Freelancer: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Freelancer (2003) is a shooter, simulator, adventure video game developed by Digital Anvil, available on PC. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 77/100 on IGDB.

What is Freelancer about?

Eight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.

Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems

Key details

Freelancer was released in 2003 and supports single player, multiplayer. Platforms: PC. Developer: Digital Anvil.

Should you play Freelancer?

A solid 77/100 aggregate score makes Freelancer a safe pick for fans of shooter, simulator, adventure.