
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.
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Infiltrate the dark sci-fi world of Marathon filled with rival players, enemy forces, and unpredictable dangers. Scavenge its maps alone or with a crew, then fight your way to extraction in tense, high-stakes PVP and PVE battles.
Scour dangerous locations for valuables, loot, and intel on the lost colony.
Grab gear off defeated players and enemies. Exfil successfully and fill your vault.
Complete contracts to earn rewards, upgrade your loadout, and come back stronger.
Pick a Runner shell that fits your playstyle, each with its own unique abilities.
Upgrade your loadout with an arsenal of moddable weapons and customizable abilities.
Craft countless builds, from stealthy infiltrators to frontline bruisers and support specialists.
Crew up in groups of two or three or take on Tau Ceti alone.
Form cautious alliances balanced on a knife’s edge. Make a deal with enemy players or betray their trust for your own gain.
Play as Rook, a lone scavenger with nothing to lose except what you find along the way.
Grow stronger throughout the course of the season and put your best loot on the line to earn incredible rewards.
Climb the ladder and prove you’re a top Runner in Ranked mode.
Enter Cryo Archive to crack raid-like challenges, solve layered puzzles, and clash with rival crews for top-tier loot.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Japanese*, Korean*, Polish*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese*, Spanish - Latin America* +1 more
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Hours played at review time, across 709 reviews with recorded playtime.
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genuinely ♥♥♥ if u come in with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ free kits andd lowest inventories no shields
c'est la première fois que je laisse un avis sur steam. - Marathon est une pépite ,LORE incroyable ,DA trop bien si vous aimez bien un peu l'univers cyberpunk gameplay et difficulté au rendez vous. une fois les premières heures de découverte passer , c'est que du bonheur .
Игра отличная, но спавны двух команд в радиусе 50-100 метров заставляю меня ставить негативный отзыв
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.
Very enjoyable for the time that I played. The PvE is actually challenging. Winning a fight feels very rewarding. The story and characters are also super fun.
Genuinely a blast of fun to play. I've had some experience with extraction shooters, mostly with Tarkov. Marathon seems more light and just fun to play around since the gunplay feels extremely good. Dying doesn't feel that bad comparatively to other games, back to lobby grab a sponsored kit and go back in simple as. Craziest runs have been with a free sponsored kit, it's just all about the chance encounters. Have had friendly encounters and shoot on sight encounters, tight encounters and one-sided encounters. ALSO the level up system is the absolutely amazing, an incredible way to use and sacrifice items for permanent bonuses. Surprisingly fun even to solo, with my playstyle I actually prefer to go solo in trios, there is a high chance of rat and rat related gameplay. Finding bodies and looting them then scurrying away with the left overs, top find was a 3k worth kitted out sniper. Other than fun gameplay the setting of the game is quite something, lore is perhaps even too strong in places. Maps differ greatly in how they look and play, my favourite is Dire Marsh at night. Incredibly spooky and atmospheric with some hallucations thrown in. Also extremely limited visibility is top tier for rat gameplay to scurry in the dark. So even if you are Solo, Duo or Trio I can recommend Marathon to any who like fps and extraction shooter elements. A banger of a game, thanks to Bungie for making it.
Had a lot of fun with this on release but struggled to stick with it. If you like extraction games, you are going to like Marathon, and in that case I recommend the game. However, while the extraction aspects are appealing and the narrative elements are good, Marathon fails to keep me gripped by not catering well to the games I typically like to play - games I can play with my friends, without sweating my balls off that some stacked-up rando is trying to dome me from halfway across the map. Marathon is a far cry from what Bungie is known for, and I'd like to have seen more of that. More PvP aspects or game modes, a singleplayer or co-op campaign, and a stronger central narrative, would have done well to keep me engaged with Marathon far longer than I was. I would have liked to have seen more of a Halo approach to the game overall, instead of something firmly held back by its genre. Extraction is a genre I like to dip my toes into with friends while we do other things - in the same way that one might jump into Slayer in Halo every so often, taking a break from their Reach campaign run-through. I don't really want to play a game where the only thing I can do is repeat something I've done hundreds of times already, in the same environments, against people with more time on their hands to excel. It's not for me - but it's still a solid game, so it might be for you.
In short: Great game and I cant wait to see what's next. Do not believe what's online this is a great game and for 40 bucks and getting free additional content in a world of AAA 80 to 100 dollar games. I think your money will be spent well. Look Season 1 was a lot a struggle for a guy who mostly plays alone. Season 2 has had its ups and downs but Solo was implemented and has been a blast especially Dire Marsh Night. I have not done the end game as I have been trying to learn it via videos but its not a solo game mode and makes sense. But mid season they are helping with that problem with end game having a PvE mode. I would say overtime things will get better, marathon is a blast and I think it will become a great game. But I want to enjoy this till the very end. Hopefully as long as Destiny 2. Hell I am looking at the statue bundle. Read the codex as a book, hear the audio logs and what the factions are saying, watch YT vids about the lore. Tau Ceti has layers of events you might be interested. What I am trying to say is this game rewards learning the map, hearing movement and noise and your aim. Also if you are a rook don't kill other rooks. Work together.
+ aesthetics + atmosphere + lore + maps + missions/contracts + factions/leveling + controller support + performance + inventory management + sponsored kits + still fun even though I’m a casual player and prefer playing solo + community (I get a kick out of Destiny players’ blind hate) - long-term support is uncertain - queue times are slow but acceptable - occasional high-ping matches - high CPU utilization in the menus… like, why?
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
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