Elite Dangerous

Elite Dangerous is an online space, trading, exploration and combat simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments. The player commands a spaceship in a realistic 1:1 scale open-world representation of the Milky Way, with open-ended gameplay. Players can explore and engage with a procedurally generated galaxy, which includes around 400 billion star systems. The procedural system allows landing on planets with no or tenuous atmospheres. Many planets have special flora and fauna including alien and human settlements. Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite series and the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters (1995). It is the first Elite game to feature massively multiplayer and first-person on foot gameplay, space colonization of star systems, and player actions affect the overarching story of the persistent universe, while retaining a single-player mode. In November 2012, Frontier began a Kickstarter campaign for Elite Dangerous to test-market the concept, verify broader interest and raise funds. It was released for Windows in December 2014, macOS in May 2015, Xbox One in October 2015 and PlayStation 4 in June 2017. Elite Dangerous supports most virtual reality headsets on Windows. Development was led by David Braben until August 2022. The game has received a plethora of seasons of updates with free major downloadable content. There are two paid expansions Horizons (15 December 2015) and Odyssey (18 May 2021). Horizons added features such as landing on planets without atmospheres, surface recon vehicle, engineering, ship-launched fighters, multicrew, avatars, guardian ruins, and tourist beacons. Horizons is included for free in the base-game since 27 October 2020. Odyssey added landing and disembarking on planets with tenuous atmospheres, settlements, geological features, on-foot equipment and customization, ships, fleet carriers, concourse in star ports, various activities in first-person like mercenary and exobiology. By September 2022, sales of Elite Dangerous had passed 4.8 million units.