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Classic Marathon cover art

Classic Marathon

Aleph One Developers · 2024-05-10

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 10, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 10, 2024 (Mac), May 10, 2024 (Linux), Jul 07, 2011 (iOS)

From the team that brought you Aleph One, the classic sci-fi FPS Marathon from Bungie on Mac revived for modern hardware by the fan community.

91%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
14h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Marathon is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Bungie, and released in December 1994 for the Apple Macintosh. The game takes place several centuries into the future in outer space and sets the player as a security officer attempting to stop an alien invasion aboard a colony ship named the Marathon.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 270 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~34/week).
  • · Review velocity up 99% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 28,868 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39639620242026Week of 2024-05-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
42.1%
earned "Nearby"
5.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Achievements

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,0533%12

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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