- Primary Subject: Superhero Video Games & Pitch Concepts
- Key Update: The article pitches six superhero video game concepts—including Daredevil by Ad Hoc Games and Green Lantern by Arrowhead—to fix the genre's recent trend of bloated live-service flops and development hell.
- Status: Confirmed
- Last Verified: October 22, 2026
- Quick Answer: Superhero video games struggle due to overpowered characters and corporate live-service mandates, but tailored pitch concepts like Daredevil or Green Lantern could succeed.
Whether they’re on the big screen, through the pages of a comic book, or even an audio drama, everyone loves superheroes.
Having a superhero in your story means you can look forward to crazy action and high-stakes storylines, both of which form the formula of a perfect video game. If that is the case, then why is it so hard to make a superhero video game?
Over the past years, superhero games have either been hit-or-miss (Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and most recently, Wolverine), or they’re just stuck in development limbo (Wonder Woman, Captain America, and Blade).
Superheroes are hard to deal with because of the breadth of their power, but I also do not want these super-failures in video games to discourage developers from taking on superheroes (that aren’t Batman). So without further ado, here are my Top 6 Superheroes that deserve their own video game.
Daredevil
Daredevil is blind, but he makes up for it by excelling in everything else. Superhuman senses coupled with superior combat prowess, and you have someone who’s more bat than Batman himself. One of the more interesting and often overlooked aspects of his character is the fact that he’s a lawyer with a lot of religious guilt in his head, which is why I think Daredevil would benefit from a very story-heavy style of game.
For a Daredevil game, I would entrust this to Ad Hoc Games because of their latest hit game: Dispatch. I believe that with the right team of writers and developers, they can deliver on a vigilante-lawyer thriller story that can do the character justice.
Teen Titans
The Teen Titans are a complex bunch of characters that I believe deserve the spotlight. We have a complex set of characters, all with their unique fighting styles. Robin is, well, technically Batman, Beast Boy is a shape-shifter, Raven is a hex warlock, and Starfire is a zoner. If written well, this set of heroes could be the spiritual successor to Eidos-Montréal’s Guardians of the Galaxy game. In truth, many have attempted to capture the success of the Guardians of the Galaxy video game, but all of them failed due to their insistence on including live service features. That is a trap that I wish we never have to fall into again.
The Lantern Corps
I don’t just mean Hal Jordan; I mean the entirety of the Corps and then some. Instead of just focusing on one Lantern member, why not focus on the Corps as a whole? Heck, why stop at green? In my head, I’m imagining a scenario where your created character can choose a Lantern Corps to join and level up as you and your team go around the star system, claiming territory and fighting back an encroaching threat.
Not only that, but you’re also battling it out against rival corps that each have their own playstyles. For this, I imagine Arrowhead Game Studios, the team behind Helldivers 2, bringing it to life with all the chaos that goes with it.
The Incredible Hulk
Now this may be cheating a bit because there have already been multiple video games with The Hulk as the main bad guy, but it’s been a while since the last good one. Hulk falls into the same dilemma as Wolverine and Superman, where both of them are way too powerful to actually have any meaningful stakes in their gameplay.
To that I say, lean into it! Calling back to The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, bring Hulk into an open-world, destructible sandbox and have him survive the consequences of his actions! The catch? A built-in morality system that steers the story, letting the players explore Hulk as a monster or Hulk as a hero.
Hawkeye
One of the most underrated Avengers on the roster, I feel that Hawkeye fits the mold of a video game character that could be fun to play. Harnessing multiple trick arrows and a mix of martial arts combat, Hawkeye’s grounded fighting style can open him up to more gritty combat. Honestly, it may be a Hail Mary wish, but Naughty Dog could really bring this character to life.
A game that plays similarly to Uncharted but set in the enemy backlines with Black Widow by his side sounds like the perfect video game. Add a few elements of Sniper Elite in the mix, and you’d have a triple-A blockbuster worth playing.
Thor
This one is practically a gimme with his gameplay already embedded in Studio Santa Monica’s masterpiece: God of War. Of course, Marvel’s Thor is far from the emotionally broken alcoholic in God of War, but I think that’s a good thing. Using God of War’s gameplay as a template, putting the god of thunder on an open-world journey through the realms is a story I would love to experience. In fact, I’d love to see the writing team try their hand at Gorr the god butcher, because we all know how Marvel mishandled that villain.
Superheroes are something amazing, but with how many greedy corporate hands tend to get in the pie, I’m not surprised they’re all at risk of flopping. For any of these games to exist and succeed, I seriously think corporations need to step back and let people who know video games make the video games. But knowing them, I won’t be holding my breath AND my wallet.
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