Marathon’s System Requirements Aim to Uphold One of 2025’s Top PC Gaming Trends: Excellent Performance with Minimal Specs

Details about Marathon are coming in rapidly: recently, an Xbox store listing inadvertently revealed the release date as March 5, a fact that Sony swiftly confirmed. Following that, Bungie announced an impressive voice cast for the game, featuring notable talent from various prominent titles over the past decade.

Now, an update on the extraction shooter’s Steam page has disclosed both minimum and recommended system specifications. Bungie appears to be aligning with one of last year’s most appreciated trends—keeping system requirements low while delivering substantial performance.

Minimum System Requirements

The minimum specifications for Marathon include:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 64-bit (latest Service Pack)
• Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (4 GB) / Intel Arc A580 (8 GB, with ReBAR enabled)
• DirectX: Version 12
• Network: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended System Requirements

The recommended specifications are as follows:

What stands out immediately is the resemblance to the minimum specifications for Arc Raiders, although Marathon’s requirements are even less taxing in certain aspects. The Intel Core i5 6600K CPU, a quad-core 3.9 GHz processor launched ten years ago, is also the minimum requirement for Arc. Similarly, the GTX 1050 Ti debuted a decade ago and was considered budget-friendly even at that time, also serving as the minimum for Arc. Notably, Marathon demands just 8 GB of RAM, which is lower than Arc’s minimum of 12 GB.

Even when examining the recommended specifications, nothing appears particularly demanding. The GTX 2060 is classified by our hardware team as a