It’s been a hard time for Destiny 2 over the last few years. The Lightfall expansion which was intended to be the start of a dramatic and exciting conclusion for the game’s primary ‘Light and Dark’ saga was a let down for fans, which led to lesser engagement during the finale of The Final Shape. Now the main story is over, and a new one begins with The Edge of Fate, but audiences are seemingly turning their backs on the looter-shooter, as Destiny 2 just hit its lowest ever Steam player count.
The data comes from Steam Charts, which tracks the average player counts per month of any active Steam release. Destiny 2 was already off to a rough start when The Edge of Fate released to barely a third of the active 300,000+ players that usually show up for a Destiny 2 expansion launch, but the last 30 days have seen a new low. In the last month, Destiny 2 had an average of 18,074 players – that’s the worst of any recording thus far on Steam Charts, falling even further below January’s 18,542 average player count.
This number will surely rise again in December with the release of the Star Wars-themed Renegades expansion, but how fans actually will receive the DLC is another matter entirely. Along with the falling player count, the recent reviews on Destiny 2 are far lower than the all-time ones which are ‘Mostly Positive’, with only 24% of reviews in the last 30 days being positive. That puts the game in ‘Mostly Negative’ territory, with the current most helpful recent review reading “you can do better; save your money, life & sanity and play LITERALLY anything else”.
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