Destiny 2's final update draws over 164,000 players on Steam

It's the day of Destiny 2's final live service update, and players have swarmed into the shooter to celebrate the game and make their demands for Destiny 3 known. With a peak of over 164,000 Steam concurrents so far today (via SteamDB), Destiny 2 is more active right now than it has been since Episode: Echoes launched in June 2024.

The biggest peak between then and now came with the launch of the Edge of Fate expansion in July 2025, which reached 108,000 Steam concurrents. That number quickly dissipated, and in April of this year, the shooter didn't break 13,000. Edge of Fate was a real low point for the game.

Phil Savage wrote in his 54% Edge of Fate review that Destiny 2 had become "worse to play in almost every way." Tim Clark wrote, "I have never known a Destiny 2 expansion with as many problems as Edge of Fate, and I'm worried the game may not survive them." The news of Destiny 2's demise has injected the scene with new energy.

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