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Warframe

Digital Extremes · 2013-03-25

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ActionRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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).

69,907
playing now
88%
positive of 676k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2,332
twitch viewers (latest)
73/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (520 ratings)
73/100
opencritic · fair · 56% recommend
847h
to beat · rushed 32h · completionist 1792h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

69,907 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 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
  • · 69,907 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 38,759 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4,845/week).
  • · Review velocity up 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
26k26k20182026Week of 2018-01-01: 3,505 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 437 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2,594 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 341 negativeWeek 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: 698 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 78 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

76k40k2026-08-06 16:00 — 64,257 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 46,164 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 54,509 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 69,245 players2026-08-09 04:00 — 60,015 players2026-08-09 19:00 — 66,465 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 51,128 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 52,598 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 63,563 players2026-08-12 07:00 — 42,815 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 53,030 players2026-08-13 13:00 — 62,971 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 49,064 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 57,023 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 54,199 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 54,924 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 72,424 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 47,402 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 48,753 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 61,637 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 46,429 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 50,391 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 43,036 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 48,100 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 66,011 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 51,051 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 52,286 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 68,664 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 50,678 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 54,938 players2026-08-25 10:00 — 44,824 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 47,462 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 58,642 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 39,796 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 41,687 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 61,735 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 49,957 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 56,229 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 57,295 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 69,907 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#20#312026-08-062026-08-302026-08-06 — #202026-08-07 — #202026-08-08 — #202026-08-09 — #202026-08-10 — #202026-08-11 — #202026-08-12 — #202026-08-13 — #262026-08-14 — #262026-08-15 — #262026-08-16 — #272026-08-17 — #272026-08-18 — #272026-08-19 — #272026-08-20 — #272026-08-21 — #272026-08-22 — #292026-08-23 — #292026-08-24 — #282026-08-25 — #272026-08-26 — #272026-08-27 — #282026-08-28 — #282026-08-29 — #302026-08-30 — #31
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1391392026-08-072026-08-302026-08-07: 108 new positive2026-08-07: 16 new negative2026-08-08: 97 new positive2026-08-08: 12 new negative2026-08-10: 92 new positive2026-08-10: 8 new negative2026-08-11: 120 new positive2026-08-11: 11 new negative2026-08-12: 139 new positive2026-08-12: 5 new negative2026-08-14: 130 new positive2026-08-14: 1 new negative2026-08-15: 85 new positive2026-08-16: 115 new positive2026-08-16: 8 new negative2026-08-17: 112 new positive2026-08-17: 9 new negative2026-08-18: 97 new positive2026-08-18: 7 new negative2026-08-19: 129 new positive2026-08-19: 16 new negative2026-08-20: 119 new positive2026-08-20: 7 new negative2026-08-21: 89 new positive2026-08-21: 11 new negative2026-08-22: 103 new positive2026-08-22: 5 new negative2026-08-23: 94 new positive2026-08-23: 10 new negative2026-08-24: 78 new positive2026-08-24: 13 new negative2026-08-25: 112 new positive2026-08-25: 8 new negative2026-08-26: 104 new positive2026-08-26: 10 new negative2026-08-27: 114 new positive2026-08-27: 11 new negative2026-08-28: 75 new positive2026-08-28: 16 new negative2026-08-29: 100 new positive2026-08-29: 8 new negative2026-08-30: 92 new positive2026-08-30: 4 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.00$0.002015-01-012026-08-262015-01-01 — 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 $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.3k5102026-05-28 — 663 pageviews2026-05-31 — 758 pageviews2026-06-03 — 638 pageviews2026-06-06 — 775 pageviews2026-06-09 — 682 pageviews2026-06-12 — 559 pageviews2026-06-15 — 516 pageviews2026-06-18 — 801 pageviews2026-06-21 — 730 pageviews2026-06-24 — 711 pageviews2026-06-27 — 632 pageviews2026-06-30 — 632 pageviews2026-07-03 — 599 pageviews2026-07-06 — 629 pageviews2026-07-09 — 669 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2,262 pageviews2026-07-15 — 908 pageviews2026-07-18 — 808 pageviews2026-07-21 — 797 pageviews2026-07-24 — 679 pageviews2026-07-27 — 670 pageviews2026-07-30 — 708 pageviews2026-08-02 — 574 pageviews2026-08-05 — 609 pageviews2026-08-08 — 559 pageviews2026-08-11 — 551 pageviews2026-08-14 — 510 pageviews2026-08-17 — 554 pageviews2026-08-20 — 520 pageviews2026-08-23 — 572 pageviews2026-08-25 — 531 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

31k9992026-08-18 18:12 — 7,585 viewers2026-08-21 00:12 — 13,751 viewers2026-08-25 18:12 — 6,944 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 10,124 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 5,769 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 3,689 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 2,125 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 1,121 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 1,290 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 1,891 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 2,678 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 2,978 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 25,031 viewers2026-08-28 00:12 — 12,910 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 7,730 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 3,820 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 2,103 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 1,849 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 1,780 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 2,723 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 3,645 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 4,413 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 2,960 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 2,337 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 1,301 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 1,351 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 1,489 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 2,197 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 2,370 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 2,731 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 3,671 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 3,172 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 1,197 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 1,280 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 1,897 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 2,332 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…

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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