Everything You Need to Know About Marathon

After a long wait, Bungie's Marathon is finally here. It's an online-only, first-person sci-fi extraction shooter and a sequel to Bungie's 90s Marathon trilogy—though you don't have to play the older games to jump in. The original trilogy is available free on Steam if you want the backstory.

Marathon launched on March 5 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. The base game costs $40 and supports crossplay and cross-progression; you can link accounts, as with Destiny 2, to move between platforms and play with friends. Progress from the Server Slam open beta does not carry over—loot and progress earned there were wiped.

The game runs on roughly three-month seasons. Each season has a theme and adds new content like runners, guns, and levels, but every season ends with a big wipe. During those wipes players lose gear in their vault and backpack and all quest and faction progress; cosmetics and codex entries unlocked via challenges are kept.

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