Dispatch has been one of 2025's most pleasant surprises. The superhero workplace comedy's episodic releases have received overwhelmingly positive critical and player reviews, and the choose-your-own-adventure title has sold millions of copies since its October launch.
It appears that this game is precisely what the public needed to soothe its superhero fatigue, with previous Marvel and DC titles, like Spider-Man and Marvel's Midnight Suns, seeing positive increases in their player counts since Dispatch's launch. And, maybe less surprisingly, a spate of previous Telltale titles have also benefited from Dispatch.
Superhero fatigue is a real thing. After a non-stop barrage of MCU movies, with a smattering of DC offerings in between, in the 2010s and early 2020s, audiences became less and less accepting of mediocre comic book offerings, and review scores, box office takings, and TV viewership numbers declined.
This year's Superman movie, helmed by James Gunn, showed there is still an audience for the genre when done right, and now Dispatch has blown all expectations out of the water, selling two million copies in a month. The latter has seemingly had a positive impact on superhero-focused video games, too.
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