Free Guy

Free Guy was released in 2021 by director Shawn Levy. Free Guy is about an NPC character, Guy, who becomes self aware and decides he wants to take control over his life.  Guy is in the video game Free City where he meets Millie, a player, who is trying to find pieces of her game’s code in Free City. Guy develops a crush on Millie which leads him to help her out. 

Millie then finds out Guy is a NPC character from Keys, the co-creator of their previous game. Keys now works for the creator of Free City, Antwan. With the revelation of there being NPCs who have gained artificial intelligence, Millie and Keys know their code is copied for a fact. They work with Guy to bring this to light before Antwan deletes the game. In the end, they succeed. Keys and Millie get credit and money from their code being used in Free City. They also make a new game where all the NPCs get to live their own lives without players attacking them.