Marvel Rivals
Marvel Rivals is a Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter! Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe!
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- Released
- 2024
- Developer
- NetEase Games
- Platforms
- 3 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- playable
- Download
- 70 GB
What is Marvel Rivals?
Marvel Rivals is a Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter! Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe!
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 6 December 2024 |
|---|---|
| Developer | NetEase Games |
| Publisher | NetEase Games |
| Platforms | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck |
| Genres | First-Person Shooter, Strategy |
| Languages | 16 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q125175413, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Marvel Rivals received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | Yes |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | Yes |
| Steam Deck | playable |
| Download size | 70 GB |
| Add-on content | 1 DLC listed |
| Age gate | None |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Marvel Rivals worth it?
76% of 412,470 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mostly Positive. It is free to play.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Marvel Rivals? How long to beat it
Total play time for Marvel Rivals is about 130.4 hours to do everything, and around 18.2 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 18.2h | 22 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 41.5h | 11 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 130.4h | 28 |
Marvel Rivals is free to play, so the only cost is your time: about 18.2 hours to beat it.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Marvel Rivals system requirements
The minimum requirements from Marvel Rivals's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 16 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i5-6600K |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 / Intel Arc A380 |
| Storage | 70 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
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Where Marvel Rivals sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
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How positions are decided
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- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Marvel Rivals price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: Free on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Marvel Rivals updates & patch notes
Pulled from Marvel Rivals's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- Marvel Rivals Version 20260903 Patch Notes
- Marvel Rivals Version 20260827 Patch Notes
- Marvel Rivals Version 20260820 Patch Notes
- Marvel Rivals players are messing with their config files 'to cancel games with no consequence' before they get a loss
- Marvel Rivals Version 20260813 Patch Notes
- Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter
What readers say about Marvel Rivals
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Marvel Rivals on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Servers and connection22 of 300 (7%)
trash game, horrible matchmaking always going against smurfs, the balancing sucks
Steam review, 30 August 2026 · 430 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpfulAfter wasting 1,151.7 hours dealing with this kind of matchmaking, honestly… why even care anymore?
Steam review, 30 August 2026 · 1,152 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful - Performance and stutter15 of 300 (5%)
- Miss inputs / server lag, etc., in short, the game's optimization is a nightmare RTX 4090 SUPRIMX / 9850X3D/ 64GO RAM / 360 FPS / HZ Game, i can notice every miss shots, or every manipulated one, same about input.
Steam review, 28 August 2026 · 1,613 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpfulyou'd think one day they would realize how garbage the optimization and matchmaking is
Steam review, 30 August 2026 · 9 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful
A further 1 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Where Marvel Rivals appears
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Common questions about Marvel Rivals
What platforms is Marvel Rivals on?
Marvel Rivals is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck. It first released in 2024.
Is Marvel Rivals free?
Yes. Marvel Rivals is free to download on Steam. It carries in-game purchases.
Do players recommend Marvel Rivals?
76% of 412,470 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mostly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Marvel Rivals work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Marvel Rivals as playable on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
How big is the Marvel Rivals download?
70 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Marvel Rivals?
Marvel Rivals was developed by NetEase Games and published by NetEase Games.
Is Marvel Rivals worth it in 2026?
76% of 412,470 Steam reviews are positive (Mostly Positive), and it is free to play. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
What are the system requirements for Marvel Rivals?
At minimum, Marvel Rivals needs 16 GB RAM, a Intel Core i5-6600K, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 / Intel Arc A380, 70 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Marvel Rivals?
about 18.2 hours for the main story, 41.5 hours with the main extras, 130.4 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.