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

$30.5M–$82.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

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

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

5.5M to 9.0M copies, based on its 88k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.5M–9.0M; $30.5M–$82.0M after Steam's cut $55.5M–$126.2M before Steam's cut; from 88k 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 Asylum Game of the Year Edition and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13.5M–51.1M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 13.5M–51.1M copies

≈ $251.2M–$338.4M after Steam's cut

from ~379k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Survival (2 of 5), 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (2 of 5) and Battle Royale (1 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 7.4x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $173.2M–$465.8M after Steam's cut $315.0M–$716.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	379k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.3M–16.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut $308.0M–$700.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	357k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 39.0M–63.3M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut $389.4M–$886.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	937k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.6M–$98.3M after Steam's cut $66.5M–$151.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	179k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure