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Freespace 2 cover art

Freespace 2

Volition Inc · Interplay Corp · 2014-06-06

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 30, 1999 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

FreeSpace 2, the follow up to the classic Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is ready to engage you in the second round. Follow the Grand Terran Vasudan Alliance further into the mysteries of the Shivans. Get your flight stick and hit the flight deck. The last time was just a warm up.

0
playing now
78%
positive of 320 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

FreeSpace 2 is a 1999 space combat simulation video game developed by Volition as the sequel to Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War. It was completed ahead of schedule in less than a year, and released to very positive reviews, but the game became a commercial failure, and was described by certain critics as one of 1999's most unfairly overlooked titles.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 52% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.0k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 320 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at GOG (2018-09-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 5 of 12 observed days · $22.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 1 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 — 0 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-02 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-11-14 — best price $9.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-05-24 — best price $3.992016-10-03 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-07-31 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-02-17 — best price $3.392018-03-27 — best price $3.392018-06-04 — best price $3.392018-09-03 — best price $2.492018-11-01 — best price $9.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-03-11 — best price $6.992019-07-22 — best price $9.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992019-12-11 — best price $3.392020-03-30 — best price $9.992020-08-03 — best price $9.992020-12-12 — best price $9.992021-06-18 — best price $3.392021-10-28 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $7.992022-11-24 — best price $7.992023-01-14 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992024-02-13 — best price $9.992024-06-05 — best price $9.992024-11-26 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-11-04 — best price $24.992026-08-30 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

213382026-06-01 — 86 pageviews2026-06-04 — 79 pageviews2026-06-07 — 56 pageviews2026-06-10 — 70 pageviews2026-06-13 — 53 pageviews2026-06-16 — 68 pageviews2026-06-19 — 72 pageviews2026-06-22 — 63 pageviews2026-06-25 — 54 pageviews2026-06-28 — 92 pageviews2026-07-01 — 69 pageviews2026-07-04 — 87 pageviews2026-07-07 — 67 pageviews2026-07-10 — 67 pageviews2026-07-13 — 75 pageviews2026-07-16 — 55 pageviews2026-07-19 — 58 pageviews2026-07-22 — 56 pageviews2026-07-25 — 72 pageviews2026-07-28 — 70 pageviews2026-07-31 — 73 pageviews2026-08-03 — 65 pageviews2026-08-06 — 51 pageviews2026-08-09 — 58 pageviews2026-08-12 — 58 pageviews2026-08-15 — 55 pageviews2026-08-18 — 82 pageviews2026-08-21 — 99 pageviews2026-08-24 — 74 pageviews2026-08-27 — 63 pageviews2026-08-29 — 66 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

6DOFEpicSpaceActionFlightSci-fiClassicModdableSpace SimSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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