Marvel's Spider-Man similar games & best alternatives

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Marvel's Spider-Man

PlayStation 4 • 2018

Should you play it?

What works

  • Fluid and exhilarating web-swinging mechanics
  • Engaging and emotional story with strong character development
  • Detailed and immersive open-world new york city
  • Varied combat system with skill progression and gadgets
  • High replayability with collectibles and side missions

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive side activities and enemy encounters
  • Stealth missions with non-spider-man characters can feel tedious
  • Some boss fights feel formulaic
  • Occasional reliance on cutscenes limits player control
  • No multiplayer or cooperative modes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • God of War

  • Lunarium

  • Clash: Artifacts of Chaos

  • Spider-Man 2

Less intimate

Games that feels like Marvel's Spider-Man but with less focus on close relationships

  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine

  • God of War II

  • Angeline Era

  • Death's Door

  • Hyper Light Drifter

  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2

  • Marvel's Wolverine

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

  • Sunset Overdrive

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Marvel's Spider-Man. These titles are not in What to play next.

Marvel's Spider-Man: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story, Exploration.

Last update: 21/08/2026