Elite Dangerous: Horizons will soon be free for all players

Frontier Developments has announced its plans to offer the massive Horizons expansion of the open-universe space-sim Elite Dangerous to all of its players for free. Starting October 27th, Horizons will be integrated into the base game and offer lots of exciting gameplay possibilites at no additional cost.

It’s always nice to get more content for a game you already own. But usually the extent of free content updates remains fairly minimal, with the odd title out basically giving full expansion after expansion for free. I’m looking at you No Man’s Sky.

So, it’s even more fitting that another title in the space-simulation genre is soon going a similar path with Elite Dangerous. The brilliant base game will integrate all contents of the Horizons expansion and feature an even larger amount of content than it already does.

Horizons launched way back in 2015 and introduced basic planetary landings and fittingly a vehicle to do it in style. Brilliant news for users who want to jump in the immersive world of the game and existing owners who never got the expansion in the first place.

The decision to offer Horizons for free comes as the launch of the second massive expansion Odyssey looms over the horizon – pun totally intended. Odyssey is ramping up the possibilites of planetary exploration by introducing on-foot gameplay on planets.

Seeing how both expansions revolve around getting up close with the many planets players encounter while zooming across the galaxy, it’s a very smart decision to not prevent the player base of getting splintered.

Elite Dangerous: Horizons will be available for free later next month, on October27th for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.