Genre SimulationReleased Apr 2, 2015

Elite Dangerous

Developed and published by Frontier Developments
Estimated lifetime revenue
$17.60M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$12.70M
After Steam's 28% cut
Units sold
1.79M
17 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 107,663 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
107,663
Mostly Positive77% positive
Playing now
3,523
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New reviews, last 30 days
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How it compares

Simulation →

Against the 100 most-reviewed Simulation games on Steam

Outearns 38% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$27.42M
137,396 reviews
Top 10% start at
$113.37M
This game
$17.60M
35th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

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
Genre
Simulation
Released
Apr 2, 2015
Steam app ID
359320
Data updated
Sep 16, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.