How many people are playing Elite Dangerous right now?

Elite Dangerous has 4,630 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 8,014 and an all-time peak of 27,568 on May 2021.

What is the all-time peak player count of Elite Dangerous?

27,568 concurrent players on May 2021.

Elite Dangerous was released on Steam on 2 Apr 2015.

Update cadence · public branch

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4 days

Since last public build

3 Sep 2026, 09:45 UTC

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Builds in 30 days

0 with patch notes · 1 unannounced

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