A Different Dark Age

What Destiny: Rising is

Destiny: Rising is a mobile game made by NetEase under license from Bungie. It came out worldwide on August 28, 2025, for Android and iOS.

It tells a story in an alternate Destiny timeline, set many years before Destiny 1 and Destiny 2. Humanity is climbing out of the Collapse and a long dark age, at the very start of what the main games call the City Age. Survivors gather in outposts like Haven, and those outposts lay the groundwork for the Last City that comes later.

Much of what players know isn't there yet. There is no Tower and no Guardians in the familiar sense, and the Hunter, Titan and Warlock classes haven't settled into shape. Instead, Ghosts raise a new generation of Lightbearers, each a fixed character with their own weapons and a Relic that gives them a Super.

Bungie and NetEase call it an alternate timeline, and Destinypedia lists it as not connected to the main Destiny universe. Characters from the main games appear, sometimes with different fates: Iron Lord Jolder is alive here, though in the main timeline she died to SIVA.

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