Marvel's Midnight Suns

Fun enough game, though it has it's flaws. I wouldn't recommend it at full price, but if you can nab it while it's on sale and are a fan of Marvel? Go for it.

Pluses:
Combat system, in my opinion, works for the genre.
Friendship system - making friends with the NPC heroes is perhaps the most fun thing about this game. It's not meant to be a romance generator, but with a bit of imagination? It works for that, too.
NPC personalities are pretty much spot on from the MCU (except Agatha).

Minuses:
Card based combat system - a minus only because most players looking for a Superhero game want action based combat.
NPC interactions that don't quite make sense - I had one NPC warning me about their nemesis after said nemesis had been eliminated as a threat.
Running around the Abbey grounds and you can't jump/fly/climb? What kind of a superhero are you?

For me, it's 7 out of 10 stars.

Its a great TBS tactical game for sure but the dialog... within the first hour you will learn to hate all your favorite Marvel Super Heroes in this game. The writing is so bad, it makes AI look like Hemingway.

Good tactical turn-based strategy with a great Marvel Super-Heroes feel. Cast of characters could be better, but overall its acceptable and works well. The card mechanic for actions is not my favorite but I am pleased with how it was implemented here and it feels unique. As a fan of Marvel and TBS games, I am very satisfied. I would have loved a Marvel themed game in the spirit of the old TSR Gold Box turn-based computer games, but I will take this as a win.

Game-breaking bugs have gone completely unfixed, ruining an otherwise fun game. A basic level of support is not too much to ask in what was supposed to be a premium game.

Amazing game! Of course I finished the first boss a little while ago but it was a fun time! If you like tactical games you will love this one. I love this game so much. It was everything The avengers game wanted to be.

Came for something between XCOM and Slay the Spire but got something else. its just meh. Heroe cards don't feel unique or scale to their strengths so all characters feel the same in card play except for animations. For a single player game, its loaded with Denuvo and anti cheats so don't expect to run any cheats because the game will close automatically and its designed to detect a lot of cheat programs out there. so expect to do a lot of grinding for resources. graphics seems nice since its unreal engine but I would have preferred they did away with the 3d world and walking around base to waste your time - it serves no purpose. camera angles can be wonkie during battles so you'll have to constantly rotate for view and proper angles to line up shots - would have preferred a more overhead view. performance can be chaotic - if you find the game slowing down to a crawl, you will need to restart your game or computer - maybe a memory leak or something causing it. i got this on sale and I recommend you only buy it on sale if you are even interested. I will try to play a little more but there are more interesting games to spend time on and the denuvo and anti cheats is a turn off as I think its affecting performance of the game and not necessary in a single player game. was expecting better. will not buy games from Firaxis Games in the future. Just real poor execution so cannot recommend at this time.

I waited longer to play this than I had planned but thankfully that means I got it at a very good price. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for the DLC but I think the game would've otherwise been worth paying full price for. It's a lot of fun and calls back to my memories of Marvel Legends on the older consoles. Nostalgia aside though, it's a decent comic-style story with fun elements to make your own while fighting alongside iconic characters. Good fun!

This game was a time spent pleasantly. Story isn't something very original, but it keeps the game moving forward and is still quite good. The turn-based card based battle system is interesting and I think is one of the biggest pros here. It's not too complicated, but still requires some thinking in a lot of battles to actually win. Usage of environments for this and upgrading cards is crucial. Out-of-battle interactions with other characters in a "hub" are a good change of pace after a mission - you go around the abbey, get to know everyone and get some bonuses and upgrades for developing relationships with them (majority probably can be skipped if that's not someone's thing). Areas around the abbey also help with the main story and provide some additional bonuses.
What I didn't like is that the main character, despite deepening relations with the teammates (if you choose so) remains as just a tool for the story to move and when the latter wraps up it just leaves you with the feeling that it is most likely should've continued in a sequel, but it didn't; and despite playing for the character with a backstory it feels like playing as a generic character which is shoved into the plot and cut from it when all is done. That being sad I liked this game for battle system, variety of characters and story in general. Voice-overs are top-notch, IMO. Too bad this didn't turn into a series of games. Oh, well.

Fantastic game that melds strategic x-com combat, an innovative card driven metagame system - plus a ton of Marvel lore and interaction with heroes.

great rpg game with pretty well developed for extensive dialog, distinctively skill for each hero and gameplay loop with various mission. Game has super slow pace with many plot hole, also running around aspect is kinda time wasting. Nevertheless, I have good time playing it, well done.

8/10

Straight up the best Marvel game. Amazing turn-based gameplay and great dialogue between characters. Legendary edition is a must for all additional content.

Made by the best strategy game makers around, this game is a must for fans of xcom, fire emblem or marvel in general.

Quests are all brain teasers that feel snappy and action filled. Attacks and abilities are all animated well and have oomph. Figuring out how best to mix characters abilities to have the best outcome doesnt get old.

In between quests its more like modern fire emblem or persona games where you try and improve relationships between characters to unlock new abilities.

Worth it at half price. Fun game, but the cycle gets a bit stale once you finish the story.

Fun gameplay, cringe writing. The reason I'm leaving a negative review however is that after about 40 hours I got a gamebreaking bug that makes it impossible to trigger the penultimate story mission, making the save unfinishable.

I love this game. The story is good, the mechanics are good, the deck building aspects are good., the "hub" area is alright, the loading times are terrible.It's a quite interesting and novel game. This is Firaxis at their best.

It is a really good game remind me of marvels ultimate alliance highly recommend.

Playing the Long Game

Good game, very enjoyable gameplay. I didnt complete the game yet, but i will. I play the game for a couple of weeks and put it away again. Then I start and get back to it. Since i lack time to play i mainly play in weekends.

The good thing about this game is that it allows you to do that because it is easy to pick up again. Visually striking and fun to watch the animations.

It's a fun game to play. If you enjoyed xcom you should enjoy this. The deck building aspect adds an extra element of luck to tactical turn based combat.

On the downside you cant get the ancestral suit with out mods or emailing the developers. There's a suit display wall and it leaves a blank spot on the 3rd spot from the right. I found this annoying as a game completionist, it can be a bit of a grind to farm resources to mod your cards.

The game isn't worth $100. I bought the legendary edition on sale for $27.

Great game. Started playing for the deckbuilding combat, but found myself finishing it because of the great writing and story telling happening in between!

I wish I didn't have to spend so much time trying to sleep with Iron man. Firaxis why do you put so much extra bullshit in your games? Just leave the card battling and take out everything else and this game would be perfect. I love the combat in this game so much.

It's weird when something as niche as a turn based tactical card based rpg with persona-like narrative elements gets greenlight. It's weirder when it's given a Triple A budget and Marvel IP. It's even weirder when it (mostly) works.

Marvel's Midnight Suns is really great, but the only thing I would cut back is all of the friendship stuff... Also, the story drags on longer than it needs to be... Other than that it's a amazing game! I recommend it 100%!

One of the best games I have ever played! Wish we were getting a sequel, it was that good. DLC was awesome.

I played for more than 50 hours so far and I'm just trying to complete this game, but i want to share my impressions of it so no one gets disappointed as I did.

Seeing the trailers of the game I expected a game like XCOM, and most of the gameplay on the action part and graphics are like it.

What disappointed me is the overload of the social part where you have to care about evey Snowflake avenger on the game.

I expected a game 100% like XCOM and got 85% like The Sims and 15% like XCOM.

The game also has a very trashy performance due to 2K Launcher.

If you still want to adventure on this game. You have been warned.

A nice looking, mechanically competent superhero strategic card battler.

The good: it looks beautiful, the voice acting is phantastic (with one notable exception), and the card mechanics work fine. The mini character archs for the support cast were actually enjoyable. I liked that you get to explore the abbey grounds (your home base) between missions. It's probably there to extend the playtime, but I didn't mind.

The meh: Story is hit and miss. It starts okay, has a lowpoint in the middle, becomes better near the end and fumbles the ending. Iron Man is comic relief in a way none of the other characters are, not even Spider-Man, and I don't understand why they chose him for the job.
The whole gloss mechanic(ingame currency you use to by cosmetics). I'm not sure if it was meant to facilitate ingame micro-transactions (if so whoever prevented this is a hero) or what, but the mechanic feels tacked on and unnecessary except give you a reason to explore the abbey grounds.
I can't remember the music 10 minutes later. This is either good or bad, depending on your point of view.
I did not care about the final mission. I can see what they were trying to do, but it took all agency in choosing your team away. It also broke with the established core mechanic of "3 heroes against however many enemies". Thank you for having me forge a main tactic and experimenting with which heroes work best for me over 60 hours only to neuter whatever playstyle I was leaning into in the finishing stretch. Totally made my day.

The bad: There are some graphic and animation issues. The generic missions become repetitive quickly since there are only a handful of mission types and enemies. You are more or less expected to grind them a certain amount.
The voice acting of the main character. I don't think this is an issue of the voice actors themselves, since both the male and female voice absolutely didn't work for me. I think this is by design to show how "emotionally muted" or something the MC is, but it just falls flat. You can hear that the voice actors actually know their stuff whenever they forget that they are not supposed to transport emotions. It's not even the case of "but the MC learns to be more human along the way" because at the end the voice is still mostly flat. Doctor Strange had the same basic thing going on but it worked infinitely better since he still sounded like a human.

Surprisingly good game, it would be nice if you could do romance instead of BS friendship only, and the grind is annoying, but fixable with mods.
The story, dialogue and combat are what make this game a good game, and it's sad they wasted it trying to add mechanics that would make microtransactions possible, just to give up when the game failed to be huge.

I am someone who doesnt know a whole lot about Marvel but i love this game. Its got a great story great game mechanics!

Tactical game, really fun to play and many more things to learn about such as friendship level, combat cards, heroes to play for combos, and many more. The story line is pretty good too!

Midnight Suns gives off an awful first impression.

Upon first launching the game I was getting stuttering on the main menu so I had to work out how to disable 2K's awful launcher. There's ads for the cosmetics right there on the main menu too, giving off the stench of a soulless live service slop game.

For the first few hours the game is constantly throwing tutorials at you, and once again the six different currencies and expensive crafting costs reek of a predatory monetisation design that was reworked part way through development.

But despite all this I find myself actually enjoying the game and I have trouble articulating why.

There's the ever present ludonarrative dissonance of fighting back the apocalypse while still having time for picnics and book club, so the writing never truly manages to be great; but with a voice cast this stacked the dialogue is often very enjoyable.

The combat is where the game truly shines and is really fun and addictive, so despite all the above issues I sank a lot of time into it and would love a sequel. Xavier's school would be a great setting.

I love this game and hope it ends up being successful with a long tail end like other Fireaxis games.

The hero portrayals are amazing and the persona-like social interactions are really fun. The voice acting for Nico really stood out to me but I enjoyed getting to know all of the companions. It takes a little suspension of belief when you start with Captain Marvel and she's on par with your other heroes but I enjoyed the game enough that this wasn't an issue.

The combat itself is a great mix of random cards and strategic gameplay. I don't really like the way you unlock difficulties as you progress but I had a lot of fun once I unlocked Ultimate I. I sometimes had to restart missions to solve the puzzle but I rarely felt like a mission couldn't be solved with my hero choice and card draws. I'm not sure how the game would feel to someone who doesn't love strategy games but overcoming difficult missions was extremely satisfying at higher difficulties. It's always fun when a villain shows up to ruin your day!

Exploring the grounds is fun for the story but is definitely the weakest part of the game. It has and obvious Unreal Engine-ness to it that makes exploration a little awkward. I wish I could zoom the camera farther out behind Hunter, mostly. The areas are beautiful and I love the haunted vibes but it's fairly obvious open-world exploration isn't something Fireaxis normally does. It's not a huge focus of the game but I can't help but run around gathering resources I don't actually need and I wish it was a little better optimized and designed (I occasionally get frame rate drops running around as well, which does NOT happen in combat missions).

I purchased the base game on release but just got around to restarting and finishing it. I'm still hooked so I bought the season pass for a New Game + run!

Not too complicated and quick to get into but with depth and difficulty that means not all games are auto-win

Midnight Suns is an enjoyable strategy card game

The Marvel isn't a draw for me - though I do respect it. However this feels like an example of game that creators loved and there are so many smart things about it. Highly, highly recommend

great animations, decent writing, fun gameplay! All I could really want from this, though you'll want to circumvent the launcher and do some launch settings to downgrade from dx12 to avoid crashes.

Do not recommend, unless you really like all of the following a lot: the MCU, Marvel Comics, trading card games, the PERSONA series, and dating sims.

It's got excellent turn based combat that could hold an entire game on it's shoulders, but it's been relegated to a background activity while the game focuses on Persona-style personal relationship cutscenes. No, thanks, but having a deep emotional conversation with Captain Marvel doesn't float my boat, especially when the writing makes S8 GoT look masterful. And using a heart symbol to represent 'friendship' gave me a major ick, we can all guess why this decision was made. If they had taken the millions of dollars spent on VA, bad mo-cap, cutscenes, writing, all that, and just made a simple strategic metagame about managing superheroes, maybe this could have be another XCOM gem. Instead it's a giant waste of time.

"Game, it's been 10 minutes since I made a decision, can I go punch some more goons now or do I have to learn more about Magik's backstory for another 20 minutes?" At one point you literally HAVE to talk to someone down in their dorm room after they had a tantrum. You can either make them feel a lot better or a little better (the game's standard dialog 'choice'), but either way the whole game is locked until you have that conversation.

P.S. Oh and also it's not pay to win, even though it looks pay to win and advertises itself like a pay to win, if you buy the Legendary Edition you get everything in the game, Eclipse credits become worthless. I'm assuming this wouldn't be the case if the game was successful, it was very much built to milk wallets, but as it stands it's just another layer the confusing sandwich this game is. jic anyone wants to save themselves the hour it took me to figure this out, since no one even the devs or publisher cared to make it clear.

A fun game! I love hanging out with the characters and giving them gifts! Their battle mechanics are also very fun!

This is a hidden gem, it's a card based XCOM with an RPG overworld between missions instead of a strategy layer. There's three main casts of superheroes (midnight suns, avengers, xmen). The characters, particularly the midnight suns, are well written. It's definitely a "one more round game'. The fact I kept coming back for nearly two years is a testament to how much fun it is (~85hrs, gaming time is limited these days) . Get the DLC too - great boss fights.

Makes me sad this wasn't a commercial success - it's great.

It's a good and fun game with few caveats:
- There's a lot of dialogue. Like a lot lot. And mostly it's graphic novel, university dormitory type drama mostly. While you can skip some of it, there's still a lot.
- Has very little or nothing to do with XCOM

You can adjust the difficulty of the card game combat quite freely from a fight to fight. All the way from too easy to tough challenge, according to how confident you are with your skills.

It also has decent mystery game part in where you explore the location and find out the mystery of the location, which was surprisingly fun.

Grab the legendary edition from a steam sale and you'll get all the DLC's in a decent priced package. Definitely worth the 25 bucks.

good thing the gameplay is fun because this game has that stinky millennial writing. 7/10

First thing: I love this game.

I'm writing this as a negative review because 2K Games is pulling shady stuff. I bought this game a while back. Now when I try to sign in, I can't play the game until I agree to a privacy update that gives them permission to share and sell not only data related to this game, but my browser activity and other things.

No. Full stop, no.

But the only way to "opt out" is to go to their website, put in a data request, and wait up to a month to have someone reach out and "talk about your options" basically. No thank you. I will never buy another game from 2K if they're holding my purchased game hostage until I allow them to make more money off of selling my data to other people (and not cutting me in on it!). I should be able to play my purchased game as much as I want.

Picked this up on Steam after trying it on PS5, and getting stuck (trying to play on expert difficulty without giving myself time to learn the basics properly). Huge mistake on my part.

After trying it again on Normal to start on Steam, I'm completely hooked. Wish I had spent more time giving it a proper chance the first time. Real shame we'll probably never see a sequel.

If you haven't tried it yet, and you enjoy Marvel and/or tactical combat, this game is a fantastic combination of both, with lots of customization and RPG elements to boot.

Surprisingly, it's a really good game. Even if they obviously reused things from XCOM games, its mechanics are different enough from XCOM that it feels like its own game. The story is good, the graphics are good, the different activities are pleasant enough and the difficulty is actually better tuned than XCOM imo. They managed to make the licence work well too. Unfortunately for this game, marketing didn't inspire trust (at least for me) on release but now that you can grab a bundle with all the DLCS on sale at a reasonable price, it's actually really worth it.

Very good, not great. I really enjoy the battles, and the friendship-building is neat, but a lot of the out-of-battle stuff seems a slog and can be formulaic.

Quite fun and very polished game. Definitely worth a play through.

I liked the balance between adrenaline and calmness that the game offers to players. I'm not so fan of the battle system and I think it's okay...! The comics feature is cool but not enough(need more backgrounds). The mystery around heroes is what I'm focusing in...Peter Parker ruined it from the start so no mystery for him I guess...! Rather than that, I like the new features that game developers are offering!

good blend of strategic and tactical gameplay mixed with deckbuilding elements.
it's a different style very enjoyable.

The ‘friendship simulator’ aspect has been overly expressed as a negative in reviews. That review angle is giving a good game a poor impression. Improving the heroes does involve raising their level of friendship with the player’s hero (“The Hunter”). Instead of chopping down trees and breaking rocks with a pickaxe, then refining the raw materials, then crafting improvements, you instead have conversations with the other heroes. Ever read a comic? In-between the fights the heroes talk to each other. The friendship building is a different take on typical resource gathering. The various dialogs involved are entertaining. Good. Not great, but good.

It is not XCOM like. That is like saying any game that has tough melee fights is ‘souls like’. The combat is turn-base card deck building. The hero powers are cards. Each hero has a character themed set of cards. You acquire cards for each hero and assign/change a set of 8 active cards for each hero from their specific set. Most fights combine 3 hero’s set of 8 active cards into the deck used for that fight. Cards are randomly drawn from that combined deck throughout that fight. Each card does a specific thing. Never a random chance to hit or miss. Never a random amount of damage. No ‘action point’ choice of move or attack. 3 card plays and 1 move per combat turn done in any order. The only randomness is the drawing of cards.

Good story line, great upgrade system, and fantastic gameplay. Far more in-depth than any other Marvel game I've played.

genuinely enjoyed the story for what it was. loved learning more about these characters and seeing how much they can relate to each other. overall, i would say the biggest negative is the actual game itself. The free roam bits felt clunky at times, but never enough to distract me from what i was invested in.