2015 · Space Sim · Space · Open World
How long isElite Dangerous?
by Frontier Developments
70 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 17 hours and 260 hours
Elite Dangerous among the 52 space sims here
The whole tier list#4
of 52
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 64%
- got past 2 hours
- +24 on the kind's 40%
- 34%
- past 20 hours
- +21 on the kind's 13%
- 77%
- launched it
- +22 on the kind's 55%
- 288
- libraries own it
- 1 in 9 of the 2,472 read here
Next to it in the ranking
An absurd bargain: 29¢ an hour, cheaper than 62 of 65 space sims here.
26% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
53% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
67% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
77% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
83% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
84% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
85% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
85% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
86% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Elite Dangerous hold up?
Grows on people
Do the first two hours of Elite Dangerous tell you?
In the first two hours26%recommend it
After that81%recommend it
23 in 100 said no: 18 after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 70 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 17 hours and 260 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 108,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 53% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 86% past 500 hours.
6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 26% of those recommend it. After the window, 81% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 80% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 19 hours in.
When would you get there?
10weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 70 hours on Friday, January 22, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 17 and 260 hours: Nov 30 to Jul 31, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Elite Dangerous worth it?
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Elite Dangerous
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 70 h
- space sim rate
- $1.92/h
- 70 h at that rate
- $135
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Elite Dangerous worth it? Yes.
A steal
6.7× the hours of a typical space sim, for the same money
Liked
81% recommend it after the refund windowmost space sims: 86%
Gets played
77% of owners here have played itmost space sims: 66%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 70 hours come to 29¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 81% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 29¢ an hour, Elite Dangerous is cheaper per hour than 62 of 65 space sims here: the typical one of 65 space sims here charges $1.92, so the same $19.99 buys 6.7× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (space sims) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Elite Dangerous today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS4, Xbox One and Oculus Rift.
- todayPC2015
- todayXbox One2015
- todayOculus Rift2016
- todayPS42017
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Elite Dangerous came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Elite Dangerous?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Elite Dangerous, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Elite Dangerous would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@le-venin-noir holds this page
- 1st
@le-venin-noir1,075 h - 2nd
@the-sullster768 h - 3rd
@eso606 h - 4th
@mikewolf139 h - 5th
@tumble130 h - 6th
@teddy-bear-inc116 h - 7th
@chlo30 h - 8th
@dougtheduck26 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Elite Dangerous?
1 in 89
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like Elite Dangerous
X4: Foundations
Elite Dangerous, but a management game, and single-player
Liked · 80%Games like X4: Foundations
Rebel Galaxy
Elite Dangerous, but single-player, and a third of the hours
Liked · 85%Games like Rebel Galaxy
No Man's Sky
Elite Dangerous, but a survival crafting game, and half the hours
Liked · 85%Games like No Man's Sky
House of the Dying Sun
Elite Dangerous, but not open world, and a tenth of the hours
Liked · 89%Games like House of the Dying Sun
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Elite Dangerous: a kind of game it is that Elite Dangerous is not, a feature its tags carry that Elite Dangerous's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.