MARVEL Puzzle Quest: Alliance vs Alliance Having been in the works for quite some time alongside our other developments for MARVEL Puzzle Quest, our newest and biggest feature, Alliance vs Alliance , is finally ready for the spotlight! Today, we’re diving into its mechanics and everything you need to know as we march toward its planned October release. We’ll start by giving you a quick overview…
R345 Notice: Please Do Not Update We’ve identified several bugs in the R345 update that require a new R346 build to resolve. Our team is working quickly to address these issues, with R346 currently targeted for early next week. In the meantime, please DO NOT update to R345 until R346 is released. We’ll share another update as soon as R346 is ready. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreci…
Meet Boomerang, the latest Aussie preparing to make his mark on MPQ this year! A former professional pitcher turned supervillain, Fred Myers puts his throwing arm to work with an assortment of high tech boomerangs. He can intercept enemy abilities, set up Strike tiles with his MultiRangs, and send razor sharp Razerangs flying across the battlefield. Pair him with some fellow Sinister Six member…
Celebrate Spider-Man: Brand New Day in MPQ as Spider-Man and some of his most dangerous enemies take center stage. Whether you fight alongside the neighborhood’s greatest heroes or its most notorious villains, there will be plenty to discover during the Spider-Man: Brand New Day takeover, including new characters, special vaults, costumes, and the long awaited return of a popular game feature.…
Marvel Puzzle Quest is, at its heart, a game about collecting heroes and villains from every corner of the Marvel Universe, then learning how their powers, mechanics, and team synergies fit together. Much of the game’s appeal comes from that sense of discovery, but unfortunately, the current meta does not always support it. Addressing that stagnant meta has been one of our top priorities since…
MPQ R344 is arriving the week of July 23rd bringing more performance improvements, UI updates, and a wide range of bug fixes to help make your experience smoother. This update also introduces a new email-based account linking system, allowing players to link their accounts across supported platforms and play MPQ on multiple devices. We’ve also included a summary of bug fixes made during R343 so…
Inspired by the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie, Scorpion crawls into the neighborhood as MPQ’s next 5-Star character! Alongside his new abilities, which take the sting out of enemy SAP tiles and tear through opponents, Scorpion will also be part of two upcoming Spider-Verse adjacent affiliations based on their penchant for heroics or lack thereof: Spider-Foes and Spider-Friends. Healt…
With Update 344 (week of July 20th), we will be releasing our first batch of 1-3 Star character rebalances. We will continue to release a new batch along with each update until we’ve got through the work that needs doing. We started out with a handful of characters who appear quite early in the game for buffs, with the vast majority of changes to bring the characters concerned up to a modern po…
Mojo (Mojo Master) 6* is ready for his close-up and we’ve got his programming notes for you to deep dive into. Along with his very own Mojoverse affiliation, Mojo turns the battlefield into must-see programming by create drama, crafting destructive board shake up, and rewarding every over-the-top moment with team damage, healing, and defensive protection. Health & Match Damage Abilities Ability…
The 2026 New Character Poll winner is ready for his MPQ debut. Man-Thing is arriving as our next 5-Star character, bringing a strange and supernatural presence to the roster that only the legendary swamp creature can provide. Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Moment of Thought Color: Green AP Cost: 8 Man-Thing lashes out at all that surrounds him. Deal 1595 damage to a random…
In the 342 Patch Notes, we mentioned a change one of the devs worked out to do with blockages in how some particle effects were being loaded and that we’d hoped that change would see decent performance improvements. Unfortunately, after testing, it doesn’t appear to have the impact we’d hoped due to there being an additional, even deeper level to the issue than had originally been found. That s…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Ravenous Hunger Color: Purple AP Cost: 8 How long has it been since we have eaten? Deal 741 damage. Create a 3 -turn Repeater tile that destroys 1 randomly selected surrounding tile(s). Gain 176 health for each tile destroyed. Destroyed tiles do not generate AP or deal damage. Ability: Raging Torrent Color: Blue AP Cost: 6 Wash clean, the saf…
Over the summer, you can expect to see dedicated blogs outlining big items from the 2026 Roadmap. While we get those updates ready for you, for now, as an update to our MARVEL Puzzle Quest 2026 Roadmap blog, we’re giving the floor to our Lead Designer Finn to share some of the philosophy and background behind how he’s been looking at the MPQ meta. But first, we wanted to provide a couple of upd…
Calling all MARVEL Puzzle Quest players! Our new 2026 Player Survey is live, and we’d love to hear from you. Share your honest thoughts on the current state of the game, what’s working well, and what you’d like to see next to help shape what comes next!
From the gladiator arenas of Mojoworld to the battles of MARVEL Puzzle Quest, Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven) slices his way into the roster as the next 5-Star! Here’s a preview of how he’ll slice his way through the competition. Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Shatter Portal Color: Purple AP Cost: 9 Shatterstar slices through the fabric of reality, creating tears between univ…
Health & Match Damage Abilities Ability: Celestial Gamma Missiles Color: Red AP Cost: 7 Celestial BrawnBuster fires a volley of Gamma Irradiated missiles at… everything? Create 3 3-turn Countdown Tile(s), deal 1530 damage. Each countdown tile does 1224 damage per turn. (PASSIVE) Reduce AP gained by enemy matches in their team’s strongest color by 2 . Reduce AP gained by matches in your team’s s…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Level Playing Field Color: Red AP Cost: 5 Sticking with what works, Frank levels the playing field with a molotov or two… Or three. Destroy 2 2×2 sets of random tiles. Deal 1550 to target enemy. For each red tile that is destroyed, deal 226 damage. Do not receive AP for Cascades. (PASSIVE) At the start of the turn, generate 6 rage and consume…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow N/A Abilities Ability: Neigh!? Color: Red AP Cost: 5 Channeling the power of Spider-sense to communicate with Web-Slinger… Widow just kicks a dude… Deal 92 damage to a target enemy. Convert 3 random tile(s) to your team’s strongest color. (PASSIVE) At the start of the turn, generate 1 Horsepower for each Web Tile on the board. If there are fewer than 2 Web tile…
The only certainty in life is change, and MARVEL Puzzle Quest has been through a lot of them over the years. Now that the Infinity Plus 2 team are onboard and firmly behind the controls, we’re ready to gaze toward the horizon for a first look at the beginning of the next era for MPQ! ONGOING WORK GAME STABILITY Even though we’re here to talk about the new stuff coming your way in 2026, we want…
Notes: R340 is getting released this week on all devices, which will also include Amazon Kindle devices. Support for Amazon is still being removed and will now officially end upon the release of R341. Please be sure to reach out to our Customer Support team to migrate your accounts to another device while you’re still able to access the build. D3 Go! Technical Support and Help Center Quality of…
Raised on a steady diet of chaos and whatever the IP2 team’s been putting in the office snacks, Drop Bears (Koalicus Cadericus) gnaws their way into your rosters as the next ferocious 5 Star menance. Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow No Feeders Abilities Ability: Choc a Block with Bears?! Color: Green AP Cost: 6 What’s that in the sky? A cuddly wuddly bear? That landing’s gotta hurt. Create 1 2…
One of the things that makes the MARVEL Puzzle Quest community so special is how much players love celebrating the wild and wonderful corners of Marvel together. Over the years, the annual New Character Poll has helped spotlight all kinds of unique picks and MPQ itself has never been afraid to embrace this with characters like Aunt May and Doop already making the game’s roster feel unlike anyth…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Acid Spit Color: Black AP Cost: 6 I ain’t the kind of Toad that turns into a prince… Deal 380 damage to a target enemy. Create 3 Charged Tile(s) randomly on the board. Ability: Leaping Kick Color: Purple AP Cost: 4 Toad leaps at the enemy, exploiting their weak point using his powerful legs. Deal 259 damage and destroy 2 random tile(s ) in th…
We’ve been doing a lot of work behind-the-scenes in MPQ (with still plenty more to do) on setting the groundwork for improving performance, fixing historic issues, and allowing us to generally work more efficiently and flexibly with the game. Because of the complexity of MPQ as a game, this will be ongoing for at least the medium term as we work through all the parts that make up the infrastruc…
Note: Thanks for your patience while we sorted out a few of our internal tools to gather up all the character stats that you're so accustomed to! We're slowly getting back to our regular cadence of character & event release information in MPQ and with the release of Falcon (Joaquin Torres), we've made some slight formatting tweaks to ability level progression that hopefully makes visualizing th…
It’s time to properly introduce the team over at Infinity Plus 2 (IP2) who will be stewarding the developments of MARVEL Puzzle Quest moving forward! Many of you will already know IP2’s work as the creators of the original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of Warlords in 2007 and the recent remaster “Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition”, but also as the creators of the match-3 RPG Gems of War. We’re really ex…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Cosmic Hellfire Color: Green AP Cost: 6 Deal 4438 damage, then create 1 Cosmic tile(s). (PASSIVE) For each Cosmic tile on the board, Ghost Rider deals 6% increased damage and takes 6% decreased damage (max 5 tiles). Cosmic tiles deal an additional 1530 damage when matched by allies. 700: Deal 20733 damage. Deal 6% increased damage. Take 6% re…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Dual Repulsor Blast Color: Red AP Cost: 4 Deal 443 damage, then create 2 2- turn Yellow Countdown tile(s) that grants 1 Yellow AP when it expires or deals 177 damage when matched or destroyed by an ally. (PASSIVE) Whenever you make a Red, Yellow, or Blue match, gain 1 AP in one of those colors that has less than 8 AP 450: Deal 1781 damage. De…
Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: My Best Shot Color: Red AP Cost: 6 Spider-Man lets loose a cosmic blast coupled with his already Amazing strength. Select a 3×3 block, then deal 2908 damage and create 2 Web tiles within the block and convert existing Web tiles in the block into Critical tiles. (PASSIVE) When Spider-Man makes a match, create 1 Web tile (up to 3 ). Web tiles m…
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