5 things to know about billionaire Forrest Li's shooter game Free Fire
The huge variety of realistic weapons and wide range of avatars that players can choose have helped to make the kill-or-be-killed mobile phone game a worldwide success
Free Fire is a popular last-man-standing online survival shooter game that can be played on any mobile phone or tablet.
It involves about 30 to 40 players parachuting onto a remote island, where the priority is to kill (or be killed), as you try to pick up different weapons – mostly guns – and other items to eliminate all of your opponents.
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Billionaire game developer
Free Fire is not the first mobile survival game to be inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale. There is also PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) and Fortnite, both of which are huge hits.
Yet this has not failed to stop the rise in popularity of this new digital game, which shares some similarities with the Hunger Games films.
The worldwide success of the game has helped to make a billionaire of Forrest Li, founder and CEO of Sea, the Singapore-based parent company of the game’s developer, digital entertainment platform, Garena.