Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Worth it · Action · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $13.87.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, PCI Express SM3 NVidia 6600/ ATI 1300, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 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. Past sales have already crossed the $13.87 BANGER line 99 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Batman™: Arkham Knight ($19.99, scores 72).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 2,696 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 12 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
It came out 16 years ago and 601 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
77% start to 4% 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
601 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 Asylum: A Near-Perfect Batman Game TL;DR Batman: Arkham Asylum barely feels its age where it matters. The combat is simple but satisfying, predator encounters make you feel genuinely dangerous, Arkham Island is packed with atmosphere and secrets, and the voice acting and art direction still hold up remarkably well. Its biggest weaknesses are repetitive boss fights, Detective Mode being almost too...
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 Asylum Game of the Year Edition scores 78/100 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/35140/batman-arkham-asylum-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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