Insomniac confirms Spider-Man is not in Marvel’s Wolverine

Fans got the Spider-Man answer they were waiting for, and it was a hard no: Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine does not include Peter Parker. That matters because Wolverine and Spider-Man share the same in-universe continuity, Earth-1048, and the easy assumption was that Insomniac might cash in on the crossover machine it has already built. Instead, the studio has drawn a much tighter line around Logan’s game, keeping it separate from the Spider-Man series and treating it like its own corner of the Marvel games universe.

That restraint is the real story here. Insomniac’s creative team has said Wolverine is being made as a self-contained project, not a team-up campaign built around guest heroes, and the game was not designed as an open-world or sandbox release. Wolverine is also the only playable character, which shuts the door on the kind of rotating-roster structure some Marvel players may have expected. The release is set for September 15, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, with offline play and one-player support only.

The supporting cast is still stacked, just not in the Spider-Man direction. Jean Grey appears in the story and combat, framed as a powerful telekinetic and an emerging leader among mutants being hunted by the Reavers, a cybernetic guns-for-hire militia working for Bolivar Trask. Sabretooth also turns up, but not as a neat buddy-cop co-star. He fights alongside Logan because they are dealing with a common enemy, not because Marvel has suddenly turned Wolverine into a team-up brawler. Official PlayStation materials say Logan rejoins Team X three years after walking away from it, and the story sends him through Canada, Japan, and Madripoor while he faces names like Omega Red.

Insomniac is also making the tone part of the pitch. The game carries a gore-off accessibility option, but the overall package is being sold as violent, direct, and character-driven, with Liam McIntyre voicing Logan. That is the opposite of MCU-style sprawl, and that is clearly the point. Fans hoping for Spider-Man were really asking whether Insomniac would make Wolverine another crossover showcase. The answer so far is simpler, and probably smarter: Logan gets his own blood-soaked lane.