Warframe
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ActionRPGFree To PlayLooter ShooterAction RPGThird-Person ShooterThird PersonMassively Multiplayer

49,869 playing#18 on Steam by players#18 on Steam

Peak in the last 24 hours: 80,439

Peak in the last 7 days: 90,162

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Game description

Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

Basic info

DeveloperDigital Extremes
PublisherDigital Extremes
PlatformsWindows
Steam DeckVerified
Release dateMar 25, 2013
Price

Minimum specs

OSWindows 7 64-Bit (32-bit not supported)
ProcessorIntel Core i7 860, Intel Core i5 750, or AMD FX-4100 (SSE 4.2 support required)
Memory4 GB
GraphicsDirectX 11+ capable Graphics Card
Storage75 GB
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Review Analysis Score

Based on 374 reviews from the past 1 year

82.4/ 100
Top 50%

Steam rating: Very Positive (88%)

Metacritic: 69 /100

Review analysis summary (Reviewed Oct 12, 2026)

Free, huge and hard to learn, Warframe holds 82.4 from 681,638 Steam reviews, and players praise how fairly it charges.

👍 Strengths

Pricing & Fairness ranks 5th of 1399, and comes up in 51% of analyzed reviews; 36 reviews praise monetization without pay to win. 97 describe how addictive it is, some with hundreds of hours in a few weeks. Content Volume ranks 127th of 1351, with 35 pointing to thousands of hours of content. Multiplayer ranks 86th of 642, and players describe an unusually friendly community and deep build crafting. Tech & Support ranks 28th of 1399.

👎 Where it falls short

The same depth is the barrier. 57 reviews call it complex and overwhelming for new players, and 54 describe a grind made worse by bad luck with drops. 19 find the missions repetitive, with the same objectives again and again. Others say a damage cap hurt build freedom, and a few describe account bans they felt were not properly investigated.

Representative reviews Original reviews ↗

“addictive potential is no joke, 466 hours in 52 days” · 97 reviews
“excellent monetization without pay-to-win” · 36 reviews
“1800 hours of content and achievements to complete” · 35 reviews

How it holds up

−50+5

Controls, difficulty, progression and depth
Mentioned in 69% of reviews · Top 50% of the games we've analyzed

Strategy +3.10 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
Positive “deep build crafting and synergy system” · 16 reviews
Negative “разработчики ограничили разнообразие игровых стилей и запретили интересные тактики” · 2 reviews

Progression 47% · Difficulty 6% · Onboarding 29% · Freedom 10% · Controls & feel 13%

Plot, characters and the world
Mentioned in 34% of reviews · Bottom 50% of the games we've analyzed

Story +2.50 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
Positive “story has genuine wild turns with heart and weirdness, genuinely surprising narrative” · 15 reviews
Negative “poorly written, buggy, incoherent mess of an update, flat uninteresting characters” · 7 reviews

Characters 4% · World 13%

How much there is to do, variety and replay value
Mentioned in 53% of reviews · Top 10% of the games we've analyzed

Volume +4.18 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price
Positive “1800 hours of content and achievements to complete” · 35 reviews
Negative “too little content, cannot play 25 hours daily” · 6 reviews

Variety 25% · Replayability 4%

Graphics, art style, music and sound
Mentioned in 18% of reviews · Top 40% of the games we've analyzed

Visuals +3.32 · Graphics, art style, and animation
Positive “graphically beautiful at times with emotionally compelling narrative content” · 13 reviews

Audio 6%

Playing with others, the community and servers
Mentioned in 36% of reviews · Top 20% of the games we've analyzed

Community +3.86 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly
Positive “best community ever seen in gaming” · 21 reviews

Playing together 20% · Servers & Connection 1%

Pricing, cheaters, balance and matchmaking
Mentioned in 51% of reviews · Top 1% of the games we've analyzed

Pricing +1.42 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
Positive “excellent monetization without pay-to-win” · 36 reviews
Negative “regional restrictions block marketplace and in-game purchases entirely” · 12 reviews

Anti-cheat 1% · Balance 11% · Matchmaking 1%

Bugs, performance and developer support
Mentioned in 35% of reviews · Top 5% of the games we've analyzed

Developer support +0.51 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
Negative “support team IP banned without proper investigation, ignored appeals” · 13 reviews

Stability 5% · Performance 7%

Grey means too few reviews mention it to trust. — means almost no reviews mention it.

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