Destiny 2 remained one of Steam’s top sellers in 2023, despite massively missing revenue projections

Bungie laid off eight percent of its staff in October, and the blame was laid squarely at the feet of weak player retention and yearly revenue that missed projections by 45 percent. Yet as Steam’s top sellers of 2023 surprisingly reveal, Destiny 2 is still making a lot of money.

In Steam’s best of 2023 rankings, Destiny 2 was listed as one of the platform’s platinum sellers, putting it in the top 12 of games overall when it comes to gross revenue. It’s a spot Destiny 2 has now held for three years running. While Steam lists the 12 games in a random order, making it hard to gauge the intricacies between Destiny 2’s performance year-on-year, it makes the statistics around its missed revenue projections all the more baffling.