Elite Dangerous

Elite Dangerous is an online space flight simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments. The player commands a spaceship and explores a realistic 1:1 scale, open-world representation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the gameplay being open-ended. The game is the first in the series to attempt massively multiplayer gameplay, with players' actions affecting the narrative story of the game's persistent universe, while also retaining a single-player mode. Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters, released in 1995.

Elite Dangerous
Developer(s)Frontier Developments
Publisher(s)Frontier Developments
Director(s)David Braben
Producer(s)Michael Brookes
Designer(s)
  • Sandro Sammarco
  • Dan Davies
  • Tom Kewell
Programmer(s)
  • Mark Allen
  • Igor Terentjev
Artist(s)
  • John Laws
  • Simon Brewer
  • John Roberts
Composer(s)Erasmus Talbot
SeriesElite
EngineCobra
Platform(s)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Xbox One
  • PlayStation 4
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
    16 December 2014
  • macOS
    12 May 2015
  • Xbox One
    6 October 2015
  • PlayStation 4
    27 June 2017
Genre(s)Space trading and combat
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

By November 2012, Frontier began a Kickstarter campaign for ED due to the inability to secure a publisher. The game was released by Frontier for Windows in December 2014, with the macOS version later released in May 2015. The Xbox One version was fully released in October 2015. The PlayStation 4 version launched on 27 June 2017. ED has additionally supported most Virtual reality headsets on PC.

Downloadable content for the game, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, was released on 18 May 2021. The DLC allows players to land on planets and move around in first person, as well as engaging in first-person shooter gameplay. By September 2022, sales of the base game passed 4.8 million units.

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