There is no real freedom, I realize. We're just in the game. Just with different rules and players. Everything has its own rules and no matter what game we are playing, we always have to follow the rules of that game.
Yes, all this is just an illusion, a simulator for our development, for comprehending ourselves.
We can play against the rules, which in principle we do (we eat incorrectly, are immersed in complete ignorance, are at war with each other, etc.). But then the effect of karma works and therefore we get bad health and various problems.
Or we can play by the rules of God. Then what problems will we have if God is on our side? And this does not mean that we have no freedom, everything is very ambiguous. It is when you manifest your creative individuality that you follow God's plans and become God-like yourself.
But it is important to understand that this game was originally created by ourselves. We are all from one source (creator), but at the same time we are many and we are all individual. Each at its own level of development (minerals, plants, insects, animals, people, planets, stars, constellations, universes, multiverse, etc. This goes to infinity in any direction, because we exist outside of time and space, this the material world is just an illusion, in which it seems to us that everything has an end, but it is not.