Marvel's Wolverine

Marvel's Wolverine launched on September 15, 2026 for PlayStation 5. Sony Interactive Entertainment's launch-day coverage confirms that the Insomniac Games action-adventure is now released, ending the pre-launch period reflected in the previous profile.

Marvel's Wolverine is a single-player, narrative-driven action-adventure built around fast and brutal claw combat. Logan can stalk enemies and ambush from above or cut through them directly, using special combat moves called Techniques, such as Tornado Spin and Bull Rush. Every attack, parry, and kill builds Rage, which fuels stronger attacks or activates his Healing Factor to recover from severe damage; pushing Rage to its highest tier triggers a stylized monochrome burst of attacks inspired by Marvel's Black, White, and Blood comics. When allies fight beside him, landing the right setup opens Critical Strikes, devastating finishing moves that Wolverine can perform alone or together with another character. Set pieces expand the fights beyond foot combat, including a highway sequence where Wolverine rides a motorcycle, wrecks trucks, and hurls enemies off the road, and a Last Stand state that lets him channel rage into a last healing surge at the brink of defeat. Suits and claw styles are unlocked through play and are purely cosmetic.

The story centers on James "Logan" Howlett. Mutants live hidden while the Reavers, a cybernetic militia, hunt and capture them for delivery to Bolivar Trask, an industrialist obsessed with human superiority. Logan rejoins Team X, a last-stand mutant task force he left three years earlier, and crosses paths with Jean Grey, a telekinetic who leads the captured mutants. Logan also shares a history with The Hand, a ninja faction that appears alongside Deathstrike as one of the game's major threats. The journey takes him across the Canadian wilderness, the island city of Madripoor, and locations in Japan that Insomniac's artists captured during real location-scanning trips.