Marathon Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-11
- Strong art and visual style
- Excellent gunplay and weapon feel
- Unique extraction shooter mechanics
- Terrible UI and menus
- Extremely long matchmaking times
- Low player population and decline
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixedWindows 8-11GB VRAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 59,322
- Positive
- 46,49478.4%
- Negative
- 12,82821.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,816,560
- Estimated revenue
- $152,624,234
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3,9416.64%
- Estimated copies lost
- 253,549
- Estimated revenue lost
- $10,139,425
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3,9566.7% Avg playtime 0.9h | 4560.8% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 8,88215% Avg playtime 73.5h | 46,03677.6% Avg playtime 137.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 605.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 359.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 98 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
59,330 total
Organic purchasers41,47169.9%
Voted up: 84%
Key activations17,85930.1%
Voted up: 66%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
59,330 total
First impression0-2h7,48012.6%
Voted up: 39%
Mid game2-10h16,96828.6%
Voted up: 82%
Late game10-20h9,50416.0%
Voted up: 87%
Endgame20h+25,37842.8%
Voted up: 84%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 78.4%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 59,322 total.