Elite Dangerous: Odyssey release date confirmed

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey developers Frontier Developments has confirmed the titles release date following a five-week public Alpha phase.

Released on May 19 for platforms including Windows PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store and FrontierStore.net, the launch of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey marks the next step in Frontier’s ‘long-term vision’ for the series, lauding it as a ‘new era’ for the space simulation. 

David Braben, Frontier’s CEO and founder, said: “This is the next step in what has already been an incredible journey and labour of love with Elite Dangerous since the Kickstarter over eight years ago. 

“The team have pulled off a fantastic achievement here across a mind-bending scale – from the detail within a human footprint to the vast distances across stellar systems and beyond is breathtaking, in a rich, detailed and accurate recreation of the Milky Way in 1:1 scale. 

“For me it is not just the detailed exploration and combat, but the gothic beauty of watching stars, planets, moons, moons-of-moons rise and fall or slowly pirouette in their often complex paths in the night sky, while each tiny dot or nebula in that sky is really there and can be visited.”

Odyssey allows players to touch down on newly accessible planets with light atmospheres rendered by new technology; to explore, to engage in combat and trade, take on missions, work together or alone over their surfaces with complete freedom from a first person, feet-on-the-ground perspective.

Prospective Commanders still have the chance to get hold of the exclusive Pioneer suit skin pre-ordering the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey expansion with an SRP of £29.99/$39.99/€34.99, or the new Deluxe Edition, with an SRP of £34.99/$44.99/€39.99. This includes the Odyssey expansion and the official soundtrack.

Releases on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One are planned for autumn 2021.