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

Estimated copies sold
≈ 5.0M–8.1M
$27.3M–$73.3M after Steam's cut $49.6M–$112.7M before Steam's cut
from 78k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.8M–17.1M
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 9.8M–17.1M copies

≈ $135.5M–$311.1M after Steam's cut

from ~318k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 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.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of the 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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