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Marathon The Game | Reddit. r/Marathon is a video game subreddit about Marathon, Bungie's first First Person Shooter Trilogy and its Extraction Shooter Revival. Founded 2008 · 174.6K members

175.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.4K upvotes, which works out to 59 per 1,000 members.

59peak upvotes per 1,000 members
175.8Kmembers
10.4Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
569posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

35% 31% 16% 11%
Text 35% Image 31% Video 16% Question 11% Gallery 7% Link 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

:M2026:Marathon (2026) Discussion 135 :M2026: Marathon (2026) 119 :M2026:Marathon (2026) Feedback 44 Humor 38 Fan Art/Fan Creation 20 Media Post 13 Discussion 12 Question 9 Misc 9 :M2026: To The Runner I Met 9

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Just had a game where the whole map was friendly and we all extracted together

↑ 10.4K 💬 940 gallery 2026

I made a classic PS1 style Marathon cd case

↑ 9.2K 💬 321 gallery 2026

Please add duos

↑ 8.5K 💬 418 text 2026

Marathon's Battlepass is the worst value for your money I've ever seen (especially for a paid product)

↑ 7.2K 💬 1.6K text 2026

Me when I see a datacard during the team firefight

↑ 7.1K 💬 123 image 2026

Props to the Marathon Community Manager 😂

↑ 7K 💬 156 image 2026

Answering some common complaints

↑ 6.6K 💬 1.5K gallery 2026

Marathon might be the first game that actually forces you to get over gear fear.

↑ 6.5K 💬 1.1K image 2026

Did my first Half-Marathon today!

↑ 6.5K 💬 189 image 2026

New map leak

↑ 6.5K 💬 107 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Marathon, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Marathon?
r/Marathon ("Marathon The Game | Reddit") describes itself this way: r/Marathon is a video game subreddit about Marathon, Bungie's first First Person Shooter Trilogy and its Extraction Shooter Revival. It was founded in 2008 and has 174.6K members.
How many members does r/Marathon have?
r/Marathon has about 175.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 569 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.4K upvotes, which is 59 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Marathon?
"Just had a game where the whole map was friendly and we all extracted together" reached 10.4K upvotes and 940 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Marathon.
What subreddits are similar to r/Marathon?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/Marathon?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are text posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Marathon?
Across 569 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 21:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Marathon?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Marathon has 5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 48 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Marathon, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.