Marathon Is A Thrilling Shooter With A Big Onboarding Problem
Kotaku | 01.03.2026 21:22Marathon is brutal. That’s kind of the point. You play a futuristic gig economy worker paid by cyberpunk corpos who’s repeatedly getting murdered as you scavenge a dangerous, abandoned space colony for valuable gear, tech, and data. In a single-player game these vibes could be hitched to a meticulously calibrated campaign where every moment is carefully designed, engineered, and tested to keep things ultra-tense without repeatedly kicking the player’s teeth in. That’s a lot harder in a multiplayer game where every level comes with up to 18 super-sized human variables.
