Spiderman Games For PC Windows 7/8.1/10/11 (32-bit or 64-bit) & Mac

One of the core appeals of any Spider-Man game is the feeling of tumbling through the sky at high speed. To that end, it would be remiss not to include Sunset Overdrive in this list – a zany game that sees developer Insomniac perfect their aerial formula. In this bright action-adventure game, you’ll find yourself in the zippy shoes of a FizzCo employee facing a wave of mutants infected by the company’s energy drink, Overcharge Delirium X.T. At least it’s tastier than being bitten by a spider.

Its fantastic sense of momentum makes this feel like a Spider-Man game. As you dart through Insomniac’s colourful metropolis of Sunset City and hit the ground, you’ll be straight off again in the blink of an eye. Sure, Sunset Overdrive will have you trading web-slinging for rail-grinding, but its great physics makes its thrilling parkour stand out. It isn’t surprising that Insomniac’s Creative Director, Brian Intihar, has credited the game with laying the foundation for our friendly neighbourhood web-slinger.

Where Spidey gradually develops his silky skills without firing a shot, Sunset Overdrive gifts you a ridiculous arsenal with which to wreak havoc. Firing an explosive teddy bear into a horde of mutants never gets old. Perhaps a tad more joyful than it should be when we think about it.

The Batman Arkham series should be your first port of call if you’re looking for games like Spider-Man. Batman: Arkham Asylum kicked off the trilogy and made superhero games cooled once more in 2009, but it’s the sequel that’s most reminiscent of Peter Parker’s newest romp.

This is due to Arkham City’s place in an open world, er, city, rather than the more confined but still extraordinarily detailed asylum for the criminally insane. You can have a great time gliding around it, employing the grappling hook to regain the height you lose, and then pouncing on unsuspecting criminals from above. Bats also has his own Spidey Sense equivalent and is just as good – if not better – than Spidey when dishing out combos of punches, blocks, and counters.

Arkham City also features an excellent cast of goodies and soon-to-be-busted baddies, so long as you can stomach the move from Marvel to D.C. Catwoman, Oracle, Penguin, Joker, Harley Quinn, and Two-Face are included. They all weaved into a great story that feels as good as most superhero comic runs.

The main appeal of Marvel’s Spider-Man is how you get around. Much of the same goes with Prototype. Instead of Peter Parker, you play Alex Mercer – a decidedly moody man who wakes up without any memory of how he acquired his powerful shapeshifting abilities. Mercer boasts a moves list as long as Spider-Man’s from combat to movement as he vertically runs up skyscrapers and leaps off them with equally reckless abandon.

The Prototype even shares Spider-Man’s playground in N.Y.C., so if you squint while playing this 2009 release, you can pretend it’s the same game. Almost. One feature that marks Prototype as markedly different is Mercer’s massive arm blades, which he can put his foes to the kibosh. Don’t expect as cheery a protagonist as Pete, either: Mercer is more of an anti-hero, so much so he serves as the big bad of Prototype 2. The Prototype could act as the template for a future Marvel Venom game. Here’s hoping.

Just Cause 3 sees Rico Rodriguez return to his best: dispatching baddies with a massive goody bag of tools while flying effortlessly through the air. Sound familiar? The fictional island setting of Medici is a noticeably different environment to zip through than the concrete jungle of New York. However, using Rico’s wingsuit and the grappling hook is just as enthralling as Marvel’s Spider-Man.

You take on the evil forces of DRM – that’s the Di Ravello Militia, before the witty among you rush to the comments – which provides a literal as well as emotional pull for you to use your tether device to yank explosives into the path of restrictive digital copyright… erm, we mean militant bad boys and vice versa. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, as you can provoke from the top of mountains, from the air while attached to a helicopter, or as you race jet skis across tropical waters. And, if you’re all finished with this entry, use our Just Cause 4 review to see if you’re up for another dose of open-world adventuring.

We’re not sure if missing out on Marvel’s Spider-Man is more painful than stepping on a Lego brick, but if you’re dead set on swinging through New York as Spider-Man on P.C., then Lego Marvel Super Heroes is your best bet. By 2013, Traveller’s Tales got its Lego games formula down to a tee so that its take on the Marvel universe became one of the best games in the Lego series.

Due to the bulging roster of heroes and villains that make an appearance, you don’t get as much of your favourite wall-crawler as you do in Marvel’s Spider-Man. Still, you do get the breadth of Manhattan to swing through and a chance to poke around the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. Fans of the Lego games will know what to expect – it’s a zany take on the Marvel franchise with enticing co-op gameplay and lots of collectibles – but it’s also the best way to swing around N.Y.C. as Spider-Man on PC, albeit in a blockier form.

The Assassin’s Creed series has been very influential in open-world game design. But it’s Syndicate, Ubisoft Quebec’s Victorian London adventure, that’s most redolent of Marvel’s Spider-Man.

The towers that reveal the surrounding area on the map and that first appeared in the inaugural Assassin’s Creed game find their way into Marvel’s web fest. But the similarities to Syndicate go further, as the tools you use to traverse London and the story’s tone resemble Insomniac’s take on the famous webby hero.

Syndicate’s dual protagonists, Jacob and Evie Frye, stab and sneak through one of the most charming and eccentric Assassin’s Creed narratives. It certainly has some of the cheeks of Spider-Man, and you get to bust ghosts and blow up drug labs with two of the most celebrated called Charles in history: Dickens and Darwin.

But the introduction of the Rope Launcher grappling hook gets our Spidey Senses tingling. It might not be as flexible or fluid as Insomniac’s traversal system, but it remains a valuable way to scale London’s landmarks and to zip across this large and dense turn-of-the-century city. That said, it does lack the freedom of Ubi’s Greek adventure, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, one of our personal favourites of 2018.