ActionAdventure
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 57% of players who started
Started playing 91% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 49,251
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (63%); after 20h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.
- 57% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “You're Gonna Need Help” (Complete "Surface Tension") and “A New Suit” (Acquire the Black Suit): from 100% to 71% of starters.
- 91% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 49,550 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25.1h for positive, 21.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (91.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- You're Gonna Need Help Complete "Surface Tension" 100%
- A New Suit Acquire the Black Suit Most players quit here 71% −29
- Medicine Complete "It Chose You" 66% −5
- Another Way Complete "No Escape" 64% −2
- The Great Hunt Complete "Anything Can Be Broken" 63% −1
- Leave Us Alone Complete "Don't Be Scared" 63%
- I Quit Complete "This Isn't You" 61% −2
- Heal the World Finish the main story 57% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- You're Gonna Need Help Complete "Surface Tension" 100%
- Stylish Equip a suit style 82%
- A New Suit Acquire the Black Suit 71%
- Medicine Complete "It Chose You" 66%
- Another Way Complete "No Escape" 64%
- The Great Hunt Complete "Anything Can Be Broken" 63%
- Leave Us Alone Complete "Don't Be Scared" 63%
- Overdrive As Miles, use Reverse Flux to pull 6 or more enemies together simultaneously 62%
- I Quit Complete "This Isn't You" 61%
- Antidote Defeat a Symbiote that is under the effect of Anti-Venom status 60%
- Splat Attempt and fail a trick before "landing" on the ground 58%
- Heal the World Finish the main story 57%
- My Community Complete "Hard Bop" 48%
- Resourceful Collect a total of 10,000 Tech Parts 46%
- Crimson Hour Complete "It Was Meant for Me" 45%
- Grains of Sand Piece together broken memories 44%
- Evolved Defeat 100 enemies with Evolved Venom abilities 42%
- Brooklyn Pride Complete "A Gift" 42%
- A New Adventure Help Howard 42%
- Amazing Reach max level 41%
- Seek and Destroy Complete all Hunter Bases 40%
- Armed and Dangerous Defeat 100 enemies with Spider Arm abilities 39%
- Exterminator Complete all Symbiote Nests 39%
- Slack Line Stealth takedown 25 enemies in stealth from the Web Line 38%
- To the Max Purchase all Gadget upgrades 37%
- Fully Loaded Purchase all of Spider-Man's Suit Tech upgrades 36%
- Co-Signing Complete all Tech Stashes 36%
- New York, New York Complete all Photo Ops 36%
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Complete all FNSM requests 36%
- Data Collector Complete "Target Identified" 35%
- Behind the Masks Complete "Grand Finale" 35%
- Foundational Complete all EMF Experiments 31%
- Funky Wireless Protocols Solve the mystery of the Spider-Bots' origin 28%
- Kitted Out Purchase all available Suits 27%
- Superior 100% complete all districts 26%
- Hang Ten Perform 30 Air Tricks in a row without touching the ground 24%
- Surge Use Symbiote Abilities 25 times during Symbiote Surge 23%
- You Know What to Do As Peter, visit Aunt May's grave 18%
- Home Run! Round the bases at the Big Apple Ballers Stadium 16%
- Just Let Go As Miles, find the science trophy Miles and Phin won together 14%
- Soar Using only your Web Wings, glide from the Financial District to Astoria (Wind Tunnels are okay!) 13%
- Once More, With Feeling Finish the main story in New Game+ mode 10%
- Dedicated Collect all Achievements 10%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.