How much revenue did Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition make?

$27.1M–$73.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition sell?

4.9M to 8.0M copies, based on its 78k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.9M–8.0M; $27.1M–$73.0M after Steam's cut $49.3M–$112.3M before the cut; from 78k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–17.0M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 9.7M–17.0M copies

≈ $134.9M–$310.2M after Steam's cut

from ~314k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Battle Royale + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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