CentralNotice Elite: Dangerous From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Elite 4" redirects here. For the Pokémon characters, see List of Pokémon characters § Elite Four . Elite: Dangerous Elite: Dangerous logo Developer(s) Frontier Developments Designer(s) David Braben Engine COBRA [ 1 ] Platform(s) Microsoft Windows , OS X Release date(s) WW December 16, 2014 [ 2 ] Genre(s) Space trading and combat , MMO , [ 3 ] first-person shooter in a later expansion [ 4 ] Mode(s) Online multiplayer , online single-player Elite: Dangerous is a space adventure, trading, and combat simulator that is the fourth installment in the Elite video game series. Piloting a spaceship, the player explores a realistic 1:1 scale open world galaxy based on the real Milky Way , and the gameplay is open-ended . The game is the first ...