Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Worth it · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $17.30.
- Length
- 12.6h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI 3850HD 512 MB or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was May 2024. 99 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $17.30, a level the record has reached 99 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition ($19.99, scores 78) and Batman™: Arkham Knight ($19.99, scores 72) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 2,739 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
12.6 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
14 years after release it still had 655 people in it at once.
At 12.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
655 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Honestly, this is easily one of the best games I've ever played. I've beaten it multiple times at this point, and it just never gets old. The freeflow combat is ridiculously addicting, grappling through the city feels smooth as hell, and the dynamic between Batman and Joker in this story is unmatched. The map size is just right too-not stupidly massive for the sake of it, but packed with actual quality content...
i dunno what demon possessed me to obsessively GET ALL 440 RIDDLER ENTRIES but hopefully it means the game is just that great. peak music. peak story. great open world. great gameplay. great batman adaptation on-screen.
its a very good with amazing graphics and really good fighting mechanics and the story of the game is also very amazing and i would say that it is a must play game
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/200260/batman-arkham-city-game-of-the-year-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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