"It's a marathon, not a race," is the old saying to get across that sometimes success comes slowly. Bungie's Marathon is ignoring its namesake and sprinting across the starting line as Steam's best-selling new game.
The storied studio behind Halo and Destiny is prepping to launch its first-ever extraction shooter in mere hours, and it's already poised quite nicely for success. Marathon's pre-order currently sits at second place on Steam's Top Sellers chart that ranks games based on revenue generated. Entirely fuelled by microtransactions, Counter-Strike 2 is the only game above it, but as far as premium game sales go, Marathon is effectively on top and has dethroned Resident Evil Requiem's week-long reign.
