Batman™: Arkham Origins

Batman™: Arkham Origins

Fair · Shooter · 2013

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The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair 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

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$3.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$1.60/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 66,191
Critics
74 players 16 higher
Genre rank
Top 17% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization

Why
It needs 9% off ($18.21) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
12.5h
To 100%
41.2h 3.3x the story
Achievements
60

Price and sales

Sales
98 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.99 December 2024
Sale every
41d last October 2026
Lowest now $3.29 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.41 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
594 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
84% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

81% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

98 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 17 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Batman™: Arkham Knight ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales ($49.99, scores 53).

More about Batman™: Arkham Origins

The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,193 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 2,244 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.

The main story runs 12.5 hours. Doing everything runs 41, 3.3 times as long.

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

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.60/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationTime-limited
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
For context
Refunds7 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesTime-limitedPCGamingWiki

What players say

getting the proximity detonator locked me out of finishing a certain challenge, how do you design garbage this bad lmao
SarentorNot recommendedafter 14h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Decent story but riddled with bugs and clunky combat. Also, as with the other Arkham games the amount of collectables is a joke.
Goob2005Not recommendedafter 40h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I want whatever the people who say to skip this one are smoking. This is the best superhero game I've ever played. Batman in this game is the tuffest mf alive. He is so cold. The way he carries himself, the voice. He was an absolute menace. The boss fights are amazing, the story is great, and the cutscenes go HAARD. I genuinely don't understand how people can tell you to skip this one. This game is ABSOLUTE CINEMA.
󠀡󠀡Recommendedafter 23h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

As of December 4, 2016, the online services portion of Batman: Arkham Origins has been retired. We thank those that have joined us to battle. The Single player campaign may still be played and enjoyed offline. For any questions relating to Batman: Arkham Origins, please contact WB Games customer service.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS / AMD Radeon HD 3850 or better with 512 MB of VRAM. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Batman™: Arkham Origins scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/209000/batman-arkham-origins
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Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics74
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 66,191 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperWB Games Montreal
PublisherWarner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
GenreShooter
Released2013
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements60