Batman™: Arkham Origins
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.4h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 96 discounts in the 13 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Batman™: Arkham Knight ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales ($49.99, scores 53).
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; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 563 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 2,234 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 12.4 hours. Doing everything runs 41, 3.3 times as long.
13 years after release it still had 616 people in it at once.
The drop-off
81% 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
616 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
Batman: Arkham Origins isn't as polished as the other Arkham games, but it's still a fun Batman game. The story is good, the combat is as enjoyable as ever, and the snowy Gotham atmosphere gives the city a unique feel, even if the open world itself feels underused. Bruce and Alfred's interactions are a highlight, and most of the boss fights are fun, with a few ranking among the best in the series. One of the game's...
This game has so many technical hiccups its actually insane. It has crashed in so many different ways/scenarios, that I am actually starting to lose my mind. Ive never had any of these problems with the other arkham games and it really saddens me give this one a thumbs down because the game itself is actually pretty good. I might try to power through this one, but I cannot recommend the game simply because of all...
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Batman™: Arkham Origins scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/209000/batman-arkham-originsThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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