“Oh No, Oh Sh!t, What The F*ck Did You Do?” Fans Scream at WB After Concept Art From Canceled Batman Game Set 10 Years After Arkham Knight Revealed Online

It’s not every day that a canceled game makes its way into the public eye, but when it’s a Batman game, the internet is bound to explode. Fans of the Batman: Arkham series were recently hit with a bombshell when concept art from a Batman game that was set 10 years after Arkham Knight was revealed online — and they are absolutely FURIOUS with Warner Bros. The images, which were posted by anonymous sources, show off an ambitious vision for a game that would have followed Bruce Wayne’s legacy in Gotham years after the events of Arkham Knight.

Concept art from a canceled Batman: Arkham game has surfaced, and the project being shelved only further throws into question Warner Brothers’ creative decisions regarding the property in recent years. WB Games has published all four Batman: Arkham games – the main trilogy from Rocksteady Studios and Arkham Origins, the prequel developed by WB Games Montreal. The latter was, at one time, set to create another game in the continuity, set 10 years after Arkham Knight.

Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum set a new standard for superhero video games, and the rest of the series followed in its excellence, albeit with Origins and Knight having more shaky reputations than the generally beloved Asylum and City. Following the conclusion of its trilogy in 2015, Rocksteady shifted focus to the ill-fated Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a victim of the live-service push that has plagued a whole console generation thus far. WB Games Montreal’s canceled Batman: Arkham game is a painful reminder of what could have been.

Everything We Know About The Canceled Batman Game

Starring Damian Wayne

The canceled Batman: Arkham game was set to feature Damian Wayne, son of Bruce Wayne and former Robin, as the current Batman, with an older Bruce Wayne serving as his mentor. Concept art from the untitled game, known in development as Project Sabbath, was shared by the Batman Arkham Videos Twitter account (via MP1st). The artwork is by character artist Rodrigue Pralier, former WB Games Montreal employee and current artist at Free Range Games.

And now, yet more Project Sabbath concept art has emerged, this time from character artist Rodrigue Pralier, who worked at Warner Bros. Games Montreal circa 2014/2015. Although the Artstation page originally featuring the concepts has now been removed, the images have been saved for posterity on social media, revealing a further look at Damian Wayne and his beardy pa Bruce, alongside Killer Croc, The Huntress, and more.

Check out this newly revealed concept art for the untitled Batman game in the X post below.

New concept art from WB Games Montréal's cancelled 2015 Damian Wayne game "Project Sabbath" has surfaced, shared by character artist Rodrigue Pralier. The pieces clearly show Damian, an older Bruce, Killer Croc, and Huntress. The style and character designs further support the… pic.twitter.com/aRwTD7caYE

— Batman Arkham Videos (@ArkhamVideos) June 22, 2025

“Project Sabbath”, a canceled Damian Wayne Batman game at WB Games Montreal, apparently has another wave of concept art revealed – this time by concept artist Goran Bukvic. The images match how the game was first described years ago.

Credit to Reddit user thebananapeeler2. pic.twitter.com/TelAZeMVMj

— The Arkham Channel (@ArkhamChannel) November 9, 2021

The art shows Damian in a batsuit but without a cowl, and an older Bruce Wayne, both with and without a beard and wearing a large leg brace in a full-body render. There are also early versions of Killer Croc and the Huntress, as well as another, unspecified character who was likely meant to be the Dollmaker.

Project Sabbath previously leaked in 2019, albeit with some conflicting information. The above tweet claims “it probably wasn’t set in the Arkhamverse,” but previous information about the game indicates the contrary. Older leaked images of the game’s setting and information from MP1st seem to agree that Project Sabbath was set to be the fifth Arkham game, and was taking heavy inspiration from Batman Beyond. The concept art of an older Bruce Wayne does look very similar to WB Games Montreal’s take on the Arkhamverse iteration of the character seen in Arkham Origins.

The canceled game would have substituted Batman Beyond‘s Terry McGinnis for Damian Wayne, who is Bruce Wayne’s only biological child in the comics; Talia al Ghul is Damian’s mother. It would appear that Project Sabbath was canceled in favor of the divisive Gotham Knights, which does not take place in the canonical Arkhamverse. Gotham Knights features three of Damian’s adoptive siblings, two of whom were formerly Robin themselves: Dick Grayson as Nightwing, Jason Todd as Red Hood, and Tim Drake as Robin.

I Don’t Understand Any Of WB’s Decisions

Chasing Live-Service Money

Gotham Knights is a passable game, but many Arkham fans likely would have rather seen WB Games Montreal receive the green light to finish Project Sabbath, which seems to have been envisioned as another single-player entry. The decision was likely handed down by Warner Bros. Games, the publishing label that owns the Montreal-based developer. WB Games also happens to own Rocksteady, and the company’s decisions continue to only grow more confusing.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was clearly an attempt to capitalize on the live-service market, but ended up being a major financial disaster. Rumors claim Rocksteady has returned to Batman for its next game, but WB Games seems not to have learned its lesson. Monolith Productions’ Wonder Woman game was canceled – alongside the much more serious closure of the development house – and now Hogwarts Legacy 2 may be a multiplayer game, with job postings for Avalanche Software referencing an “online multiplayer RPG.”

In addition to Suicide Squad, WB Games had another live-service failure in the bungled re-release of MultiVersus.

Why WB Games would look at Hogwarts Legacy, 2023’s best-selling game, and decide to move away from its single-player formula is beyond me. A game in the vein of Batman Beyond, a single-player Wonder Woman game, and a straightforward follow-up to Hogwarts Legacy all seem like surefire successes, yet none of them are happening.

The live-service market is incredibly crowded, and despite multiple high-profile failures – including one from WB itself – publishers are still desperately chasing those profits at the cost of developers’ livelihoods. It would be almost funny how badly Warner Bros. appears to be fumbling its properties if it weren’t so enraging to see developers laid off because of it.

A Follow-Up To Arkham Knight Is Sorely Needed

Please Let The Rocksteady Rumors Be True

Following 2015’s Arkham Knight, it was understandable that Rocksteady might want to move on to other projects, but the development talent there ended up languishing on Suicide Squad. WB Games Montreal’s Arkham Origins has its naysayers, but at least the prequel is well within the series’ established, successful formula. The developer had the chops to make a strong run at the next Arkhamverse game.

It’s baffling that Rocksteady’s illustrious trilogy was released within the span of six years, and here we are a decade later, without any new Batman games in a similar vein (discounting VR titles; Batman: Arkham Shadow was well-received). Arkham Knight and its incredibly realized Gotham are practically begging for a follow-up, but instead of a genuinely fascinating turn to focus on Damian Wayne assuming the cowl, we got two lackluster co-op games.

There’s still hope that Rocksteady’s rumored new Batman game is real, but after so long, it’s difficult to know if a return to form can be pulled off. Warner Bros. has spent so long misguiding the franchise’s games, so who’s to say the publisher won’t fumble it again. The Batman: Arkham series almost continued with a genuinely interesting idea set 10 years after Arkham Knight, and it remains to be seen if the Arkhamverse can actually recover.