Batman: Arkham Knight

Batman: Arkham Knight is an adventure game developed by Rocksteady Studios and released in 2015. It was published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 113 achievements to unlock.

Batman: Arkham Knight is the 102nd of 185 entries we hold in the DC Comics series. The next entry was Batman: Arkham Knight - The Serious Edition in 2015. Its critic score of 92 is 23 points above the series average of 69. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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Batman: Arkham Knight holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 1,544 votes.

The main story runs about 39.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 57.7 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story, or $0.07 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz, 6 GB RAM and Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB Memory Minimum) | AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2 GB Memory Minimum). An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 45GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price. Across the 8 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $19.99 — a spread of $16.00 for an identical product. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Indonesia is the cheapest region we track at Rp 135,999 (about $7.53), while Germany pays €19.99 — 3 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 20 on Steam, which is about $19.99.

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Batman: Arkham Knight launched on 23 June 2015, within three weeks of Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, Heroes of the Storm and Her Story. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, Heroes of the Storm, Her Story.

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