Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is an action game released in 2021. It has received 9,450 Steam reviews with a mixed rating (43% positive). Frontier Developments developed and published the title.
Overview
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is a 2021 Action game developed by Frontier Developments and published by Frontier Developments. On Steam it has gathered 9,448 player reviews, 43% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Frontier Developments with publisher Frontier Developments is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 312,000 to 727,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
9,448
Positive
43%
Steam appid
1336350
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0312K to 727K
units (median: 520K)
≈ $2.7M to $6.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_43% | -10 |
| final NB | 55 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey at roughly 312,000 to 727,000 copies, with a median around 520,000, derived from its 9,448 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $9.84Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $9.84 to $14.99, averaging $14.08 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $9.84 on 2026-03-31.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Elite Dangerous: Odyssey sold?
- indielist estimates Elite Dangerous: Odyssey has sold between 311,784 and 727,496 units (median 519,640), derived from its 9,448 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Elite Dangerous: Odyssey?
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey was developed by Frontier Developments and published by Frontier Developments.
- When was Elite Dangerous: Odyssey released?
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Elite Dangerous: Odyssey have on Steam?
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey has 9,448 Steam reviews, of which 43% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Elite Dangerous: Odyssey within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Frontier Developments's other releases and Frontier Developments's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Elite Dangerous: Odyssey sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Elite Dangerous: Odyssey page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.