Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to…
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is an adventure developed by Eidos Montréal, released 26 October 2021 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 19.1 hrs to finish.
What Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is an adventure game developed by Eidos Montréal and released in 2021. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dawn Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this third-person action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord, and thanks to your bold yet questionable leadership, you have persuaded an oddball crew of unlikely heroes to join you. Some jerk (surely not you) has set off a chain of catastrophic events, and only you can hold the unpredictable Guardians together long enough to fight off total interplanetary meltdown. Use Element Blasters, tag-team beat downs, jet boot-powered dropkicks, nothing’s off-limits. If you think it’s all going to plan, you’re in for a world of surprises, with the consequences of your actions guaranteed to keep the Guardians…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 59 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Marvel series
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is the 362nd of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Digital Deluxe Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 81 is 17 points above the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.
How it was received
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 406 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 19.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 28.2 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i5-4460, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 570. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 80GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy launched on 26 October 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Far Cry 6. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Far Cry 6.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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