Pre-release test versions of the game had been available to backers since December 2013, and the final game was released for Windows in December 2014, with the macOS version later released in May 2015. Having been unable to agree to a funding deal with a publisher for many years, Frontier began its Kickstarter campaign in November 2012. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters, released in 1995. Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series, one of the longest-running video game franchises. The game is the first in the series to attempt massively multiplayer gameplay, with players' actions affecting the narrative story of the game's persistent universe, while also retaining a single-player mode. The player takes the role of a pilot (colloquially referred to as 'Commander' or 'CMDR') of a spaceship, and explores a realistic 1:1 scale open-world representation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the gameplay being open-ended. Single-player, multiplayer, competitive arcade Įlite Dangerous is a space flight simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments.
