Warframe

Warframe

Worth it · Shooter · 2013

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
88% of 681,747
Critics
69 players 19 higher
Genre rank
Top 13% Shooter

Holding it back: Monetization, DRM

Time and effort

Main story
113.8h
To 100%
1642.5h 14.4x the story
Finish
60% reach the ending
Achievements
193

Players and genre

Online
62,281 now
Recent reviews
87% 30 days
Better reviewed
77% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

65% start to 60% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Star Trek Online (free, scores 48) and Champions Online (free, scores 27), are both worse buys on this math.

It is still busy. 62.3K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 21:45 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks. Free to start. It takes its money later, through boost and cosmetic.

More about Warframe

The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 60 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 113.8 hours; clearing it takes 1643, which is 14 times the campaign.

681,747 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reach35M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Engagement60% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationBoost, Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Free-to-grind
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
DRMWarframe account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesBoost, Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Free-to-grindPCGamingWiki

About the game

Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11+ capable Graphics Card, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Warframe scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/230410/warframe
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+19
Critics69
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 681,747 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperDigital Extremes
PublisherDigital Extremes
GenreShooter
Released2013
Players35.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements193