Bungie Returns To The Marathon Franchise For Their Latest Game

During PlayStation Showcase 2023, Bungie announced their first completely new project in more than a decade: Marathon. It’s a sci-fi PvP extraction shooter, where players engage one another as cybernetic mercenaries known as Runners, exploring a lost colony on the planet of Tau Ceti IV in search of riches, fame, and infamy.

Marathon is designed from the start as a PvP-focused game and won’t have a single-player campaign. Instead, with the PvP experience as our foundation, we’re creating opportunities for player-driven stories to unfold, stories that are integrated with the overarching game narrative. We’re building a world full of persistent, evolving zones, where players create their own journey with every run they take. That might mean an unforgettable firefight against another crew vying for the same loot, or a last-second extraction while beset on all sides.

The Marathon franchise is an established one and was previously developed by Bungie before Halo and Destiny. There were three games in the series, including Marathon (1994), Marathon 2 Durandal (1995), and Marathon Infinity (1996).

Marathon is being developed for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC but there is currently no release date or release window yet.

Check out the trailer below: