dlc that they should pay you to play and not vice versa
- optimisation could be better

the game could have been good, it's there but something went wrong along the way

This game feels nothing like the Arkhamverse games in any way. It has a similar feeling to Gotham Knights, but without any of the fun. You have entire missions where you can't kill anything except the one exact way that the game wants you to, and you waste hours trying to level up instead of actually enjoying the game. The characters are fun, but travelling around is tiresome and gets old really quick. The store is so thin that you have to take side missions to have anything to do most of the time, and fighting the Justice League bosses is an exercise in futility. Nothing about the game feels fun or exciting, and the weapons selection does not make any sense. You can have 4 of the same gun, but only 1 of your characters is allowed to use it at a time. The controls do not feel logical or natural either causing you to stop in the middle of fights to find whatever button the game requires you to use at a specific time. Awful!

Deep sales only but even then not really worth it.
The goods
- Traversal is not bad
- Gunplay is okay
- If you always wanted to played 1 of the 4 characters (for example I want to play a Harley solo game)

The bads
- Boring looter shooter
- Awful writhing
- Awful re-design of Ivy
- That annoying Hologram NPC
- Graphics took a step back from Arkham Knight
- Live service grind fest for Battlepass reward that offer terrible looking costumes
- Make you paid twice just to get the whole set (example is Classic Harley)
- Asylum and City Harley is a downgrade

Final thought
- Give it up WB. Just make this free or discount this to $20 and get rid of the live service. Pretty much pull a Marvel Avengers.

I think that the game is fun. I was able to get through most of the game with little to no disappointment. The story is entertaining, the characters are hilarious. Even the combat really isn't that bad. Although it is NOT Arkham so if you're expecting that, I would try Gotham Knights. Where the game truly collapses is the fact that the entire game (including it's singleplayer content) is hosted on a server. Meaning if the connection is bad, there goes all of your save data. At any point your game can just go offline. It happened to me tonight. Under no circumstances should this primarily singleplayer game be built like this. At Rocksteady's discretion, your save data could be entirely lost when they shut down the servers. There goes your $70. Do not buy this game at full price. Buy it when it's discounted. Then you'll have fun knowing you didn't waste all your money.

Definitely not worth. I played it for 7 minutes and applied for a refund. Total disappointment from Rocksteady

I grabbed the game at 80% off, and I think it's decent for the right price.

I've truly enjoyed my time playing, experiencing the story and characters. Although the combat isn’t amazing, it's enjoyable—quite frenetic and full of flair. Traversal is great, and I’ve spent more time going from one place to another than I’d like to admit, just because I love swinging around with Harley's drone.

The cutscenes are excellent, and the game looks great. The voice acting is superb and really brings these characters to life. I haven’t had any performance issues (I’m running a 3060 and a Ryzen 5 3600, so not exactly top-of-the-line), though I understand some players have.

All in all, it’s a decent game, and I believe it received a lot of undeserved hate. It saddens me to think it might be shutting down sooner rather than later, because the game has a lot of potential. If you want to try it and can get it for cheap, I’d say it’s worth it!

If you plan on getting this game, buy it when it's on sale because it is not worth its original price tag. First play through can be enjoyable if you overlook the terrible writing and disservice to Arkham Batman but it can become repetitive. The game was a let down in comparison to previous titles but it can still be enjoyable.

mixed bag to be honest. havent beaten myself, so keep that in mind, i dunno it just sorta feels meh? i dont hate it with all my heart, but i dont love it deeply. the gameplay itself imo is decent fun if not repetitive. i played deadshot most of the time and he was satisfying. the story is a hot mess and i wont get into it but it just feels like the devs had to cobble everything together with nothing but scraps of a script. the characters are there, the gameplay is fun but nothing new, and the script sucks, so why a positive review? the batman boss fight, and friends, friends save this game A LOT. if you want something fun and mindless with the boys then go for it, only if its below 20 bucks at least.

can't matchmake with friends, "intro" too long and too much cinematics, npcs talking. extremely annoying.

The game was fun at first. But after beating the story, there's nothing to do except for repeating the same handful of side missions over and over. I was hoping the new seasons would give more to do, but unfortunately the story for each season is locked behind a long, tedious, repetitive grind. You can't access the dlc stories and continue progression unless you play through those same handful of boring side missions, over and over, until you reach a certain level. And, from what I've seen in videos, the dlc stories aren't worth grinding for anyway. The terrible writing, voice acting, and tone of the new characters and stories kill any desire to slog through the repetitive grind to unlock. It's a real shame, because the game actually did have potential, but they flushed it down the toilet.

I was an hour in, playing solo and a "Unable to reach server, please attempt to sign in again" popped up in the middle of a story sequence. I hit accept, it sat on a screen for 10 minutes trying to resolve. It never did. I never lost internet connectivity. I killed the process after this, uninstalled, and refunded. I tried.

I don't know why so many people don't like this game. I have had so much fun playing this gem. I've actually laughed out loud several times while playing because of the story. If you crave dopamine hits by picking up glowy things, this is your jam. Very satisfying. Gunplay is good, loot is good, crafting is meh. Idk, this game rocks.

The first achievement of the game pops up after the tutorial and is called "Trial by Fire" with the subtitle "What the Hell just happened?" and these where my exact thoughts after playing threw the tutorial: "What the F-Ing Hell just happened"? Is this really a game developed by the developers of my beloved Arkham Series?

The game's tutorial wanted me to return the title immediately but then I thought come on give it a try it cant be that bad. For starters: I bought that game on an 80% discount (19,99€). I dont even know where to start. Lets start with the combat. This game was made by the company who created the - in my opionion - best combat system in a superhero game -> the freeflow combat system; this system from the Batman Arkham games is till today superb and they exchanged that
with this weirdly mess of shooter gameplay?... oh boi.

best part of my 2h session: introduction of Batman was amazing. Relatively after the Batman encounter you can walk threw "The Batman Experience" its basically a walkthrough
threw all the iconic moments from the Arkham games and oh man did they give me a nostalgic kickback. all the cool characters, all the cool scenes and memories about the games.
It seems almost like Suicide Squads wants to mock you and tell you "this game will never be as good as those games...".

So in the end, although I enjoyed some of the cutscenes, the gameplay loop killed it for me. It just wasn't fun compared to their previous games. I was looking for a nice story, cool combat, cool traversal systems.

In the story sequences you get a hint that Rocksteady is still able to create and inscenate great story moments, but they gave it away to create a dull and stupid service game.

I rarely leave a thumbs down review, but in this case I had no choice. Refunded after 2 hours and it wasnt even worth the 19,99€ I payed.

I look on the bright side: hopefully this mess will be the reason that Rocksteady's next game goes back to the roots.

The game gets stuck on loading screens a lot. Game suggs but guess i'm still playing it.

Noticed a discount and grabbed Deluxe edition to check out what all the fuss is about. And... good thing I never ever believe any reviews and reactions until I try it myself. This game is a BLAST!
Sure, I knew it's gonna be great judging by trailers only, but all the whining and the hate around it was intriguing.

Anyhow. Fast paced adrenaline combat. Four characters. We finally have fully playable Harley. Been a long time coming. Deadshot, Boomerang and King Shark. But wait, more characters are available in endgame. So far it's Joker and Mrs. Freeze (it's not Nora, it's Elseworlds female version of Mr. Freeze).

Story is pretty cool. It's an interesting point of view on Justice League. Surprisingly truthful point of view. Especially if you take time and read Codex documents, find invasion memos and so on.

The endgame is more and longer than the story bit. From what I've understood we're gonna keep getting updates until the very last version of Brainiac is defeated.

since this was on sale i thought i'd give it a go.
Honestly it's hard to want to play,
the controls are weird, the game play is very generic of a service game, the game simply lacks soul.
i love the DC universe but this game just feels sad.

I was under the assumption that most of the hate for this game was for the unnecessary live service integration, but it turns out that it's just extraordinarily boring and janky. I'm not the biggest Arkham fan but even I can see that they're superior games in every possible way.

hands down the worst controlling game I've ever played and rebinding any controls creates a chain of conflicts. first time I've had to get a refund for a game ever across all platforms. for reference, I made it all the way through gotham knights and marvel's avengers.

My Honest Review

First off, the asking price of $70 dollars for base game and $100 for the deluxe version. Who ever thought of those prices is plumb loco. In my opinion Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is just not worth it at those prices.

Would only recommend the game if it can be had for $20 dollars or lower.


While I do enjoy the game in a way and do enjoy the banter between the chars when playing. I just value the game no more than $20 dollars at most.

As for gameplay problems I really only noticed couple things. First one being once in a while during a cutscene the voices to lips will not be in sync. Sample while Shark is talking you will hear Harley's voice. While other people might get mad about that happening I find it sorta funny.

Also once in a while I noticed the game will freeze like the game locked up. I noticed it would stay like that for maybe around 5 seconds never really timed it though. At which point the game will go back to normal.

While I am running an older system running an i7 9700K and RTX 2060 12GB video card. I really don't believe it's my PC causing the game to freeze now and then. Cause I can play any of my other games just fine.

Besides the two problems I listed above I do find the game fun. Plus the fact I got the game for the price I paid for it.

After only 21 minutes of playtime, I refunded this game. The optimisation of this game from a triple a studio is shameful.

Cyberpunk 2077 on max graphics with raytracing runs far better than this game on medium graphics.

So... Rocksteady made this. Even after so many months since this game released, i feel like it has not made a comeback. The story and characters are still quite bad (not in the sense the writers probably wanted and it is worse when considering that this is supposed to take place after the Arkham games). As for the gameplay, while I like the gameplay (especially as Deadshot), the game quickly got repetitive.
I would not recommend unless you get it at a discount and maybe you have some friends to play with.

They brought back the Jonkler and made Mr.Freeze a woman. Would not recommend because the game play gets very repetitive after you kill the Justice League. The main reason I bought this game was to see the ending of Arkham Batman's story and it was very disappointing just a gun shot through the head I wish it was more meaningful. The reveal after killing Super Man that you have to kill 12 Braniacs is dumb and is just a way to make the game have a life cycle that it most likely see the end of.

Save yourself time, trouble and money and find a cut scene movie of this game on YouTube.

Though I really like the story the game play is not fun, repetitive quests to level up makes the game become very grindy very quickly.

I probably brought this game 2+ months ago and though I've completed it in 29 ish hours, I kept getting so bored I just didn't want to play it after I've stopped for the day.

And the Superman fight is just BS.

TL:DR Repetitive, Boss fights are boring, (run around for %60 of the time avoiding damage till a counter button pops up do damage repeat). You don't get to use any of your abiltys, your mostly just running around shooting bullet sponges till a counter button pops up so you can break shields to kill something. No repeatability. End game is you fighting the justice league over and over.

(I hate to say this I really really really do but... Gender white washing) This is coming from a person who is their target audience. 'Young white female'. I like my heros and villians as they were. I don't know why their changing them out of no where.

The game was fun for a while, but the Guns are limited per hero. To do damage you have to keep up a combo meter till you get a prompt to hit a button to counter just to keep your combo up. And If you don't hit the counter button, the bad guys will have a shield that never brakes so they never die.

You're given quite a few abiltys you would think you can use a lot but the game wents you to be on the move non stop like it's trying to be Sunset Overdrive if you remember that game. And you are given task that have you try to use movement abiltys and some very hard to pull off slide that needs you to hit a button after you've been sliding for a very VERY specific time, and that abilty also has abiltys linked to it that they expect you to be able to pull off while fighting.

I never cared about people picking sides with whats 'woke' and what isn't. But Story wise they are just making stuff up at this point. From Harlys point of view the game trys to make it seem like batman was the bad guy all a long to justify her killing him, same for deadshot and green lantern.

Mr Freeze is a woman now some how, and I haven't even bothered to play to see why that's even a thing. The boss battles are pretty boring after the first one and convoluted mostly consisting of you running for your life till your able to hit a counter button from time to time so you can stun the boss and do damage and then spend 60% of the time avoiding damage again and doing that 3 times for every boss fight after the first one.

The end game content is just you fighting brainiac versions of the justice league over and over for IMO no reason at all. The game has no real replay ability and is repetitive.

I wanted to like this game, that's why I kept playing regardless of the issues I faced. Although people online kept saying it was bad in almost every way imaginable I still went in wanting to like this game. I had seen it months before it came out and already made my mind that I was going to like it. And for a while, I wasn't wrong. The gameplay is decent and like everyone else has already said the traversal is very nice. I love the world that rocksteady has created and the character designs (excluding harley) are all incredible, with the facial expressions being probably the best ever in any game. The story isn't that bad, or should I say it isn't as bad as some say, but you can definitely feel they are pushing an agenda. Now onto the biggest problems. A bit after beating the flash boss fight I came across a part of the game where you have to beat a bunch of small side quests for some characters. That's where I got stuck and couldn't progress. Specifically on the missions that you had to hunt down data teminauts the indicator at the corner of the screen most of the time just wouldn't show up so I would wander around aimlessly. I'm not sure if it's intentional and the indicator will only show up when you're close to one but that seems insane. Now, when I try to play the season 2 episodes, I get stuck on the loading screen and literally can't play the game that I paid for. If the technical issues didn't happen, it would be a 7, but now it's really like a 4.5, or just below a 5. I would've recommended you to buy it on sale if there weren't technical problems, but sadly there are.

I bought the game to play it with my brother, I knew what we were getting into because I had seen some videos, and we decided it at least looked fun to just go in, shoot, do some missions and whatnot.

From day 1 there were issues, we had issues connecting with each other, and we were in the same house, both on decent computers. Eventually we had to just play separately as it was constantly disconnecting us, so one of the reasons we bought it was already out the window.

The story I was curious where it was going to go, so that really got me through the game, and honestly, I did have fun.

BUT, the issues just continued to slowly crop up more and more.
The game kept bugging for my brother where he needed to delete files for it to load
My Captain Boomerang is missing a talent point since BEFORE the Joker patch and still does not have it
The DLC characters, The Joker and Ms. Fries have maybe 3 small cutscenes each, 2 are just still images with voice over, and 1 cutscene in graphics.
The story that they are telling was broken up over what I"m assuming are 4 or 5 seasons, but it doesn't seem like they learned anything from the Joker season as this Season is more of the same
I finished the first battlepass, but the costume ideas for this battlepass are...not great.

In conclusion: I went in with an open mind, I was able to enjoy it initially, but the longer it has been going on, the more I am disappointed by what feels like small, lackluster updates made to lightly sprinkle in the bits of story that probably already have all recorded and created, over the next year or so.

It really feels like they are just releasing what they've made, then going to just give up on the game.

Ive been a DC Comics fan since my childhood and while i bought it with doubts it’s the third time Warner Bros disappoints me brutality, It’s just heartbreaking the treatment they given one of fan favorites Batman Versions, it’s not just the story, the graphics took a massive downgrade for 2015's Batman Arkham Knight that still looks good to this day, The gameplay is just repetitive, lifeless and boring, while i do believe there may be people who enjoy this game i don’t think this game lives up to the World it’s supposed to be set up in (Arkham Verse) and it would be better just to consider it an elserworld.

Listen, i enjoyed this game when it came out. but 70 dollars to get a game and then having to pay more to unlock new characters?? unbelievably disappointing.

The biggest piece of dogshit game with 0 fcking gameplay just going listening to some boring ass cringy conversations. Just go play anything else this game have less gameplay than visual novels or a fcking zenless zone zero. I wish i could get my money back cus those 20 euro i spent feels like a worse investment than if i throw them into fire.