Marvel Puzzle Quest (formerly, Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign) is a 2013 video game released for Android, iOS, and Windows. It is part of the Puzzle Quest video game series, and the initial storylines were based on 2009's Dark Reign event, before expanding.
Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Avengers
- Ant-Man
- Black Panther
- Black Widow
- Captain America (Peggy Carter)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers)
- Captain Marvel/Ms. Marvel
- Doctor Strange
- Falcon
- Hawkeye/Ronin (Clint Barton)
- The Hulk
- Iron Man
- Luke Cage
- Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)
- Nova
- Quicksilver
- Scarlet Witch
- She-Hulk
- Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
- Spider-Man/Bag-Man (Peter Parker)
- Spider-Woman
- Squirrel Girl
- Thor Odinson
- Thor (Jane Foster)
- Vision
- War Machine
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)
- X-Men
- Professor X
- Archangel
- Beast
- Bishop
- Cable
- Colossus
- Cyclops
- Dazzler
- Deadpool
- Deadpool (Spirit of Vengeance)
- Domino
- Doop
- Gambit
- Havok
- Iceman
- Jubilee
- Kitty Pryde
- Phoenix (Jean Grey)
- Magik
- Multiple Man
- Nightcrawler
- Negasonic Teenage Warhead
- Polaris
- Psylocke
- Rogue
- Storm
- Wolverine/Patch
- X-23
- X-Men (Time-Displaced)
- Fantastic Four
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Inhumans
- Cloak
- Dagger
- Young Avengers
- Runaways
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Spider-Gang
- New Mutants
- Alpha Flight
- Defenders
- Spirits of Vengeance
- Hellfire Club
- Abigail Brand
- Adam Warlock
- Agent Venom
- Angela
- Beta Ray Bill
- Black Cat
- Black Knight
- Blade
- Clea
- Devil Dinosaur
- Doctor Doom
- Echo
- Elektra
- Elsa Bloodstone
- Goose
- Gwenpool
- Heimdall
- Hit-Monkey
- Hit-Monkey (E.D.I. Suit)
- Honey Badger
- Howard the Duck
- The Hulk (Amadeus Cho)
- Hulkling
- Human Torch (Jim Hammond)
- The Hunter
- Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers)
- Ikaris
- Ironheart
- Jeffrey (Land Shark)
- Legion
- M'Baku
- Misty Knight
- Mockingbird
- Moon Girl
- Morbius, the Living Vampire
- Monica Rambeau
- Moon Knight
- Namor the Sub-Mariner
- Namora
- Nebula
- Odin
- Okoye
- Peggy Carter (Worthy)
- Iron Carter
- Phyla-Vell
- Punisher
- Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov)
- Red Hulk
- Reptil
- Rescue
- Sersi
- Shang-Chi
- Shuri
- Silk
- Silver Surfer
- Spider-Man 2099
- Spider-Man India
- Spider-Rex
- Throg
- Valkyrie
- Wasp (Hope Van Dyne)
- Weapon Hex
- Colleen Wing
- Wolverine (Samurai Daken)
- Wong
Supporting Characters:
- Aurora
- Carol Corps (Banshee Squadron)
- Black Order
- Chewie
- Dora Milaje
- Fenris Wolf
- Hope Summers
- Korg
- Lockheed
- Lucky
- Oscorp
- Sharon Carter
- Stepford Cuckoos
- Tinkerer
- Vanessa Fisk
- Victorious (Zora Vukovic)
Antagonists:
- Hydra
- H.A.M.M.E.R.
- Sentinels
- Dark Avengers
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Maggia
- The Hand
- Gorgon (Shishido) (non-playable)
- Sinister Six
- A.I.M.
- Abomination
- Arcade
- Apocalypse
- Big Wheel
- Blob
- Chasm (Ben Reilly)
- Doctor Bong
- Dark Beast
- Galactus (non-playable)
- Gargantos
- Ghost
- Gorr
- Hela
- High Evolutionary
- Kang the Conqueror
- Killmonger
- Knull
- Loki
- Loki (Alligator of Mischief)
- Mordo
- Mister Negative
- Mister Sinister
- Mysterio
- Omega Red
- Omega Red (Horseman of Pestilence)
- Onslaught
- Quandary
- Ronan
- Silver Samurai
- Super Skrull
- Talos
- Taskmaster
- Thanos
- Ultron
- Venomsaurus Rex
- Victorious (Victor Mancha)
- Yellowjacket
Other Characters:
- Miss Minutes (Drawing)
Races and Species:
- Asgardians
- Centaurians
- Cyborgs
- Duckworldians
- Flora colossi
- Frost Giants
- Halfworlders
- Humans
- Inhumans
- Symbiotes
- Korbinites
- Kronans
- Luphomoids
- Majesdanians
- Mindless Ones
- Mutants
- Olympians
- Psionic Entities
- Robots
- Skrulls
- Synthezoids
- Taa-ans
- Titanians
- Zen-Whoberis
- Zenn-Lavians
- Asgardian Wolves
- Devil-Beasts
- Dogs
- Flerken
- Flock
- Inhuman Dogs
- Squirrels
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Human-Inhuman Hybrids
- Human-Kree Hybrids
- Human-Spartax Hybrids
- Human-Vampire Hybrids
- Pig-Spider Hybrids
- Skrull-Kree Hybrids
Locations:
Items:
- Venom Symbiote
- Anti-Venom Symbiote
- Carnage Symbiote
- Captain America's Shield
- Cyclops' Visor
- European Defense Initiative Bio-Mechanical Suit
- Element Gun
- Goblin Glider
- Iron Man Armor
- War Machine Armor
- Hydra Stomper Armor
- Isotope-8
- Mjolnir
- Stormbreaker
- Vaulting Boots of Valtorr
- Staff of the Living Tribunal
- Eye of Agamotto
- Staff of One
- Muramasa Blade
- Crimson Bands of Cyttorak (Invoked)
- Flames of the Faltine (Invoked)
- Totem Dagger
Vehicles:
- Milano
- Royal Talon Fighter
- Skuttlebutt
Trivia
- The console version has not changed from the game's original Dark Reign incarnation. It is also the only iteration that features the Iron Patriot.
- In honor of Captain America's 75th anniversary, Marvel Puzzle Quest introduced an alternate reality counterpart of Peggy Carter known as Captain America.
- Captain America (Peggy Carter) is from a world where Steve Rogers was assassinated before being injected with the Super-Soldier Serum. As his friend, Peggy took his place and became her world's Captain America. This version eventually got a comics counterpart as part of the Exiles.
- Celebrating the game's 10th anniversary in 2023, Peggy Carter gained alternate counterparts combined with another two Marvel heroes: Peggy Carter (Iron Carter), wearing an Iron Man armor, and Peggy Carter (Worthy), a retired Peggy who lifted Mjolnir and thus gained all of Thor's powers.
- Another five characters exist only in the game:
- Wolverine (Samurai Daken), who is stated to be an alternate reality version of Daken that killed his father with the Muramasa Blade, and took on his codename for atonement.
- Deadpool (Spirit of Vengeance), a Deadpool that after refusing to kill a Mexican food salesman that made a deal with Mephisto, was turned into a Ghost Rider.
- Hit-Monkey (E.D.I. Suit), a version of Hit-Monkey who took an E.D.I. Suit mimicking Loki's powers from a dead mercenary.
- Omega Red (Horseman of Pestilence), who joined the Horsemen of Apocalypse and gained the power to drain life force. (although the character's description mistakenly says he was called to be Horseman of Death)
- Vulture (Armor Wars), wearing a suit built by Justin Hammer using reverse-engineered Stark tech.
- Many characters have appearances based on their Marvel Cinematic Universe versions, and specific iterations have even been released alongside new films (Ghost with Ant-Man and the Wasp) and television (Elektra and Daredevil coinciding with Marvel's The Defenders).
- However, on occasion Demiurge will create without having the full film as reference, and thus there are discrepancies. Mysterio has the story set up in the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailers of an interdimensional warrior and is grouped as part of the Heroes, when the movie reveals that is a ruse and he's still a villain.
- The Black Widow version of Yelena Belova ended up released before the film itself given the movie was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the character's development was already advanced enough. The film's second delay also didn't stop the debut of Red Guardian, along with a new Black Widow-inspired campaign that even featured Taskmaster's look from said film.
- Two instances was based on another game, 5 star Gamora, inspired by the Guardians of the Galaxy video game, and The Hunter, who is downright an original character created for Marvel's Midnight Suns.
- Spider-Man, Hawkeye and Black Widow are the only characters represented in all five character tiers.
- Every character is represented by the cover of a comic. For instance, all four variants of X-Men #1 (1991) are present - A is Beast, B is 5-Star Gambit, C is 4-Star Cyclops and D is 3-Star Magneto. While many of the film-inspired characters just use comics depicting the Earth-616 versions of the characters, at times their covers will be film posters or specially commissioned artwork made by Demiurge's artists. The covers also change on special occasions, such as Halloween-inspired during the month of October.
- Hulkling became a playable character after years as a support, meaning Hulkling could equip himself. To avoid such situations, new developers Broken Circle announced they would rework supports based on characters to instead depict locations and objects. Wong and sp//dr also became playable characters ever since.
- Chewie had been a Support, and later gained a playable version of its MCU incarnation, Goose - both the solo Goose (Flerken Feline) as a 3 Star, and a 5 Star Flerken Family paired with its offspring from The Marvels.