Marathon

This game goooood, stabbing people goooood

Great gunplay, some of the most beautifully inspired aesthetics in a game I've ever seen and a genuinely fun gameplay loop andddd its dead... matchmaking doesn't exist and having premade for endgame activities isn't a suggestion, it's a requirement. You will go against team after team of pinnacle gear players who farm you like npcs while your drooling troglodyte teammates are learning how to use wasd. The current meta is wiping the entire lobby as it's the best way to guarantee no interruptions for the actually pretty fun ingame activities, but this means you either are losing your gear within seconds or making a fat bag. Which brings us to this point: This is barely even an extraction game, at this point with movement, hero abilities and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ meta, this is a battle royale with extra steps. The only solve for this is more players to widen the gap but that ship has sailed, if you think you are above it, by all means give it a shot there will be a ton of fun in there if you can grit your teeth. But I'm putting money that you'll most likely be joining the 93% of players that gave it a shot and left (Actual statistic btw). All there is now just a sad husk of an amazing game.

The art style is horrible, too few maps, becomes boring fast, some shells are broken as fk , especially in solo, btw the game is NOT made for solo, weapons would be pretty cool but the art style sucks big time , shooting feels fine because it s Bungie. So, besides weapons, everything else is mid at best .

-still runs bad 3 months after launch, cpu bottlenecked because of terrible multi thread use -worst movement of any fps I've ever played, took the floatiness of the finals and combined it with the sluggishness of valorant. If it's supposed to feel like you're knee deep in mud the whole time, they succeeded -I've seen so much praise for "bungie gunplay" being super good in this game and I don't agree. It's not horrible, but it is not the shining star people make it out to be. The guns feel clunky, input laggy and slow, theres bullet magnetism, and the targets you're shooting at don't move in interesting ways. This combined with the abysmally low side strafe speed makes gunfights feel incredibly unskillful -nade spam slop ZZZ -gorgeous art style, I really love how it feels to be in the world -there's a shell of something good here, but it does feel like I wasted my money and attention

best game of 2026... but not enough players cuz of hate from big time streamers and destiny players... a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tragedy

I wanted to like Marathon. Instead, it feels like the game is actively conducting an experiment to see how much emotional damage one person can take before uninstalling. Let's start with the free kits. Who looked at the starter loadout and said, "You know what new players need? Half-broken shields and depleted medkits." Why are the shields and medkits already depleted? Who's using my supplies before I spawn? Nothing says "welcome to Marathon" quite like spawning in with equipment that looks like someone else already lost with it. You survive one fight, use your already-half-empty healing supplies, and now you're roaming the map held together by hopes, dreams, and a single ibuprofen. Just give us normal healing supplies FFS. Then you hear footsteps. Fantastic. The PvP is fine. But why can't we have Duo lobbies? Hunt: Showdown did it, there's no excuse. yes, you can just queue for a random if you're only playing with 1 other buddy but half the time your random is sprinting straight at a full squad like he's the main character, immediately gets vaporized, and then I'm somehow expected to clutch a 2v3 that became a 2v17 because he alerted every NPC on the map.

genuinely ♥♥♥ if u come in with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ free kits andd lowest inventories no shields

The game is underrated. It's good, really good. I guess for everyone who gives it a try

Sux

play it after a years, maybe the servers will be better, ladders will work, i might be able to play in the region of my choice, wont grief my friends experience by disconnecting Pros - game feels great when that doesnt happen to me