One-off purchase
Batman: Arkham City cost to play
What Batman: Arkham City costs in the UK on Steam and the Nintendo eShop, and its PEGI age rating.
Batman: Arkham City gameplay, images and trailer
© Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Batman: Arkham City trailer “Batman Arkham City Trailer” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- From £14.99: Cheapest standard price: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 13.5 h to beat: Main story: 13.5 hours (HowLongToBeat)
- £1.11 an hour: £14.99 ÷ 13.5 hours (main story)
- PEGI 16: Age rating
- Released
- 15 November 2011
- Developer
- Rocksteady Studios
- Publisher
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Platforms
- PS3, PC, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
- Age rating
- PEGI 16
- Genre
- Action
- Modes
- Single-player
On this page
Batman: Arkham City player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Peak, Jul 2026
- 4
- 1 on average
- Change vs Jun 2021
- +100%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 6,007
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Is Batman: Arkham City dead?
Very quiet on Steam: Batman: Arkham City peaked at 4 players at once in July 2026. Peaks are up 100% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 1 | 4 | +100.0% |
| June 2021 | 1 | 2 | +0.0% |
| February 2021 | 1 | 2 | +100.0% |
| December 2019 | – | 1 | +0.0% |
| September 2019 | – | 1 | −50.0% |
| August 2019 | – | 2 | +0.0% |
| July 2019 | – | 2 | −33.3% |
| June 2019 | – | 3 | +50.0% |
| May 2019 | – | 2 | +0.0% |
| April 2019 | – | 2 | −33.3% |
| March 2019 | – | 3 | +50.0% |
| February 2019 | – | 2 | – |
What Batman: Arkham City costs to play
| Item | Price | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (Steam UK, standard price) | £14.99 | game | store.steampowered.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
| Batman: Arkham City (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo eShop UK) | £19.99 | game | nintendo.com Checked 21 Oct 2026 |
How long is Batman: Arkham City?
Batman: Arkham City takes about 13.5 hours to finish the main story, and about 59.5 hours to complete everything.
- Main story13.5 h
- Main + extras22.5 h
- Completionist59.5 h
Cost per hour (main story)
£1.11
£14.99 on Steam UK ÷ 13.5 h
Source: HowLongToBeat, read 28 Oct 2026. Your time will vary with difficulty and play style.
How Batman: Arkham City is rated
GamesChart Score
88.0, #32 of 3,236 rated games
#2 of 2011 · #21 of the 2010s · #4 in Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · #15 on Nintendo
Critics
Players
Built from 4,795 ratings across 4 of 5 sources (no RAWG rating). Critics and players count 50/50. Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #31
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Batman: Arkham City questions
How much does Batman: Arkham City cost in the UK?
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (Steam UK, standard price): £14.99. Batman: Arkham City (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo eShop UK): £19.99. Prices checked 21 October 2026.
Is Batman: Arkham City free to play?
No. Batman: Arkham City is not free to play: you buy the game to play it.
How long is Batman: Arkham City?
Main story: about 13.5 hours. Main + extras: about 22.5 hours. Completionist: about 59.5 hours (HowLongToBeat). At £14.99, that's £1.11 per hour (main story).
What age rating is Batman: Arkham City?
Batman: Arkham City is rated PEGI 16.
What is Batman: Arkham City's all-time Steam peak?
6,007 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for Batman: Arkham City (read 28 October 2026). Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is Batman: Arkham City dead?
Very quiet on Steam: Batman: Arkham City peaked at 4 players at once in July 2026. Peaks are up 100% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
Do these Batman: Arkham City player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes Batman: Arkham City?
Batman: Arkham City is developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Batman: Arkham City is a single-player action-adventure game, developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It was first released in 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, and Steam lists the PC version from 15 November 2011. Today it is sold at a one-off price on Steam, as the Game of the Year Edition, and on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch.
How it plays
Batman: Arkham City is a single-player game set inside Arkham City, a sprawling mega-prison in the heart of Gotham City that holds its most violent thugs and best-known super villains. You play as Batman, and the publisher describes the aim as letting players feel what it is like to be the Dark Knight delivering justice on Gotham's streets.
It builds on Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the publisher says players fly through a game world five times larger than the one in that game. The villains include Catwoman, the Joker, the Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, the Penguin and Mr. Freeze.
The Game of the Year Edition sold on Steam adds the Catwoman Pack, the Nightwing and Robin bundle packs, Harley Quinn's Revenge, a Challenge Map Pack and a skins pack. Together these add seven maps, three more playable characters (Catwoman, Robin and Nightwing) and 12 skins. Steam lists partial controller support.
What it costs
On Steam UK, the Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition costs £14.99 at standard price; it was 80% off on the day we checked. The original Steam listing for the base game has no price of its own. On the Nintendo eShop UK, the Switch version costs £19.99, £5 more than on Steam. Steam lists five pieces of downloadable content for the game.
Age rating
Steam's store data lists the game as PEGI 16, with ESRB T and BBFC 15. Nintendo UK also lists the Switch version as PEGI 16.
It ranks #32 in our best games of all time ranking.
How we checked
Prices are the Steam UK and Nintendo eShop UK listings, read on 21 October 2026, at standard price. Steam Charts returned an error for this game on the day we checked, so the page has no player count. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store pages for the original game and the Game of the Year Edition.
Card art and page images: screenshots from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's Batman: Arkham City Steam store page. © Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. All trademarks belong to their owners. GamesChart is not endorsed by or affiliated with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Official links: Steam · nintendo.com
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Sources
- Card art and page images – Batman: Arkham City Steam store screenshots (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment), published by store.steampowered.com
- Steam UK – Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, published by store.steampowered.com
- Nintendo UK – Batman: Arkham City, published by nintendo.com
- PEGI rating – Batman: Arkham City, published by store.steampowered.com
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