Before The Final Shape gets here, let’s rank every Destiny 2 expansion
Over the years, Bungie’s seminal live-service FPS Destiny 2 has received no less than seven major pieces of post-launch DLC, with at least one more – The Final Shape – due to come out next year, in 2024. But which of those was good? Which of them was bad? Why is 2023’s Lightfall sitting at an ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ review rating on Steam? And why did the game lose massive batches of content in the years prior? One thing is for sure: Destiny 2‘s history is remarkably complex and storied, and this article aims to look at it with a specific objective in mind: ranking all Destiny 2 expansions.
As is usually the case with ranked game lists, this one, too, is at least somewhat subjective to some extent. That being said, we did take into account the DLCs’ respective Metacritic scores, the critical coverage provided by Destructoid reviewers – where applicable – and the community’s own opinions. With all that research in mind, this list should resonate with newcomers and Destiny 2 veterans alike!
Certainly, large batches of this list can be disputed due to differences in opinions, depending on which aspect of a DLC is most important to a given player. Destiny 2 veterans who jumped into the Curse of Osiris DLC on launch day will almost certainly agree, however, that this is the worst mainline DLC the game’s ever received. Infamously, its humble Raid Lair was the only bright spot of the whole DLC, having been shipped with a short and grindy campaign and very little in the way of loot. It was an impressively poor showing, with a User Score of 1.8/10 on Metacritic.
The Beyond Light DLC may have introduced the first Darkness power – Stasis – and a long-anticipated trip into the infamous Deep Stone Crypt, but its biggest point of
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