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ELITE DANGEROUS

Elite Dangerous has 3,421 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 4,615 and its all-time peak is 7,087. 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.

Up 144% in the last 24h. Something brought players back.
Currently at 48% of the all-time peak of 7,087 players.
Last updated 2 months ago: Elite Dangerous | Lynx Highliner Update Notes.

Playing now

3,421

24h peak

4,615

24h change

▲ 144.2%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

3.42K

24h peak

4.62K

All-time

7.09K

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