r/EliteDangerous↗
Elite Dangerous
The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Here battles rage, governments fall, and humanity’s frontier expands – and you can impact it all. Welcome to the definitive massively multiplayer space epic.
391k subscribers1,430 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~2% by known bots)929 authors / mosince 2012
r/EliteDangerous has 391k members (+6.0% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,430 posts a month from 929 people. Top topics: Returning Players, Laser Mining Builds and Bounty Hunting.
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Topics and brands on r/EliteDangerous
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Returning Players1.4%
- Laser Mining Builds1.4%
- Bounty Hunting1.2%
- Elite Dangerous Discussions1.2%
- Thargoid War1.0%
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Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- INARA
- Frontier Developments plc
- EDSY
- Orbis
- Frontier Store
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