Head to head

Elite: Dangerous vs Trove

Elite: Dangerous

Live

510 – 240k daily

Trove

Live

52 – 24k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

July 2015 · 11 years ago

Daily players

510 – 240k

52 – 24k

Estimated players

38.5k0.1%

15.5k2.6%

Available on

macOS
PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

macOS
Nintendo
PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Elite: DangerousTrove

Elite: Dangerous

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~77.6k	Up 102%
July 2026	~38.4k	Up 0.4%
June 2026	~38.3k	Up 0.3%
May 2026	~38.2k	—

Trove

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~23.9k	Up 52%
July 2026	~15.6k	Down 4.5%
June 2026	~16.4k	Down 3.4%
May 2026	~17k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Discord members

Elite: Dangerous: —
Trove: 39.9kUp 0.8%

Trove currently has 39,882 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Elite: Dangerous.

Reddit members

Elite: Dangerous: —
Trove: 49.4kUp 0.9%

Trove currently has 49,405 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Elite: Dangerous.

How these estimates are made

Elite: Dangerous

Elite: Dangerous is estimated to have 510 – 240k players a day. Around 130k – 13m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

Trove

Trove is estimated to have 52 – 24k players a day. Around 22k – 2m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.