Summary
It’s been around two weeks sinceMarvel’s Spider-Man 2launched on PC. The game was immediately met with ‘Mixed’ reviews onSteam, with player sentimentsuggesting the port was not up to standard.
The reviews it received have represented a wider problem with the game, and its first two weeks have made it one of the worst in the PlayStation-to-PC pipeline.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Suffers One Of PlayStation Studios' Worst Steam Launches To Date
For our analysis, we usedSteamDBto look at everyPlayStation StudiosSteam launch, excluding remasters of games already on the Valve-owned platform. We factored in each game’s average player count over the first two weeks and its positive review score percentage over the same period, assigning everything an overall score based on those two factors.
Using this data, we found that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has had the third-worst launch of any PlayStation Studios game on Steam, beaten only by The Last of Us: Part 1 and Returnal.
We found that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has had the third-worst launch of any PlayStation Studios game on Steam.
The game’s average player count of 13,638 across its first two weeks put it in the bottom five, with onlyReturnal(3,105),Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection(4,633),Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart(4,643), andSpider-Man: Miles Morales(5,500) performing worse.
Alongside its poor average player count, Spider-Man 2’s reviews have failed to impress. After two weeks, it sat at 67 percent positive reviews, only worsened byThe Last of Us: Part 1’s50 percent andHorizon Zero Dawn’s64 percent. Both games have now seen their review scores significantly improve, with The Last of Us sitting at 77 percent and Horizon Zero Dawn at 87 percent.
Perhaps unsurprisingly,God of Wartook the top spot for both average player count and two-week review score, giving it first place overall.Spider-Man Remasteredtook second place, with a third-place average player count ranking and joint top review score, andGhost of Tsushimacame comfortably third.
47,142
1
97
40,666
3
2
42,855
89
6
21,804
5
92
4
20,708
93
5,500
10
95
30,913
64
12
7
19,302
74
8
4,643
11
86
9
4,633
87
13,638
67
14,953
50
13
3,105
80
Given the size of the IP, this one is likely a major disappointment for Sony, and one it hopes it can turn around in the future.
