Marvel Super Hero Squad Online

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online
Promotional comic distributed as free handout during E3 2010.
Series	Marvel Super Hero Squad
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, OS X
Release	April 29, 2011 (US Beta) November 4, 2011 (Europe Beta) November 1, 2012 (Server Merge)
Genre(s)	Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was a massively multiplayer online game for younger audiences based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad. The open beta version of the game was released on April 29, 2011 (although a closed beta was released in early 2011). It was a free-to-play game that supported both microtransactions of its in-game currency and a monthly subscription.

Players collected heroes to form their own Squad. They were able to choose a hero from their Squad to play in a number of games and activities. As they played, the heroes increased not only their power in combat, but unlocked animated emotes for use in the social game world zones.

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was the first MMO game developed in Gazillion's and Marvel's 10-year exclusive game publishing agreement. The second was Marvel Heroes.

On October 11, 2016 it was revealed that Super Hero Squad Online will be shutting down sometime January 2017. On January 11th, 2017, Super Hero Squad Online was shut down without notice, and its site, heroup.com, redirects to Marvel Heroes' website.

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online had alternate controls, in which with one click the player could move from one place to another, or using the arrow keys or the traditional W, A, S, D keys on a keyboard. Selected characters could fly by pressing on blue circles on the ground. If the character was unable to fly, that character could have a double jump or a high/long jump. Points were separated into two compartments, gold and fractals. Gold points could be used to buy anything, while fractals also allowed a player to buy anything. However, fractals could be earned over time in game while gold had to be purchased with real money in the store. Many characters from the Marvel Universe appeared in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online in a traditional Super Hero Squad "super-deformed" style.

Missions had a beat 'em up style where players had to defeat a massive amount of enemies to reach the final boss.

Game World Areas were separated as zones. Zones included the Daily Bugle, Baxter Building, and Asgard with all having taken a small portion of Spider-Man's, the Fantastic Four's, and Thor's home locations. Additionally, Villainville was made available for players to visit, as a zone.