Following this weekend's leak, Bungie has officially confirmed Marathon will launch for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on 5th March 2026. It's £35 / $40 for the base version, with a Deluxe Edition also available. Catch the release date trailer up above.
With its updated visual design and look, the fresh slice of footage features even more gameplay from the multi-platform extraction shooter.
Anyone who pre-orders either version of Marathon gets access to a selection of weapon and character decals, but if you opt for the £50 / $60 Deluxe Edition, you get:
- Premium Rewards Pass Voucher
- 200 Silk Rewards Pass Token
- 2 Midnight Decay weapon cosmetics
- 4 Midnight Decay runner cosmetics

Infil into the dark sci-fi world of Tau Ceti IV: A derelict colony rife with rival Runners, hostile UESC security forces, and hazardous environments. As you scavenge its zones for valuables with a crew or alone, tense moments of exploration break into fast-paced PvP combat where gunplay is responsive, time to kill is low, and preparation is rewarded.
As developer Bungie has shared more about the multiplayer experience in recent videos, chatter and opinion around the game seems to have gotten more positive. It will face competition for attention from the likes of ARC Raiders and many other online efforts, and with a $40 price point, it's obviously a lot more expensive than any free-to-play game.
Still, with the gunplay of a Bungie-developed title backing it, there's a chance Marathon will find success. Are you going to give Marathon a shot from 5th March? Let us know in the comments below.





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Last year, I was cautiously optimistic about this game. This year, and after 200 hours of ARC Raiders, I'm genuinely excited for Marathon.
It's Bungie, so there's always a chance they'll ruin this with microtransactions galore, but the gameplay looks damn fun.
lol, i hope this game takes off, i really do. but it just has that impending flop aura around it.
@nomither6 same and I played there last beta they did thought it looked hideous and dull
@nomither6 If do you say so yourself....
I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing how this does.
I love the art but I hope they have a beta to try it out.
Yeah I'm alright thanks. I'm not gonna bother.
Those upcoming DualSense controllers were 100% going to be for Marathon, but after the recent conreversies, they smartly pivoted the product away from Marathon lol.
Marathon has been dead in the water for some time - Bungie's brand reputation has taken too many big hits over recent years to recover with yet another entry in an already bloated live service extraction shooter space. Their good track record with gameplay mechanics isn't enough to carry this, and for me this weird neon art style is fatiguing. Probably should go free to play out of the gate and if it's fun people will stick around and buy MTX and season passes rather than a $40 cash grab from their diehard fans.
I'm curious to see if this is a success or not. I have no interest but would be pretty crazy to see it become successful after all the drama.
Preorder lol. I don't recommend anyone preorder games, but especially this one. 90%+ of games released nowadays are broken. Unless the devs polish their games the same way that Fromsoft and Nintendo do, I think it's worth it to wait. You may even get a discount by the time its playable. (Note: Nintendo polishes their games, but they charge too much for them. Say "no to $80 games)
Well, good luck to them! But I have a feeling D3 will officially be announced before the years end
$229.99 for the collectors edition no game just download code though.
I love the art style for this game but I haven't played anything Bungie since Destiny 1. I hope this does well just because of the art alone! Who knows, maybe I'll get it if they offer a beta to check out before hand. I loved the destiny multiplayer. Say what you want about Bungie on storytelling and content but you cannot knock them on multiplayer gameplay.
I think the aesthetic of this game is so cool.
This will be succesful. And I am not talking "broad". 5 million copies until year ends and 80/80+ Meta/OpenCritic.
Not having PvE is weord though.
For that price it is worth a punt and I'm happy to support Bungie with a preorder, amidst all the negativity. Their core mechanics don't miss - let's see what gameplay hooks they wrap them in.
Great trailer. I’d be all over this if it wasn’t a multiplayer game..
I assume no word on a physical copy?
Incoming flop
Despite being a long-time Battlefield player, 6 hasn’t hooked me. I absolutely love the art direction for this so feeling it might be time to try something completely different. I’ll likely pre-order on payday.
Man, I stayed the course through all the discourse and I'm so happy I did. The game felt great in the beta and alpha tests, and I am PUMPED for this to release. So glad bungie is hitting their stride in the walk-up to release. This game is going to SMACK
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?"
Remember not to preorder folks
For all the folks excited about this, I hope you enjoy it.
For everyone else including me: “Meh.”
After this and Fairgame$, the haunting is over.
Cautiously excited about this, looks good to me, curious to see the reviews for it
And the crowd goes mild!
I don’t follow any of the online multiplayer games all that much. Is there any chance this game can take off on PC but fail on PS5? I feel like these games are made for PC where you don’t have to pay extra to play online. And Sony doesn’t kill the game in 2 weeks after release.
Having Bungie attached to it should help on PC, maybe evenXbox, I just feel like the PS5 gaming community is so anti-online right now.
You'd have to be utterly braindead to pre-order this. Wait until release.
Its future is ps+. They could have got massive numbers and a huge rush of positivity around it had they released it straight to the ps+ exta service day 1 and then monetise the ***** out of the cosmetics.
Taking the money from sales now and then trying to revive it through ps+ further down the line when the initial buzz dies off is likely the safer option from a financial standpoint though.
It won't be the next Concord, it'll likely do enough to be profitable but dont see how this becomes a major success. Bungie will get this out, keep it going but quickly shift focus to the next destiny.
I'm looking forward to it. Bungie always make high quality shooters and the art style is cool. It's the business models where they tend to be suss.
Honestly it doesn’t look bad, this isn’t nowhere near as unappealing as Concord, however at $40 plus having to pay for PS+ it’s just to high of an entry barrier when lots of another options are readily available and free without mentioning MTX monetization that’s bound to happen sooner or later.
Why does it have to be another extraction shooter? Just why. I like the visual design but i just cannot get into extraction shooters. They just aren't fun for me.
The lore sounds interesting and i would try it if the game have single player campaign.
@rjejr "i just feel like the PS5 gaming community is so anti-online right now"
You only seen the minority cause games like Helldivers 2, Apex Legend, Fortnite, COD, FF XIV, or Marvel Rivals wouldn't do well on PS5 if PS5 community are so anti-online.
Even some games with online multiplayer like SF 6, Tekken 8, GT 7, or MH World / Wild have big and very active online players on PS5.
@darylb24 Well this comment didn't age well....
After being disappointed by Arc Raiders I'm hoping this is good and gets me hooked like Hunt Showdown did. Definitely putting in my pre order at the end of the month.
The game should do OK, especially after HellDivers 2 reviving the Extraction Shooter genre, theres been a surge of interest ever since.
No single player campaign, no TY.
Can’t wait.. one of the few who played the beta here. And it was actually really fun. 7 running shells to choose from.
Destroyer (tank), Assasin, Recon, Triage (medic) just a few to choose from.
I play ArcRaiders and it’s fun, Marathon plays very similar but with Bungie’s fun gunplay and it being FPS.. $40 price tag, what is there to complain about?
The lack of comments on this article I fear might reflect the enthusiasm and interest in this game; you'd expect a first party game getting a release date to have a super active comment section
So I was looking through my steam wish list last night and when I organised by top selling Marathon jumped to the top. I thought it might be a glitch but just seen on Reddit it has indeed broken into top 10 selling games. https://steamdb.info/stats/globaltopsellers/
This might not be the DoA flop everyone seems to be praying for.
I hate that Bungie are doing an extraction shooter because there is nothing out there that replaces Destiny 2, and I don't want to go back to Destiny 2 itself due to its own poor management.
@get2sammyb it is! Too bad they robbed the artist initially
I’m looking forward to the games Sony is making after Marathon, because I hope it marks the end of their live service activities.
@nomither6
Welp it is the #2 and #6 top pre order game on PlayStation right now.
And the #5 top preorder on Steam
@UltimateOtaku91 I stand by what I said.. those controllers are colour themed and art themed with in depth gradient and are coming out in March...just like marathon.The controller that they made is print on a white controller like a last minute change.
Have you seen the voice cast for this game? They were going to go way bigger but scaled back due to last years legal issues.
@Friendly I take it you also want to see an end to Nintendo and Microsoft releasing live service games?
Currently 5th best seller on the Steam store, with two free to play games and the steam deck in front of it. Seems like it's going to do just fine after all.
@SeanOhOgain Tbf most of the daily active commenters on this site don't actually like Playstation, and the ones that do most of them hate the idea of Sony making live service games.
But, it's currently the 5th top seller of steam and sitting 3rd and 4th on the PlayStation Store pre order charts. So I'd say there definitely a lot of enthusiasm for the game, just not on here.
@UltimateOtaku91 I think that most commenters don't like Playstation is wildly untrue, but that most folks here dislike PS making Live-Service? Yes, sure!
Pre-order charts on PS are opaque in terms of if they actually reflect interest or what PS want you to be interested in, but I take your point on Steam! I hope the game is successful, I love it's art direction
@logicalthinker sounds good
@UltimateOtaku91 which live service games have Nintendo and Microsoft released in the last three years? Apart from F-Zero99 and tetris99 and the ones that already were? (WoW, Minecraft, Sea of Thieves)?
They never had this massive company wide push that pushed away most creativity from their studios. I don’t recognize Sony from the PS4 days because of this push and yes, I keep mourning about that.
@Friendly For Nintendo I'd say Splatoon is a live service, so was Animal Crossing for the first year, Microsoft with the yearly Call of Duty games, the failed Redfall from guys who usually make single player games. Rare got turned into live service makers, no doubt there will be more ESO and Fallout 76 content pumped out over the next few years as well. They also turned Diablo into a live service full of ridiculous microtransaction. Sony seemed to have scaled back their live service push with their single player teams, the live service games to come like Marathon and Fairgames are from studios who haven't made any of the great single players games Sony are known for. Same can be said for the team behind Concord, they never made a game before so they took nothing away from us Playstation players. Their Horizon game seems to be the only one left that's being made by their usual single player studios.
@UltimateOtaku91 splatoon and animal crossing updates werent paid, apart from one larger dlc for ac after three years. Thus not live service.
A game every year like CoD isnt live service, though the skins etc do count which I detest. Redfall went from live service to single player, which is why it failed too (no clear direction). ESO, Fallout and Diablo were among the ones that were already live service before Microsoft bought Activision, though I’d argue Diablo IV isn’t live service anymore.
And yes, i hope that revenue model wont be focused on anymore by sony too, after marathon and fairgame$.
@Friendly Depends on the definition of live service, Genshin and other gacha games are classed as live service but their updates are free, same for HellDivers 2 and Arc Raiders. For me a game that's either paid or free that continue to get regular content updates after launch for 2+ years are a live service. Games like Gran Turismo, Monster Hunter and No Man's Sky would also fit under the live service category well. Games that stay in service by keep offering content to keep players coming back.
But I agree that I would prefer Sony and Nintendo (who predominantly do) to just focus purely on Single Player games, leave the live service to third parties to work off their IP.
@UltimateOtaku91 genshin has battle passes, boosts, etc that you can (actually have to) buy. I dont know about MH and No man’s sky, but Helldivers, GT and arc raiders also have staggered releases of micro transactions. That’s what makes it a live service game: paid, continuous and staggered releases of micro transactions and/or battle passes / boosts.
Thus no, ac and splatoon aren’t live service games. With Nintendo you mostly buy a game and thats it. They got massive flack for their dlc releases of 2025 (Donkey Kong and Pokemon) and I hope they wont lose their way too.
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