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Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 77% of owners
Steam reviews 96% positive of 88,415
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (18%); after 10h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 77% of games we track.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Malpractice Needs More Practice” and “Born Free”: from 93% to 78% of starters.
- 77% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 88,849 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 12.3h for positive, 6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (76.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Shocking Rescue Take down Zsasz in the Patient Pacification Chamber 97% −3
- Leave No Man Behind Rescue the guards and henchman from the Joker toxin in Decontamination 89% −7
- Malpractice Needs More Practice Survive the onslaught from the deformed Joker henchman 93% +3
- Born Free Escape from Intensive Treatment to the island surface Most players quit here 78% −14
- Just What The Doctors Ordered Save all the doctors in medical 67% −12
- Daydreamer Survive the nightmare of the Scarecrow's fear gas 65% −2
- Baneful Payback Defeat Bane 63% −2
- Breaking And Entering Gain access to Administration after it is locked down by the Joker 58% −4
- Recurring Nightmare Face your biggest fears and keep your sanity 54% −4
- Zsasz Cut Down To Size Save Dr. Young from being killed by Victor Zsasz 54%
- Solitary Confinement Capture and lock up Harley Quinn 52% −2
- Double Trouble Defeat two Titan Henchmen at once 49% −2
- Resist The Fear Conquer the effects of the Scarecrow's fear gas 47% −3
- Crocodile Tears Venture into Killer Croc's lair and come out alive 46% −1
- Poisoned Ivy Defeat the giant Titan Ivy plant 45% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- Freeflow Combo 5 Complete a combo of 5 moves (any play mode) 100%
- Shocking Rescue Take down Zsasz in the Patient Pacification Chamber 97%
- Malpractice Needs More Practice Survive the onslaught from the deformed Joker henchman 93%
- Leave No Man Behind Rescue the guards and henchman from the Joker toxin in Decontamination 89%
- Born Free Escape from Intensive Treatment to the island surface 78%
- Freeflow Combo 10 Complete a combo of 10 moves (any play mode) 72%
- Arkham Analyst Solve 5% of Riddler challenges 69%
- Just What The Doctors Ordered Save all the doctors in medical 67%
- Daydreamer Survive the nightmare of the Scarecrow's fear gas 65%
- Baneful Payback Defeat Bane 63%
- Cryptic Investigator Solve 10% of Riddler challenges 60%
- Breaking And Entering Gain access to Administration after it is locked down by the Joker 58%
- Recurring Nightmare Face your biggest fears and keep your sanity 54%
- Zsasz Cut Down To Size Save Dr. Young from being killed by Victor Zsasz 54%
- Solitary Confinement Capture and lock up Harley Quinn 52%
- Freeflow Combo 20 Complete a combo of 20 moves (any play mode) 50%
- Double Trouble Defeat two Titan Henchmen at once 49%
- Resist The Fear Conquer the effects of the Scarecrow's fear gas 47%
- Lateral Thinker Solve 25% of Riddler challenges 47%
- Crocodile Tears Venture into Killer Croc's lair and come out alive 46%
- Freak Show Rodeo Ride a Titan henchman and knock down 5 thugs (any play mode) 45%
- Poisoned Ivy Defeat the giant Titan Ivy plant 45%
- Big Bang Deliver an explosive knock out blow to the Joker (Easy difficulty) 43%
- Bigger Bang Deliver an explosive knock out blow to the Joker (Normal difficulty) 38%
- Mystery Solver Solve 40% of Riddler challenges 32%
- Party Pooper KO all the henchmen celebrating your arrival at the party 26%
- Rope-a-dope-a-dope String up one henchman and drop him to surprise a second (any play mode) 25%
- Conundrum Cracker Solve 55% of Riddler challenges 22%
- Mental Athlete Solve 70% of Riddler challenges 17%
- Riddle Resolver Solve 85% of Riddler challenges 15%
- Freeflow Combo 40 Complete a combo of 40 moves (any play mode) 13%
- Crack The E Nigma Solve every riddle on the island 13%
- Night Glider Glide continuously for over 100m 13%
- World's Greatest Detective Spirit of Amadeus Arkham revealed 12%
- Flawless Freeflow Fighter Complete one combat challenge without taking damage 10%
- Catch! Catch a Batarang (any play mode) 10%
- Biggest Bang Deliver an explosive knock out blow to the Joker (Hard difficulty) 9.4%
- Mano-a-mano Defeat Titan henchman without using Batarangs (any play mode) 9.0%
- Freeflow Bronze Achieve 8 medals on combat challenges 7.2%
- Predator Bronze Achieve 8 medals on predator challenges 7.0%
- Invisible Predator Complete one predator challenge by using only Silent Takedowns and without being detected 6.1%
- Freeflow Silver Achieve 16 medals on combat challenges 5.6%
- Predator Silver Achieve 16 medals on predator challenges 5.6%
- Perfect Knight 100% Complete 5.5%
- Predator Gold Achieve 24 medals on predator 5.3%
- Freeflow Perfection Perform a perfect combo including all of Batman's combat moves (any play mode) 5.2%
- Freeflow Gold Achieve 24 medals on combat challenges 5.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.