Marathon Online Playtest on Steam Drops Over 50% a Day After Launch

There is still some interest in the Bungie project.

Before the release of Marathon, the developers launched a playtest. Bungie's extraction shooter was able to attract the attention of players, but it seems that there are some difficulties with retaining the audience.

The peak online of the Marathon playtest reached 143 thousand players. However, it soon fell by more than 50% — to 74.9 thousand users.

For comparison, here is what the Arc Raiders playtest graph looked like in October. Back then, the number of players also decreased, but not as sharply.

October 17 (Friday) the peak was at the level of 189 thousand players, October 18 — 185 thousand, and 19 — 148 thousand.