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Elite Dangerous
Developer Frontier Developments
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… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
371 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
196 positive · 73 negative
95% range 67–78%
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| Steam reviews | 196 | 73 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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102 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
83,392 of 107,896 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Mixed but leaning positive; praised for immersion, criticized for grind and pay-to-win.
Many players praise Elite Dangerous for its immersive space simulation, stunning visuals, and rewarding long-term progression. One player with 81 hours notes it surprised them, calling it a 'marathon, not a sprint' that is '100% satisfying to overcome the frustratingly steep learning curve.' [3][7]
However, critics highlight a steep learning curve, repetitive grind, and recent pay-to-win monetization. One player with 5000 hours calls the developer 'terrible and lazy,' while another warns the game has become 'pay to win' with a best-in-slot upgrade paywalled behind $30. [28][29]
Praised immersion · visuals · long-term progression · community
Criticised steep learning curve · repetitive grind · pay-to-win monetization · developer neglect
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Reactions
60 of 371 · most liked firstOh Elite Dangerous... you held such promise, once! This game is a lot of things in 2026. It's still a procedurally generated "simulation" of the Milky Way Galaxy. It has a lot of ships, and they look neat and sound neater. But what were once a set of fairly balanced ships that you could reasonably purchase and outift with in-game currency have since given way to a handful of all-upside and no-downside power creep ships that are initally paywalled with real-cash "micro" transactions a la Star…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Elite: Dangerous is such a fascinating game. Nowhere else have I seen such a dedicated and hard-working community coupled with such a terrible and lazy developer. 10 years of Elite with countless community tools, out of game groups and networking, dedicated information gathering software all to provide a QOL to the players that the devs have never even attempted to provide. Bugs take years to get fixed (if ever), the pace of updates is a new ship every few months with almost no gameplay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buyer beware! The developers have announced the first truly pay to win monetization for the game. They've been reaching for players' wallets more and more recently, but until now it's always been pay for early access. With this new update, a best in slot upgrade has been paywalled behind a whopping $30 price tag with no stated plans for a free release at a later date. If there is to be a future for Elite Dangerous, the community needs to be loud and clear that this is one step too far! Keep…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not far away from giving this game a positive review. I've certainly played enough hours. The foundations of the game's ships are some of the best that space sims have to offer. The ships feel and sound incredible. But, as common as the sentiment might be, I feel it's important to talk about the game's depth, because I don't really see this particular perspective discussed enough. At a certain point, the basic novelty wears off and you see the underlying system more clearly. Pretty…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is 10/10 for space exploration and space sim. Dogfighting and other content is really good, you can be almost anything you want in the game, space trucker, ace pilot, mining rig, alien hunter. Checks all the marks, and normally I would be giving it a thumbs up.... EXCEPT for one thing, I bought the game along time ago, before 'ARX' was a thing. I bought the "ALL ACCESS PASS" which claimed to include ALL DIGITAL CONTENT, PRESENT AND FUTURE, AND INCLUDED ALL EARLY ACCESS TO SAID CONTENT. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played elite in the eights, and the second later, Because of my age 78 and memory restrictions, i cannot do much, but hoping i can get some assistance. Love the game,
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've put an absurd number of hours into Elite Dangerous over the years about 1,552 hours at this point not counting the thousands of hours I put on the PS4 version back in the day, which is honestly a little ridiculous when I stop and think about it. In that time I've tried pretty much everything the game has to offer: mining, trading, bounty hunting, PvP, exploration, BGS work, Powerplay, squadrons, community goals… the whole list. One thing Elite absolutely nails is the sense of scale. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I left Elite Dangerous about eight years ago because of engineering. What should have been an optional progression system became a mandatory grind that turned ship building into a second job instead of something fun. I recently decided to give the game another chance, hoping years of updates had addressed those problems. Instead, I found that nearly everything about the game feels like trying to run a footrace underwater. Engineering is still effectively mandatory if you want to participate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Title: 81 hours in and I finally get it Rating: Recommended Hours Played: 81.0 hrs I am 54 years old. I have been playing video games since the late 70s. I have seen every space game come and go, from Elite on the BBC Micro to Star Citizen's never-ending crowdfunding campaign. So when I say this game surprised me, I mean it. I bought Elite Dangerous on a sale with low expectations. I thought it would be pretty but shallow. And for the first 10 hours, I wasn't sure. The learning…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave this game an honest try but I quickly came to the realization that this is yet another soulless husk of unrealized potential. The initial wow effect doesn't last, and is quickly replaced by boring repetitive grind, copy/pasted content, and meaningless hamster wheel. Coming from EVE, the complexity and self-taught onboarding was not an issue for me. It's the lack of purpose behind each major components of the game. The immersion is great, but once you completed a few missions, explored a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IS ELITE DANGEROUS A SEQUEL TO A GAME ON THE ATOM-PHRELLING BBC HOME MICROCOMPUTER?
unlabelledView post →6.5k hours later I guess I can finally write a review. It all started somewhere around autumn 2020 when Elite Dangerous was free on Epic Games. I picked it up with zero expectations. Just another free game to try, maybe spend a few evenings on and forget about. Instead, I’ve been stuck here ever since. At the beginning I had no idea what I was doing. Docking felt like a boss fight, every jump felt risky, and making a few thousand credits actually felt like progress. It was slow, confusing,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is my Happy place. I've played a lot of video games in my day and Elite Dangerous is 100% one of the best game in my collection. you truly feel like you're exploring the vastness of the milky way #battlestation
unlabelledView post →Look, I'll echo some of the problems up front - it has a learning cliff instead of a learning curve, certain third-party tools are all-but essential, and at the end of the day it's a mile wide and an inch deep. There's maybe at best a dozen gameplay loops to put time into, and many of them feel repetitive - not to mention the grinds to unlock Engineers, Guardian tech, and getting Credits. However, there's no other game that will give you *our* galaxy in this kind of personal detail. There's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Back in 1989 - Landing at a Dodecahedron shaped station - "Imagine if one day you could own one of these!" Today, 2025 - You can! If you pay us £25 for a macrotransaction add on fee. Oh, and it has gameplay altering properties, not just for you, but also negatively towards others as you can use it to lock down claiming any nearby system for 24 hours by choosing when to place your instant station! And on a smaller scale, negatively drive traffic away from non-paying systems by having exclusive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you own this game on console you can go to their support site and get a free key for steam and an account transfer to keep all your progress
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Elite Dangerous is a marathon, not a sprint. Is it perfect and without bugs? ...No. Is it for everyone? ...No. Is there a lot to learn that isn't intuitive? ...Yes. Is it a mile wide and an inch deep? ...Sometimes. Is it satisfying to overcome the frustratingly steep learning curve and painful lessons you will have to learn at the many rebuy screens? ...100% There is a lot to do in the game, to include space trucking, exploration, bounty hunting, on foot combat and operations, ship combat…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Of course some of this is subjective - some folks love No Man's Sky and it is at this point objectively a really well designed game...but it makes me feel nothing, so I can never stay 'in it.' I get better vibes from Elite: Dangerous, which I think is objectively a weaker game.
unlabelledView post →Spectrum Next #Delphian progress: with a bit of movement code added, this is starting to feel like a game...😀 But I definitely need to add the radar display! (adds to To-Do list) As for ship AI, I think I can handle that okay. I did code a lot of ship AI for Elite: Dangerous after all...😉
unlabelledView post →I don't know how I managed to sink 500+ hours into this one already, so I guess I must have enjoyed it. I like it, I'm leaving a positive review, but with a lot of caveats since this type of gameplay is definitely a niche taste. Welcome to the literal entirety of the Milky Way galaxy. The community has successfully explored about 0.06% of the simulated galaxy since FDev's servers somehow have enough server space to simulate potentially 100 billion stars in the galaxy and travelling more than,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Elite Dangerous on 49" with X56 HOTAS and TrackIR 5 head tracking attached to headset with game statistics and engineering lookup on the top monitor
unlabelledView post →ok once you get past the learning curve you realize there is nothing to do the universe is vast but pointless its just empty space or rooms after rooms just pointless empty space which you cant do anything with I can not recommend this game at all
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Original kickstarter backer and played probably 1000 hours of it since launch. Of the modern run of space sims from the 2010s, Elite Dangerous is the best one. A polished game unlike Star Citizen. A space sim of some actual complexity unlike No Man's Sky. A game that actually makes me want to be in a space ship instead of an Excel sheet, unlike X4 Foundations Still boring as sin for most people and i would not recommend to people that aren't sickos but if you have the space sim sickness,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →buy the game for a steam key, the frontier launcher will tell you to link steam, link steam and be pushed to the frontier site, you will be asked to create a frontier login. create a frontier login and you will be asked to link your steam again, try to link steam again and it will tell you you are already linked and your key is already used, try to login and play game and you wont be able to because you key is already used at this point.but did you hear there is a single player mode? well…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to love this game. Elite Dangerous was once one of the best space simulators ever made. I still remember the wonder I felt the first time I launched into space, jumping from system to system, staring at the full explorable galaxy map, and setting off on long voyages into the vast unknown. I played as a hauler, moving goods from one location to another. It was simple, but deeply fulfilling. As I built my reputation, I earned better parts, more cargo space, better ships, higher payouts,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Morning Cmdrs - beautiful sunrise at home this morning but not quite as pretty as this in-game one #EliteDangerous #StellarScreenshots
unlabelledView post →Very interesting Space Sim to chill in. Some points to take note of in case you want to try the game: - Steepest Learning Curve i have ever seen but the Community guides like Reddit, Youtube and Inara, boost your knowledge to the casual level of gameplay, keep in mind that 5 year old guides still work to this day. - A Whole Milky Way to Explore "Everything is already discovered" No, we are all just in the bubble, once you're more than 2k+LY away you discover unknown systems. - Combat…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm home. Elite was the first game I loaded, of course. I can't believe both my 1541 and my copy of Elite are still functioning! #EliteDangerous #C64U #TheGamesThatMadeUs #RetroGamer #WeAreCommodore
unlabelledView post →I am roughly at 1000 hours into ED now and looking forward to a thousand more. A friend got me to try this game years ago and I had nothing good to say at first, the menus and controls were so complicated, I crashed into many stations and planets. It was an horrible and frustrating experience. There is a steep complex learning curve for just about every activity. I struggled picking up the game even with a veteran teaching me the ropes. I would had uninstalled and asked for a refund if it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really? Now they require CD-Keys linked to their account. Now they have a launcher that doesn't work and gets stuck. I bought this game early on and was able to play just fine. I came back now to try it again and I can't play because of all of this account and CD-Keys crap. I guess they really don't want you to buy any future games since it would be easier to not buy it than to buy it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only play Mobius on Elite: Dangerous, too. Elite lets you create invite-only instances of the game, so a bunch of PvE players got together and built a great big one. People can still potentially attack each other, but if they do they risk being banned. I couldn't play the game any other way.
unlabelledView post →I love Elite Dangerous, but I can't recommend it to casual players that like to use a variety of controllers to enhance their immersion. You can pilot spacecraft across an enormous galaxy, engage in space combat, land on planets, drive surface vehicles, and leave your ship entirely for on-foot gameplay. Few games offer this combination of scale, freedom, and different ways to experience their world. It is exactly the kind of game that makes me want to build a cockpit around it: joysticks,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much of the disdain and whining in these negative reviews comes from 1 thing: they want an arcade experience. This is not an arcade experience. This is a space sim. A really good one. This isn't a, "tell me a story and hold my hand" game. No. This is a game where you need to invest some time. It gets better once you learn the controls or take the time to map them how you like. Want a better experience? Use a controller with keyboard backup. Want an amazing experience? Try it with a HOTAS. Or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I did spend a lot of time in this game, but the bugs and complexity recently made it just not fun. ED will take a lot of time out of you for very little fun. The reason I wrote this review is simple, that was the last time I searched my issue in the game only to find the solution proposed to me would be to log off, reboot and try again. Well I will log off for sure, reboot eventually but I won't try again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought it years ago never really played Started the game in 2025 got over the hump and wow 👌. Best space Sim out there. You just got to get over th training hump then your good. A must play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly? Because even with being shady and bullshit and sucking their backers dry, Star Citizen is about the only game being worked on right now in the space flight sim category. There's pretty much Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous and that's about it.
unlabelledView post →ive played this game for the majority of my life, it's amazing, i hate that some players make it difficult for newbies, yall're evil
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken, dev won't fix it. Months of progress have been erased by a glitch that hasn't been addressed. I've wasted my time playing this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Former Commander from the late 80's when i played Elite on a commador64.......... now many years later as i turn to retirement, its comforting to see Elite: Dangerous and how far its come. I jumped in and haven't looked back..... Its brought back so many memories and thoughts of junior high friends who also played at the same time (We even formed a club at school with jacket patches and everything!) Haven't heard from most of those guys since I left at 17 for the military..... I wonder where…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →❌ Not recommended Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is an unnecessarily frustrating experience for new players. The game gives you an enormous amount of systems, menus, controls, and mechanics, but does a poor job of explaining how they actually work. Even after completing the tutorial, basic things like finding missions, navigating between systems, refueling, docking, and planetary landing can be surprisingly difficult to understand. The game can send a beginner many jumps away without making the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been gaming for over 40 years, and somehow Elite Dangerous slipped past me until now. I started out thinking it was just another space game, but it has turned into one of the most relaxing and rewarding experiences I've had in years. I'm currently about 1,500 light-years from inhabited space on my first real exploration expedition. Every jump is a mystery. Some systems have nothing but stars, while others reveal dozens of planets, alien life, and worlds where I'm the first person to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best game that resembles real life where I buy an expensive vehicle then end up spending most of my time paying for it's upkeep
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Over 2000 hours on record here Though technically I've been playing Elite since the mid 80's. I'm not going to talk about what this game can or cannot do. It's different strokes for different folks. What pleases me may not please you. For that, you have to play it. The most important thing to remember, is this is a simulation, not an arcade. You need to spend some time learning the game, you can't just log in and start blasting. It is the overall experience which is why I recommend this game.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Errm I guess I should post something on here! Hi! I'm Mr Bishb0sh and I like virtual photography, especially in open world games but I do focus a lot on Elite Dangerous. Ok that's good...I think! 😁 #EliteDangerous
unlabelledView post →Wanted to see what's new after 9 years last time I played, but to be honest, I was quite disappointed. Besides the cool spaceship combat mechanics, the game still lacks proper quality-of-life improvements in the UI, such as sensible search mechanisms, filters, etc... The keybindings section in the settings is a hot mess, and the SRV is just diabolical to control.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am almost at 500 hours so basically just about to finish the tutorial. You love it or you hate it. But this is THE space sim.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After more then 5000 hours playtime, i still endlessly enjoy playing this game. Probably one of the best games of all times.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So. #EliteDangerous is on sale. If you don't have the game, now is the perfect chance. A lot of my elite dangerous friends will show off the basics, I plan to do a little research today. If you want the space game, now is the perfect time!
unlabelledView post →Full internal specifications on the new Gutamaya Corsair, new in-game footage and a launch date for Early access. www.youtube.com/watch?v=23iX... #EliteDangerous o7
unlabelledView post →With 500 hours I'd say this is a really great spaceflight "sim" experience. Just enough friction in the early parts to make actually learning to pilot a ship engaging. With friends and an organized community still going VERY strong, this game is absolutely gargantuan once you're past the initial learning curve of learning how to traverse the world and gain some proficiency over the metal you're riding across the sky. I tend to agree with criticisms of this game that (sometimes) it's wide as an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the main game I keep coming back to. I was late to the party, but happy to have something as a staple that keeps my interest.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As the camera operator and editor for the Buur Pit, the in-game camera suite makes up about 80% of my personal game time ✨🌟💫 This Video is a look at my #EliteDangerous in 2025 💗 o7 w/ @cmdrbuur.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →What is Elite Dangerous in 2025? - More cosmetics - More text quests - No gameplay content - P2W colonisation Keep going guys, keeeep goooing Rest in peace... rest in peace...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worked with lots of other Elite: Dangerous Partners in making this wonderful graphic to help explain everything to do (so far) in the game. coggle.it/diagram/ZqeQ...
unlabelledView post →For me, it was 'Star Voyager' on NES. I played it all the time, but I just couldn't figure out what I was even supposed to be doing. I always played it with the Quick Shot joystick too. Looking back, this game was like early Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen! It's way more impressive than I realized.
unlabelledView post →The last game I played was Elite: Dangerous, and as I'm ranked "Deadly" in combat, I think I'd be okay as a space captain for a year.
unlabelledView post →Choose 20 games that greatly influence you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 14: Elite Dangerous #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky
unlabelledView post →My Elite Dangerous gameplay videos are now going live on my YouTube channel. I'm getting through a backlog so they're a little dated, but should be catching up soon. I just wanted to share my favorite space game and give you some relaxing background! Enjoy! youtu.be/FfJlvbbhAww
unlabelledView post →I discovered this game in 2015 and played it for a bit like 20 to 50 hours and all things with life, I found other games/time and would come back time to time, but didn't really stick around. But I decided to pick it up again. This game was a like a saving grace. Especially since around that time a year ago around summer 2025, when I quit my job, cause a coworker phys attacked me, but that's a story for another day. I was going through job search anxiety and depression and one of my friends…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a space sim this game truely is staggeringly beautiful. One of a kind really. I've been playing it off and on for a long time. Sometimes I get the urge to play it again and I ask myself, why haven't I been playing ED? Then I get into the game again and I remember. You need a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ college degree in coding to set up any keybind for the simplest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing. This game is as user friendly as a beartrap covered in ♥♥♥♥. Still, it is so very very beautiful. If you're unemployed and on…
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