Who owns Free Fire?
Free Fire is owned by Sea (Singapore, NYSE: SE).[1]
Evidence: Sea Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sea Limited verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
- Origin
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Internet & digital › Platforms & devices › Video games
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SE
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Free Fire
Free Fire is a battle royale mobile game released in December 2017 and the first title Sea developed entirely in-house. It carried the company's games business beyond Southeast Asia and Taiwan and is now available on the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store in more than 160 markets. Sea states that it contributed a significant majority of digital entertainment revenue and profit in 2025. It has been unavailable in India since unanticipated government action in early 2022.
What Sea's annual report says about Free Fire
Sentences about Free Fire from Sea's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
For example, due to unanticipated government actions, in early 2022, Free Fire was made unavailable in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store in India, and currently remains unavailable.
In 2025, Free Fire contributed a significant majority of our digital entertainment revenue and profits.
How often Sea names Free Fire in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Free Fire
Where Free Fire sits in Sea
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sea
Sea controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in video games, and who owns them
The 69 brands in video games on Brandtree belong to 18 owners. The largest is Take-Two, with 7.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fantasy Westward Journey | NetEase | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| 2K | Take-Two | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Apex Legends | EA | 🇺🇸 United States |
| eFootball | Konami | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Bingo Blitz | Playtika | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| Mega Man | Capcom | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Animal Crossing | Nintendo | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Football Manager | Sega Sammy | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Sea
Sea is a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore, Singapore, founded in 2009. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SE.
Sea Limited is a technology company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on 8 May 2009 and run from Singapore, where its principal executive offices are at 1 Fusionopolis Place. It operates three businesses in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Latin America: the e-commerce platform Shopee, the digital financial services business Monee, and the games developer and publisher Garena, which it began at its own inception in 2009. It conducts much of its business through subsidiaries and variable interest entities, and its American depositary shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
🇸🇬 Free Fire and other Singaporean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 36 brands that began in Singapore. 10 of them (28%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Free Fire is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Free Fire?
The parent company of Free Fire is Sea, a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore.
Is Free Fire Singaporean?
Yes. Free Fire originated in Singapore in 2017 and its owner, Sea, is also headquartered in Singapore.
Is Free Fire still owned by Sea?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Free Fire is still owned by Sea. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sea Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 April 2026; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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