Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition ▶ Trailer
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Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

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Developer
Rocksteady Studios
Publisher
WB Games
Franchise
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Release date
Sep 7, 2012
Store page updated
Apr 29, 2025
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

91.1/ 100

Based on 422 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 95% of 415
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 78,297
“Hyperbolic praise about protecting Gotham and 10/10 rating with 100% replayability claim indicates strong enjoyment despite time commitment.”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.26
Controls & feel +3.47 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle
“smooth, intuitive, tight controls and top notch precision” (87)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.30
Story +3.23 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“story feels like a full Batman graphic novel with memorable ending” (89)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+0.96
Volume +2.23 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.63
Visuals +3.48 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“graphics are gorgeous and responsive” (24)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.67

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +2.67 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
+2.15

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +1.67 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
+0.87

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Performance +2.32 · Frame rate, optimization, and loading times

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Sep 2012Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 412 reviews, peak 26/day
02550
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 417 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English48%
  • Portuguese13%
  • Spanish13%
  • Russian10%
  • Chinese6%
  • Turkish4%
  • Other6%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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