Marathon

Continues the three-month seasonal model, featuring a full progression wipe. Bungie says Season 5 is intended to bring the PV(P)VE play ecosystem together and evolve Marathon's sci-fi world in new ways.

Continues the three-month seasonal model, featuring a full progression wipe. Bungie says Season 4 is focused on building more depth into the existing extraction loop.

Bungie says Season 3 begins on September 22 and brings big changes to the early game experience, including a Perimeter revamp with major new areas, encounters, and gameplay. It also introduces a new Runner shell, new weapons and equipment, and other content.

Season 2: NIGHTFALL begins on June 2 and brings the new Night Marsh zone, the new Sentinel Runner shell, new weapons and equipment, The Cradle system for Runner shell stat customization, faster faction progression, a Duos rotating zone queue, matchmaking changes, Vault expansion, and PVE/PVP-lite experimental modes. Bungie says the July 21 mid-season update adds Vault Breaker, an experimental PVE mode in Cryo Archive, the first Cradle Evolution system iteration, player profile stats, and other tuning and quality-of-life changes.

Official launch season. Bungie announced Marathon releases on March 5, 2026 on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, with cross-play and cross-save. Features the Cryo Archive end-game zone and a competitive ranked mode.

Public pre-launch Server Slam playtest window announced by Bungie, including launch-linked rewards. General in-game progression does not carry over to release.