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Action-focused Destiny 2 pairs Bungie development and publishing in a 2019 release. On Steam it has 137,162 reviews with 78% positive, a mostly positive signal for players comparing self-published action games.
Overview
Destiny 2 is a 2019 Action game developed by Bungie and published by Bungie. On Steam it has gathered 137,456 player reviews, 78% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Bungie with publisher Bungie is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.4 million to 12.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Destiny 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
137,456
Positive
78%
Steam appid
1085660
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.05.4M to 12.5M
units (median: 8.9M)
≈ $45.9M to $107.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_78% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Destiny 2 at roughly 5.4 million to 12.5 million copies, with a median around 8.9 million, derived from its 137,456 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $76.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.54Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.54 to $19.99, averaging $19.18 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.54 on 2026-04-05.
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Destiny 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Destiny 2 has sold between 5,360,784 and 12,508,496 units (median 8,934,640), derived from its 137,456 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Destiny 2?
- Destiny 2 was developed by Bungie and published by Bungie.
- When was Destiny 2 released?
- Destiny 2 was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Destiny 2 have on Steam?
- Destiny 2 has 137,456 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Destiny 2 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Bungie's other releases and Bungie's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Destiny 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Destiny 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.