Almost three years have passed since Bungie, the maker of Destiny (and a Sony subsidiary), officially announced plans to revive the celebrated Marathon FPS franchise. And it’s been about seven months since the originally announced September 23, 2025 release date was indefinitely delayed after reports of a disappointing response to the game’s first Alpha test.
Today, in a post on the PlayStation Blog, Bungie confirmed the new Marathon will arrive on PS5, Windows, and Xbox Series X|S on March 5, tightening the broader March release window that was announced in December.
Today’s pre-order trailer revealing the Marathon release date.
Unlike Destiny 2, which switched to a free-to-play model in 2019, the new Marathon carries a $40 Standard Edition price, or $60 for a Deluxe Edition that includes digital bonuses and cosmetics. That parallels the pricing of the somewhat similar Arc Raiders, which recently reached 12 million sales in under 12 weeks.
A different take on Marathon
Departing from the original Marathon trilogy on ’90s Macintosh—which largely mirrored the single-player corridor campaigns and deathmatch multiplayer of the original Doom—the new Marathon is billed as a “PvPvE survival extraction shooter.” That denotes gameplay focused on exploring distinct zones and scavenging cosmetics and gear upgrades during missions played solo or with up to two friends, only for those missions to “erupt into fast-paced PvP combat” at a moment’s notice, according to the game’s official description.
