Apex Legends vs Freelancer

Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale built around squads of “Legends” with unique abilities, praised for its fast, fluid movement, gunplay, and ping communication system.

Eight hundred years after mankind fled a war-torn Earth, descendants of the original colonization ships have built flourishing new societies in the distant Sirius sector. Divided among four distinct Houses—Liberty, Bretonia, Kusari, and Rheinland—these colonies trade, compete, and struggle for supremacy across a volatile frontier filled with valuable resources and hidden dangers. Players take on the role of a spacefarer navigating this sprawling, living universe. Engage in intense dogfights, establish profitable trade routes between star systems, and uncover a gripping science fiction narrative or carve your own path through the sandbox galaxy in single-player or multiplayer modes.

• Excellent gunplay and movement
• Free to play
• Great non-verbal comms
• Strong hero design

• Immersive and living open-world galaxy to explore
• Engaging blend of flight combat and economic trading
• Compelling sci-fi narrative steeped in colonization lore
• Robust multiplayer support for playing with others

• Squad play can frustrate solos
• Grindy cosmetics
• Steep aim skill ceiling

• Dated graphics compared to modern space simulators
• Can be difficult to find physical copies due to its age
• Limited depth in faction management outside of combat and trade