Marvel Puzzle Quest — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| New Character - Famine (First Horsemen) 4* | 2026-06-10 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Ravenous Hunger Color: Purple AP Cost: 8 How long has it been since we have eaten? Deal 741 damage. Create a 3-turn Repeater tile that destroys 1 randomly selected surrounding tile(s). Gain 176 health for each tile destroyed. Destroyed tiles do not generate AP or deal damage. Raging Torrent Color: Blue AP Cost: 6 Wash clean, the safety, the sickness, every speck of soil. Create 1 strength 65 Blue Strike tile(s). Destroy 1 enemy Strike, Attack, or Protect tile(s). Does not deal damage or gain AP for destroyed tiles. (PASSIVE) Whenever an enemy fires the same color ability more than 3 time(s) |
| MPQ 2026 Summer Update | 2026-06-05 | Over the summer, you can expect to see dedicated blogs outlining big items from the 2026 Roadmap. While we get those updates ready for you, for now, as an update to our MARVEL Puzzle Quest 2026 Roadmap blog, we’re giving the floor to our Lead Designer Finn to share some of the philosophy and background behind how he’s been looking at the MPQ meta. But first, we wanted to provide a couple of updates on some things we’ve been working on… GAME STABILITY This will continue to be a priority in our efforts to improve the backend of MPQ and we hope some of the changes implemented can be felt as you play through the game. In addition to continuing th |
| 2026 MARVEL Puzzle Quest Player Survey | 2026-06-01 | Calling all MARVEL Puzzle Quest players! Our new 2026 Player Survey is live, and we’d love to hear from you. Share your honest thoughts on the current state of the game, what’s working well, and what you’d like to see next to help shape what comes next! https://mpq.social/playersurvey |
| New Character - Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven) 5* | 2026-05-27 | From the gladiator arenas of Mojoworld to the battles of MARVEL Puzzle Quest, Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven) slices his way into the roster as the next 5-Star! Here’s a preview of how he’ll slice his way through the competition. Health & Match Damage https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/original/3X/7/1/71d14a8c1f7fd31882c3c3dd7fa833f011d53772.webp Feeder Flow Abilities https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/x505go/optimized/3X/c/e/ceb89768f6c3a8c401c57aa345b461fbc77c311c_2_690x388.jpeg Ability: Shatter Portal Color: Purple AP Cost: 9 Shatterstar slices through the fabric of reality, creating tears between universes. Selec |
| New Character - Celestial BrawnBuster (Amadeus Cho) 6* | 2026-05-13 | Health & Match Damage Abilities Ability: Celestial Gamma Missiles Color: Red AP Cost: 7 Celestial BrawnBuster fires a volley of Gamma Irradiated missiles at… everything? Create 3 3-turn Countdown Tile(s), deal 1530 damage. Each countdown tile does 1224 damage per turn. (PASSIVE) Reduce AP gained by enemy matches in their team’s strongest color by 2. Reduce AP gained by matches in your team’s strongest color by 1. Ability: Galactic Hulk-Out Punch! Color: Green AP Cost: 7 Celestial BrawnBuster unleashes a mighty Galaxy-spanning punch, mathematically formulated to strike its target. Destroy 2, 3×3 sets of random tiles. For each tile destroyed, d |
| New Character - Franken-Castle (Amalgamation) 5* | 2026-04-28 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Level Playing Field Color: Red AP Cost: 5 Sticking with what works, Frank levels the playing field with a molotov or two… Or three. Destroy 2 2×2 sets of random tiles. Deal 1550 to target enemy. For each red tile that is destroyed, deal 226 damage. Do not receive AP for Cascades. (PASSIVE) At the start of the turn, generate 6 rage and consume up to 1 Charged tile(s) on the board. For each Charged tile consumed, generate 1 rage. Do not receive AP or deal damage from Cascades. Ability: Deceptive Trap Color: Purple AP Cost: 7 The Punisher draws on what he knows, and what he knows is traps. De |
| New Character - Spider-Horse (Widow) 2* | 2026-04-15 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow N/A Abilities Ability: Neigh!? Color: Red AP Cost: 5 Channeling the power of Spider-sense to communicate with Web-Slinger… Widow just kicks a dude… Deal 92 damage to a target enemy. Convert 3 random tile(s) to your team’s strongest color. (PASSIVE) At the start of the turn, generate 1 Horsepower for each Web Tile on the board. If there are fewer than 2 Web tile(s) on the board, create 2 Web Tile(s) up to the Web Tile count. Ability: Whinny! Color: Yellow AP Cost: 6 Whinny, Neigh! Snort? Destroy all Web Tile(s) on board, for each tile destroyed, heal 91. Ability: NEIIIIIGHHHHHHH???? Color: Blue AP Cost: 0 Neig |
| MARVEL Puzzle Quest 2026 Roadmap | 2026-03-31 | The only certainty in life is change, and MARVEL Puzzle Quest has been through a lot of them over the years. Now that the Infinity Plus 2 team are onboard and firmly behind the controls, we’re ready to gaze toward the horizon for a first look at the beginning of the next era for MPQ! ONGOING WORK GAME STABILITY Even though we’re here to talk about the new stuff coming your way in 2026, we want to first address some of the old stuff. Everyone is well aware of the ongoing issues with stability and crashes that MPQ has had for some time now, and we’ve been fairly candid with you all about the difficulties up front. We want to reassure you that i |
| Marvel Puzzle Quest R340 Release Notes | 2026-03-31 | Notes: R340 is getting released this week on all devices, which will also include Amazon Kindle devices. Support for Amazon is still being removed and will now officially end upon the release of R341. Please be sure to reach out to our Customer Support team to migrate your accounts to another device while you’re still able to access the build. D3 Go! Technical Support and Help Center Quality of Life - Updated mobile notifications for important updates for claiming rewards, covers expiring, and other rewards notifications. Ongoing Performance Updates - Cached assets are no longer completely cleared between releases. We are adding clearing of u |
| New Character - Drop Bears (Koalicus Cadericus) | 2026-03-30 | Raised on a steady diet of chaos and whatever the IP2 team’s been putting in the office snacks, Drop Bears (Koalicus Cadericus) gnaws their way into your rosters as the next ferocious 5 Star menance. Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow No Feeders Abilities Ability: Choc a Block with Bears?! Color: Green AP Cost: 6 What’s that in the sky? A cuddly wuddly bear? That landing’s gotta hurt. Create 1 2-turn Countdown tile(s). On Countdown tile completion, create 1 Strength 930 Strike tile(s) in the surrounding board location, and take 664 damage. Ability: Insatiable Appetite Color: Purple AP Cost: 7 Confused by its new surroundings, the Drop Bear fee |
| 2026 New Character Poll | 2026-03-26 | One of the things that makes the MARVEL Puzzle Quest community so special is how much players love celebrating the wild and wonderful corners of Marvel together. Over the years, the annual New Character Poll has helped spotlight all kinds of unique picks and MPQ itself has never been afraid to embrace this with characters like Aunt May and Doop already making the game’s roster feel unlike anything else out there. As we head into 2026, we’re excited to bring back one of our community traditions and once again let players help shape the future of MPQ in our 2026 New Character Poll! Until Friday March 27th, help us decide which of these unique M |
| New Character - War (First Horseman) 5* | 2026-03-06 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities |
| New Character - Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) 4* | 2026-02-19 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Acid Spit Color: Black AP Cost: 6 I ain’t the kind of Toad that turns into a prince… Deal 380 damage to a target enemy. Create 3 Charged Tile(s) randomly on the board. Ability: Leaping Kick Color: Purple AP Cost: 4 Toad leaps at the enemy, exploiting their weak point using his powerful legs. Deal 259 damage and destroy 2 random tile(s) in the enemy team’s strongest color, dealing 56 additional damage for each tile destroyed. Destroyed tiles do not generate AP or deal other damage. Pheromone Secretion Color: Blue AP Cost: 0 Toad’s odorless pheromones allow him control over his allies and ene |
| Marvel Puzzle Quest R338 Release Notes (Week of Feb 16) | 2026-02-11 | We’ve been doing a lot of work behind-the-scenes in MPQ (with still plenty more to do) on setting the groundwork for improving performance, fixing historic issues, and allowing us to generally work more efficiently and flexibly with the game. Because of the complexity of MPQ as a game, this will be ongoing for at least the medium term as we work through all the parts that make up the infrastructure. That said, we are balancing that work with making sure we also deliver some things to you folks to (hopefully) improve things a bit more for you now! Quality of Life Download All Assets Option In the Options menu, there is now an option to Downloa |
| New Character - Falcon (Joaquin Torres) 5* | 2026-02-06 | Note: Thanks for your patience while we sorted out a few of our internal tools to gather up all the character stats that you're so accustomed to! We're slowly getting back to our regular cadence of character & event release information in MPQ and with the release of Falcon (Joaquin Torres), we've made some slight formatting tweaks to ability level progression that hopefully makes visualizing their scaling a little easier to digest. Missing this time are the release events, which I'm hoping we'll be able to post with the next character release on Wednesday Feb 18th. Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow 4 Star: Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross) > 5 Star |
| MARVEL Puzzle Quest - Meet the team at IP2 | 2026-01-22 | It’s time to properly introduce the team over at Infinity Plus 2 (IP2) who will be stewarding the developments of MARVEL Puzzle Quest moving forward! Many of you will already know IP2’s work as the creators of the original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of Warlords in 2007 and the recent remaster “Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition”, but also as the creators of the match-3 RPG Gems of War. We’re really excited about this new phase of MPQ’s development because it means a fresh set of eyes on the game as a whole and more importantly, on the ongoing issues that have been a challenge since the switch to the Unity engine. Their goal is to get the game back t |
| New Character - Ghost Rider (Cosmic Invasion) 6* | 2025-12-22 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Cosmic Hellfire Color: Green AP Cost: 6 Deal 4438 damage, then create 1 Cosmic tile(s). (PASSIVE) For each Cosmic tile on the board, Ghost Rider deals 6% increased damage and takes 6% decreased damage (max 5 tiles). Cosmic tiles deal an additional 1530 damage when matched by allies. 700: Deal 20733 damage. Deal 6% increased damage. Take 6% reduced damage. Cosmic tiles deal 7149 damage. Level 2: Deal 5814 damage. Deal 7% increased damage. Take 7% reduced damage. Cosmic tiles deal 1568 damage. 700: Deal 27160 damage. Deal 7% increased damage. Take 7% reduced damage. Cosmic tiles deal 7328 dam |
| New Character - Iron Man (Cosmic Invasion) 5* | 2025-12-11 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: Dual Repulsor Blast Color: Red AP Cost: 4 Deal 443 damage, then create 2 2-turn Yellow Countdown tile(s) that grants 1 Yellow AP when it expires or deals 177 damage when matched or destroyed by an ally. (PASSIVE) Whenever you make a Red, Yellow, or Blue match, gain 1 AP in one of those colors that has less than 8 AP 450: Deal 1781 damage. Deal 712 damage when matched or destroyed. 550: Deal 3848 damage. Deal 1539 damage when matched or destroyed. Level 2: Deal 509 damage. Deal 204 damage when matched or destroyed. 450: Deal 2048 damage. Deal 819 damage when matched or destroyed. 550: Deal 4 |
| New Character - Spider-Man (Cosmic) 6* | 2025-12-01 | Health & Match Damage Feeder Flow Abilities Ability: My Best Shot Color: Red AP Cost: 6 Spider-Man lets loose a cosmic blast coupled with his already Amazing strength. Select a 3×3 block, then deal 2908 damage and create 2 Web tiles within the block and convert existing Web tiles in the block into Critical tiles. (PASSIVE) When Spider-Man makes a match, create 1 Web tile (up to 3). Web tiles matched or destroyed by allies deal an additional 1071 damage. 700: Deal 13583 damage. Matches create up to 3 tiles. Deal an additional 5004 damage. Level 2: Deal 5202 damage. Matches create up to 4 tiles. Deal an additional 1530 damage. 700: Deal 24300 d |
| MARVEL Puzzle Quest Development Update | 2025-11-27 | With 2026 on the horizon, we’ve been taking a thorough look at MARVEL Puzzle Quest in its current post-Unity state and determining our plans for next year. These plans are going to be implemented so we can shape MPQ’s next year into one of excitement with new features and much-needed updates to the game. Unity has shaped much of our work this year, capped by this summer’s launch of the Unity version of MPQ. We planned for some turbulence and a gradual smooth-out as we integrated the game into our live servers and finally got players to experience what was supposed to be a momentous milestone in the game’s history. While improvements have been |