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 to first address some of the old stuff. Everyone is well aware of the ongoing issues with stability and crashes that MPQ has had for some time now, and we’ve been fairly candid with you all about the difficulties up front.
We want to reassure you that in addition to new features, we are continuing work on improving the baseline performance of MPQ. This is part of why we’re starting out more modestly towards the start of the year, and getting bigger towards the end. That leaves us the space we need to keep going with that work on baseline stability.
SPRING
HEROIC MODE
Coming to PVE and PVP will be a brand new option to play Normal or Heroic. Normal will be the battles and rewards you know and love, with Heroic requiring you to play tougher battles with restrictions on your team set-up in exchange for greater rewards!
NEW PVE EVENTS (beginning in Spring)
Beginning in Spring, we will be releasing new PVE events. The ones we have are like family, but it’s definitely good to get some new blood in every now and again! As changes become easier with much needed infrastructure work, we’re very keen to bring more new content into the MPQ schedule.
SUMMER
CROSSPLAY & ACCOUNT RECOVERY
If you’ve ever had to recover an account in the past, you know it hasn’t always been a simple process. That’s why we’re moving toward a new account recovery system built around email, similar to what we use in our other games. This will give us much more control over both account security and the flexibility of how accounts are managed.
1-4 STAR CHARACTER REBALANCES
Similar to how we did batches of updates for characters for our Champions 2.0 feature, rebalances are coming back, only this time we’ll be focusing on batches of 1-4 Star characters that have had a challenging time integrating into the broad metagame.
One of the core challenges in MPQ has long been how early-rarity characters fit into the broader game. As the game has grown and evolved, certain winfinite combos and playstyles have emerged, creating a very limited design space. Adding any new content or characters to the game is difficult, if not near-impossible, unless it is strictly aligned to perfect “meta” play. While meta play is important, we want this game to be fun.
These rebalancing efforts intend to lift older characters that rarely get played anymore, and overall bring all characters more in line and balance with each other. By doing so, we want to make the early game more enticing to new players, while giving existing players who already have these characters rostered and not thought about interest and another chance at getting used.
We would love to expand more on our thinking and aims in a future post so we can get into the nitty gritty!
FALL
ALLIANCE VS ALLIANCE
Alliance vs Alliance is our biggest planned feature for 2026, and we are very excited. In AvA, Alliances will face off in a series of offensives to control strategic objectives to find out which one is the toughest and smartest. Your Alliance will need to think offensively as well as defensively to take your opponent’s objectives and ensure they don’t take your own.
We’re keen to share more detail about the system in a future post, but this is a little teaser of what’s to come!
LOOKING AHEAD
The first few months of 2026 were certainly a challenge as the IP2 team took on such a large and intricate game, but with more stable ground under their feet now, they’re ready to start building.
As these features get closer we’ll share more detail in blogs and patch notes, but this gives you a good idea of where we’re going this year with a balance of adding new things, refreshing old ones, and improving the everyday experience.
Thank you for playing, thank you for your feedback, and thank you for continuing to be part of the MARVEL Puzzle Quest community!