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Elite Dangerous

Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Developer
Frontier Developments
Publisher
Frontier Developments
Franchise
FrontierDev
Release date
Apr 2, 2015
Store page updated
Oct 7, 2025
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

72.1/ 100

Based on 413 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 63% of 418
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 107,671
“most fun flying experience in the genre despite frustrations”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.68
Onboarding -2.28
“obtusely unintuitive design requires external research and wiki” (107)

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Story & World
-0.32
World +3.37
“unique experience of traversing 1:1 scale milky way” (54)

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Content Volume
+1.69
Volume +3.57
“excellent space exploration and diverse playstyles available” (20)

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Visuals & Sound
+3.59
Visuals +3.10
“ships feel and sound incredible” (35)

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Multiplayer
+1.83
Playing together +2.28

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Fairness
-2.77
Monetization -0.81
“power creep ships paywalled with real-cash transactions, pay-to-skip gameplay” (26)

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Tech & Ops
-1.79
Developer support -0.79
“abandoned development, years of waiting, no meaningful fixes or improvements delivered” (15)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
40%60%80%100%
Apr 2015Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 412 reviews, peak 26/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 413 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English52%
  • Russian8%
  • French8%
  • German8%
  • Spanish7%
  • Portuguese6%
  • Other11%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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