Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux

By Liam Dawe - 20 Jan 2026 at 1:13 pm UTC

Halo and Destiny developer Bungie confirmed that Marathon will be launching March 5th, but it will most likely be unplayable on SteamOS Linux.

Bungie still have Destiny 2 completely blocked on all Linux platforms, something they have refused to budge on. So we're likely to be in the same position across all Linux platforms for Marathon too. They use BattlEye, which can be enabled for Linux - but they choose not to. This will be a recurring problem for the upcoming Steam Machine from Valve.

I've emailed the various different press teams working for Bungie multiple times to see if we could get a statement — none have replied to GamingOnLinux.

Since the pre-orders went up, Marathon has already become one of the top-selling items on Steam.

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Durandal 3 hours ago

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Good.

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Pyrate 3 hours ago

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Fuck. Bungie.

The good thing here is this plagiarising piece of trash is likely to fail miserably.

I wouldn't be surprised actually if, out of desperation, they enabled Linux support for the brownie points.

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