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Warframe

Digital Extremes · 2013-03-25

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Feb 22, 2014 (PlayStation 4), Nov 20, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 13, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 02, 2014 (Xbox One), Mar 25, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 26, 2020 (PlayStation 5)

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

Warframe is a 2013 Action, RPG and Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 20,000,000 .. 50,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (88% of 673539 reviews).

44,356
playing now
88%
positive of 680k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,388
twitch viewers (latest)
9.4
viewers/channel (concentration)
73/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (520 ratings)
6
Nexus mods (5.0k downloads)
4.35★
PlayStation Store rating (697,229 ratings)
73/100
opencritic · fair · 56% recommend · from 38 critics
847h
to beat · rushed 32h · completionist 1792h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

44,356 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Warframe is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. First released for Windows in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in November 2013, Xbox One in September 2014, Nintendo Switch in November 2018, PlayStation 5 in November 2020, Xbox Series X/S in April 2021, iOS in February 2024, Android in Canada on February 11, 2026 followed by a global release on February 18, 2026, and was released on Nintendo Switch 2 on March 25, 2026. Support for cross-platform play was released in 2022. Cross-platform save began in December 2023, rolling out in waves to different groups of players before becoming fully available to all players in January 2024.

Trailer

Warframe trailer thumbnail

Warframe - Official Cinematic Opening Trailer

≈985,897 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 44,356 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 34,529 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4,316/week).
  • · Review velocity down 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-17

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→healthy (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 16)

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 8 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
26k26k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 3,270 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 548 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2,680 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 353 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2,454 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 419 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3,600 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 530 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 4,460 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 599 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3,490 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 439 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2,374 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 290 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2,382 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 334 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 25,677 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 995 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3,062 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 442 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3,078 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 563 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2,278 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 343 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2,635 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 508 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2,433 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 456 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2,163 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 371 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 10,703 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 554 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 13,946 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 801 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2,123 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 390 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2,605 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2,604 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4,033 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 453 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 20,529 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,072 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 13,032 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 828 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 7,174 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 638 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 7,058 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 844 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 9,633 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,192 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 7,708 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,037 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6,395 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 732 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 5,632 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 587 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5,237 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 638 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 7,879 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 902 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 6,395 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 915 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5,056 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 817 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 5,011 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 605 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 5,288 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 567 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 5,438 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 677 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4,743 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 485 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 5,513 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 595 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 6,460 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 718 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 6,332 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 608 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 5,027 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 675 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 6,149 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,415 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 5,422 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 887 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4,790 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 538 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4,476 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 476 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4,495 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 528 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 6,122 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 747 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4,659 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 542 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3,425 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3,430 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 670 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3,742 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 847 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3,539 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 706 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3,404 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 667 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4,237 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 569 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3,571 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 532 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4,198 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 13,971 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2,535 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,694 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,451 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 933 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3,548 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 886 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3,394 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 641 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2,705 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 796 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2,781 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 608 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3,298 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 892 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3,512 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 836 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2,982 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 572 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3,067 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 551 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3,459 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 678 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3,169 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 498 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3,379 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 607 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,417 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 516 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4,837 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 633 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5,084 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 685 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4,779 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 641 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4,550 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 605 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3,951 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 661 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3,676 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 697 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3,815 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 736 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4,438 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 691 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4,175 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 564 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3,414 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 481 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4,327 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 508 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3,391 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 409 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4,742 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 687 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4,681 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 573 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3,374 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 397 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3,945 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 484 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3,001 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 454 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3,168 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 736 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3,130 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 652 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3,873 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 487 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3,376 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 441 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2,629 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 319 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3,467 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,281 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3,928 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 467 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5,916 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 641 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4,967 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 493 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3,487 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 345 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3,933 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 512 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4,182 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 492 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3,879 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 484 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4,054 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 499 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4,443 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 432 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3,630 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 445 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3,209 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 503 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,036 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 143 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

103k36k2026-09-15 10:00 — 43,723 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 37,713 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 37,260 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 41,083 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 42,791 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 42,553 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 38,406 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 39,810 players2026-09-24 00:00 — 80,883 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 64,853 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 62,071 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 61,350 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 59,969 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 54,138 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 49,192 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 48,190 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 50,783 players2026-10-03 00:00 — 51,844 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 53,181 players2026-10-05 00:00 — 51,017 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 44,327 players2026-10-07 00:00 — 41,555 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 45,338 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 43,785 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 44,825 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 48,583 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 49,772 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 45,930 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 42,609 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 43,040 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 44,356 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
86k0Jan 2013Aug 2026Jan 2013 — avg 0 · peak 0Jun 2013 — avg 10,774 · peak 19,554Nov 2013 — avg 9,221 · peak 18,459Apr 2014 — avg 14,373 · peak 26,848Sep 2014 — avg 15,803 · peak 25,841Feb 2015 — avg 18,379 · peak 28,376Jul 2015 — avg 19,936 · peak 49,829Dec 2015 — avg 33,254 · peak 58,502May 2016 — avg 26,598 · peak 44,091Oct 2016 — avg 20,889 · peak 34,094Mar 2017 — avg 30,724 · peak 69,526Aug 2017 — avg 39,967 · peak 55,743Jan 2018 — avg 45,178 · peak 69,002Jun 2018 — avg 56,623 · peak 129,002Nov 2018 — avg 61,487 · peak 131,766Apr 2019 — avg 56,575 · peak 107,898Sep 2019 — avg 42,482 · peak 80,466Feb 2020 — avg 40,935 · peak 70,798Jul 2020 — avg 39,385 · peak 58,719Dec 2020 — avg 35,990 · peak 70,305May 2021 — avg 46,684 · peak 77,193Oct 2021 — avg 39,866 · peak 71,407Mar 2022 — avg 31,061 · peak 62,134Aug 2022 — avg 37,582 · peak 58,478Jan 2023 — avg 40,671 · peak 58,816Jun 2023 — avg 43,892 · peak 66,482Nov 2023 — avg 45,550 · peak 74,457Apr 2024 — avg 49,977 · peak 78,277Sep 2024 — avg 41,474 · peak 60,537Feb 2025 — avg 54,616 · peak 76,887Jul 2025 — avg 48,454 · peak 117,575Dec 2025 — avg 86,045 · peak 173,377May 2026 — avg 55,722 · peak 79,898Aug 2026 — avg 54,456 · peak 76,616
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#18#312026-09-152026-10-152026-09-15 — #262026-09-16 — #262026-09-17 — #262026-09-18 — #292026-09-19 — #292026-09-20 — #292026-09-21 — #302026-09-22 — #282026-09-23 — #282026-09-24 — #182026-09-25 — #182026-09-26 — #192026-09-27 — #192026-09-28 — #192026-09-29 — #192026-09-30 — #192026-10-01 — #202026-10-02 — #232026-10-03 — #232026-10-04 — #242026-10-05 — #292026-10-06 — #292026-10-07 — #292026-10-08 — #282026-10-09 — #282026-10-10 — #292026-10-11 — #312026-10-12 — #302026-10-13 — #252026-10-14 — #252026-10-15 — #25
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1321322026-09-162026-10-152026-09-16: 71 new positive2026-09-16: 1 new negative2026-09-17: 96 new positive2026-09-19: 63 new positive2026-09-19: 7 new negative2026-09-20: 80 new positive2026-09-20: 5 new negative2026-09-21: 81 new positive2026-09-21: 2 new negative2026-09-22: 101 new positive2026-09-22: 26 new negative2026-09-23: 132 new positive2026-09-23: 32 new negative2026-09-24: 101 new positive2026-09-24: 70 new negative2026-09-25: 79 new positive2026-09-25: 39 new negative2026-09-26: 107 new positive2026-09-26: 27 new negative2026-09-27: 115 new positive2026-09-27: 15 new negative2026-09-28: 84 new positive2026-09-28: 16 new negative2026-09-29: 94 new positive2026-09-29: 11 new negative2026-09-30: 76 new positive2026-09-30: 22 new negative2026-10-01: 85 new positive2026-10-01: 3 new negative2026-10-02: 78 new positive2026-10-02: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 88 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 93 new positive2026-10-04: 11 new negative2026-10-06: 115 new positive2026-10-06: 15 new negative2026-10-07: 51 new positive2026-10-07: 10 new negative2026-10-08: 70 new positive2026-10-08: 17 new negative2026-10-09: 62 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new negative2026-10-10: 61 new positive2026-10-10: 6 new negative2026-10-11: 71 new positive2026-10-11: 8 new negative2026-10-12: 82 new positive2026-10-12: 7 new negative2026-10-13: 85 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-15: 63 new positive2026-10-15: 14 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.00$0.002015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $0.002018-01-22 — best price $0.002018-12-20 — best price $0.002020-12-11 — best price $0.002026-08-26 — best price $0.002026-09-02 — best price $0.002026-09-09 — best price $0.002026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-09-23 — best price $0.002026-09-30 — best price $0.002026-10-07 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.0k4022026-05-28 — 663 pageviews2026-06-01 — 840 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1,017 pageviews2026-06-09 — 682 pageviews2026-06-13 — 591 pageviews2026-06-17 — 738 pageviews2026-06-21 — 730 pageviews2026-06-25 — 699 pageviews2026-06-29 — 681 pageviews2026-07-03 — 599 pageviews2026-07-07 — 630 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1,984 pageviews2026-07-15 — 908 pageviews2026-07-19 — 771 pageviews2026-07-23 — 879 pageviews2026-07-27 — 670 pageviews2026-07-31 — 583 pageviews2026-08-04 — 634 pageviews2026-08-08 — 559 pageviews2026-08-12 — 563 pageviews2026-08-16 — 562 pageviews2026-08-20 — 520 pageviews2026-08-24 — 535 pageviews2026-08-28 — 516 pageviews2026-09-01 — 515 pageviews2026-09-05 — 670 pageviews2026-09-09 — 578 pageviews2026-09-13 — 516 pageviews2026-09-17 — 509 pageviews2026-09-21 — 505 pageviews2026-09-25 — 663 pageviews2026-09-29 — 531 pageviews2026-10-03 — 495 pageviews2026-10-07 — 503 pageviews2026-10-11 — 457 pageviews2026-10-14 — 402 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

31k1.0k2026-10-01 10:34 — 1,145 viewers2026-10-01 22:12 — 17,767 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 3,304 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 3,317 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 2,126 viewers2026-10-03 16:34 — 3,039 viewers2026-10-04 04:34 — 2,807 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 2,372 viewers2026-10-05 04:34 — 1,896 viewers2026-10-05 16:34 — 2,820 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 1,891 viewers2026-10-06 16:34 — 2,318 viewers2026-10-07 04:34 — 1,607 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 7,627 viewers2026-10-08 02:34 — 3,757 viewers2026-10-08 14:34 — 2,188 viewers2026-10-09 00:12 — 12,524 viewers2026-10-09 08:34 — 1,752 viewers2026-10-09 20:35 — 4,170 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 1,564 viewers2026-10-10 20:35 — 3,164 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 1,016 viewers2026-10-11 20:35 — 4,069 viewers2026-10-12 08:34 — 1,431 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 5,144 viewers2026-10-13 08:34 — 1,351 viewers2026-10-13 20:34 — 2,736 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 1,202 viewers2026-10-14 19:12 — 6,106 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 1,933 viewers2026-10-15 09:34 — 1,388 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
65.2%
earned "Agent"
25%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopIn-App Purchases17 DLC

14 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese…

Post-launch support: 17 DLC released, first 2023-10-18, latest 2026-07-11 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)241,4250%84
Steam (Steam)235,7101%193
Xbox One (Xbox)87,3440%109
PS5 (PlayStation)41,8301%91
Switch (Nintendo)1,5390%0
Switch 2 (Nintendo)7040%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvERPGCo-opSpaceActionSci-fiAction RPGFree to PlayOnline Co-OpSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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