Combat Wings: Battle of Britain
Combat Wings: Battle of Britain
Game
Game2009
Project Freedom
Developer City Interactive
Get your dream job with a company called Project Freedom. Become a space pilot and serve for the corporation. You're going to get all the excitement and adventure you've ever wanted. Perhaps even more... 21 missions in the campaign Outstanding 3D graphics and special effects Original storyline with unexpected turns and surprises A... From the Steam store page
114 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Oct 26, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
75 positive · 24 negative
95% range 66–83%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 75 | 24 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
83 of 107 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 74 yes, 24 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 98 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (176 of 214 positive).
Some reviewers note technical issues like cutscene problems and lack of widescreen support. [1][2][3] Several players criticize the shallow gameplay, repetitive missions, and weak story. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
Pros pretty enough for me (not hard) control is responsive runs smooth on older PC Cons mouse is not locked to game screen on multi monitor setups voice acting is sometimes bad friendly AI does nothing secondary weapons are only good against stationary targets controls are limited gameplay is shallow gfx settings are limited music is repeditive and doesnt match the gameplay "Right between the eyes!"
- [7]
Better than the Strike Suit games, imo. One of the better space fighter combat games I've played. The tech is obviously old, but it runs super smooth, doesn't look half bad design-wise, and most importantly, is actually fun to play. I have some gripes with it: The friendly AI is only useful for distracting enemy fire, so in escort missions (of which there are sadly many) you're practically on your own. Buildings and …
- [14]
It's a very linear space fighter game wherein the general idea is "crush kill destroy you are the STRONGEST IN THE UNIVERSE". You get to upgrade your ship as time passes, but that's the only customization there is; minimal replay value due to exactly one campaign and no modding. Story's okay, voice acting's generally good but has a few terribad spots, mostly where the script obviously wanted characters to be …
- [1]
The game cutscenes don't work on modern OS, you'll need to replace a dll file and won't be able to watch them. It's very generic but fun to kill some time.
- [8]
A short Action-Shooter in space (~4h to complete). No more, no less. Runs smoothly on my win7 64bit machine. I bought it for 1€ on Winter Sale, worth it.
Summarised from 34 of the 113 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Project Freedom talk about fun and fast-paced space combat; those who didn't talk about technical issues with cutscenes and resolution. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 114 · most liked firstA short Action-Shooter in space (~4h to complete). No more, no less. Runs smoothly on my win7 64bit machine. I bought it for 1€ on Winter Sale, worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better than the Strike Suit games, imo. One of the better space fighter combat games I've played. The tech is obviously old, but it runs super smooth, doesn't look half bad design-wise, and most importantly, is actually fun to play. I have some gripes with it: The friendly AI is only useful for distracting enemy fire, so in escort missions (of which there are sadly many) you're practically on your own. Buildings and other structures have invisible walls around them, so even if you think you're…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's suppose to be a action based Simulation right? Well it's more a lowered down version of Free lancer, whats diffrent here you think? They take away all your freedom to do as pleased and instead you are forced on each mission but before you go out on mission you can choose which upgrade you want to get upgraded from the reward and the things you can level are Attack, Defence and Speed. You can to select easyli what upgrade to take and sometimes you get your weapon /sheild / engines…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very linear space fighter game wherein the general idea is "crush kill destroy you are the STRONGEST IN THE UNIVERSE". You get to upgrade your ship as time passes, but that's the only customization there is; minimal replay value due to exactly one campaign and no modding. Story's okay, voice acting's generally good but has a few terribad spots, mostly where the script obviously wanted characters to be interrupted but the devteam didn't bother making the pauses between different…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A quick fun arcade space shooter with cool old school space visuals. No bugs or glitches and provides a couple days worth of good entertainment.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros pretty enough for me (not hard) control is responsive runs smooth on older PC Cons mouse is not locked to game screen on multi monitor setups voice acting is sometimes bad friendly AI does nothing secondary weapons are only good against stationary targets controls are limited gameplay is shallow gfx settings are limited music is repeditive and doesnt match the gameplay "Right between the eyes!"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you´re looking for an arcade spaceship game, this is a great option. Good graphics, lots of complimentary dialogues, even a quick save option. Cool techno soundtrack. No sandbox, only a series of missions with very specific objectives. I´ve been looking for nothing but space ship games in the last four months or so. I´ve completed five of them, ditched four, and am currently playing this plus six others. Of the six I´m playing now, this is the most balanced in terms of graphics, story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE STARTING: Go into the game folder and cut/paste or move all the movie (Mpeg I think) files to a different directory. You can even watch them with a media player if you want. Just don't let the game use them. Also, the highest resolution seems buggy. BUT, if you get past that it's a very fun little space shooter.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, simple basic game. If you tried X Rebirth or Parkan 2 like me and immediately got lost, this is the game for you. The controls are mostly good but the ones for roll were a bit idiosyncratic so I re-mapped them. Be advised that in this game if you want to remap buttons, you have to make sure that you are using buttons that aren't already used for another function. This means that if you really want to change the controls, you have to first assign actions to buttons you don't use, then…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was awesome until we got to mission 21. The end was unfinished when the after objection was complete. Needs conclusion after this, their were no promotion, acknowledgements of any kind. Just nothing really.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trump backed down from Project Freedom because Saudi Arabia and Kuwait suspended use of their airspace and bases by US forces. I agree that he isn't playing 4D chess. He's playing at the level of "War" or "Go Fish." He's also playing the game of "Trading on Insider Information."
neutral · AI labelView post →Worth the 50 cents I paid for it. The voice acting is actually kind of funny, so often these cheap flight sims have terrible storylines and acting but this one made me laugh at the quips a few times. The secondary weapons are kind of useless and you get a lot of ammo but overall the combat was nice. I just wish it supported a joystick or game controller but a mouse works alright.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is pretty basic - but good. What this game is: and eye hand coordination game. The controller is the mouse. you point where you want to go, and the mouse wheel is your throttle. If you bother to adjust your mouse sensitivity in the options, it's pretty fun - left button is shoot, right button is missiles. There's no oscar winning backstory - you're a corporate spacefighter pilot. They tell you how to win the level, and you do it. There's no payoffs at the end of the missions, no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is not bad, but is so unpolished that you can't even choose a 16:9 resolution... and that's not all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I quit at the 11th mission because I can't find the things I need to blow up. The HUD is near useless in all occasions, but is absolutely worthless in the canyons. A shame, as I've mostly enjoyed it up until now. The game isn't particularly difficult or even all that engaging. Mission variety is pretty small. The systems you're supposed to be going to are not within Sol, but might as well be because we see planets from our solar system. It's a weird disconnect. Voice acting is mostly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How does one appropriately rate a game? With Project Freedom, it was a difficult choice. Let's talk about the good things about Project Freedom. It's pretty fast-paced, and the actual gameplay--space fighter combat--is quite enjoyable. You have several weapons available, useful for different things. Lasers are good for taking down enemy fighters. Missiles and the plasma weapon are good for targeting large buildings on planets, freighters, and capital ships. The gameplay itself is pretty…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent space shooter that offers an afternoon's worth of gameplay. You will have a good afternoon.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game, especially for its modding value. Sure, it's just brainless shooting, but at least its graphics are pretty good. And it runs on old graphics hardware too (albeit with low frame rates)! I'm making a mod right now, that's due in a few days. If you like to kill 20-minute chunks of time, and want a bit of difficulty, you'll like this. Public review update: I still enjoy this game. Yes, the story is shallow, voiceovers sometimes annoying, and the missions all playing the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game cutscenes don't work on modern OS, you'll need to replace a dll file and won't be able to watch them. It's very generic but fun to kill some time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The stench of the mid 2000s is almost too much to bare but I love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very decent old-tech space shooter for a buck or less. Your fighter is equipped with several types of blasters and missiles and slowly upgrades as you get through missions. Point and shoot, and try to stay alive. 8.5h to play through the entire campaign on 'explore' mode. NPC chatter gets repetitive. Decent bit of entertainment for a decent price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game does not run, despite recommended fixes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Trashcan
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Came out the year after Freelancer, somewhat similar controls - just much worse. Game is on rails, mission here mission there etc. Not very interesting gameplay, narrative or story(only played 40 mins of it though). Tbh i'm wondering about refunding it, but it was only £1, not sure I cba, definitely cba to play any more of it. Freelancer has spoiled me I'm afraid..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Freedom is a space combat title that reflects a particular era of mid-to-late 2000s game design, offering a blend of arcade-style action and light simulation wrapped in a straightforward science-fiction premise. Developed by City Interactive and published by CI Games, the game casts the player as a newly recruited pilot enlisted in the Project Freedom program, a corporate-backed initiative that sends mercenary pilots into dangerous missions across space and hostile planetary…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent (but short) shooter with nice graphics for its time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nah. It's a bit of a waste of time. Controllers don't feel natural and the aiming has this weird jittery quality, because of the aim-assist. Friendly AI is useless, which can be a problem during more complex objectives where they're supposed to be covering you. It's a very repetitive on top of all that. It's stupidly cheap on sales, but it's not worth your time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice combat game. Runs on full screen with no problem and looks nice.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Freedom being game from almost 10 years ago, looks pretty good but ultimately failed to deliver solid gameplay. The plot is derivative, the action is derivative, and even the missions are kinda meh. Graphics are above average, but being that old, lacks widescreen support, and ultimately the UI will be stretched if you hacked it. PF feels like a derivative of the Star Wars games; Rebel Assault and Starfighter. You fly by pointing the cursor in a certain direction, and the craft will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i flew up to some aliens they called me communist 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old but gold! Great game for 2 hours of fun chilling in the galaxy, brings back some good memories.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →voice over gets annoying after the third time you hear "we have a new ace here" within 10 seconds. Mouse only no skill required. There may be some keys that you could use but never found any other need than holding down left mouse button and using scroll wheel to speed up or slow down. Also god forbid you have two monitors cause the game will lose focus if you accidentally mouse out of your first screen (every 5 minutes)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I payed about 0.75 for this game...and...i got my money's worth. lovely visuals and...gameplay that's been thrown together. Feels like a beta or a cheap indie game. Had potential but feels wasted.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An alright game. Short, but worth more than the $3 you pay for it. Only critisisms being the movie audio doesn't play properly(theres only like 4 in the entire game), no high res/windowed mode, "W" and "S" are roll left and right.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had so much fun playing this game. Or at least in the first half, before it started to get repetitive, but even then it was still fun. The soundtrack is full of bangers, and the visuals are gorgeous. They even tried to make the environment change as much as they could, even though the gameplay's basically always the same. However, you ain't gonna use anything other than your primary weapons for most of the game, unless the target isn't moving, because none of the missiles can hit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty decent small game that doesn’t waste your time and throws you straight into the action. The upgrade system is fairly primitive, but by the end, you’ll have everything maxed out anyway. The game is quite short — a couple of dozen missions that take around four hours to finish — but at least it doesn’t overstay its welcome. I also found the friendly banter between the allies pretty funny. I played it back in 2009 when it first came out, but I could never beat the final mission. Finally,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just proceed to waypoint.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For some reason my sample core ends up in the ‘Unspecified’ category but hey, at least it shows up on the pocket and does its thing (which is currently…nothing. It’s just Analog’s template code for now). #AnaloguePocket #FPGA #Indiedev #ProjectFreedom #pfx
neutral · AI labelView post →A very fun if unremarkable space shooter. For $3, and on sale just 89 cents, you really can't go wrong. Controls are simple, and you will occasionally be killed by missiles if you aren't careful. Missions are sort of wave based but the actual missions themselves do vary a nice amount. Honestly, quite a hidden gem as for an older game the graphics have held up quite nicely and framerate is amazing (On my 2013 laptop with 6gb ram and integrated graphics I got >200fps), and the game mechanics are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got for a buck. Dont buy this full price. LOL Voice actings pretty awful, translations are bad. The guided missiles dont actually guide for piss.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Controls are great although I had to shift mine from the typical wasd over one key to the right... The default for tilt left is W and tilt right is S. Makes no sense. Also there is one speed, no coasting, no stopping, but eventually boosting. Flight control is spot on with mouse aiming. For $0.50 cents its worth it(you have 37 hours before it goes back to full price). Its almost up there with Descent in quality. No achievements, no multiplayer. So its like Skyrim... in space.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flight with space ship game.. I recommend this one beause its some what fun on a scale to 10 I say 5. It has great keyboard & mouse control setup for easy game play. Its low end so far are the graphics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2560 x 1440 resolution didn't work on my monitor
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Operation Epic Fury… Project Freedom I’m so sick of having a board game teenager as our Sec of Defense
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a fun little time waster, once you figure out how to get it running. It's no Star Wars game, but good enough for a few hours of shooter fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Besides the horrible storyline this game was alot of fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heya folks, here's a short featuring the intro to Project Freedom by City Interactive and Ci Games. This game doesn't have subtitles for its cutscenes, so I added some to the video. I'll have a proper short featuring the game soon. #projectfreedom #videogames #retrogaming #spacesim #gameplay
neutral · AI labelView post →Doesn't work worth a sh!t on Windows 11. You have to delete all of the *.mpg files in the movies folder or the game will crash when it tries to play any of them. I only paid $0.68 for it so whatever.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mediocre game, where you have to delete the video files to get it running on modern systems. The controls are not really good, they are barely usable. At least the graphics are okay and the game runs smooth. You can skip this game without missing out. My rating 5/10, not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If only I was a little faster, I could beat this game and refund it. incredibly short, arcade-like game. Fun to shoot stuff in it and fun to fly around, cool mecahnics. Good enough game, but I would buy it for reduced price tho.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →👾 Just posted pf-dev-tools v1.0.5: ✅ Added better user feedback when docker image needs downloading. ✅ Renamed Environment to SConsEnvironment. ✅ Added an automatic check for when updates are available. ✅ Improved the way some error messages are displayed. https://pypi.org/project/pf-dev-tools/ #OpenFPGA #FPGA #AnaloguePocket #ProjectFreedom #pfx1
neutral · AI labelView post →New blog post: Hello, World! Catching up on the state of my fantasy console #FPGA project. Real code builds, processor is emulated in the simulator and more! 🎉🕹️👾 https://didier.malenfant.net/blog/projectfreedom/2023/02/27/hello-world.html #ProjectFreedom #pfx #GameDev #IndieDev
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie is worth 24000 words a second, right? Here is a bit of the firmware code, then a bit of sample code to test printf (and my libc), the bootstrapping code on the hardware, the bare bones gfx chip and the result on the simulator. The code gets compiled to 68000 assembly and runs emulated on the simulator, which is also emulating the gfx chip (which doesn't do much at the moment, just clear the screen and swap display buffers). BUT IT WORKS!!!!! 😱😍🎉🍾 #ProjectFreedom #GameDev #IndieDev
neutral · AI labelView post →Very nice old-school space shooter game. And amazing soundtrack!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is actually really good fun, I would love if they would fix a few issues like proper 16.9 support and maybe add rumble feature, or even better a remastered version... but its great as it is especially for the price and I have made it look pretty good with some control panel tweaks - sharpening - and registry tweak for resolution. I would highly recommend this if you like space shooters.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I own these old games. They are old but so gold.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great nostalgic oldschool shoot-em-up game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Freedom fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on, good amount of action and special effects, good game. Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.99 Or Less During Sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →completed the gmae
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