The closest games to Destiny 2 are Warframe, Halo Infinite and The Division 2. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Destiny 2, and what does not.
Destiny 2 has the best-feeling gunplay in any live game and the most confusing content model of any game full stop. The raids are the genre's high point, the seasonal structure means things appear and disappear, and the honest advice is to play it for the shooting and the raids and ignore the rest.
Destiny 2 released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
Free, endlessly deep, and the traversal is unmatched — but hard to get into.
By Destiny's original studio's lineage, and free to play in multiplayer.
Cover shooting as the core loop, with loot on top.
Co-op against overwhelming numbers, and much easier to pick up.
Third-person co-op shooting with real difficulty and no live-service tail.
If the loot rather than the raids is the draw.
Four-player co-op with the best community in the genre.
Housemarque's alien weapons are the closest single-player equivalent.
The best campaign in a modern shooter, if you want the gunfeel alone.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Titanfall 2.
Warframe. Free, endlessly deep, and the traversal is unmatched — but hard to get into.
Warframe, Halo Infinite and The Division 2 are the closest. The full list of Destiny 2 similar games is on this page — 9 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
The picks above span platforms rather than sticking to the PC, because the thing worth copying about Destiny 2 is not a property of the hardware. The PC list further down is the place to go for more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Destiny 2 is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PC list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Destiny 2 next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
No. The whole list is on this page, free, with no sign-in and no email. We earn a small affiliate commission if you buy through a retailer link, which is what pays for the site.
If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PC & Modern Multi-Platform library, each with its own recommendations page: