Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Worth it · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.57/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 79,233
- Critics
- 91 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.7h
- To 100%
- 45h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 64
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 May 2024
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,344 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
101 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $17.46, a level the record has reached 101 times.
Its score 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 73) both come in lower.
More about Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 2,754 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
12.7 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
At 12.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
# Batman: Arkham City ★★★ "Batman must save Gotham." **What I loved:** The atmosphere really makes you feel like you're the Dark Knight roaming the most gruesome and lawless city imaginable, taking down lowlifes and saving civilians. I absolutely love the combat in this game. It feels so fluid and timeless that even after all these years, it still holds up incredibly well. The stealth mechanics are just as...
2 more reviews
Way better than Asylum in a lot of ways. The combat and boss fights are a massive improvement. Story-wise, I think I slightly prefer Asylum's, although that ending here is absolute CINEMA. Overall , this is definitely the better game. Joker once again carries the entire thing. One of the best performances I've ever seen. Also, the Harley Quinn DLC is actually pretty good. Short, but a fun little extra.
It's a great game-the graphics, mechanics, and gameplay are all excellent, and the storyline adds a sense of momentum. I recommend it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Get Batman: Arkham City and all DLC for one low price with the release of the GOTY Edition!
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.