Marvel’s Wolverine Would Have an Adult Rating According to Reports

Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine game is reportedly aiming for a mature rating and could release as early as next year.

That’s according to Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb, who shared alleged details about the project in development during a live stream on Thursday.

“Hard R is what they are looking for… that is one of the concepts I have heard”, Grubb said. “I think an M-rated Wolverine could work, I think an M-rated superhero game could work, and this is probably the right character.”

Later he added: “They [también] they will avoid having links or anything that evokes Fox movies; they want it to stand on its own. I was trying to pin down the setting and heard it will start before he joins the X-Men, which also makes sense for a Wolverine game..

“Maybe the surprising thing to me is that I heard two different dates… I heard from the fall of 2024, which would be crazy. Insomniac is releasing Spider-Man 2 this fall… I’ve also heard internally that they’re still talking a lot about 2025, so let’s not be surprised if that’s what happens.

“But if anyone can manage to throw two great triple-A games in back-to-back years, it’s Insomniac.”

The Wolverine game was announced during a PlayStation Showcase event in September 2021, as was Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2, at which point it claimed the title was in “very early development.”

The game will be a standalone title directed by Brian Horton and Cameron Christian, who were the creative leads on Spider-Man: Miles Morales.