Destiny 2’s Steam player count nearly doubled with Guardian Games, but it’s still depressingly low

Any developer would be happy to see the player count for one of its games double, and with Guardian Games, Bungie stumbled upon that scenario. This would have been amazing news for Destiny 2—if it weren't so sad.

The release of Guardian Games 2026 pushed Destiny 2's Steam player count to the peak of 14,030 players when it launched on Tuesday. It's a vast improvement over the 7,933 guardians Steamcharts recorded the day before. Popularity.report points out it had 205,177 unique players yesterday, up from 161,129 on Monday.