15 Best Video Games Where You Have Superpowers

15. Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017)

Mass Effect: Andromeda gives you biotic powers that can lift enemies into the air, create gravity wells, and throw explosive energy blasts, but the real superpower here is making an entire galaxy feel empty. The game offers hundreds of planets to explore, yet most of them contain nothing but repetitive outposts and fetch quests that drain the wonder from discovering new worlds. Combat feels solid when the powers connect, but everything around it lands with the weight of a universe-spanning adventure that forgot to pack any compelling reasons to care. It is the rare space opera that makes you wish you had stayed home. | © EA

14. Gotham Knights (2022)

Gotham Knights lets you play as Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin after Batman dies, which sounds perfect until you actually start playing. The combat feels sluggish compared to the Arkham games, the RPG elements bog down what should be smooth superhero action, and the open world structure turns Gotham into a checklist of repetitive tasks. Even the four-player co-op can't save missions that mostly involve beating up the same groups of thugs over and over. It's proof that having the right characters doesn't automatically make a great superhero game. | © Warner Bros. Games

13. Prey (2017)

Prey drops you onto a space station where coffee mugs might actually be shape-shifting aliens trying to kill you. The game hands out alien powers that let you turn into objects yourself, hack machinery with your mind, or lift heavy things telekinetically, but the real hook is how paranoia seeps into everything. Every room feels like a puzzle box where the furniture might attack you, and every new ability makes you question whether you're still human. That constant uncertainty turns what could have been a standard sci-fi shooter into something that gets under your skin. | © Bethesda Softworks

12. Final Fantasy XIV (2010)

Final Fantasy XIV launched as one of the most catastrophic MMO disasters in gaming history, so broken that Square Enix stopped charging subscription fees and completely rebuilt it from scratch. The reborn version transforms players into Warriors of Light wielding reality-bending magic across a world where gods regularly die and resurrect based on collective belief. Your character doesn't just cast spells or swing swords; they absorb the memories and abilities of fallen deities, making you functionally immortal and capable of rewriting the laws of existence itself. Few games let you progress from adventurer to literal god-slayer with such narrative weight behind every impossible feat. | © Square Enix

11. Crackdown (2007)

Crackdown turns you into a genetically enhanced super-cop who can leap between skyscrapers, punch cars into explosions, and grow stronger by collecting glowing orbs scattered across the city. The game never pretends to be anything deeper than a power fantasy playground where you eliminate crime bosses while your abilities scale into absurd superhuman territory. What made it special was how it let you approach every mission however you wanted, whether that meant sniping from rooftops or just throwing trucks at people. The progression system hooked players so completely that hunting down hundreds of agility orbs became more addictive than the actual story missions. | © Microsoft Game Studios

10. BioShock (2007)

BioShock drops you into Rapture with nothing but a wrench and the promise that genetic modification will make you powerful enough to survive. The plasmids let you shoot electricity from your fingertips or set enemies on fire, but the real hook is how the city itself becomes a character through every audio log and art deco detail. Andrew Ryan's failed utopia tells its story through environmental storytelling that most games still try to copy. The superpowers feel earned because you are literally splicing your DNA with the same technology that drove an entire society insane. | © 2K Games

9. Batman: Arkham Knight (2015)

Batman: Arkham Knight lets you finally drive the Batmobile, which sounds like every fan's dream until you realize half the game revolves around tank battles that feel completely wrong for the character. The predator stealth sequences and hand-to-hand combat still deliver that perfect Batman power fantasy, letting you systematically dismantle rooms full of armed thugs while they slowly realize they're being hunted. But those vehicle sections keep interrupting the flow, turning Gotham's protector into someone who solves way too many problems by blowing things up. The disconnect between Batman's methods and the gameplay creates a strange tension that never quite resolves. | © Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

8. Genshin Impact (2020)

Genshin Impact gives you a roster of characters who can summon tornadoes, freeze lakes solid, or call down meteor strikes, then asks you to figure out how all those powers work together. The combat system turns elemental reactions into a puzzle where setting enemies on fire before hitting them with water creates massive steam explosions. Most free-to-play games feel cheap or manipulative, but this one delivers console-quality visuals and exploration that rivals Breath of the Wild. The gacha system will drain your wallet if you let it, but the core experience never actually requires spending money to access the superpowers that matter. | © miHoYo

7. Prototype (2009)

Prototype lets you play as a shape-shifting virus monster who can absorb people's memories by consuming them whole. The game hands you powers that feel genuinely monstrous rather than heroic, turning Manhattan into your personal feeding ground where every crowd becomes a potential health pack. Alex Mercer moves through the city like a living weapon, sprinting up skyscrapers and dive-bombing into groups of soldiers with attacks that look more like biological warfare than superhero combat. Most games with superpowers make you feel like a protector, but this one makes you feel like the thing people need protecting from. | © Activision

6. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)

The Witcher 3 gives you magic signs and mutant reflexes, but the real power fantasy comes from having actual consequences for your choices in a world that remembers them. Geralt can ignite enemies with fire or control their minds, yet somehow the most satisfying moments happen when you talk your way out of fights or decide which of two terrible kings deserves to live. The game trusts you to handle moral complexity without clear answers, making every major decision feel like it matters long after you make it. Most RPGs pretend your choices have weight, but this one actually delivers on that promise. | © CD Projekt

5. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020)

Miles Morales gets his own spotlight in a game that feels like the confident younger sibling who learned from watching the older one succeed. The bio-electric venom powers create a different rhythm than Peter Parker's web-slinging, turning stealth sequences into light shows and making every punch feel like it carries actual voltage. Insomniac built this as a shorter, tighter experience that never tries to match the original's scope, focusing instead on what makes Miles unique as both a character and a superhero. The result is a game that knows exactly what it wants to be instead of trying to be everything. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

4. Control (2019)

Control drops you into a brutalist government building where reality bends like putty and office supplies become deadly weapons. Jesse Faden gains telekinetic powers that feel genuinely alien, letting you hurl desks and chunks of concrete with a weight that most games never capture. The Federal Control Bureau serves as both your playground and your prison, filled with shifting architecture and documents that read like cosmic horror filtered through corporate bureaucracy. Remedy Entertainment built something that makes you feel powerful and deeply unsettled at the same time. | © 505 Games

3. InFamous 2 (2011)

InFamous 2 drops you into a version of New Orleans where your electric superpowers are the only thing standing between the city and destruction. The sequel fixes everything that felt stiff about the original, giving Cole MacGrath smoother movement, better combat flow, and moral choices that actually feel meaningful instead of cartoonishly black and white. What makes it special is how the powers evolve based on your decisions, turning lightning into either precise surgical strikes or chaotic city-leveling destruction. The game understands that being a superhero means choosing what kind of hero you want to be, then living with those consequences as the world burns around you. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

2. Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

Marvel's Spider-Man finally cracked the code that so many superhero games missed: making you feel like you actually have superpowers instead of just button prompts that trigger cool animations. The web-swinging has real physics behind it, so launching yourself off the Chrysler Building and threading between traffic feels earned rather than scripted. Combat flows like a dance where you can web enemies to walls, yank manhole covers as shields, and combo moves in ways that look completely different every time. Most superhero games make you feel powerful in cutscenes, but this one makes you feel powerful while you play. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

1. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023)

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 lets you swap between Peter Parker and Miles Morales mid-swing, which sounds like a small detail until you realize how much it changes the rhythm of playing a Spider-Man game. The symbiote suit storyline gives Peter some genuinely unsettling moments that feel darker than anything the previous games attempted. Both characters move through New York with the kind of fluid momentum that makes traversal feel less like transportation and more like the main event. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment