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Cult online action RPG Marvel Heroes, after more than eight years offline, has player-run servers at last

The ice has thawed.

By PC Gamer

• March 22, 2026 at 11:37 PM

Cult online action RPG Marvel Heroes, after more than eight years offline, has player-run servers at last Photo: PC Gamer

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Until now.

Marvel Heroes has been resurrected, with a server emulator finally hitting 1.0.

The first player-run server came online in Tahiti up and others are on the way.

I reinstalled it via Steam, made an account on the Project Tahiti website , launched it with the parameter -siteconfigurl=mhtahiti.com/SiteConfig.xml, and was able to join a queue of 1,706 players this morning.

I eventually made it into the game, though the server was restarted before I could finish the tutorial.

Fortunately, a singleplayer alternative has also been made available.

You can download a server emulator on Github , follow the setup instructions, and play solo without having to worry about lag or disconnections while things settle down.

There's a Pastebin to keep track of player-run servers as more come online.

You may also need this link to the Internet Archive's backup of the final build .

I'm glad to see Marvel Heroes enjoy this extra life, because it really was knockabout fun .

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance.

A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games .

He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun , The Big Issue, GamesRadar , Zam , Glixel , Five Out of Ten Magazine , and Playboy.com , whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank.

Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation , published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC , why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game , and how weird Lost Ark can get .

Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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