Although only a few chapters ofDestiny 2’s decade-long narrative saga are available to players in 2025, Bungie has made all the game’s available expansions free to all players for a limited time ahead of theEdge of FateDLC launch later this month. It’s not unusual for many players less gripped by the game to hesitate to pay for a full-price expansion every year, so this gives such fans the chance to catch up on the most recent parts ofDestiny 2’s story and witness its dramatic conclusion with last year’sThe Final Shapeexpansion.
As a series,Destinyhas a surprisingly storied 10-year history, one that spans two games, 12 expansions, and countless smaller updates and seasons that have helped keep the content flowing between the more major releases. Sadly, while the originalDestinyand all of its content is still accessible on legacy consoles only, just a handful of the sequel’s expansions are playable today. The majority of the story content ever released forDestiny 2no longer exists, and while many fans agree that the gameplay and underlying mechanics are better today than they ever have been before, the game’s continual evolution to this point has come at quite a cost over the years.
As it is at the time of writing in 2025, only theShadowkeep,Beyond Light,Witch Queen,Lightfall, andFinal Shapeexpansions are available to purchase and play. These expansions chronicle the past five years ofstory content in the world ofDestiny 2, minus the narrative told via the many seasons that were released across that gap of time. From now until July 22, players can play through all five of these expansions for free across all supported platforms – that includes PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, both on Steam and the Epic Games store. What’s more, players get to keep all the loot they pick up from the expansions throughout this free event period, be it exotics, currencies, cosmetics, titles, or anything else.
Players Don’t Have Long Before Destiny 2’s Episodes Are Gone For Good
The threeepisodes released forDestiny 2this year are also available for free, but only until July 15, upon which they’ll be condemned to the game’s content vault just like the many expansions and seasons before them. These episodes present shorter stories and are pretty much indistinguishable from the game’s traditional seasonal model, with this episodic content wrapping up a lot of the loose ends presented afterThe Final Shape.
July 15th kicks off a whole new year, and indeed, a wholenew saga forDestiny 2with theEdge of Fateexpansion. Unlike previous years, the game will be seeing two separate expansions throughout 2025, andThe Edge of Fatewill introduce a new location alongside plenty of new weapons and strange reality-altering powers for players to enjoy.
