Marvel's Wolverine Lands on PS5 With a 77 Metascore

Marvel's Wolverine arrived on PlayStation 5 on 15 September 2026 as a console exclusive, and it did so carrying the lowest review average of any original Insomniac Games release in roughly a decade. As of 15 September, Metacritic listed the game at 77 out of 100 across 117 critic reviews, a score the site files under "Generally Favorable." OpenCritic showed an average of 79 from 78 reviews, with 69 percent of critics recommending it and a "Strong" tier rating.

The numbers settled into place after the review embargo lifted on 10 September at 8 a.m. PT, five days ahead of release. They have moved since: the outlet ComicBookCo reported on 11 September that the game stood at 78 on Metacritic across 112 reviews, and the tally has drifted down by a point as more reviews landed. That drift is normal for a launch week, and the figure can keep moving as the remaining reviews are counted.

What gives the score weight is the company it keeps. ComicBookCo placed Marvel's Wolverine against Insomniac's own Marvel run: Marvel's Spider-Man scored 87 in 2018, Spider-Man: Miles Morales 85 in 2020, and Spider-Man 2 90 in 2023. A 77 is not a poor reception in absolute terms, but it is a clear step down from a studio that had made consistently high scores part of its identity, and it arrives on the biggest PlayStation 5 exclusive Insomniac has shipped since that run.

The split in the reviews is fairly consistent, according to ComicBookCo's roundup of the coverage. Critics broadly praised the combat for its weight and brutality, while the recurring complaints concerned structure rather than feel: repetitive mission design, limited enemy variety, and on-screen guidance systems that reviewers felt took decisions away from the player compared with the Spider-Man games.

The game itself is a single-player, narrative-driven action-adventure rather than an open-world title, developed by Insomniac Games in collaboration with Marvel Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. PlayStation's product page prices the standard edition at $69.99 and the Digital Deluxe edition at $79.99, and states plainly that the game was built for PlayStation 5 and will not be available on PlayStation 4.

Two things are still open. Sony has not published any sales figures, so how the reception translates commercially is unknown for now. And the aggregate scores themselves are not final: with reviews still being added to both Metacritic and OpenCritic, the averages that define the game's public record are likely to shift again over the coming days.