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ELITE DANGEROUS

Elite Dangerous has 5,042 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 5,092 and its all-time peak is 8,850. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Frontier Developments2015

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.

Solid daily community. Plenty of people to play with right now.
Currently at 57% of the all-time peak of 8,850 players.
Last updated 7 months ago: Elite Dangerous | Lynx Highliner Update Notes.

Playing now

5,042

24h peak

5,092

24h change

▲ 9.5%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

5.04K

24h peak

5.09K

All-time

8.85K

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