Marvel fans surprised with new free game

NetEase Games and Marvel Games are teaming up to release a free-to-play Marvel game and no, before you ask, I’m not talking about Marvel Rivals (even though, confusingly, that is also a free-to-play Marvel game that both NetEase Games and Marvel Games are working on).

As revealed on Marvel’s official site, MARVEL Mystic Mayhem is a free-to-play mobile game that will feature several of Marvel’s “iconic Super Heroes” as they battle “the sinister forces of Nightmare, the malevolent lord of the Dream Dimension”.

The game will feature “Scarlet Witch, Moon Knight and Captain America”, but they might not necessarily be playable characters. Instead, these heroes will actually have levels in the game themed after them.

This is because “Nightmare transforms their dreams into dangerous dungeons”, which assumedly means that we’ll be fighting through the manifestations of these heroes' nightmares during the course of the game. Let’s hope the Marvel hero Penance doesn’t show up in one of these dungeons.

Have you seen the Thunderbolts* trailer?

The recent trailer for the game does confirm some of the playable characters however, as it features some gameplay of Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Armor and Juggernaut.

Gotta say, I know it’s easy to turn your nose up at the idea of a “free-to-play mobile game” but… am I losing it or does this look kind of awesome?

The art style alone sells me on it, but the visuals just look so crisp that I honestly would have thought this was a console game if I hadn’t already read the press release.

Plus, the gameplay reminds me a lot of Marvel’s Midnight Suns. That’s a huge green flag in my book, because that game was incredible (even though most people probably won’t know that, considering the reports of its less-than-stellar sales numbers).

No word on a release date yet, but you can sign up to playtest the title. Hopefully this does see a release on other platforms too, because it looks like it deserves to be played on a screen bigger than a mobile phone.