The subsequent Marvel superhero sport is reaching deeper into the comedian books’ again catalog. XCOM developer Firaxis has unveiled Marvel’s Midnight Suns, a turn-based role-playing sport based mostly on the Midnight Sons group from Nineties crossover points. The trendy take has you play a brand new Marvel co-created superhero, The Hunter, as she fights the Mother of Demons, Lilith. Your character can have assist from Midnight Sons members like Blade, Ghost Rider and Wolverine in addition to Avengers mainstays like Captain America and Iron Man.

The title reaches PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch and Windows PCs in March 2022. A gameplay presentation is due on September 1st.

In case you are questioning: no, this would possibly not simply be an XCOM sport with capes. Game lead Jake Solomon advised Polygon in an interview that Midnight Suns shares “zero mechanics” with the XCOM sequence. You’ll play missions with as much as three different heroes as you develop The Hunter’s powers. When you are not in fight, an open-world space will assist you to kind bonds with fellow heroes. And as a substitute of the paranoia and worry that drive XCOM, you are rolling into battle with confidence — there isn’t any everlasting character dying, for starters.

This is one thing of a big gamble when many Marvel appearances have concerned extra standard brawlers and preventing video games. Firaxis has a powerful monitor report, nonetheless, and dipping into the Midnight Sons catalog attract each long-time Marvel followers in addition to those that do not wish to rehash the model’s most acquainted tales.