{"id":14250,"date":"2026-06-23T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:00:42","slug":"bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-page\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/05\/25\/warframe-and-destiny-1779742030545.png\" \/>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<p>Bungie developers were apparently very passionate about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/destiny-2\">Destiny<\/a> dating simulator, but leadership had no interest. <\/p>\n<p>Former Bungie community member <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DirtyEffinHippy\/status\/2069133660364964307?s=20\">Liana Ruppert<\/a> dropped this piece of trivia on players after seeing a fan expressing interest in a Destiny dating sim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fun fact, the team actually made one, but leadership [gave a] very hard no [and felt] that nobody wanted romance or silliness. Very Dream Daddy inspired. It was fun getting to be a small part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Bungie senior narrative designer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sphynxian\/status\/2069186334778904830?s=20\">Robert Brookes chimed in<\/a>, revealing that the concept came out of an event where the studio was allowed to prototype fun side projects for a week. However, a small group of devs continuously tried to scale it into a full-blown project.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"destiny-2-official-so-far-together-trailer\" data-loop=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>&#8220;To be fair, the dating sim that was made was a part of the &#8216;Carnival&#8217; event Bungie used to do, where devs had a week to make fun prototypes. So it was never a full-fledged project. That said, we did pitch that as a full-fledged project every year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brookes also noted that two of the people who were behind the pitch came from romance game design, saying they even created a pitch deck with costs and metrics, but Bungie leadership remained uninterested. Although the idea is silly and fun, it&#8217;s easy to see why Bungie was hesitant to move forward on such a project. A side project like that could easily be spun by frustrated community members as a waste of resources and time, when other parts of Destiny 2 could&#8217;ve used that support.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds extreme, all you have to do is look at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/destiny-players-review-bomb-marathon-only-to-be-met-with-countercampaign-from-bungie-fans\"> how Marathon has been treated by some members of the community<\/a>, and that&#8217;s a proper big-budget Bungie shooter. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely this dating sim will ever happen, as a lot of doubt has been cast on Bungie&#8217;s future as of late. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bungie-walks-away-from-destiny-2-final-content-update-coming-in-june\">Bungie recently ended support for Destiny 2,<\/a> and it has been reported that the studio will undergo &#8220;significant&#8221; layoffs as a result.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"every-bungie-game-ever-reviewed-by-ign\" data-value=\"every-bungie-game-ever-reviewed-by-ign\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bungie-is-reportedly-planning-significant-layoffs-destiny-3-not-in-the-works\">Destiny 3 is not in active development<\/a>, and it seems unlikely that it will happen anytime soon, given Bungie&#8217;s recent performance. 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