Ok, after 14k hours playing and 8k of those hour spent in mission over 13 years, I think I am finally qualified to review this game. I'll try to be brief, but there is a lot to unpack here.

First let me start off by saying the dev team not only listens to it's player, the care about them. It shows in how the respond to feedback and the players themselves. I'm fighting stage 4 cancer, and DE went out of their way to show support and kindness. Yes this does make me somewhat bias, but I still criticize the game because I love it and want it to be better.


after 13 years you can imagine how much content there is in the game to do 90% of the content will keep you busy for 700 hours, give or take 100 hours. the gunplay and melee combat is fantastic, with over 600 weapons to chose, as well as over 60 warframes (think of them as character classes), to choose from you will find a combo you will enjoy playing.

The story is actually engaging, giving you a solid sci fi story about transhumanism and the cost of war. the NPCs are engaging and unique.

The game looks awesome, DE uses a proprietary game engine, the Evolution Engine, so they can hot fix, patch and update with a speed I have yet to see in any other game I have played.

You can pick up and put down the game as you please, with minimum FOMO You can take breaks from the game to do other things without the fear of missing an item or gear, limited time events are done, but the majority of the rewards are things that you can get elsewhere just slower, or cosmetic rewards with no gameplay value.

The community is also the best I have seen in 15 years. Players are both helpful and generous. Sure there are bad eggs out there, they are a very small percentage of the player base.

The game has one of the most fair and easy monetization systems in all of FTP games. There is zero pay-to-win options, only pay to speed up. cash shop currency can be traded for, meaning that even a free to play player, can get luxury items like skins and color palettes without spending a dime. Mind you chances are that you will spend money on the game due to the fact that you will want to support it.

Finally the game is fun. if you like fast action horde shooting, deliberate souls-lite, or rogue like game play there is something in this game that will grab your attention.


Most of the content is either grind. Mind you fun gameplay helps alleviate a good chunk of it, but there are cases where it is unbearable. A bad string of RNG can really ruin the mood, and it has cause me to take several months of at time repeatedly over the course of 13 years.

As of late the story has become very trope heavy and uninspired, I hope this is only a temporary phase, but the story has been burdensome for the last few months.

The dev team has the philosophy of throw a bunch of ideas at the wall and see what sticks, which means there are gameplay elements that are abandoned but still in game due to player sentiments.

Not sure if it is a bad point but the game relies on several outside elements. The majority of actual explanations of mechanics and elements have to be looked up in the wiki
http://store.steampowered.com, mind you, this is considered to be the best wiki in gaming for it's thoroughness, but you still have to go outside of game to use it. Also, the best way to trade is via another website (https://warframe.market/).

Since pub teams aren't regulated in any way, new players will find themselves involuntarily carried, completing the mission but learning nothing, I recommend playing solo until you hit MR8 or so.

It is very easy to fall into a rut when you do find a loadout that works. try new things to prevent this from happening. I call it Wukong syndrome, and if you play long enough you will understand why.


The game has started hypersexualizing the warframes in various ways, one of the reasons I enjoyed the game was that they didn't need to resort to that.

The games story as of late is awful, consisting of strung together tropes that show a lack of creativity or style. The same goes for the music, we had 11 years of amazing compositions, and now we have a sound track that sounds like the Doom sound track, but from Wish.


Try the game. It's free, so no risk there. the worst that can happen is you don;t like it and you spent a few hours of your time, but the best that can happen is you get 13 years of satisfying gameplay like I did. And, if you do decide to play and need help, look me up, GrimMyfanwy, and I'd be happy to give you hand.

Warframe is a game that requires (and deserves) tough love. That’s what it was literally made with. Respectfully. Deservely so. Play and see. That’s my review.

Very, very fun. I'm too addicted, no cap on god bro.