There’s no denying that Marathon is being held under a microscope at the moment, as for whatever reason, many gamers seem determined to see the game fail. Its Steam player count is watched like a hawk ...

I put about 30 hours into Marathon since it came out. I learned a lot about the game and the extraction shooter genre. There are a ton of reasons to love this game, from its amazing and visually ...

Bungie’s new extraction shooter feels decidedly unwelcoming to newcomers, but for those who persevere, an excellent game is waiting on the other side. Marathon is a tactical, extraction-based PvPvE ...

Marathon is a sci-fi extraction shooter with some bite. Bungie has a lot riding on the success of its latest game, Marathon. The sci-fi extraction shooter is a reboot of the studio’s 1994 game ...

About three weeks ago, I shared my first impressions of Marathon. After about 15 hours with Bungie's ambitious extraction shooter, I was very pleasantly surprised with the game. Marathon's gunplay and ...

Marathon is a fitting name, as trying to get good at this game feels like just that: A Marathon. Run after run, I started to notice that Marathon does indeed feel like a marathon, and it’s brutal.

Marathon is a testament to the fact that Bungie still has it. What “it” is, is the studio’s ability to deliver a video game dripping with unique vibes, gunplay that is simply unmatched in the ...

Three bags of loot, flanked by the bio-synthetic corpses of their previous owners and pools of blue blood. The scene of my murderous victory. Their weapons, implants, heals, and salvage are all mine.

Shane Limbaugh is a Contributor at DualShockers who began covering games professionally in 2025. A longtime gamer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Design and Criticism, Shane brings a design-focused ...

From ARC Raiders to Escape From Duckov, extraction shooters seem to be enjoying something of a renaissance right now, to the delight of FPS fans like myself. But of all the newcomers to that space, ...