Issues are formally wanting higher for Marathon. The sport’s Server Slam, basically an open beta that’s freely out there in every single place, has kicked off. That is the final probability for anybody interested by Bungie’s subsequent large recreation to play it earlier than it formally goes on sale subsequent week.
Contemplating how unpopular the sport has been all through its improvement, and judging by the suggestions from earlier closed beta checks, the turnout for the Server Slam is certainly encouraging.
The Marathon Server Slam has been on-line for slightly over 12 hours on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X/S. Solely a type of platforms shares participant numbers, after all, however it’s sufficient to supply some visibility into how fashionable the check has been.
Instantly after servers went stay, Marathon shot up the Steam most performed charts. The sport rapidly achieved a peak of 143,621 concurrent gamers (by way of SteamDB), which could be very respectable. Provided that the Server Slam will probably be out there for your complete weekend, there’s each probability the numbers will go up.
These figures are significantly encouraging while you take a look at Arc Raiders, the present high canine within the extraction shooter area, and the sport that stole Marathon’s thunder final yr when the 2 of them had been being promoted by their publishers. Marathon, after all, bought delayed out of 2025, which allowed Arc Raiders to launch first. It, after all, ended up proving that extraction shooters might be mainstream hits.
Like Marathon, Arc Raiders hosted its personal server slam only a few days earlier than its launch. That open check attracted 189,668 concurrent gamers at its peak, which isn’t that far off from Marathon’s to date.
Assuming optimistic phrase of mouth continues, extra gamers are sure to leap in over the weekend and maybe get Marathon to match and even exceed Arc Raiders’ file. At any price, that is excellent news for beleaguered Bungie and factors to what could possibly be an enormous launch.
Marathon arrives March 5 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
