A variety of Spider-Man games from different console generations are in a web against an orange background. The words PECKING ORDER are in a box in the upper left.

Illustration: Marvel / Sega / Activision / Sony / Epoch / Kotaku

Spider-Man, Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can! Has he had, lots of games? Yup and many, are the same. Watch out, here’s our ranking of (most of) them!

It’s a great time to be a Spider-Man fan, what with the fantastic Across the Spider-Verse in theaters and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 hitting PlayStations in just a few months. (Hey, if you look really closely, you can even catch a glimpse of that game in that movie!) I’m a huge fan of Spider-Man and from the moment I was old enough to play video games, I’ve been playing Spider-Man games. It turns out Marvel’s famous webhead has starred in a lot of video games. In fact, to make this list easier to read and put together, we had to ignore some of his handheld and phone games. We are also only looking at Spider-Man games where he is the main star or part of a duo. So for a game to be ranked on here, it’s not enough that Peter Par- I mean, SPIDER-MAN is playable or makes a cameo. He needs to be the star!

With that out of the way, here’s our list ranking Spider-Man console and PC games, from worst to best…or as close as we could manage.



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