Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024) has simply topped over 1 million gamers, evidenced by an in-game achievement that almost everyone seems to be sure to earn simply by booting up the sport and taking part in for a couple of minutes.
Camouflaj’s Batman: Arkham Shadow, the Quest-exclusive recreation launched final October, was poised to be a giant draw for the vacation season final 12 months, prompting Meta to bundle the VR native continuation of the Arkham sequence with each new Quest 3 and Quest 3S buy.
Now, as first reported by UploadVR, it appears one in every of Batman: Arkham Shadow’s best achievements has now tallied over 1 million gamers.
The achievement, known as ‘False God’, is activated when a participant finds a Rat King Idol, of which there are 40 strewn all through the sport as hidden collectibles.
The primary to notice that Batman: Arkham Shadow had topped 1 million gamers was French-language YouTuber ‘QuestWithMatt‘, who additionally tracks numerous video games, together with Skydance’s Behemoth (2024) and Metro Awakening (2024).
Based on related in-game achievements, these video games have topped practically 500,000 gamers and over 400,000 gamers respectively.
Apparently, as charted by QuestWithMatt beneath, the submit Christman growth handily doubled participant numbers—traditionally Meta’s largest interval for headset activations in addition to downloads of the Meta Horizon cellular companion app.
It’s actually no shock although that Batman: Arkham Shadow is outperforming its different ‘AAA’ Quest exclusives although, as the sport comes bundled with all new Quest homeowners, efficient since simply earlier than the sport’s October launch till April 2025.
Notably, if it weren’t included with each Quest 3S offered up to now and Quest 3 bought after September 2024, Batman: Arkham Shadow would have grossed $50 million, owing to its $50 price ticket.
That mentioned, it’s additionally a fabulous recreation in its personal proper, with Batman: Arkham Shadow garnering a ‘Nice’ ranking in our full assessment. We particularly appreciated the way it captured the essence of the Arkham sequence by understanding the core formulation and deeply adapting it for VR, to not point out its well-executed motion, mild puzzles, and revolutionary VR melee fight. Try the (spoiler free) assessment linked above to study extra.
