Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is a free-to-play online first-person shooter and action role-playing game developed by Bungie and originally published by Activision for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows in 2017. After Bungie ended its publishing agreement with Activision in 2019, it assumed publishing duties and moved the PC version to Steam. The game's central setting is a solar system reshaped after humanity encountered the Traveler, a celestial entity that grants its chosen defenders, called Guardians, the Light. Players create a Guardian and begin after the Red Legion, led by Dominus Ghaul, captures the Traveler and occupies the Last City on Earth.

The original campaign, Red War, has the player recover the Light by visiting Titan, Nessus, Io, and Earth's European Dead Zone. With help from Vanguard leaders Zavala, Ikora Rey, and Cayde-6, the Guardian rallies resistance forces and ultimately defeats Ghaul after he claims the Light for himself. Bungie later removed the campaign from the live game through the Destiny Content Vault, a system introduced with Beyond Light in 2020. The same process vaulted destinations including Titan, Io, Mercury, Mars, and the Leviathan raid space. This unusual approach means Destiny 2's current story cannot be experienced in its original release sequence.

Major expansions have repeatedly changed Destiny 2's narrative and systems. Forsaken, released in 2018, begins with the death of Cayde-6, the Exo Hunter Vanguard, during a prison break at the Reef's Prison of Elders. Its campaign sends Guardians after Uldren Sov and the Scorn, and it added the Dreaming City, an endgame destination caught in a time loop. Shadowkeep returned players to the Moon in 2019, while Beyond Light brought Europa, Stasis subclasses, and the Deep Stone Crypt raid. The Witch Queen introduced Savathun's Throne World and the Glaive weapon type in 2022, alongside a campaign notable for Legendary difficulty.

Lightfall launched in 2023, taking Guardians to the hidden Neptunian city of Neomuna and introducing Strand, a darkness-based power focused on manipulating psychic threads. The campaign features Calus as a Disciple of the Witness, the being revealed as the principal force behind the Black Fleet. In June 2024, The Final Shape concluded Destiny 2's "Light and Darkness Saga" by sending players inside the Traveler to confront the Witness in the Pale Heart. Its raid, Salvation's Edge, was completed first by Fireteam Parabellum during the World First race. Destiny 2's seasonal model was replaced by Episodes after expansion, beginning with Echoes.