PlayStation sets Marvel Cosmic Invasion DLC release for November 10

PlayStation Blog says Marvel Cosmic Invasion: The Siege of Castle Doom releases November 10, adding Doctor Doom and the Invisible Woman as playable characters. GosuGamers sets the expansion for autumn 2026 on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.’}, {‘type’: ‘paragraph’, ‘text’:

Pixelkin lists The Siege of Castle Doom as releasing on November 3, which conflicts with the November 10 date given by PlayStation. The same Pixelkin article earlier says the DLC unlocks two characters when it releases on November 10, creating an internal discrepancy within the outlet’s report. Pixelkin compares the new mode to a horde defense survival mode as a guess made before the developers officially revealed the mode details, and notes that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge received a similar mode in its Dimension Shellshock DLC.

GosuGamers and Polygon call The Siege of Castle Doom the second paid downloadable content pack after Cyclops and The Thing arrived in May 2026. GosuGamers and Shacknews say Cyclops and The Thing arrived in May 2026 and report that Tribute Games and Dotemu revealed it with a social-media teaser on 17 August followed by an announcement on 18 August. Polygon says the reveal included no price or specific release date.

The base game launched 1 December, 2025 for PC, Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox, developed by Tribute Games. The release timing places Doctor Doom ahead of Robert Downey Jr.’s debut as the character in December’s Avengers: Doomsday film.

Early August reports said Tribute Games and Dotemu had not confirmed whether Doctor Doom himself would be playable. GosuGamers and Polygon state that details were thin and that the developers did not specify if Doom would be playable, though later sources confirm he is.

Pixelkin describes Victor Von Doom using high-tech armor and occult magic. Pixelkin describes Susan Storm using light-bending powers. OpenCritic gives Marvel Cosmic Invasion an 84% Critics Recommend score. Polygon cites the score in the context of strong reception for the game before the DLC announcement.

The DLC is a run-based mode where players battle through Victor Von Doom’s stronghold before he activates the Cosmic Inductor. PlayStation Blog says the Cosmic Inductor charges with energy to grant Doom massive power, while WorthPlaying calls the design flawed and destined to end the cosmos. Doom seeks to become Earth’s Champion by charging the device atop the castle. The run ends immediately if the Siege Gauge fills before the climactic showdown with Doom.

A Siege Gauge fills when enemies defeat heroes in Castle Doom halls, while victories produce batteries that charge Reed Richards’s Stabilizer to stall Doom. Deadly Doom Bots team up with bosses returning from the base game to oppose players inside the castle. Collecting Stabilizers opens Reed Richards’s Lab to unlock equipment, events, and modifiers, and completing a run grants a new hero color palette.

Players gather Battery Cells and complete challenges to unlock defense, damage, or tactical upgrades from 12 different perks. Heroes level up through individual Perk branches themed Offense, Defense, and Tactical. Themed doors in Castle Doom offer equipment, events with temporarily changed rules, healing, infinite ammo or focus, or random batteries for the Stabilizer Gauge. PlayStation Blog presents these doors as choices players must make carefully to progress through the dangerous halls of Castle Doomstadt.

Castle Doom’s halls contain medieval-era torture tools, freezing blizzards on the Castle Battlements, and treacherous elevator platforms in the Tower of Solitude. PlayStation Blog says Doctor Doom develops many experiments on the Tower of Solitude platforms and that reaching him is no easy task. A multiplayer MVP system rewards the most effective players by showcasing their run statistics. The expansion includes original musical tracks by composer Tee Lopes.

The game’s story centers on Annihilus leading the Annihilation Wave in a galaxy-spanning attack that heroes must stop. WorthPlaying says players brawl from New York City to the Negative Zone to foil Annihilus’s vow to spread death across the cosmos. Voice-overs feature Reed Richards guiding the heroes and Doctor Doom mocking their invasion of Doomstadt. Marvel Cosmic Invasion uses a Cosmic Swap tag system and offers four-player drop-in/drop-out co-op with crossplay (play between platforms).

“Like its arcade ancestors, [Marvel Cosmic Invasion] is a simple, easy-to-pick-up, enjoyable-to-replay action game – ideally played cooperatively”

The base roster includes Spider-Man and Wolverine along with less common picks such as Phyla-Vell and Beta Ray Bill. Polygon says these characters joined a roster of Marvel staples and obscure picks after the first DLC pack. The Siege of Castle Doom is rated E10+.