Marathon already feels like the scariest game of 2026

Marathon is the kind of game where you can be creeping around a quiet, decrepit little outpost looking for a bit of unstable biomass when all of a sudden, a ventilation shaft cover bursts open and a robot pops out and stabs you to death. All those great guns you had and other upgrades and loot you’d collected on this run? Gone forever. It hurts. That’s also one of the biggest reasons why Marathon feels like the scariest game I’ve played in a long time.