What Is Warframe?
Warframe is a sci-fi action game with fast-paced gameplay about battle suits known as Warframe taking on missions and battling factions across the universe. Players take on near endless missions, completing objectives to gain resources in order to craft and build new Warframe, weapons, and items.
Warframe is an online-only sci-fi action game for up to 4 players
Furthermore, Warframe is a free-to-download, online-only game with single and multiplayer modes.
The game can be played alone or with friends from beginning to the end without spending a dollar.
Warframe also includes consistent updates from the developers, repeatable missions, new gear, unique game modes and missions types, a lengthy story campaign, and fun boss fights.
Warframe Release Date
Warframe launched on March 25, 2013 for Windows computers. The game also released for PlayStation 4 later that year on November 15, 2013 and for Xbox One the following year on September 2, 2014.
Warframe launched on March 25, 201
Since its release, Warfame has received over 10 large content updates that add new features, areas, weapons, Warframe, and fixes.
The game is currently version 30 as of the first quarter of 2022.
Why Warframe is a Bucket List Game
Warframe is an exhilarating action game set in space.
Take control of a technologically advanced armor (called Warframe) as a fierce and agile ninja of sorts to do battle with nefarious threats across a fictionalized solar system.
Hop from planet to planet taking on quests, meeting interesting citizens with their own personalities, gathering materials to create weapons and even cooler Waframes, and do it all with style.
High-speed combat monopolizes most game sessions and focuses on skill and reflexes, although combat overall is forgiving and welcoming to new players and action veterans alike.
Fans of fun but repetitive tasks, collecting, and repeated play will also find much to do and love in this universe.
Lastly, Warframe is one of the best (if not the best) free-to-play experiences out there and manages to provide hundreds of hours of compelling gameplay with polish, flair, and fun.
- Free to play
- Epic action for one or more players
- Hundreds of hours of content (and counting)
- Immersive sci-fi universe, characters, enemies, and planets to experience
- Fun and fluid combat that utilizes both ranged and melee weapons
- Very High Replay Value
What Systems Is Warframe On? Where Can You Play It?
In total, Warframe is available to play on 6 consoles. The game can be downloaded for free and played on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Windows PC (Steam and Epic) or via backwards compatibility on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles.
Warframe is available to play on Nintendo, pc, PlayStation, and Xbox
A mobile version of Warframe (for Android and iOS devices) will also be released and is in development.
Where To Play Warframe
- Epic Game Store (PC)
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
- PlayStation 5
- Steam (PC)
- Windows PC
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series
Warframe is a digital only, online game that can only be purchased digitally.
A physical version is not available, although in-game currency gift cards can be purchased at retail to redeem within the game.
What Genre Is Warframe?
Warframe is an online-only action game with role playing elements that is playable by one or more people. The game includes single and multiplayer modes for both cooperative and competitive play.
Warframe is an online-only action game with role playing elements
Overall, Warframe is a fast-paced action game that focuses on performing reflex and skill-based button presses to defeat foes with both melee and ranged weapons.
Moving through stages is a fast-paced endeavor as well, requiring timed button presses to run, slide, leap, and jump from one end of an area to the other.
Warframe’s core gameplay focuses on taking on missions to complete a goal by defeating large amounts of enemies and/or collecting resources.
Warframe’s Core Gameplay
- watch/listen to story scene
- select mission
- fight enemies and collect resources
- complete mission objective
- craft or upgrade gear
- fight boss
- open up the next area
Lastly, Warframe can only be played online and requires a stable, reliable internet connection.
Online clans and multiplayer sessions can be accessed but are optional. The game can be played entirely by oneself and is quite enjoyable doing so.
Keep in mind, multiplayer allows friends and other Warframe players to group together and beat tough missions or to complete missions faster.
How Long Does It Take To Beat Warframe?
Overall, Warframe takes 200 to 400 hours on average to complete. Rushed playthroughs can be completed in under 300 hours, while completionists (those who want to collect and finish everything) can take 400 to 1,000 hours or more.
Warframe takes 200 to 400 hours on average to complete
Fore reference, I’ve played Warframe on PC and Nintendo Switch for over 200 hours collectively and have only reached the mid-point of the story campaign.
Expect to put a lot of time into Warframe if you decide to play.
Warframe Average Completion Time
- 200 to 400+ hours
Warframe Completionist Play Time
- 400 to 1,000+ hours
Doing almost anything in Warframe requires a time investment and repeated plays to obtain.
Spending time gathering resources, repeating quests for parts, and waiting real-life days for items to finishing crafting are core tenants to Warframe’s design.
On top of that, Warframe includes a lengthy story campaign that can take one hundred hours or more to finish and special events to participate in.
The game also receives new areas and missions to explore, along with new Warframe and weapons to craft, each year.
Warframe is free to download, one of the most fun games I’ve ever played, and will surely be a enjoyable use of your time if you enjoy action games or the sci-fi genre.
Official Warframe Game Details
Synopsis:
“They were called Tenno. Warriors of blade and gun: masters of the Warframe armor. Those that survived the old war were left drifting among the ruins. Now they are needed once more.“
Read Warframe full game description on the official website
