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Marathon cover art

Marathon

Bungie · 2026-03-05

SteamPlayStation Store

Action

Modes: Multiplayer, Battle Royale · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 05, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 05, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Mar 05, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S)

Explore the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV, scavenging valuable loot in a high-stakes survival first person shooter from the creators of Halo and Destiny.

Marathon is a 2026 Action game priced at $39.99, with a Mostly Positive (77% of 63288 reviews) sentiment.

77%
positive of 65k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
10,730
twitch viewers (latest)
10730.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
87/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (58 ratings)
4.24★
PlayStation Store rating (15,802 ratings)
81/100
opencritic · strong · 72% recommend · from 133 critics
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$39.99
steam price (US)
Marathon is a 2026 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Bungie and distributed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced in May 2023, the game is the first new entry in Bungie's original Marathon series since the release of Marathon Infinity (1996). The new Marathon is a multiplayer extraction shooter with a focus on player versus player (PvP) gameplay, and loot extraction mechanics. It was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on March 5, 2026. Despite receiving positive reviews from critics, the game failed to meet sales expectations for Sony, and coupled with poor performance of Destiny 2 in the previous years, led to Sony laying off most of the Destiny 2 staff and focusing the rest of Bungie on Marathon.

Trailer

Marathon trailer thumbnail

Marathon | Official Announce Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 956 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~120/week).
  • · Review velocity down 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (20,338 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3M–2.9M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64,571 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $23.35 at GameBillet (2026-08-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 44 of 71 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
18k18k20262026Week of 2026-03-05: 17,907 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 2,431 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 5,483 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 886 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 2,819 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 746 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 1,915 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 406 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 1,295 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 292 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 1,023 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 233 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 651 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 160 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 578 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 181 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 473 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 136 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 497 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 385 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 80 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 1,133 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 578 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 756 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 252 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 806 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 210 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 517 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 181 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 320 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 126 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 263 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 157 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 244 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 96 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 223 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 171 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 69 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 164 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 102 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 152 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 106 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-08-20: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 58 negativeWeek of 2026-08-27: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-09-03: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-09-10: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-09-10: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-09-17: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-09-17: 37 negativeWeek of 2026-09-24: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-09-24: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-10-08: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-10-08: 32 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$22.872026-01-192026-08-132026-01-19 — best price $33.592026-01-21 — best price $31.492026-01-26 — best price $39.992026-02-02 — best price $33.992026-02-23 — best price $35.902026-03-05 — best price $33.952026-03-12 — best price $39.992026-03-16 — best price $37.992026-03-20 — best price $39.592026-03-25 — best price $36.192026-03-30 — best price $33.992026-04-05 — best price $34.392026-04-09 — best price $36.192026-04-19 — best price $34.392026-04-22 — best price $28.692026-04-25 — best price $27.192026-04-28 — best price $39.992026-05-07 — best price $31.492026-06-02 — best price $22.872026-06-05 — best price $23.502026-06-08 — best price $26.992026-06-12 — best price $27.992026-06-16 — best price $39.992026-06-19 — best price $24.352026-06-24 — best price $23.792026-06-26 — best price $24.352026-07-06 — best price $23.792026-07-11 — best price $27.992026-07-14 — best price $33.992026-07-17 — best price $27.792026-07-20 — best price $23.792026-07-22 — best price $39.992026-07-24 — best price $25.992026-07-30 — best price $27.992026-08-01 — best price $33.992026-08-13 — best price $27.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3.2k6242026-05-29 — 1,792 pageviews2026-06-02 — 3,063 pageviews2026-06-06 — 2,074 pageviews2026-06-10 — 2,286 pageviews2026-06-14 — 2,020 pageviews2026-06-18 — 1,380 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1,161 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2,801 pageviews2026-06-30 — 1,355 pageviews2026-07-04 — 871 pageviews2026-07-08 — 895 pageviews2026-07-12 — 755 pageviews2026-07-16 — 739 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1,062 pageviews2026-07-24 — 811 pageviews2026-07-28 — 900 pageviews2026-08-01 — 860 pageviews2026-08-05 — 780 pageviews2026-08-09 — 744 pageviews2026-08-13 — 713 pageviews2026-08-17 — 756 pageviews2026-08-21 — 953 pageviews2026-08-25 — 744 pageviews2026-08-29 — 646 pageviews2026-09-02 — 666 pageviews2026-09-06 — 634 pageviews2026-09-10 — 1,141 pageviews2026-09-14 — 1,160 pageviews2026-09-18 — 759 pageviews2026-09-22 — 3,168 pageviews2026-09-26 — 970 pageviews2026-09-30 — 766 pageviews2026-10-04 — 678 pageviews2026-10-08 — 626 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
71.7%
earned "Welcome to Tau Ceti"
22.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsKeyboard Only Option3 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2026-03-05, latest 2026-06-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)13,46010%14
PS5 (PlayStation)6,08017%14
Xbox Series (Xbox)2,7469%14

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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