But overall, the game is well worth a look from both strategy and superhero fans alike, as our full Marvel’s Midnight Suns review will explain. Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a deckbuilding, turn-based tactics game developed by Firaxis Games. Read our review to see what it did well, what it didn't do well, and if it's worth buying.

Understanding the Context

The full-on supernatural theme of Midnight Suns immediately sets it apart from the Marvel games we’ve gotten in recent years. In spite of its technical issues, Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an easy recommendation to strategy and superhero fans or anyone who’s been missing the more traditional BioWare experience. Its tactical combat stands out in the genre and is consistently compelling. It's a better superhero game than it is strategy game, but if you're a fan of the MCU, Marvel's Midnight Suns is absolutely essential.

Key Insights

Not only is this an ambitious tactics RPG that captures the fast, frothy fun of its comic book source material, but it's also a brilliant marriage of Into The Breach's intellectual conundrums and the turn ... Marvel's Midnight Suns works wonders to freshen up familiar Marvel characters, producing lively battles from focused turn-based systems, then diving into their personalities and histories... It’s not to destroy an alien relay, extract a VIP from a hot zone, or board a crashed UFO. Instead, I’m to watch a movie with a friend in Marvel's Midnight Suns. Marvel’s Midnight Suns is built on a hell of a promise.

Final Thoughts

Take the studio that rebooted XCOM to stunning results, merge it with a card-battle system inspired by titles such as Slay the Spire... Although Midnight Suns could've done with a bit more polish in the graphics and audio department, especially towards the end of the game, this is a solid card game mixed with turn-based tactics where you get to play the hero leading a motley crew of Marvel superheroes in their quest to vanquish evil.