

And what a good decision it was since it made its founder, Li Xiaodong, one of the few developers to become a billionaire thanks to a mobile game. 111dots Studio was easily bought by the Singaporean Garena, becoming their first proprietary game.

Contrary to what its name might suggest, Garena only published the game, as it was in fact developed by a small Vietnamese company, 111dots Studio.įree Fire is not the product of a big studio, even locally. Free Fire (also referred to as Garena Free Fire) is a third-person shooter battle royale game exclusively released on mobile devices in 2017.
