In the intervening months, another extraction shooter called Arc Raiders was released to acclaim and gigantic sales. Photograph: Bungie/SonyMarathon’s gameplay loop is relentless and frequently demoralising, certainly more so than its extraction shooter rival Arc Raiders. The genius of Arc Raiders lies in how it facilitates different, broader tones of drama, particularly during encounters with other humans. If you’re new to the extraction shooter genre, the question is whether you’ll become fatigued with such a dog-eat-dog experience. Like the social deduction game Among Us did during the paranoid pandemic years, it mirrors the times that produced it.

Source: The Times March 13, 2026 04:01 UTC