Insomniac confirms that Spider-Man 2 won’t have any DLC, and fans are very disappointed

It seems Peter and Miles' story is over for now

During New York Comic-Con 2024, Sony and Insomniac Games announced that on January 30, 2025. However another piece of information caught most of the fan’s attention.

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, Aaron Jason Espinoza, Senior Community Manager at Insomniac Games, stated: “While we have no additional story content planned for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, we’re delighted to bring all of our previously released post-launch content to the PC version”, further squelching all the fan’s hopes of a potential DLC that would expand the game’s storyline.

This is quite unfortunate, seeing as how the game left many open plot points that seemed to be teasing a DLC campaign, with the “The Flame” side quest being one of the most prominent ones. In contrast, the original Spider-Man game by Insomniac had three DLC packs with lengthy story campaigns that were already out a few weeks after the game’s launch. On top of that, it still got constant free updates throughout the following months.

Fans had high hopes for a potential DLC campaign for Spider-Man 2

Venom attacking one of Kraven's soldiers in Spider-Man 2.
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Fan reaction on social media websites like Twitter/X or Reddit , since most of them have been waiting for a DLC announcement since Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 released on October 20, 2023, more than a year ago. Getting a conf🐈irmation that this is now not going to happen, after so much waiting, was definitely disappointing for most of the💫m.

The subreddit didn’t take the news very well, with many of its members , since now they have confirmation that it’s not going to get any more story updates. of not giving the game the treatment it needed and deserved. Nevertheless, , and it decided to save it for a separate project (like a standalone Venom game) that it can release in-between bigger games, similar to Spider-Man: Miles Morales.


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