Critics may have given Marvel’s Midnight Suns positive evaluations, but it does not appear that this has translated into increased sales. The game didn’t live up to what people had hoped for, and in the end, it was a financial failure.
There’s a chance that the DLC made a difference for Marvel’s Midnight Suns, but for now, it looks like this unique superhero game wasn’t able to get people interested. If this game doesn’t do well, I hope that doesn’t mean Marvel will stop trying new things with its stars.
Putting the Midnight Sons in a card-based strategy game was a big gamble, but it led to a new kind of superhero game. Firaxis wanted to do something different because so many superhero games are action-adventure games.
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Marvel shouldn’t shy away from unique events like this one but instead try to make more like it. Trying new things is usually a good idea, and Marvel’s future games should be full of new ideas.
Marvel Superhero Games Need More Variation to Prevent Fatigue
Thanks to the MCU, superheroes have been a big part of movies for over a decade, and this has also spread to the gaming business. Every year, DC and Marvel put out a number of superhero projects, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.
In 2023 alone, there will be about six MCU movies and four DC films. Superhero fans have a lot to look forward to in the gaming world because there are so many more superhero games coming out. At the moment, superhero media is very popular, but this won’t last forever.
There are already signs at the box office that the number of people who want to see superhero movies is going down. Even though it’s not the end of the world, the lack of variety in these character projects has made some Marvel fans tired of them.
After a decade of material, some viewers are searching for something different from the typical superhero experience, and the same may be true in the video game industry. Most superhero video games fall into the action-adventure or live-service categories.
Games like Marvel’s Avengers, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Gotham Knights, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League all have similar styles, even though they are not all as good. It’s likely that a lot of future superhero games will also be action-adventure games, or at least that’s what people are saying.
Because of how much people like action-adventure games, a lot of these games look almost exactly the same, which could make people tired of superhero games very quickly. Firaxis decided to go in a totally different direction with Marvel’s Midnight Suns, which really made this game stand out.
It added the team’s name to the strategy genre and had both card-based and life-sim gaming elements. This mix of different types of games made the game stand out and get some very good reviews. Even though the number of sales didn’t meet predictions, the game did, and hopefully it will lead to even more interesting things.
The video game industry needs to stop making superhero action-adventure games and start making games in more unexpected styles. Having a wider range of titles could make the superhero world healthy and probably help a lot with any possible fatigue.
Even though Marvel’s Midnight Suns didn’t sell well, that doesn’t mean the experiment should stop. There are so many styles that haven’t been explored yet, and Marvel should be the one to do it. Marvel’s Midnight Suns is now available for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Versions for PS4, Switch, and Xbox One are coming later.