Bungie once pitched a Destiny dating sim, but leadership rejected it

Two former Bungie staff members say there was a short-lived internal push to turn Destiny into a dating-sim-style project. Former community manager Liana Ruppert was first to share the anecdote on X. “Fun fact, the team actually made one,” Ruppert wrote when asked about a Destiny dating sim, “but leadership [gave a] very ‘Hard No’ that nobody wanted romance or silliness. Very Dream Daddy inspired lmao. It was fun getting to be a small part of it.” According to the accounts, the idea never moved past those early internal pitches.