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On Christmas Eve, a young Batman fights assassins across Gotham, using stealth, gadgets, combat, and crime-scene investigations.
Released 24 Oct 2013
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Track Eight Assassins
Glide Across Gotham
As of December 4, 2016, the online services portion of Batman: Arkham Origins has been retired. We thank those that have joined us to battle. The Single player campaign may still be played and enjoyed offline. For any questions relating to Batman: Arkham Origins, please contact WB Games customer service.
Developed by WB Games Montreal, Splash Damage · Published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment





Set several years before Arkham Asylum, the campaign follows an early-career Batman on Christmas Eve, when assassins are hunting him across Gotham. He must face the threat while building his reputation as a crime fighter.
Explore Gotham from the rooftops, glide between locations, and take on criminals through flowing melee combat or stealth. Batman’s gadgets help in fights and puzzles, while the Remote Claw can create new routes or leave enemies suspended from vantage points.
Investigate crimes with a Case File system that lets you reconstruct events and examine evidence. The city also offers crimes in progress, side missions to pursue wanted criminals, and upgrades earned through those activities. The single-player campaign can be played offline.
Players often praise the varied boss encounters, the portrayal of a younger and more impulsive Batman, and Gotham’s snowy Christmas atmosphere. Many also enjoy the flowing combat and crime-scene investigations. Some reviews criticize bugs that can interrupt play, familiar gameplay, and an open world they find sparse.
As of December 4, 2016, the online services portion of Batman: Arkham Origins has been retired. We thank those that have joined us to battle. The Single player campaign may still be played and enjoyed offline. For any questions relating to Batman: Arkham Origins, please contact WB Games customer service.
Batman™: Arkham Origins is the next installment in the blockbuster Batman: Arkham videogame franchise. Developed by WB Games Montréal, the game features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight.
The Arkham Story Begins: Batman: Arkham Origins features a pivotal tale set on Christmas Eve where Batman is hunted by eight of the deadliest assassins from the DC Comics Universe. Players become an early-career Batman as he encounters for the first time many of the characters that shape his future.
Enhanced Detective Mode: Think like Batman with an all-new Case File system that allows players to analyze seemingly impossible-to-solve crime reconstructions in real time. Combining Batman’s cowl sensors with the Batcomputer, players can digitally recreate crimes and study detailed simulation of the act as it happened.
Gotham City will learn to fear Batman: Take back the sprawling streets of Gotham years before its transformation into Arkham City. Glide above or battle your way through new and ever more dangerous districts in the quest for justice. Prevent crimes in progress, take down gangs of violent new criminals and explore deadly new locations, from the impoverished streets to the penthouses of Gotham’s wealthy.
Gotham’s Most Wanted: The city streets are filled with more than just Black Mask’s assassins. Locate and take down Gotham’s most violent and dangerous criminals to earn unique upgrades.
Lethal New Enemies: Fight new foes such as the Armored Enforcer, the Martial Artist and more – each of which challenge players to approach Batman’s FreeFlow Combat scenarios in different ways. Classic FreeFlow combat is expanded with every new opponent – and with Batman’s abilities to engage them.
New Gadgets: Utilize Batman’s signature gadgets or take advantage of powerful new additions such as the Remote Claw, the Concussion Detonator and more. Use the Remote Claw to create new routes by deploying strategic tightropes or directly attack enemies by stringing them up from vantage points. Ready the Concussion Detonator to stun and disorient groups of opponents in close combat.
New and Familiar Characters: Experience a fresh take on iconic Batman characters including Black Mask, Penguin, Deathstroke, Bane, Deadshot, Anarky, Captain Gordon, The Joker, Copperhead, Firefly and others yet to be revealed.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 60 |
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| Players | Up to 8 |
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| Multiplayer | The game had an online multiplayer component, but the official online services were retired on December 4, 2016. The single-player campaign remains playable offline. Reviews describe competitive online modes involving Batman, Robin, and rival Joker and Bane gang teams. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Official multiplayer is retired. Reviews report community workarounds, file edits, private or hosted servers, and mods that can restore multiplayer access or enable multiplayer achievements. These are unofficial. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 6 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 74/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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