How much revenue did Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition make?

$959k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition sell?

174k to 284k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174k–284k; $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–3.9M

best case 4.2M (INSIDE)

Games like Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–3.9M copies

≈ $21.4M–$30.2M after Steam's cut

from ~42k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 2.5D (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: INSIDE at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 9 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2.5D (4 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
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