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Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War cover art

Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War

Volition Inc. · Interplay Inc. · 2014-05-07

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 2001 (Amiga), 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is an Action game released in 2014, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 245 reviews).

1
playing now
78%
positive of 245 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, known as Conflict: FreeSpace – The Great War in Europe, is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer game developed by Volition, when it was split off from Parallax Software, and published by Interplay Productions. In 2001, it was ported to the Amiga platform as FreeSpace: The Great War by Hyperion Entertainment. The game places players in the role of a human pilot, who operates in several classes of starfighter and combats against opposing forces, either human or alien, in various space-faring environments, such as in orbit above a planet or within an asteroid belt. The story of the game's single player campaign focuses on a war in the 24th century between two factions, one human and the other alien, that is interrupted in its fourteenth year by the arrival of an enigmatic and militant alien race, whose genocidal advance forces the two sides into a ceasefire in order to work together to halt the threat.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 245 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2013-12-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 13 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620142026Week of 2014-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.392015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $4.192015-06-02 — best price $5.992015-06-22 — best price $5.992015-11-14 — best price $5.992016-02-12 — best price $5.992016-05-24 — best price $2.392016-07-14 — best price $5.992016-12-05 — best price $2.392017-05-29 — best price $9.992017-11-02 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-03-12 — best price $4.992018-05-17 — best price $3.392018-08-27 — best price $6.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-13 — best price $3.392019-02-18 — best price $9.992019-07-18 — best price $4.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $4.992020-04-06 — best price $6.992020-07-31 — best price $3.492020-12-09 — best price $3.392021-05-06 — best price $4.992021-09-13 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $6.992022-09-29 — best price $6.992022-12-22 — best price $6.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-10-25 — best price $7.992024-02-05 — best price $7.992024-05-28 — best price $7.992024-10-16 — best price $7.992025-01-03 — best price $9.992025-05-22 — best price $9.992025-09-11 — best price $9.992025-10-28 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-08-28 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

205332026-05-31 — 49 pageviews2026-06-04 — 63 pageviews2026-06-08 — 48 pageviews2026-06-12 — 34 pageviews2026-06-16 — 50 pageviews2026-06-20 — 42 pageviews2026-06-24 — 205 pageviews2026-06-28 — 58 pageviews2026-07-02 — 53 pageviews2026-07-06 — 84 pageviews2026-07-10 — 76 pageviews2026-07-14 — 48 pageviews2026-07-18 — 61 pageviews2026-07-22 — 46 pageviews2026-07-26 — 43 pageviews2026-07-30 — 62 pageviews2026-08-03 — 41 pageviews2026-08-07 — 47 pageviews2026-08-11 — 40 pageviews2026-08-15 — 35 pageviews2026-08-19 — 62 pageviews2026-08-23 — 63 pageviews2026-08-27 — 61 pageviews2026-08-31 — 50 pageviews2026-09-04 — 49 pageviews2026-09-08 — 54 pageviews2026-09-12 — 45 pageviews2026-09-16 — 37 pageviews2026-09-20 — 48 pageviews2026-09-24 — 49 pageviews2026-09-28 — 55 pageviews2026-10-02 — 37 pageviews2026-10-06 — 53 pageviews2026-10-10 — 48 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

Player tags

FPSWar6DOFSpaceActionFlightSci-fiShooterSpace SimSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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