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Destiny 2

Bungie · 2019-10-01

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ActionAdventureFree To Play

Franchise: Destiny · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Oct 24, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 06, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Sep 06, 2017 (Xbox One), Dec 08, 2020 (PlayStation 5), Nov 19, 2019 (Google Stadia), Dec 08, 2020 (Xbox Series X|S)

Explore the mysteries of Sol and experience exhilirating first-person shooter combat in Destiny 2. Unlock powerful abilities and collect unique gear across story missions, co-op, and PvP modes.

Destiny 2 is an Action, Adventure and Free To Play game released in 2019, priced as free-to-play, with an estimated 20,000,000 to 50,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 660,869 reviews).

22,845
playing now
79%
positive of 662k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,724
twitch viewers (latest)
82/100
critic score (25 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (631 ratings)
84/100
opencritic · mighty · 88% recommend
5.5h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 10h
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

22,845 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Destiny 2 is a free-to-play online first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie. The sequel to 2014's Destiny and its subsequent expansions, it was originally released as a paid title in 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows before transitioning to a free-to-play live service game under the New Light title on October 1, 2019, followed by the game's release on Stadia the following month, and then PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S platforms in December 2020.

Trailer

Destiny 2 trailer thumbnail

Destiny 2 - Official Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 22,845 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 25,681 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3,210/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (84,888 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $23.45 at GamesPlanet DE (2018-07-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
78k78k20192026Week of 2019-10-01: 35,933 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10,297 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 78,187 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6,701 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 28,163 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2,955 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 12,631 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,711 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 10,489 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,832 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 13,507 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3,451 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 10,183 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2,225 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 8,659 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,867 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 11,670 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2,049 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 10,251 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,563 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 9,318 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1,583 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 8,396 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1,290 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 8,193 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,168 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 19,737 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4,037 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 10,605 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2,185 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7,296 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2,198 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 7,920 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2,462 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 7,010 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,528 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 6,432 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,543 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 8,887 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2,325 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 7,052 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1,708 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 7,192 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,708 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 9,189 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2,349 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 9,819 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2,180 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 7,845 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2,104 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 7,985 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,694 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 7,758 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,871 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6,862 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1,619 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7,865 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1,802 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 7,035 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1,961 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5,089 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,531 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5,443 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,863 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 5,077 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,560 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5,194 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,412 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6,171 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,687 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6,590 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,706 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4,380 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,552 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4,865 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,076 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4,379 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,610 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4,842 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,365 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5,827 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,287 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8,154 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2,988 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5,004 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,612 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4,444 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,561 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4,232 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3,029 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3,353 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2,182 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3,770 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2,723 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3,250 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,697 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2,841 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,336 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,430 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2,451 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3,325 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,783 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2,824 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,170 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2,245 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 930 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3,013 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,337 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3,481 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,331 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3,731 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,427 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7,394 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2,657 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3,188 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,103 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2,029 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,579 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,447 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 798 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,858 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,114 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,559 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 570 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,467 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 763 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,670 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,337 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,944 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,030 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,893 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 720 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,379 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 537 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1,840 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 908 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,410 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 771 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,717 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,311 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,491 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,129 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1,086 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3,231 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 918 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,740 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 901 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 886 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,422 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,351 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,433 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 843 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 790 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 663 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 787 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 629 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 715 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 575 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3,215 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,098 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7,895 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,269 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,415 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 581 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 537 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 143 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

38k11k2026-08-06 21:00 — 30,437 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 30,002 players2026-08-12 05:00 — 24,745 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 25,105 players2026-08-13 13:00 — 22,304 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 21,994 players2026-08-14 21:00 — 29,471 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 26,395 players2026-08-16 05:00 — 30,756 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 34,305 players2026-08-17 13:00 — 21,461 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 21,821 players2026-08-18 21:00 — 24,150 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 20,000 players2026-08-20 05:00 — 19,167 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 21,422 players2026-08-21 13:00 — 19,402 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 25,082 players2026-08-22 21:00 — 27,033 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 21,889 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 17,356 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 20,770 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 17,433 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 18,334 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 19,252 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 18,916 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 14,723 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 21,073 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 22,262 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 20,887 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 22,845 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#58#762026-08-122026-08-302026-08-12 — #582026-08-13 — #582026-08-14 — #582026-08-15 — #582026-08-16 — #582026-08-17 — #592026-08-18 — #592026-08-19 — #602026-08-20 — #602026-08-21 — #652026-08-22 — #682026-08-23 — #712026-08-24 — #712026-08-25 — #752026-08-26 — #732026-08-27 — #722026-08-28 — #722026-08-29 — #762026-08-30 — #76
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
48482026-08-152026-08-292026-08-15: 45 new positive2026-08-15: 5 new negative2026-08-16: 30 new positive2026-08-16: 8 new negative2026-08-17: 33 new positive2026-08-17: 8 new negative2026-08-18: 28 new positive2026-08-18: 6 new negative2026-08-19: 43 new positive2026-08-19: 4 new negative2026-08-21: 26 new positive2026-08-21: 1 new negative2026-08-22: 34 new positive2026-08-22: 7 new negative2026-08-23: 48 new positive2026-08-23: 13 new negative2026-08-26: 26 new positive2026-08-26: 10 new negative2026-08-27: 22 new positive2026-08-27: 4 new negative2026-08-28: 28 new positive2026-08-28: 4 new negative2026-08-29: 45 new positive2026-08-29: 6 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$0.002017-06-132026-08-262017-06-13 — best price $59.992017-06-14 — best price $57.512017-06-16 — best price $54.662017-06-30 — best price $59.992017-11-23 — best price $38.992017-11-27 — best price $49.992017-11-28 — best price $59.992017-11-30 — best price $57.402017-12-17 — best price $38.992017-12-20 — best price $45.032017-12-31 — best price $59.992018-01-08 — best price $48.152018-01-11 — best price $38.992018-01-18 — best price $59.992018-01-25 — best price $38.992018-01-29 — best price $59.992018-02-01 — best price $49.992018-02-14 — best price $38.992018-02-15 — best price $42.122018-02-22 — best price $49.142018-03-01 — best price $38.992018-03-03 — best price $49.992018-03-08 — best price $59.992018-04-12 — best price $29.992018-04-16 — best price $59.992018-04-20 — best price $31.672018-04-27 — best price $59.562018-05-30 — best price $53.992018-06-18 — best price $41.812018-07-01 — best price $59.992018-07-11 — best price $26.502018-07-17 — best price $53.992018-07-26 — best price $23.452018-08-02 — best price $29.992018-09-01 — best price $29.992019-06-07 — best price $34.992019-10-15 — best price $0.002020-09-12 — best price $33.492022-08-23 — best price $0.002026-08-26 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9.2k3852026-05-14 — 553 pageviews2026-05-17 — 385 pageviews2026-05-20 — 391 pageviews2026-05-23 — 4,972 pageviews2026-05-26 — 2,574 pageviews2026-05-29 — 1,710 pageviews2026-06-01 — 1,369 pageviews2026-06-04 — 1,483 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1,325 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3,999 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1,880 pageviews2026-06-16 — 1,547 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1,123 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1,037 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1,997 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1,168 pageviews2026-07-01 — 868 pageviews2026-07-04 — 789 pageviews2026-07-07 — 760 pageviews2026-07-10 — 770 pageviews2026-07-13 — 691 pageviews2026-07-16 — 587 pageviews2026-07-19 — 646 pageviews2026-07-22 — 617 pageviews2026-07-25 — 559 pageviews2026-07-28 — 611 pageviews2026-07-31 — 501 pageviews2026-08-03 — 570 pageviews2026-08-06 — 574 pageviews2026-08-09 — 516 pageviews2026-08-12 — 480 pageviews2026-08-15 — 492 pageviews2026-08-18 — 561 pageviews2026-08-21 — 544 pageviews2026-08-24 — 581 pageviews2026-08-25 — 541 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

4.0k7042026-08-18 17:12 — 3,996 viewers2026-08-18 22:12 — 3,229 viewers2026-08-26 19:15 — 2,336 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 1,827 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 2,661 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 2,106 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 1,072 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 1,009 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 985 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 1,204 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 1,435 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 1,407 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 2,119 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 2,038 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 1,050 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 711 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 1,042 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 1,276 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 2,013 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 1,857 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 2,134 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 2,175 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 1,173 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 922 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 853 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 1,286 viewers2026-08-29 19:35 — 1,914 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 2,370 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 2,573 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 2,466 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 1,305 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 775 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 1,034 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 1,724 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
82.5%
earned "Long and Winding Road"
17.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsIn-App PurchasesColor AlternativesCustom Volume Controls12 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)301,5324%24
Steam (Steam)206,8878%23
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)129,2486%23
PS5 (PlayStation)82,53614%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSPvEPvPLootCo-opActionMMORPGSci-fiShooterOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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