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Bungie |
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March 5th, 2026 |
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ESRB: Teen (T) for Animated Blood, Language, and Violence |
Marathon is a team-based extraction shooter developed by Bungie.
Marathon is the first new game in the Marathon franchise since the original Marathon Trilogy was released in the 1990s.
An alternate reality game began in 2023 to coincide with the reveal announcement as well as the ViDoc, and continued later in 2025 to coincide with the gameplay reveal stream.
Plot[edit]
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Gameplay[edit]
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In Marathon players in groups or alone infiltrate restricted locations to scavenge valuable items and resources, complete contracts from various factions mainly comprised of mega-corporations such as Traxus, NuCaloric, and CyberAcme , kill other enemy players, fight off NPC combatants, then ex-filtrate from the locations before a 25 minute timer expires (26 minutes if including final ex-filtration opportunity). Once a run is complete players are returned to their home menu's and can store valuables they've earned, re-gear for next runs, unlock faction exclusive upgrades using in-game earned currency called credits and/or alongside resources they have extracted with, claim codex objectives for cosmetics, lore entries, audio logs, and bragging rights. Players within the home menu can also access the premium currency store for cosmetics, and also the current and past reward passes which can be progressed through with the use of a gained currency via season rank level up known as silk.
Currently, Marathon can only be played in either a group of up to 2 other players, or Solo, with a expanding roster of playable characters known as Shells, synthetic bodies with enhanced attributes and unique powers, currently there are 7 total Shells, one of the Shells being gated as its own form of play-style which is named Rook, unlike other Shells, Rook is limited in what it can do, it has no contracts, cannot equip gear from your vault, cannot be with a group of other players (though temporary alliances can be made within game with the use of selectable voice-lines or proximity voice chat), and cannot enter special maps such as Cryo Archive, and special game-modes such as ranked and experimental Duo's only game-mode. Rook is also forced into joining matches late, usually around 10-11 minutes into a currently active match.
Players can equip a variety of items and weapons to aid themselves and other teammates, the current list of equipment is:
-Weapons: Currently comprised of Assault rifles, Precision rifles, Marksmen rifles, Sniper Rifles, Pistols, Sub-Machine guns, Machine guns, Shotguns, Rails-guns, and Special. All weapons belonging in certain ammo categories.
-Ammunition: Light/Heavy/MIPS Rounds, Volt Batteries/Cells
-Shields: negates a percentage of damage taken and while losing from its own HP pool, ranging from 1-4 bars of charges
-Equipment Items: Frag Grenade, EMP Grenades, Heat Grenades, Smoke Grenade, Flechette Grenade, Chemical Grenade, Claymore, Ammunition Bag, Bubble Shield, Proximity Sensor, Trap Pack.
-Consumables: Depleted/Medium/Advanced Patch Kit, Depleted/Medium/Advanced Shield Charge, Panacea Kit, Pangea Kit, Self-Revive, Standard/Advanced Mechanic's Kit, Standard/Advanced OS Reboot, Depleted/Standard Cardio Kick, Energy Amp, Anti-Virus Kit, Signal Jammer.
-Cores: Can provide small to significant benefits for all or specific shells, such as granting enhanced reload and aiming speed for the Destroyer shell, or increasing loot speed when opening locked doors and containers for all shells.
-Implants: grant stat benefits (and at times stat penalties for balancing) ranging for all stat categories in three different slots, being head, torso, and leg.
-Backpacks: Ranging in sizes of 8XS, 16XS, 24XS, for Base, Med, and Ammo, packs, with one pack being exclusively 24XS in size being the Stealth Pack.
-Keys: for opening locked doors and containers, varying in rarity.
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Features[edit]
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Development[edit]
Marathon was originally slated to release on September 23rd, 2025. On June 17th of the same year, Marathon was delayed indefinitely until a release date of March 2026 was announced later that year on December 15th, further said to be March 5th, 2026 in February.
The game was originally set to feature collectible artifact that could be added together into more complex objects. This feature was later modified into the Anomalous Matter event on Dire Marsh.
Gallery[edit]
An unknown Runner from the 2023 Announce Trailer
An unnamed sniper from the 2023 Announce Trailer
A promotional image of a Runner codenamed "Thief" from the 2024 Developer Update
A promotional image of a Runner codenamed "Stealth" from the 2024 Developer Update, now known as the Void Runner
The original box art for Marathon prior to the delay in June of 2025
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Notes[edit]
- The 2023 ViDoc was made private on YouTube following former Marathon Game Director Christopher Barett's controversial dismissal from the company; a re-upload of the ViDoc was linked in its place.
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| Preceded by Marathon Infinity |
Marathon (2026) | Succeeded by TBA (Game) Death is the First Step (Season) |
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