Seven months after the release of The Edge of Fate expansion, Destiny 2 is sitting at a historic low. According to SteamDB data, the game is now peaking at fewer than 10,000 concurrent players on Steam on any given night. It’s a 91% collapse from the roughly 108,000 who logged on during the expansion’s launch week in July 2025. Zoom out further, to the all-time peak during The Final Shape’s launch in June 2024 (314,634 concurrent players), and the total decline reaches a staggering 97%.
For a single-player game, numbers like these would mean nothing. For a live-service title built entirely around an active, engaged community — one that needs players to fill raids, trials brackets, and matchmade activities — they are close to catastrophic.
The Edge of Fate
Destiny 2 spent nearly a decade building toward The Final Shape, the expansion that wrapped up the Light and Darkness Saga that began in 2014. It was a creative and commercial triumph. Players who had invested years in the story got a satisfying conclusion. Bungie had delivered