Elite: Dangerous 2014

About

Elite: Dangerous came out on December 16, 2014 for PC, then for Mac on May 12, 2015 and for Xbox One on October 6, 2015. On Steam, 77% of 82,825 player reviews are positive (Mostly Positive). 4,096 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 8,287 in the last 30 days. It is Playable on Steam Deck. The main story takes about 113 hours, doing everything about 677 hours.

The next game in the Elite series - an amazing space epic with stunning visuals, incredible gameplay, breath-taking scope and award-winning sound. All content can be enjoyed in game any mode: solo, personal invite-only group or open/MMO. Carve your own path through the richest, largest gaming sandbox ever created, a 1:1 scale representation of the Milky Way galaxy, set against a backdrop of raw anarchy, galactic powerplays and political intrigue.

What is happening now

Elite: Dangerous remains a sprawling multiplayer space sandbox where players explore, trade, and engage in combat across a procedurally generated galaxy. The game has continued to evolve with meaningful systems updates over a decade after its initial launch. Recent months have brought notable additions to the mining pillar of gameplay. The introduction of surface mining mechanics and the Rhino, a six-wheeled mining vehicle, expanded extraction options beyond traditional asteroid mining. Meanwhile, players have organically begun constructing interstellar highways across the game world following the addition of colonization features, creating player-built infrastructure that serves as both emergent gameplay and practical navigation aids. Looking ahead, Frontier Developments has signaled further changes to the crime and law systems arriving in December, alongside a new ship launching in October - moves intended to deepen gameplay on both sides of galactic law.