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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

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

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 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

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 56% of 10,819 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

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

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 20 of 30 observed days · $17.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 0 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

205312026-05-31 — 49 pageviews2026-06-03 — 67 pageviews2026-06-06 — 68 pageviews2026-06-09 — 35 pageviews2026-06-12 — 34 pageviews2026-06-15 — 45 pageviews2026-06-18 — 40 pageviews2026-06-21 — 62 pageviews2026-06-24 — 205 pageviews2026-06-27 — 39 pageviews2026-06-30 — 53 pageviews2026-07-03 — 72 pageviews2026-07-06 — 84 pageviews2026-07-09 — 83 pageviews2026-07-12 — 59 pageviews2026-07-15 — 42 pageviews2026-07-18 — 61 pageviews2026-07-21 — 68 pageviews2026-07-24 — 53 pageviews2026-07-27 — 45 pageviews2026-07-30 — 62 pageviews2026-08-02 — 48 pageviews2026-08-05 — 45 pageviews2026-08-08 — 41 pageviews2026-08-11 — 40 pageviews2026-08-14 — 41 pageviews2026-08-17 — 51 pageviews2026-08-20 — 127 pageviews2026-08-23 — 63 pageviews2026-08-26 — 57 pageviews2026-08-28 — 64 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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