Marathon’s release has been delayed

Bungie and Sony have announced that their upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon, won’t come out on September 23, 2025, after all. The game planned for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S does not have an alternative release date yet, though the developer is targeting an announcement in Fall 2025.

Bungie reasoned that the game needs more development time in light of community feedback and reactions to early tests and reveals.

“Thank you not only for your passionate feedback around the Marathon reveal and Alpha playtest, but also for your patience while we took the time to listen closely and chart our next steps,” the studio stated. “Through every comment and real-time conversation on social media and Discord, your voice has been strong and clear. We've taken this to heart, and we know we need more time to craft Marathon into the game that truly reflects your passion. After much discussion within our Dev team, we’ve made the decision to delay the September 23rd release.”

The statement continued: “The Alpha test created an opportunity for us to calibrate and focus the game on what will make it uniquely compelling — survival under pressure, mystery and lore around every corner, raid-like endgame challenges, and Bungie’s genre-defining FPS combat. We’re using this time to empower the team to create the intense, high-stakes experience that a title like Marathon is built around. This means deepening the relationship between the developers and the game’s most important voices: our players. Over the next few months, we’ll continue closed testing(including participants from the Alpha) to deploy gameplay updates and test new features as they come online.”

Bungie wants to tackle several areas of feedback over the coming months, spread over three areas: Enhancing the stakes, deepening world-building, and adding social experiences.

This includes a more challenging AI, more varied loot and better rewards, more intense combat, increased visual fidelity, more narrative elements and environmental storytelling, a darker tone that’s more in line with the original universe, better player experience for solo and duo runs, and proximity chat.

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