What you need to know
- After falling to a new all-time low player count in November 2023, Destiny 2 has begun to go through a large resurgence in recent weeks.
- The game has averaged around 100,000 concurrent players on Steam during peak gaming hours since early April, and it's currently in first place on Steam's Top Sellers chart. It's also the 12th most-played game on Xbox right now, according to Microsoft data.
- The space fantasy shooter's comeback can largely be attributed to the excellence of the free and content-rich midseason Into the Light update, as well as hype for all the exciting additions and changes coming when The Final Shape launches next week on June 4.
- Some of these include the impressive Prismatic subclass that will allow players to wield and combine abilities from multiple different Light and Darkness subclasses, new Aspects and Supers for buildcrafting, and a number of tweaks that will significantly lower the barrier to entry for new and inexperienced Guardians.
