Posted on: May 23, 2025
itsvance01
Verified ownerGames: 99 Reviews: 2
As good as I remember it
Played this when it was first released and its still as good as I remember.
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Wing Commander ®: Privateer ™
Description
Includes the Wing Commander Privateer: Righteous Fire expansion.
2669, Gemini Sector, Troy System. The Terran frontier between the Kilrathi Empire and the unknown. Privateer takes you to the seamy side of the Wing Commander universe. In the far reaches of space, you live by no man’s rules but your own. The fringes are populated by a volatile mix of pirates, miners, mercs, cutthroats, and Kilrathi, all struggling to make a life for themselves.
In this open-ended game you can choose from many paths. You start with a rusted scout ship and a handful of credits in your pocket. It isn't much, but the universe is there for you to explore in search for profitable opportunities. Become a patient, law-abiding merchant, a smuggler far away from the normal space lanes, a pirate preying on the weak, or a professional mercenary hunting down criminal scum. Or just do whatever suits you at the time. At the end of the day, it’s all about money and survival. Mostly money.
Are you determined enough to forge your own destiny?
2669, Gemini Sector, Troy System. The Terran frontier between the Kilrathi Empire and the unknown. Privateer takes you to the seamy side of the Wing Commander universe. In the far reaches of space, you live by no man’s rules but your own. The fringes are populated by a volatile mix of pirates, miners, mercs, cutthroats, and Kilrathi, all struggling to make a life for themselves.
In this open-ended game you can choose from many paths. You start with a rusted scout ship and a handful of credits in your pocket. It isn't much, but the universe is there for you to explore in search for profitable opportunities. Become a patient, law-abiding merchant, a smuggler far away from the normal space lanes, a pirate preying on the weak, or a professional mercenary hunting down criminal scum. Or just do whatever suits you at the time. At the end of the day, it’s all about money and survival. Mostly money.
Are you determined enough to forge your own destiny?
- Customize your ship according to your needs and budget, modifying weapons, armor, and other systems.
- Choose the life of a pirate, merchant, or mercenary. As long as you keep a couple of steps ahead of your enemies and a couple of bucks in the black, you’re a free agent.
- Explore a vast universe with countless bases and planets spread out across dozens of systems. Adventure, trade, and exploration are limitless, even after you’ve finished the main game
© 1993 Electronic Arts Inc.
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manual
reference card
production documents
artworks
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wallpaper
playtester's guide
System requirements
This game is powered by DOSBox.
Time to beat
11.5 hMain
24.5 h Main + Sides
47.5 h Completionist
20.5 h All Styles
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User reviews
Posted on: May 26, 2025
ktm500mx
Verified ownerGames: 24 Reviews: 2
great game
great game excellent re playabilty
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Posted on: June 17, 2025
SparkyPatriot1
Games: 4 Reviews: 1
Played for Years a decade ago
Very much worth doing over from scratch. Highly addictive.
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Posted on: July 6, 2025
jonathanklwood_093
Verified ownerGames: 19 Reviews: 2
classic open-ended game
great game with different locations, enough independant contracts to stay busy for a year, a huge sandbox and a story line waiting for you on New Detroit.
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Posted on: August 11, 2025
-refinedsugar-
Verified ownerGames: 4 Reviews: 2
I bought the "hype"
GOG's last big summer sale, I catch that Privateer is going for peanuts and say why not for a couple of bucks. Being I was a big fan of WC 3 / WC4 back in the day and enjoy simple space sims with a degree of freedom a la 'Escape Velocity' or 'Endless Sky'. This is what I get for listening to five star reviews. If you ever wondered what a Wing Commander game would feel like if the grandiose story, characters were stripped away ... this is it. You have the choice to be a galactic trader, pirate or bounty hunter, but that's fun for about five minutes and it took grinding to get into a decent ship with fighting capabilities for the latter. You can eventually pursue the one story arch found in-game, but it's hardly satisfying or all that deep. As a WC game the in-cockpit space portion of the game is both familiar and graphics sufficient, but as there isn't any depth or substance to be found beneath it, I started to get bored and then wondered what all the nostalgic fuss was about. If you want a trip down WC memory lane before FMV took over it's a flashback, but "elite classic" it is not.
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