Marvel's Wolverine

Marvel's Wolverine was made by Insomniac Games, the Burbank studio behind Spyro, Ratchet & Clank and Marvel's Spider-Man, owned by Sony since 2019; it was revealed in 2021 under Brian Horton and Cameron Christian, finished under game director Mike Daly, and survived a 2023 ransomware attack that leaked part of its development.

Insomniac's Marvel games in release order are Marvel's Spider-Man (Sep 7, 2018), Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (Nov 12, 2020), Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Oct 20, 2023) and Marvel's Wolverine (Sep 15, 2026), all set in one universe; play them in that order, though Wolverine stands on its own.

Marvel's Wolverine is a close-range, parry-driven brawler: claws, kicks, a gap-closing leap and cooldown-based Special Techniques, held together by a Rage meter with three tiers. Rage Tier 2 unlocks Last Stand, the revive that stands in for the Healing Factor, and Tier 3 turns the screen gray and makes weak enemies die in one hit.

Logan grows in two trees. Techniques (six active Special Techniques plus passive moves) are bought with Technique Points from leveling up; Adaptations are passive buffs slotted into Strands, bought with Adaptation Points from Whisky Bottles and Nightmare Trials. Tornado Spin, Knee Breaker and the healing Adaptations are the guides' first picks.

Marvel's Wolverine has 32 suits (27 in the base game, 5 in the Digital Deluxe Edition) and 26 claw styles (23 that come with suits, 3 standalone from Nightmare Trials), per GamingBolt. Most suits are crafted with materials from Material Crates after a story mission unlocks them, and every crafted suit raises Logan's maximum health.

The 20 things worth knowing before and during Marvel's Wolverine, from creators' and guides' play - parry blue, dodge red, unlock Healing Strike first, end a barrage with Triangle to heal, spend materials on suits at once (they raise health), put your favorite technique on the combo-ender recharge, and turn off the scent trails if they bother you.

Marvel's Wolverine has five story bosses, in this order: Omega Red (Mission 3), the Sentinel Prototype (Mission 11), Lady Deathstrike (Mission 20), Sabretooth (Mission 25) and Nathaniel Essex as Mister Sinister (Mission 29). Each has its own trophy and its own guide page.

Lady Deathstrike is the third boss of Marvel's Wolverine, fought in Mission 20, Death's Match, on Mount Haku in Japan. Keep L1 ready, parry her yellow ranged sword slash and her close stabs, counter with short claw strings, and in the second half, once she drops the sword for her claws, parry even more.

The final boss of Marvel's Wolverine is Nathaniel Essex as Mister Sinister, in Mission 29, No Coming Back. Ignore his giant Sentinel at first, dodge his red laser beams, parry his purple attacks, wait out his forcefield counter, and when he takes to the sky, parry his yellow orbs back to bring him down.

Omega Red is the first boss of Marvel's Wolverine, fought at the end of Mission 3, Last Meal, in Telambang. Parry his blue and yellow tentacle attacks to fill his yellow stagger bar, dodge everything that glows red, and punish him only while he is staggered.

Sabretooth is the fourth boss of Marvel's Wolverine, fought in Mission 25, Red Right Hand, in Madripoor's Lowtown. Parry his standard attacks, dodge what you cannot counter, keep staggering him so his healing factor cannot undo your damage, watch his silhouette and hit every prompt while Logan is blinded, and slash every market stall at the start for the Harmer's Market trophy.

The Sentinel Prototype is the second boss of Marvel's Wolverine, fought in Mission 11, For Our Future, in Madripoor's Hightown. Dodge its arm crushes a beat late, attack the arm while it rests on the ground, run from the lasers, call Mystique with R1 to stagger it, and tear off one arm indoors and the other outside.

Marvel's Wolverine has 102 collectibles in three types, 68 Material Crates, 20 Whisky Bottles and 14 Nightmare Doors, spread over 19 of its 30 missions. Crates pay for suits (and with them Logan's health), bottles and Nightmare Trials raise his Adaptation Level, none can be missed, and Mission Select cleans up whatever you pass by.

Marvel's Wolverine has 68 Material Crates in 20 missions, from two in the Essex Institute's lab and Victor's room in Homecoming to three in This Was The Dream. Their materials craft suits, every suit raises Logan's health, and all 68 earn the Silver trophy Crate Collector.

Marvel's Wolverine has 14 Nightmare Doors, each marked by purple roots, and each opens a Nightmare Trial in Logan's mind (combat, traversal or a 25-wave gauntlet) ranked Bronze to Adamantium. Trials pay Adaptation progress and restore memories; the three gauntlets give three claws and the Future Fugitive and Hellverine suits; and all 14 open a hidden 15th trial, "Best There Is", and a hidden memory.

Marvel's Wolverine has 20 Whisky Bottles in 15 missions, from Uncanny Whisky in Homecoming to Ol' Canucklehead in Tyger's bar in I'm Still Here. Each raises Logan's Adaptation progress, the first earns But a Dram, and all 20 earn Full Barrel and the Midnight suit.

Marvel's Wolverine's story takes about 11 to 15 hours: two recorded no-commentary runs finished in 11 hours 23 minutes and 11 hours 52 minutes, and IGN's reviewer called it a 15-hour string of missions. Everything, all 102 collectibles and the platinum, takes about 15 to 20 hours.

Marvel's Wolverine shipped with New Game Plus and mission replay on day one, both in the Nightmare Cabin. Mission Select replays any mission with your collectibles kept, and New Game Plus replays the story with a level cap raised from 36 to 40 and extra Techniques and Adaptations; it is not needed for any trophy.

Marvel's Wolverine has 42 trophies (1 Platinum, 4 Gold, 9 Silver, 28 Bronze), all offline, none missable and none tied to difficulty. The platinum, I'm The Best There Is, takes about 15 to 20 hours in one playthrough, and the story alone earns most of the list.

Marvel's Wolverine has five difficulty presets, from The Man (Logan cannot be knocked out) through The Hunter, The Mutant and The Weapon to The Best There Is, plus custom sliders for enemy aggressiveness, damage and health. Difficulty can be changed at any time and no trophy depends on it. Over 100 accessibility settings include game speed down to 30%, Skip Puzzle, QTE autocomplete, audio description and violence filters.

Marvel's Wolverine has had five updates as of Nov 8, 2026, from day-one patch 1.001.004 on Sep 15 to 1.002.001 on Oct 6. Most of them answer one complaint, the blue scent trails (dimmed in 1.001.005, made optional for collectibles in 1.001.006, moved behind the R3 hint button for the story in 1.002.001), while 1.002.000 brought Sony's QSSR upscaling to the base PS5.

Canada is Marvel's Wolverine's second chapter, Missions 4 to 8 (Homecoming, The One That Got Away, Raise Some Hell, Strays and Something Much Stronger), from the Essex Institute in the Yukon to Vancouver's docks, the highway chase and Trask's refinery. It holds 4 Nightmare Doors, 15 Material Crates and 5 Whisky Bottles.

Japan is Marvel's Wolverine's longest chapter, Missions 13 to 21, from the Hand's attack on the plane (Jetlag) through Shinjuku, Shiro's penthouse, Harada Garden Tower and the Helix Engine to Mount Haku and Lady Deathstrike. It holds 4 Nightmare Doors, 29 Material Crates and 7 Whisky Bottles.

Madripoor is Marvel's Wolverine's third chapter, Missions 9 to 12 (Knock Knock, Mutant Detected, For Our Future and One Last Mission): Team X hits Trask in Hightown, fights the Sentinel Prototype, then regroups at Tyger's Princess Bar in Lowtown before the Hand strike. It holds 2 Nightmare Doors, 9 Material Crates and 3 Whisky Bottles.

The last chapter of Marvel's Wolverine, Missions 22 to 30 (Way Down Low to Brave New World), takes Logan and Jean back to a Madripoor under Reaver lockdown, through the casino in disguise, the Sentinel attack on Lowtown and the Sabretooth fight to the final battle with Essex. It holds 4 Nightmare Doors, 15 Material Crates and 5 Whisky Bottles, all in Missions 22 to 24, 27 and 28.

Telambang is the prologue of Marvel's Wolverine, Missions 1 to 3 (Back in Action, A Debt Repaid and Last Meal): Logan rejoins Team X to rescue Nathaniel Essex from Bolivar Trask's jungle compound and ends it by fighting Omega Red. It has no collectibles and takes about an hour.

Marvel's Wolverine has 30 story missions in five chapters (Telambang 1 to 3, Canada 4 to 8, Madripoor 9 to 12, Japan 13 to 21 and the return to Madripoor 22 to 30), with five boss fights and 102 collectibles spread across 20 of them. Every mission can be replayed from the Nightmare Cabin after the story, so nothing is missable.

Marvel's Wolverine costs $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $79.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition, which adds five suits, five claws and three Technique Points. As of Nov 8, 2026 the Deluxe Edition is on sale for $59.99 in the US PlayStation Store until Nov 21, cheaper than the Standard.

Marvel's Wolverine is Insomniac Games' linear, M-rated action game about Logan for PlayStation 5, out since Sep 15, 2026. It runs about 12 to 15 hours for the story, scores 75 on Metacritic and was the best-selling game in the US in September 2026.

Marvel's Wolverine is a PS5 exclusive, PS5 Pro Enhanced, with no PS4 or PC version as of Nov 8, 2026. It defaults to a 60fps Performance mode with ray tracing, uses PSSR upscaling on PS5 Pro and, since update 1.002.000, Sony's QSSR upscaler on the base PS5.

We think Marvel's Wolverine gets no story DLC, and that its sequel, not shown before 2028, makes the figure from the post-credits scene its villain and gives Jean Grey a playable part.

Marvel's Wolverine came out on Sep 15, 2026, on PlayStation 5 only. It was dated on Feb 24, 2026, reviews went up on Sep 10, and a day-one update, 1.001.004, was out on launch day.

Marvel's Wolverine scores 75 on Metacritic from 149 critics and 76 on OpenCritic, as of Nov 8, 2026, with players at 6.7. Critics praised the story, Jean Grey and the gore and faulted repetitive combat, heavy hand-holding and few bosses; it is the lowest-rated of Insomniac's Marvel games.

Marvel's Wolverine was the best-selling game in the US in September 2026 by Circana's count, with Sony's biggest launch-month dollar sales since Helldivers 2, and it opened at No. 1 on the UK boxed chart. Sony's first official figure, in its earnings report of Nov 5, 2026, is 2.4 million copies sold worldwide by Nov 4, 2026, in line with the analysts' estimates of about 2.2 to 2.5 million.

Marvel's Wolverine has had about a dozen official trailers and featurettes, from the Sep 9, 2021 reveal teaser to the Oct 16, 2026 motion-capture featurette. The ones that show real gameplay are the Sep 24, 2025 gameplay trailer, the Jun 2, 2026 extended gameplay reveal and the Aug 28, 2026 Game Features trailer.

The main characters of Marvel's Wolverine are Logan, Jean Grey, Team X (Sabretooth and Mystique, led by Nathaniel Essex) and their enemy Bolivar Trask, with Omega Red, Lady Deathstrike and the Hand as villains and Leech, Walter, Tyger, Callisto, Shiro Yoshida and Toad among the mutants Logan meets. The X-Men do not exist yet in this game.

Full spoilers. Marvel's Wolverine ends with Nathaniel Essex revealed as Mister Sinister and beaten, and with Jean Grey burning the Horseman of Death out of Logan's mind at his own request, which erases his memories again; after the credits Apocalypse calls Sabretooth to become War, and a hidden memory unlocked through the Nightmare Trials shows Jean has done this for Logan before.

Marvel's Wolverine is set in the same universe as Insomniac's Spider-Man games, Earth-1048, and proves it with a Daily Bugle, the Fact Channel, Fisk Tower and a billboard about Roxxon's jailed CEO, though Spider-Man never appears; it is also full of X-Men and Wolverine references, from Gambit's playing card to the "Wolverine's crush" bed that works as mission select.

Marvel's Wolverine follows Logan, a centuries-old mutant with gaps in his memory, as he rejoins Team X to stop Bolivar Trask's Reavers from kidnapping mutants, a chase that runs from the jungles of Telambang through Canada and Madripoor to Japan. This page tells the story up to the final mission; the ending has its own page.

Liam McIntyre voices and performs Logan in Marvel's Wolverine, the only cast member PlayStation has officially named; press coverage confirms Krizia Bajos as Jean Grey, Troy Baker as Nathaniel Essex, Nicole Pacent as Mystique and Brett Gipson as Sabretooth, and the rest of the cast is so far only listed by guide sites.

Marvel's Wolverine has three main enemy factions and a fourth that arrives later: Bolivar Trask's guards, his cybernetic Reavers, the ninjas of the Hand in Japan, and Trask's Sentinels. Each faction has gunmen, melee fighters, shielded or armored units and a heavy Brute; parry the melee, leap to the shooters, kick the shields.

Marvel's Wolverine travels through four regions in a fixed order: the jungles of Telambang, the Canadian wilds and Vancouver, the island nation of Madripoor (Hightown and Lowtown, with the Princess Bar), and Japan (Tokyo, Shinjuku and Mount Haku), then back to Madripoor for the last nine missions. It is linear, not open world, with Logan's mind cabin as the place to replay missions.