10 Best Games Featuring Venom

Who does not love an anti-hero? Of all the Spiderverse’s heroes and villains, few are fairly as superior because the ravenous alien symbiote, Venom.

Venom’s thrilling to come across, whether or not you are teaming up with him as Peter Parker, battling alongside fan-favorite host Eddie Brock, or tackling Venom in a Massive Unhealthy Boss Battle.

Let’s dive in and see one of the best video games Venom has hooked up himself to all through the Spider-Man franchise.

10 Marvel: Contest of Champions

Weirdest Venom Variants

This cellular combating sport cracks onto our checklist for one easy motive: Marvel Contest of Championsoptions bizarre new variants of the symbiote. Specifically, Venompool and Venom the Duck!

In case you’ve performed approach an excessive amount of Marvel Vs. Capcom and desire a totally different fighting-game tackle Venom, Contest of Champions is price trying out.

The touch-screen controls generally is a bit jank, inevitably, but it surely’s nonetheless a enjoyable approach to kill time with a favourite franchise.

9 Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Tactic: Hungry Alien

On this X-COM-style method to superheroes, Venom’s infinite starvation provides your team with a potent damage-dealer.

He generally is a bit difficult to make use of, since Venom’s Ravenous passive will increase your harm when he hasn’t been fed. With the correct staff and setup, although, Venom’s burst harm is brutal.

Regardless of being current within the base Marvel’s Midnight Suns sport, Venom solely turns into playable with the Redemption DLC. I adore it when Venom flip-flops sides—displaying off his really alien mindset—however it could have been nice to play with him within the base sport, too.

8 Spider-Man and Venom: Most Carnage

OG Playable Venom

This 90s cult basic options Venom’s first look as a playable character. Primarily based on a comic book ebook collection by the identical identify, Spider-Man and Venom: Most Carnage stands out as one of the crucial trustworthy reproductions of a comic book storyline right into a online game.

It even options comedian ebook pages straight within the sport! Mixed with gameplay letting you turn between Spider-Man and Venom freely, it is no marvel this retro beat ’em up has saved a fanbase for many years.

7 Spider-Man: Net of Shadows

Finest Venom Boss Battle

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows It is probably not the best Spider-Man sport, however you understand what it does have? A freaking superb Venom boss struggle.

As New York Metropolis will get more and more contaminated and overwhelmed by copies of the Venom symbiote—together with battles in opposition to different Venom-enhanced heroes like Wolverine—the sport involves a climax as you battle an infinite multi-headed Venom from atop the S.H.I.E.LD. helicarrier.

This slugging match, as you whittle down giga-Venom’s further heads, is a tense battle which, in my view, might be one of the best struggle in opposition to Venom in any Spider-Man sport.

6 Marvel: Final Alliance 2

Villainous Staff-Up

In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 you are pressured to choose a facet through the Civil Warfare shaggy dog story arc. Whether or not you are Professional- or Anti-Registration, nevertheless, Venom’s nonetheless a playable possibility!

This action-RPG stands out as a result of it offers us a playable Venom whereas additionally ramping up his “villainous” facet.

Initially offered as a supervillain antagonist, even when Venom joins your staff he isn’t precisely a “good” man. He is simply consuming your foes … for now.

5 Spider-Man 3

Corrupting Alien

Similar to Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, this film tie-in sport is all concerning the relationship between Peter Parker and the Venom symbiote. That includes the “black swimsuit” model of Spider-Man as a symbiote-fueled power-up, this sport emphasizes Venom’s position as Parker’s “alter ego” akin to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

For die-hard Spider-Followers of the Raimi trilogy, Spider-Man 3 stands out attributable to voice appearing by the movie’s authentic actors. (Which is sweet, contemplating J.Ok. Simmons is the “one true” J. Jonah Jameson in my ebook!)

But, like most tie-in video games, this sport’s high quality actually relies on whether or not you want how the movie presents Venom extra like a “pressure” than a “persona.”

4 LEGO Marvel Superheroes

Energy And Versatile Utility

Venom’s breaking blocks and accumulating studs on this LEGO tackle Marvel! Naturally, this iteration does tone down the violence for its kid-friendly viewers, however the LEGO video games’ basic satiric humor nonetheless lets our favourite Pleasant Neighborhood Symbiote shine.

And shine, he does! Venom’s the most effective characters in LEGO Marvel Superheroes as a result of his various moveset blends the mobility of Spider-Man with a “Massive-Fig” possibility for tremendous energy like Hulk.

Add in particular symbiote partitions hiding secrets and techniques all through the sport, and Venom’s an excellent inclusion in your mission roster.

3 Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

All About Venom

Top-of-the-line tales about Venom in recent times comes from the easter-egg filled newest installment in Insomniac Video games’ Spider-Man collection.

Regardless of similarities to different Venom storylines, this one stands out attributable to its deft juggling of the symbiote as each a corrupting affect and a villain in its personal proper.

The mixture of each themes actually helps seize the nastier facet of our favourite alien menace. Add in a couple of extra symbiotic characters—like Anti-Venom—and our coloration palette stretches past Venom’s basic all-black for some entertaining and shocking selection.

2 Marvel Vs. Capcom

Iconic Preventing Recreation Masterpiece

The third Marvel Vs. Capcom sport noticed Venom take the combating stage for the primary time. Whereas initially restricted to arcades, this enduring basic has been ported, up to date, and reworked repeatedly to maintain it freshly out there for combating sport fans.

Venom is in plenty of combating video games—together with the latest entry on this collection, Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, as a DLC character.

He actually stands out within the basic sport, although, for the way “monstrous” his playstyle feels. With webs, tentacles, huge fangs, and extra, 1998’s Venom really felt alien in a approach tough to match on the time.

1 Final Spider-Man

Wonderful Comedian-Type Motion

The Final Venom, maybe unsurprisingly, can also be the Final Spider-Man! The most effective of Treyarch’s Spider-Man titles, Final excels by efficiently evoking the feeling of its comedian supply materials by means of gameplay and visible model, fairly than merely emulating it.

Regardless of an early boss battle with Venom, the symbiote is playable early and all through a lot of the sport. Continually-depleting well being echoes the alien’s starvation, forcing you to feed or perish and setting an fascinating distinction in opposition to Venom/Brock’s anti-hero tendencies.

A robust, trustworthy story mixed with ravenous alien battles? Arduous to prime!