Classic Marathon 2

Classic Marathon 2

Released Jul 2024

From the team that brought you Aleph One, the classic sci-fi FPS Marathon 2: Durandal from Bungie on Mac revived for modern hardware by the fan community.

91% positive · 420 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Classic Marathon 2 is a fan-community revival of the 1995 Bungie FPS Marathon 2: Durandal, made available on Steam on July 12, 2024 as a free-to-play title. The game's content — levels, story, enemies, weapons — is the original 1995 release, and the only DLC (an XBLA Graphics Pack) shipped on the same day as the Steam launch. The fan developers behind the Aleph One engine continue to release periodic updates to the engine itself, improving compatibility and fixing bugs. The most recent updates were a beta announcement on August 8, 2025, a full engine release (Aleph One 1.11) on August 29, 2025 adding Linux support and audio improvements, and a bug fix release (1.10.1) on March 3, 2025. These are engine/technical updates — not new game content — focused on platform support, audio fidelity, and stability. No new game content has been announced or implied. The game launched as a preservation and modernization of a complete, decades-old title, and there is no roadmap or indication of additional story content, DLC, or expansions. The ongoing engine patches reflect the open-source community's continued maintenance work rather than content development.
Evidence
Store description confirms this is a fan community revival of the original 1995 Bungie game, powered by the open-source Aleph One engine. No new content is implied beyond modernization features.
description · Jul 12, 2024 source ambiguous
medium
The only DLC, an XBLA Graphics Pack, was released on launch day. No unreleased DLC exists.
dlc listing · Jul 12, 2024 source content shipped
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Aleph One Developers
Achievements
12
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP

About this game

Fresh from your triumph on the colony ship Marathon, you are seized by the rogue AI Durandal to do his bidding in a distant part of the galaxy. Within the ruins of an ancient civilization, you must seek the remnants of a lost clan and uncover their long-buried secrets. Battle opponents ancient and terrible, with sophisticated weapons and devious strategies, all the while struggling to escape the alien nightmare…

This classic 1995 Bungie™ FPS is now maintained by the fan community. Experience authentic game play using the original data files, with optional widescreen HUD support, 3D filtering/perspective, positional audio, and 60+ fps interpolation, just in case the original is too authentic.

Classic Marathon 2 is powered by the Aleph One engine, which is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3.
Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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