Spider-Man: Miles Morales Complete Controls Guide for PS5 & PS4 (2024)

In what will likely be one of Sony’s few new PlayStation 5 releases that also come to the PlayStation 4, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales has arrived alongside the release of the new console.

Swinging into action with all of what made the first Spider-Man great, the team at Insomniac Games have further enhanced the formula for the Miles Morales sequel, bringing in some additional controls.

Here, you’ll find all of the controls and each controller format available on the PS4 and PS5 version of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

In this Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales controls guide, L and R denote the analogues, the button activated by pressing either analogue is shown as L3 or R3, and the d-pad buttons are listed as Up, Right, Down, and Left.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Default controls

When you start a new game on Miles Morales, you’re thrown straight into the action, with these default Spider-Man controls likely being the ones that you get used to using.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Left Bias controls

If you’d prefer that most of the important Spider-Man: Miles Morales controls are on the left side of the PS5 or PS4 controller, this is the set-up that you should choose:

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Right Bias controls

The Right Bias controls on Spider-Man: Miles Morales don’t differ a great deal from the Default set-up; the main changes concern the position of the Gadgets and Venom controls, as you can see below:

How to create custom controls in Spider-Man: Miles Morales

To customise your PS5 or PS4 controller layout for the Spider-Man: Miles Morales controls, follow these steps:

1. In the game, press the Options button on your PlayStation controller;
2. Select ‘Controller Layout;’
3. Scroll down the left-hand side and press X on ‘Custom 1’ or ‘Custom 2;’
4. Next, select ‘Customise;’
5. On the ‘Customising’ screen, use the buttons list to select and switch around the Miles Morales controls.

You can create two different custom controls sets for Miles Morales in Spider-Man. Using a controls set other than the Default controls will mean that you’ll need to adapt your input for the moves listed below accordingly.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Basic Combat controls

Under the Default controller settings, these are the basic combat moves and combos to get to grips with as Miles Morales:

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Air Combat controls

Launching your enemy into the air effectively makes them defenceless, enabling you to make the most of Miles Morales’ Air Combat controls, as shown below:

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Stealth controls

When you’re tasked with crawling around the rafters to take out enemies without being noticed, you’ll want to make the most of these Spider-Man stealth controls:

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Traversal controls

One of the many reasons why Marvel’s Spider-Man and this Miles Morales sequel are so good is because of the seamless traversal of the city. Here are the controls that you need to run up walls and swing around in this superhero game:

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Air Tricks controls

Now, you can add some flair to your swinging around the city with a stacked list of Air Tricks controls to use in Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The vast majority of these PS4 and PS5 controls require you to manipulate the direction of the left analogue after entering ‘Trick Mode.’

How to save in Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales auto-saves regularly, but you can perform your own manual save when you’re out in the open-world.

All you have to do is press the Options button on your controller and then select ‘Manual Save’ from the menu.

Now you have all of the controls that you need to play Spider-Man: Miles Morales.