On 10 July 2017, Free Lives released the virtual reality game Gorn for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on Steam Early Access. Genital Jousting became the first game to be broadcast through Steam's live streaming feature. When Genital Jousting was banned from livestreaming service Twitch, Nigel Lowrie of Devolver Digital contacted Steam to see if the game could be livestreamed through the platform's internal broadcasting system. The studio stated in its developer blog that cisgender, heterosexual males are socialized not to discuss how they feel about anal sex or penises touching each other, and wrote: 'we were highly motivated by the fact that Genital Jousting gave us a vehicle to have those discussions amongst ourselves.' Greenwood told The Sunday Times that 'at heart, the game is a play on masculinity, an attempt to disrupt entrenched notions of male power and authority.' The game would not be allowed on major console platforms such as Xbox or PlayStation. Though Genital Jousting has been described as 'extraordinarily juvenile', it was designed in part to deliver a sex-positive message to an audience that might not come to hear it otherwise. In this multiplayer party game, players attempt to move flaccid, disembodied penises into disembodied anuses. Late 2016, Free Lives made the comedy game Genital Jousting available through the Steam Early Access program. After one of the Free Lives team members met publisher Devolver Digital at the A Maze indie festival in Berlin, Devolver Digital signed the studio on and Broforce was published in 2015.

Broforce was first officially released through Steam Greenlight in 2013, and received a spin-off titled The Expendabros in 2014. Rambros was soon renamed to Broforce and was made freely available on the Free Lives website the next year. Rambros was awarded for its graphics and humor at Ludum Dare, and Free Lives continued to expand and tweak the game in the following years. Video games įree Lives first got involved with the video game industry when the team entered Rambros, a pixel art 2D shooter game inspired by 1980s and 1990s action movies, in the April 2012 Ludum Dare game jam. As of 2017, some of the Free Lives staff lives on-site, making use of a communal kitchen. Free Lives staff have showcased their products at various North American and European game conventions, and was part of the Sony press conference at E3 2017. The titles developed by Free Lives do not sell well on the African continent and the studio's audience lies predominantly in the United States, as well as Europe, South America, and China. Free Lives was founded in April 2012 by video game programmer and creative director Evan Greenwood and is based on a property that is part studio, part house in Cape Town, South Africa.

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