Marvel's Spider-Man

Starring the world’s most iconic Super Hero, Spider-Man features the acrobatic abilities, improvisation and web-slinging that the wall-crawler is famous for, while also introducing elements never-before-seen…

90 7 September 2018

Adventure Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action Drama Open world Stealth

Marvel's Spider-Man is an adventure developed by Insomniac Games, released 7 September 2018 on PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 27.1 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Marvel's Spider-Man is

Marvel's Spider-Man is an adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and released in 2018. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Insomniac Engine v.4.0.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Marvel's Spider-Man follows Peter Parker, a 23-year-old college graduate and research assistant who gained superhuman abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider. Peter is in his eighth year of crime-fighting under his super heroic alter ego of Spider-Man, who has become highly experienced at this point, but struggles to balance his superhero and personal lives. The game's open-world sandbox allows the player to control Spider-Man throughout Manhattan, New York City. Spider-Man fights enemies with his brawler moveset and a wide array of web gadgets. At key points in the story, the player also controls Peter Parker (outside of his Spider-Man identity), Mary Jane Watson, and Miles…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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.

Where it sits in the Marvel series

Marvel's Spider-Man is the 322nd of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was Marvel's Spider-Man: Collector's Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 90 is 26 points above the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.

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How it was received

Marvel's Spider-Man holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 2,189 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 27.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 45.9 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Marvel's Spider-Man launched on 7 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition and Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition.

Cheats and codes

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