Marvel's Spider-Man 2

While it is verified on Steam deck, it runs awful. I played Spiderman and Spiderman: MM with no issues, but this game needs soooo much work. The constant stuttering even on low settings is abysmal. DO NOT RECOMMEND ON STEAM DECK.

‼️‼️𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐍 ༻STEAM DECK༺‼️‼️ 📌Why? Because it lags even at the lowest settings. I’ve tried everything to fix the lag it’s the game that’s too powerful. 📌Can’t you just play the game with a little lag? The answer to that question is NO. If you want to enjoy the game and have fun you’d rather play it on PC or PS5 📍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑: I have all the story games on PS5 and i loved all the spider-man games! I bought the first spider-man game this winter on PC just to play it on STEAM DECK and it worked as smooth as butter but the second one it just lags. 🔗How is the game on PC? It runs smoothly you will not encounter any problems! I might refund it only because i bought it to play it on STEAM DECK. 💎I have played and finished all the spider-man games💎

It is an amazing game, love the story, combat etc. But its buggier than Australia.

First run - gfx artefacts, got to first sandman fight game crashed Rerun - game crashed on load of save. 3rd run game crashed before menu. Refund.

fun game, not nearly enough content to justify spending full price imo

A few minor technical hiccups aside, this is mechanically the best Spider Man game ever made. Fluid and addicting traversal and streamlined combat make up for a few missed story beats. Spider Man 2 is fun, and that's what matters.

Poor performance, but a fantastic experience you can’t miss. I would highly recommend if you have a good pc. I would say skip if you have a low end pc or have high expectations for graphics and frame rate. The story is fantastic and the gameplay is smooth and addictive.

Do not buy this game since its unplayable even at the lowest settings with a 4090 and 7800 X3D. Stutters like crazy, audio issues, and lags like crazy.

Refunded this shit, runs like ass and looks way worse than spiderman remastered. It has some bad UI issues so even when i downscaled my resolution from 4k to 1080p the UI would go off screen.

Nvidia 4060 8gb 16bg ram i5-13400f ssd I don't have a fantastic rig, but it's not the worst either. I've spent a half hour trying to get this game to work. Recommended settings, nvidia optimize settings, turning off frame generation, removing the 2 .dll files. I tried one thing after another and nothing worked. I did not even get to play it. I can not recommend this game as it failed to even get all the way through the first cutscene

I and extremely upset at the fact that any of us have to come to the comments and comment on how messed up this game is. It’s disheartening to have bought this game from a beloved series that got it right in the previous games. I literally bought this game an hr ago. It took 1 hour to download on to my steam deck, once I got it booted up and started the new game I saw nothing but glitches as soon as Miles runs back to the room I see nothing but floating heads. I decided that I would close it out and restart it, as soon as I got into the opening web slinging sequence it was so glitchy, the buildings were grainy the hair is see through, it’s glitching inbetween frames whips swinging. Having played both the Spider-Man and Miles within the last few months on the steam deck I can say that they run incredibly smooth and are worth buying and replaying. Only buy this once it goes into deep discount. Please save yourself the headache

I managed to play what should have been the first 5 minutes in 35 min and got stuck in a building doing the first fight. besides that it runs very poorly and it had to load every 10 sek. In the cutscenes the sound was delayed and characters Keep pupping up that was not suposed to be there on top and inside other characters. 1/10 would not recommend.

I really love the game, I think its fantastic. But can't play it due to poor optimisation. Previous games ran perfectly. Sadly, can't recommend until the developers fix stuttering and freezing

The story is good but not great, you spend half the time talking to people and looking for clues.. Using skills is much better compared to the first game.

Can't even play the game.... nothing but out of sync audio, constant loading/freezing gameplay, t pose/black cut scenes, glitches, just simply unplayable! Refunded. My PC isn't the issue either, it's able to play beefier games than this with absolutely no issues. It's well above the recommended specs. I am very disappointed that I can't play it... Looks like I'll have to buy this for console to play :(

I see far too many excusing the horrendous optimization with "upgrade your PC or just say your broke!" Wonderful detective work Batman! Not a good excuse whatsoever. My PC runs plenty of games with similar minimum requirements and I have no issues. This game is UNPLAYABLE with even the lowest graphics settings; even did some research to see if I could fix anything manually to no avail. I cannot recommend this to anyone especially if your PC is a few years old like mine. I have 100% the first two games so this deeply saddens me, I was hyped to play this.

Sh𝖎ttiest PC port from Insomniac after the first game. The game constantly stutters every 3 seconds or so. The GPU utilization is all over the place. I've noticed that one moment my GPU is utilized %96 and a second later it drops down to %53 or so, this causes severe stuttering. I don't know what the hell is wrong with this game but this is so bad! P.s: I have an RTX 5080 laptop GPU with 16GB of vram and Core Ultra 9 285H CPU with 32GB of ram.

DO NOT BUY absolute downgrade visually to the first Insomniac Spiderman and Miles Morales. Buildings have worse shading and honestly sometimes look like ps3 or even ps2 textures. Spiderman's suit is so fucking bright in this game he looks like a goddamn glowstick, and the optimization for PC is horrible, Not only that but the story is extremely rushed and NO WHERE near as impactful as the first or honestly even Miles's game, and back to the visuals the faces are downright HORRENDOUS, peter, miles, MJ, literally every "human" face i see looks like a lizard person with either no facial expressions at all, or honestly look terrifying https://youtu.be/2iz-5-nKW1g?t=14437 LIKE BRO her face at 4:00:37 looks like the dudes face melting from Indiana Jones 1, And I have no idea what they had to have done to change what it looked like in the first game which looked great (seriously do a side by side comparison, its night and day). I will say that the game has/had potential and was really looking forward to this game, and I understand what the story was trying to do, but it was rushed and didn't feel real or believable to me.......Also THE FUCKING ADIDAS PLUG ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Spider-man 2 does everything Spider-man 1 did but more, more of the map, more suits and more in the story although you can notice where the game was rushed it was fun from the first time i played it on PS5 to now on PC. without getting into spoilers, the third act is rushed and feels like its jumped from 1-100 quick. swinging in-game has been made even better (somehow) and so has combat with new abilities making it feel great although i do miss the weapon wheel it was a good move to swap the two. i'm excited to see what insomniac do for spider-man 3 as they have left so much more story left to show and they leave many cliffhangers i only hope it doesn't get rushed like this one and if any DLC is planned is is not cancelled

It's not bad, it's just extremely disappointing. The game feels like bloated DLC on what is already a tired formula. Spider-man 1 was a breath of fresh air when it came out. It was a fully realized Spider-man experience and smart enough to streamline the lore so it could focus on some original ideas. It may have worn its inspirations on its sleeve, but it felt like there was genuine enthusiasm behind it. Then came the DLC. Then came the Miles Morales game. Now we have a "first" sequel that feels like a corporate mandate instead of a passion project. This game brings very few ideas to the table. The new features are shallow. The expanded map feels like more of the same. The 2 playable characters don't have any real gameplay differences between them. I can't help but feel like I've played this exact game 3 times already. You know they know it's bad when you're playing Mary Jane with a gun. After the 2nd mandatory biking section, I was like "Is this really the best they could come up with for a Spider-man game? A biking mini-game with terrible controls?" They didn't know how to improve upon the formula and yet they made the game any way. Each boss fight gets repeated 3-4x with little variation. I agree with whoever added in the new attack types that fighting gets stale after a while and needs more variety. But this feels half baked. It was easier to memorize attack animations than rely on the visual cues. Out of all the notes they cripped from Arkham City, I don't know how you overlook the potential here for incredible supervillian boss fights. It's just more of the same, often literally. The salt in the wound is the story. You've seen all the major beats of this story many times already. While I like the added wrinkle of having Miles and using Kraven's Last Hunt as inspiration, it's repetitive. It's like an episode of Paw Patrol where everyone is defined by 1 character trait and they have to remind you about that 1 character trait in every sentence. Here's another scene about Kraven saying he wants a real fight. Here's yet another scene of Peter Parker complaining about how he doesn't have a choice. The worst is when you spend 10 minutes with Miles whining about how hard it is to balance his personal life followed by another 10 minutes with Peter whining about the exact same thing. It's twice the spider-angst stuffed into the same length of content, with nothing new to say. On top of it all, the game is poorly optimized: framerate stuttering, visual glitches, a memory leak. In one level I played, Peter Parker became a blindingly bright light bulb. It looked like Spider-man's holy ghost was dishing out divine vengeance. Just a lot of jagged edges that I gave up trying to troubleshoot. It didn't make the game unplayable for me, but it definitely diminished the experience. They hint heavily at a Spider-man 3. I want it to be good, but if it's more of this I will only pick it up at a steep discount.

So laggy and choppy no matter what specs you have. From what i looked up it seems its literally a coinflip whether or not this game runs fine.

I have been a fan of Spider man, and wanted to get started from their last game, since getting into this universe seems daunting from the start. I also wanted to play as Venom, as it looked cool back when it came out. So I bought this game thinking this might be fun when I saw it in summer game sale of 2025. Instead, here is my experience: I bought this game thinking it was steam deck verified, so it should atleast RUN well without big stutters or crash-outs. The low quality presets were fine, but it barely runs past the first sandman mission without stuttering or crashing. Please fix this in the later patches and make sure it has a performance mode or something that fixes performance of this game. As a software product, this fails to even meet a regular working standard. As a "video game", it butchers any interest from me. Please, please stay away from this game until it gets fixed. (specailly Steam deck users)

3070 ti. Game lags quite a bit and crashes unless on the lowest setting. It hates sandman. Surprising

I really don't want to write a negative review, but I should. The game feels great, movement mechanics, stealth, combat. This is great. You can just rope around the city, exploring the map, and feel fantastic... cos the plot is trash. Too much pointless missions about relations with someone who's not written properly. Every character backstory feels empty, except for Peter, cos devs actually made him somewhat good backstory. The city feels dead. Literally dead. Nothing happens there except random crime encounter. This is the level of Spider Man 2 on PS2, which was made in 2004. And the another problem is [spoiler] Propaganda [/spoiler]. Look, i get it, it's mid 2020s, it's good to be open for everyone, and i approve it cos im a part of the community, but still. Every second side mission is propaganda. These side missions are not even well written, they just in game just to be "friendly".

its bad and poorly optimized..not recommend to buy even in sale. save your money for something better.

AMD Ryzen 7600x, RX7900XT, 32gb 6200 mhz, high-speed NVME No matter I have low or very high settings - the frame rate is around 30 fps. Frame generation adds a frames but flickering too much. Unplayable. Tried a lot of stuff from forums - nothing works. Like removing several dll files, editing a registry. Nothing helps. A waste of time. So frustrating. I'm not recommending to buy it even on a sale.

Game absolutely should not be Deck verified. When the game isn't crashing, Spider-man looks like a censored Sim regardless of settings. Really sad about this, hope the game can be better optimized in the future, but for now it's not worth it.

Can't put my finger on it but it doesn't quite have the magic of the first one for me. Still a great game though.

Just 100% completed the game. It is a great game if you enjoyed playing the previous Spiderman games from insomniac. However, if you want the game to look nice you will need a powerful PC and a good graphics card so check the recommended specs on the store page. If you just enjoy the gameplay aspect of these games then go for it, my graphics card was below the recommended but i still enjoyed playing even though it didn't always look like an art piece. Also you have 2 hours of game time (14 days of ownership) to check if you PC can handle it and if not you can refund it, steam is usually pretty good at that.

This game is amazing but It is not worth buying until they fix all the issues with running the game I have no clue how they messed this port up. the other games run perfectly fine but I'm certain not even top of the line PC's could run this game smoothly with the way it lags, glitches textures and so on. I strongly suggest saving your money And playing the other Spiderman games and/or playing the batman games instead.

Don't buy it now. Wait the dev optimize the game. The game is unable to play now.

The gameplay in general is quite good but it needs to be optimised like hell. Forget buying this game if you are on a laptop. One major change I would really like to see is to disable auto apply the graphic settings. whenver I accidentaly increase the graphics, the game shuts down as it auto applies to a graphic preset which my laptop cant handle. But Insomniac doesnt seem to bother....

i have a pretty good pc and this game preforms horribly, looks awful and half the models are constantly unloaded. Do not buy this on pc

Great gameplay and fun side missions. Story is aight but not as good as first Spiderman.

At-least the reviews on MH Wilds being not verified/Unsupported on deck is honest work, unlike this money grabbing corporate sickos that will fool you on buying this game just because they labeled it as a verified game on Steam Deck. !! REFUNDED !!

I have a pretty solid rig but this game runs like ass. The story and the gameplay both very good. I would've loved this game, but right now its not optimized very well for PC. Luckily I managed to finish the story before experiencing crashes. Seems like the side missions is what triggers crashes idk. Would not recommend if you want a smooth experience.

Absolute Banger! Excellent Story Extremely fun Gameplay, Movement & Character Abilities Love the addition of both Peter and Miles in one game. Great graphics & Decent PC port

Was really excited to play this game. But in its current state it is quite literally unplayable. Constantly stutters every 2 seconds even on the lowest graphic settings. Really hope they optimize this game soon because right now its just very disappointing its current state.

The current state pf this game is absolutely ridiculous. I have never played a more unstable game in my life. Cutscenes out of sync, game freezing every couple of seconds to render, it's just ridiculous. This game should be taken off steam until it can be properly optimized.

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Do not buy. Can't play for more than 10 minutes before crashing. Until it's fixed (if it ever does) don't waste your money

Only bad part is the terrible and corny dialogue as well as the very short story. Also, MJ's plot armor is insane, managing to take down trained armies with nothing but a taser. Still a fun game but the first one was better. Overall: 7.75/10

Nothing bad to say against it but the story, but the gameplay is amazing

I honestly have no words! Every little nitpick, or thing I wish was done better in the first game was done here! Such as caught and thrown rockets not exploding (They do now), the button mash to stop cars (I kinda got attached to it tho) Fast travel only going to limited spots and feeling bland, the awkward pause of battle to go into your webshooter scroll wheel, ect. Everything is done perfectly! And don't even get me started on the story, and all the side quests!

Great to sequel to a great game. Sucks that it isn't as optimized as the first game but I had a blast with my 1660 ti and 9700k.

I wish steam would allow more nuance other than Yes/No on the recommendation. This is not a terrible game, but unfortunately it's also not good and the weakest of the new Spider-Man entries. Huge steps back in the writing quality, cinematics, narrative flow, and even combat felt boring comparatively. Probably a 6.5 out of 10. Combat adds a bunch of cool new abilities, but they're all just push to win powers that don't require too much thought or strategy. This game reminds me of Arkham Origins in that sense. That game had a great foundation to work with but ruined it by adding those electric gloves that made combat trivial.. well the new powers kinda do that for this game. Story is not very long, there's not much to collect on the map and mini games were very underwhelming. The creative direction and characterizations had to have been steered by girl brains lacking reason and accountability. The dialogue is lame drivel, and Peter's character is completely misunderstand. His arc in this game goes from "With Great Power comes great Responsibility" to "I'm doing too much, I think I'm going to quit being a hero so I can pay the mortgage and I don't have to inconvenience my strong independent girlfriend that now looks like a man in a wig for some reason". Horrible messaging , horrible direction, lots of pandering instead of good story telling. LAME!

Great graphics, great gameplay and amazing story. This game is a perfect example of how being a super hero should feel like.

It's a buggy unfinished mess. I expected better from Insomniac but I guess since rivals all marvel games have to be shit now.

purchased game under summer sale even, when i load the game up all the loading screens are perfectly fine, but once you get to the main menu with the game graphics all models have a horribly dark shadow over everything to the point the game i would say is unplayable. NOT ONLY that but every time i've ever tried to exit the game it crashes my pc. i don't know much about pcs yet but i know my pc has enough power to run this game considering every other game i run is fine. wish i knew enough to give pc specs but i honestly don't know just know i have some type of ryzen 7 and im on a 180hz monitor, all i know is i spent 2500 at micro center only a few weeks ago.

I had this game for a day and it was the most lag i have experienced since Fortnite 2019. Do not get me wrong this game is what i have seen of it Amazing but the lag is crazy.