Destiny 2 post-release content

There were several pieces of downloadable content (DLC) released for Bungie's 2017 first-person shooter video game Destiny 2. The packages of downloadable content generally added new player versus environment (PvE) missions and player versus player (PvP) modes, new locales to visit, and new items for the player to make use of. The game had eight years of extended content. Year One of the game featured two small expansion packs. The first was Curse of Osiris in December 2017, which was followed by Warmind in May 2018.

Year Two began with one large expansion and had three premium content drops, available by way of the Annual Pass, which began Destiny 2's seasonal model. The expansion was Forsaken, which was released in September 2018 and featured an overhaul on gameplay. Upon the release of the third expansion, which began Season of the Outlaw, retailers issued Destiny 2: Forsaken Legendary Collection, which included Destiny 2 and all DLC up to and including Forsaken as well as its Annual Pass. The Annual Pass was also made available upon the release of Forsaken, with its three content drops, Season of the Forge, Season of the Drifter, and Season of Opulence, releasing in December 2018, March 2019, and June 2019, respectively. In September 2019, the Annual Pass became free to all owners of Forsaken who had not purchased the pass.

Year Three then began with the fourth expansion, Shadowkeep, which released in October 2019 as a standalone expansion, not requiring players to purchase any of the previous expansions (future content, as well as Forsaken, were also viewed in this way). It featured four seasonal content offerings, which were available to purchase separately, unlike the seasons of the Annual Pass, and these introduced season passes for each season that had a free and premium track of rewards; purchase of the season passes were required to access each season's stories and activities. These seasons were Season of the Undying, which was released alongside Shadowkeep, followed by Season of Dawn, Season of the Worthy, and Season of Arrivals, releasing in December 2019, March 2020, and June 2020, respectively. Also alongside Shadowkeep was a re-release of Destiny 2 called New Light, which made the base game free-to-play, which included access to Curse of Osiris and Warmind, transitioning Destiny 2 to a live service game.

Year Four began with the fifth expansion, Beyond Light, released in November 2020 along with four seasonal content offerings, the first of which, Season of the Hunt, released alongside the expansion, followed by Season of the Chosen in February 2021, Season of the Splicer in May 2021, and then Season of the Lost in August 2021, which had a mid-season update, the Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack, in December 2021. Beyond Light's release had the largest effect on the game, as nearly half of the game's content was removed and placed into what Bungie called the Destiny Content Vault (DCV), which also included all content from the original Destiny. The content that was removed included Destiny 2's original base campaign, The Red War (which was replaced by a new-player quest), the Curse of Osiris and Warmind expansions, and the content of Year Two's Annual Pass, with the small exception of Gambit Prime from Season of the Drifter, which was slightly tweaked and replaced the three-round Gambit and renamed as Gambit. Following this, Bungie cycled some content in and out of the DCV, updating older areas as necessary.

Year Five began with the sixth expansion, The Witch Queen, which released in February 2022 along with four seasonal content offerings, the first of which, Season of the Risen, released alongside the expansion, followed by Season of the Haunted in May 2022, Season of Plunder in August 2022, and then Season of the Seraph in December 2022. With the release of The Witch Queen, The Tangled Shore destination and Forsaken's story campaign were rotated into the DCV, while the remaining endgame content from Forsaken, including access to its exotic gear, were repackaged as the Forsaken Pack. This content year also introduced "dungeon keys" as Years 5 though 7 had two dungeons released per year but these required a dungeon key to access them; dungeon keys were included with the deluxe editions of each expansion but could also be purchased separately.

Year Six began with the release of the seventh expansion, Lightfall, in February 2023. It launched along with four seasonal content offerings, the first of which, Season of Defiance, released alongside the expansion, which was followed by Season of the Deep in May 2023, Season of the Witch in August 2023, and Season of the Wish in November 2023, which had a mid-season update, Into the Light, in April 2024. Following this, expansion content remained in the game with only seasonal content being removed and placed into the DCV, with some minor exceptions (e.g., the Battleground activities from some seasons were retained and merged into the Vanguard Operations strike playlist).

Year Seven began with the release of the eighth expansion, The Final Shape in June 2024, which closed out the first saga of Destiny, called the "Light and Darkness" saga. Year Seven also changed the seasonal model and instead introduced larger "episodes", with three released during the year, which were standalone experiences that explored the aftermath of The Final Shape. They each were slightly longer than the previous seasons but instead were divided into three acts with a new act released every six weeks. The first, Episode: Echoes, released on June 11, 2024, one week after The Final Shape, with Episode: Revenant releasing on October 8, 2024, and then Episode: Heresy on February 4, 2025; Heresy concluded with a free event, Rite of the Nine, in May 2025, which acted as a prologue to Year Eight. Year Seven was the only year to utilize the episodic format. Also with Year Seven, the Shadowkeep and Beyond Light campaigns became free-to-play while their endgame content were repackaged as the Shadowkeep Pack and the Beyond Light Pack, respectively.

Year Eight, referred to as the "Year of Prophecy", once again changed the delivery model of content, but for a final time. It consisted of two large seasons that lasted several months with each season beginning with a medium-sized expansion and then receiving what Bungie called a "major update" midway through the season, rather than the previous year-long large expansions with multiple seasons/episodes. Year Eight's first season, Season: Reclamation, began with the ninth expansion, The Edge of Fate, in July 2025, with its major update, Ash & Iron, releasing in September 2025. Year Eight's second season, Season: Lawless, began with the game's 10th and final expansion, Renegades, in December 2025, with its major update, Monument of Triumph, releasing in June 2026; the latter was originally scheduled for March 2026 and to be titled Shadow & Order, but was delayed and renamed. Year Eight was originally intended to be the beginning of the next saga of Destiny called the "Fate" saga with at least two more expansions planned for Year Nine, but in May 2026, Bungie announced that it was ending support for Destiny 2 and that Monument of Triumph would be the game's final content update, but the game would remain online and playable. Alongside the game's final update in June 2026, all available expansions, content packs, and dungeon keys were bundled into a package called Destiny 2: The Collection.