Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

Arkham City frames a Batman adventure around Gotham's familiar criminals. For a single-player outing, weigh the listed $3.99 from Steam against your budget; the GOTY description lists additional characters and maps. An announced Steam sale is another possible comparison point, though participation and discounts are not guaranteed. At $3.99 from Steam, you can weigh the edition against your budget; Batman's story in Arkham City is a single-player adventure.

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95%Steam Reviews56.3K reviews

Released: Sep 7, 2012

Action · Open World · Stealth · Superhero · Adventure

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01About Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

As Batman, cross the expansive Arkham City, a maximum-security district filled with Gotham's most dangerous criminals. Confront familiar foes and deliver justice on the streets as the Dark Knight. Steam players rate the game 95% positive from 56,292 reviews. Steam PC interface languages include English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Polish. Released September 7, 2012.

Credits

WRITER

Paul Dini

American writer and comic creator

NotableBatman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition · Batman: Arkham City

Composer

Ron Fish

Developer

Rocksteady Studios

Publisher

WB Games

Voice

瑞克·D·沃塞曼

Steam player reviews

95%positiveOverwhelmingly Positive56,292 Steam reviews

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Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
French	Yes	Yes	Yes
German	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Italian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	Yes	—
Russian	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish	Yes	Yes	Yes

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19

02Before you buy

Language support

Steam PC supports English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Polish interface text. Full audio is listed for English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish; subtitles are listed for all seven.

GOTY content

The GOTY description lists Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing as playable characters, along with additional maps and skins.

03Frequently asked questions

Where does the game take place?

It takes place in Arkham City, a maximum-security home for Gotham City's criminals.

Which familiar villains appear?

The listed rogues include Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, The Penguin, and Mr. Freeze.

What added content is described?

The description names Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing as playable characters, plus extra maps and skins.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

09/28/2014

I had a girlfriend when I first played Batman: Arkham City on my Xbox 360. Around 500 hours of gameplay later, my girlfriend forced me to choose. Her exact words were: "It's either me or that stupid Batman game". We had been together for a year and a half. I've been single ever since. How's that for a combo breaker?Show moreShow less

39.3 hours at review568 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

02/10/2018

READ THIS BEFORE LAUNCHING THE GAME During the installation process, along with the DirectX libraries another program will be installed called AMD Dual-Core Optimizer, which was meant to improve the performance on systems that run Windows XP and use old AMD Dual-Core CPUs. On PCs that run Windows Vista and later and/or an Intel CPU, you won't need that program because it will impact the performance and cause other issues. Unfortunately when you launch the game for the first time you don't get the choice to decline the installation of AMD Dual-Core Optimizer (that's why I left a negative review). In order to stop that program from being installed, do as follows: If the program is already installed, you should uninstall it. Go to "Programs and Features", select "AMD Dual-Core Optimizer" and click "Uninstall" (perhaps it's going to take a while, do not cancel the process and wait for it to finish); afterwords, reboot the PC. 1) Go to the installation folder of the game (right click on the game title -> properties -> local files tab -> browse local files) 2) Open "installscript.vdf" (right click -> open with -> use Notepad) 3) Scroll down until you see the word "AMD", followed by a bunch of code between the two perpendicular { and } brackets; delete that portion of code, beginning from the word "AMD" to the last perpendicular bracket (note that you must leave the brackets on the left side and everything else) 4) Save the file. Make sure you didn't delete anything that has to do with DXSetup, VCRedist_x86 and DotNetFx35 5) When you're done, go to the "Setup" folder and delete "amd_dc_opt.exe" (this is an optional step, just to be safe) If you've done everything correctly, when you launch the game the installation of AMD Dual-Core Optimizer won't start. REMEMBER TO NOT VERIFY THE INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES, OTHERWISE YOU MUST REPEAT THE ENTIRE PROCEDURE.Show moreShow less

34.7 hours at review1,690 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

01/30/2024

Forget about what happens in "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League" and play this masterpiece instead.Show moreShow less

18.6 hours at review319 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

05/11/2015

A reasonably 'okay' sequel to Asylum, Arkham City will satisfy any gamer eagerly looking to jump back into the Batman universe. Where the game falls short, it falls short hard. And where the game excels, it does so only teasingly. To be quick, the game throws in bosses so meaninglessly that you're often wondering if they're just doing it to increase the amount of hours it will take to beat the title. Sure, there are some cool fights. Batman's fight scene against Ra's al Ghul is probably one of the coolest single-player boss fights I've ever played. It's not predictable enough to be repetitive, and it's not unpredictable enough to be confusing. It's a visually gorgeous experience and shows just how well Rocksteady knows the engine they're working with. But this one fight is the only unique fight in the game, and is not the norm you'd want or expect from what is considered the best Batman video game series made. The gameplay is what you'd expect if you played Asylum. It's the fluidity of the punch/kick combos when facing off against mobs of henchmen that has always made Rocksteady's franchise a lot of fun. But in City, Rocksteady has milked that way too much. Overcoming the odds of taking down five henchmen at once was cool. Doing it to a courtyard of thirty just becomes monotonous. And no, that doesn't happen just once in this game. It happens frequently. I think it's the plot which is the most dissatisfying. There is no sense of attachment to Batman whatsoever. He is emotionally stoic and his dialogue is weak. He's desperate to be friends with all the villains and Rocksteady has tried hard to make it seem like the villains are just frail people who, with enough small talk, will eventually go out to coffee every morning with Batman. It's a weird dynamic and it's just simply not enjoyable. Joker, the primary plot-driving menace, is not enough of a focal point to carry you through the mounds of dullness the other villains throw at Batman. Eh, I could say much more, but I don't want to take the time here. If you're interested in playing as Batman again in the world Rocksteady created, you'll find more of the same as what you saw in Asylum. There's a ton of nostalgic elements in this one, and while some of it is fun to play through, much of it is boring.Show moreShow less

8.7 hours at review47 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/01/2017

God ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dammit Steam needs a "mixed" review. If there is anyone out there who still doesn't own it, I would actually recommend this game to people who like: - Batman lore - open-world games - streamlined reaction time based combat mechanics My problem is that I like neither. There are some things that this game does *very* well. Moving around the city by gliding and jumping from roof to roof, listening to the bad guys chatter, swooping in and fighting crime, and the whole being Batman thing feels really good. Graphics-wise it is still pretty impressive. The story is interesting (it depends on how much you like the lore I guess). The production value (world design, voices and dialogue) is insane for a 6 year old game. I just don't think it's deserving of that 95% rating and those remarks of it being "one of the best games ever" that people keep throwing around. It's actually a simple and linear game, cleverly disguised as an open-world game and with a very well executed Batman skin on top. None of the game mechanics are intrinsically "fun" or valuable on their own. They only make sense once you put the Batman skin on top of them and most of them are fluff, to keep you busy or advance the story line. Combat is basically a very elaborate cut scene, whose outcome is decided through quick time events (see the on-screen prompt, react by pressing the proper button). The combat system is what dissapointed me the most I'd say. "Detective mode" is basically 3D pixel hunting. Stealth is mediocre, feels tacked on and scripted. The "open world" part is just there to keep you busy going from A to B while following the story. The combat mechanics, gadgets, puzzles are all just thrown at you from the start and will create the illusion of a complex game, but a lot of it is just fluff. There really aren't a lot of mechanics to "master" in the game. However, everything looks *cool as ♥♥♥♥* and I think that's where the game shines - if you aren't looking for particularly deep mechanics or a sense of challenge, the game is gorgeous and spectacular and is maybe enough to keep you glued. There's a lot of stuff "to do" and achievements to hunt so if that's your thing, you're going to love it. But if you're looking for something more interesting, deeper mechanics, more complexity layers, look elsewhere. This is definetly not a stealth game - it's no Thief, Hitman, Splinter Cell, Dishonored. It's a linear experience cleverly disguised as an open world game. And it's definetly not one of the best games ever. One of the best produced games ever, yes, but mechanics wise it's very shallow.Show moreShow less

4.7 hours at review31 people found this helpful

Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.