Marvel Avengers Academy tasked the player with building their own academic campus and populating it with superheroes who have been reimagined as students who are developing their superpowers.

Themed events typically involved an enemy faction decamping upon the Academy with the aim of taking over.

In addition to characters being leveled up, they could now also be ranked up which permanently raises their HP and combat battle stats.

[4] Pocket Gamer was more critical, rating the game at 4/10 and stating that Avengers Academy was "free to play at its very worst".

While they also praised the character design, they said the game was geared heavily toward players who will pay in order to progress.