Genre SimulationReleased Apr 2, 2015

Elite Dangerous

Developed and published by Frontier Developments
-70%
$5.99
$19.99
View on Steam
Estimated lifetime revenue
$17.98M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$12.99M
After Steam's 28% cut
Units sold
1.82M
≈ 17 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 108,005 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
108,005
Mostly Positive77% positive
Playing now
2,942
9-day peak 3,871 · low 2,921
New reviews, last 9 days
+111
≈ 12 a day since Oct 7

History

Oct 7 – Oct 16

108.0K108.0K107.9K107.9K
Oct 7Oct 11Oct 16

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Simulation →

Against the 130 most-reviewed Simulation games on Steam

Outearns 45% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$19.38M
113,507 reviews
Top 10% start at
$104.33M
This game
$17.98M
45th 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
Oct 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.