Is Destiny 2 free to play?

Yes. Destiny 2 costs nothing to download. Steam's listing says "Free To Play", and PlayStation's UK page marks it "Free" and says it's free to play on PS5 and PS4. It's on Xbox too.

Much of the game is sold separately, though: most campaigns, raids and dungeons come with paid expansions and packs. Bungie has also stopped adding new content, which matters if you're thinking of starting now.

What can you play in Destiny 2 for free?

PlayStation's listing for The Collection names the content that's open to all players:

• the Beyond Light and Shadowkeep campaigns
• the Vault of Glass, Crota's End and King's Fall raids
• the Prophecy dungeon

Monument of Triumph, the June 2026 update, is also "available to all players", according to Bungie's announcement. So is the free track of the Rewards Pass, which Bungie's help page says you earn through XP, whatever content you own.

Do you need PlayStation Plus or Game Pass?

For most of it on console, yes. PlayStation's UK pages say PlayStation Plus is required for online multiplayer, and that anything needing other players requires it, including strikes, raids, dungeons and PvP. Without it, you can play the expansion campaigns you've bought. The Xbox Store says console online multiplayer needs a Game Pass subscription, sold separately.

What does Destiny 2 cost in the UK?

PlayStation Store UK prices, read on 4 November 2026:

What	UK price
The Collection (all the expansions and packs below)	£57.99
Renegades, The Edge of Fate, The Final Shape, Lightfall, The Witch Queen	£16.99 each
Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack	£12.99
Forsaken Pack, Shadowkeep Pack, Beyond Light Pack	£7.99 each
500 Silver	£3.99
1,100 Silver	£7.99

Bought one at a time, those nine items come to £121.91 by our sum, so The Collection costs less than half of that. It also adds dungeon keys and four reward passes. If you only want one story, a single expansion at £16.99 is the cheaper start.

Does the Rewards Pass cost money?

Only the Premium track. Bungie's help page says each Rewards Pass costs 1,000 Silver. Two 500 Silver packs come to £7.98, a penny less than the 1,100 pack. A Bungie staff reply on its forums says the Monument of Triumph Premium pass has to be bought, unless an earlier purchase already covers it.

The Steam and Xbox listings both flag in-app purchases, and Silver also buys cosmetics. PlayStation's listing rates the game PEGI 16 for violence. See the Destiny 2 page for Silver prices per pack.

Is it worth starting Destiny 2 now?

That depends on whether you need a game that's still growing. Bungie's Steam post of 11 June 2026 calls Monument of Triumph "our last live service update". Reports of its 21 May announcement say the game stays playable. We didn't find a shutdown date in anything we read. Steam's listing does warn that Bungie may change or end online services without notice, so bear that in mind before buying expansions.

For another free shooter that's still being updated, see is Warframe free to play. Fortnite sells a seasonal pass in a similar way.

How we checked

The free listings come from the Steam store page, PlayStation's UK page and the PlayStation Store UK, all read on 4 November 2026. Content open to all players is from PlayStation's listing for The Collection. Xbox details come from its US store page, so we haven't given Xbox prices. Steam showed prices in dollars when we read it, so UK prices are PlayStation's. The £121.91 total is our own sum.

The Rewards Pass cost is from Bungie's help page, which shows no update date, and we couldn't confirm it applies to the Monument of Triumph pass specifically. Bungie's 21 May post wouldn't load in our tools, so "stays playable" rests on MMOHuts' report of that post, not on our own reading of it.