Best Adventure Games Like Spider-Man

The best adventure games like Spider-Man are Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Batman: Arkham City and InFamous Second Son. Below are 7, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.

Why Adventure Is a Good Answer for Spider-Man

Filtering to adventure means the place and the story are what you want back, not the challenge. It is the right filter when the thing you remember is where you were rather than what you did.

What you get: A world with a reason to wander it, and writing that survives being read rather than skipped.

What made Spider-Man worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the adventure part of that answer, and only the adventure part.

7 Adventure Games Like Spider-Man

  1. 1. Marvel's Spider-Man 2

    The sequel, with wingsuit traversal added on top.

  2. 2. Batman: Arkham City

    Where the combat came from, and still the best open-world superhero game.

  3. 3. InFamous Second Son

    Traversal-first superpowers in a real city.

  4. 4. Gravity Rush 2

    Falling in any direction as the whole traversal system.

  5. 5. Crackdown

    The city as a climbing frame, in its purest form.

  6. 6. Prototype

    The other Manhattan traversal game, far nastier.

  7. 7. Web of Shadows

    The best of the older Spider-Man games if you want more swinging.

What This Filter Leaves Out

Mechanical depth. Several of the best adventure games have combat that is deliberately unsatisfying, because they want your attention somewhere else.

Specifically, these are strong answers for Spider-Man that are not adventure games, so they are not on this page:

The full list is on games like Spider-Man — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best adventure game like Spider-Man?

Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The sequel, with wingsuit traversal added on top.

Are all of these on the PlayStation 4?

No. Spider-Man released on the PlayStation 4, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.

What counts as an adventure game?

Anywhere the story and the place matter more than the skill ceiling — point-and-click, walking sims, narrative thrillers and most open worlds. The label alone tells you very little, which is why each pick here says what it actually is.

Are adventure games long?

They split hard. Open-world adventures run to a hundred hours; the narrative ones are often finishable in an evening, and the short ones are usually the better written.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Spider-Man list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is adventure — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.

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Or read the adventure guide for where to start in the genre generally.