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E-sport, Free Fire

Written by: Aarjan Khadka - 29003, Grade VI

Posted on: 21 July, 2022

Free Fire was made in Singapore in 2017. It was developed by 111 dots studio and published by Garena. It became the most downloaded mobile game of 2019. Free Fire has set a record of 80 million players by online playing . There are two types of Free Fire; Free Fire and Free Fire Max

Free Fire as the local one game size is 381 MB, Free fire max is 533 MB game. There are lots of differences between those two. They  both have nice performance on PC and mobile. It is a battle royale type video game which has been created in Morocco. Due to its popularity, the game was awarded the "Best Popular Voting Game" award by the Google Play Store in 2019. The PC players are also known as emulator players. The player's goal is to survive on an island with a maximum of 50-51 players online which requires eliminating any opponents the player faces on their way and making sure they are the only survivors left. The last player or the last team alive wins the round and therefore, a top 1, or victory royale.

This game gained around 182 million downloads in 2018, making it the second most downloaded Battle Royale mobile game. In February 2020, Free Fire had 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store. There are several different game modes and new ones are kept on introduced such as classic mode, ranked game, rushed hour etc.