Warframe

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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1928 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 188 out of 1928

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  1. 223kazin
    Apr 24, 2013
    2
    I had a lot of fun with the game for the first few days, so it pains me to have to write such a scathing review and score it so low. Let's start on a high note with the pros:

    +Fun gameplay with a lot of different methods of customization. Modding your weapons, warframe(character), and sentinel(Pet) provides a lot of different avenues for progression. +There are (I believe)12 warframes    I had a lot of fun with the game for the first few days, so it pains me to have to write such a scathing review and score it so low. Let's start on a high note with the pros:

    +Fun gameplay with a lot of different methods of customization. Modding your weapons, warframe(character), and sentinel(Pet) provides a lot of different avenues for progression.
    +There are (I believe)12 warframes to pick from, though you only get access to 3 out of the box.
    +You can potentially get access to all the content in the game w/o spending any money, excluding cosmetics such as colors.
    +A welcoming community and a section of the forum dedicated to helping new players and gets a respectable amount of traffic

    And now the low note. This is going to hurt, Warframe, but try to grit your teeth.
    ---If you do decide to spend money on the game, you'll find Warframe has one of the most expensive premium shops around. Buying a warframe can cost up to 25 dollars! Getting access to more than 18 colors(Not as many as it sounds) is 5$ a piece, and weapons range 5-15$!

    -----After you've spent hours farming the cash and crafting mats to build a weapon or warframe, you have to wait 12-72 hours for it to finish "building". But wait! If you spend a paultry 25-50 plat(The least plat you can buy is 5$ for 70 plat, the cheapest weapons, colors, and warframes being 75 plat, btw) you can rush it to get your hard-earned buy immediately. A laughably obvious inconvenience forced on the players in order to promote buying premium currency

    -The combat gets dull, after a while. The AI is pretty primitive, even for an indie game. Melee is gimmicky and with knockbacks and stuns abound, you're better off just keeping distance and picking enemies off. The game mistakes punishment for difficulty, if you're not careful it's very easy to be "stunlocked" to death, with very little you can do about it.

    -Expect a Diablo-level grind. The whole game is a grind and the only goal is to grind more, all the bosses are bullet sponges with little to no difficulty, the Infected(An enemy faction) are generally the hardest enemies you will fight, and that's only because of the stunlocking mentioned above.

    -Even though there are lots of options and customization, the game is plagued with balance issues. The Hek, Lex, and Dual Heat Blades will be the only weapon loadout you'll ever need. Half the cast can't even compete with other much stronger, more versatile Warframes. Health, Armor, and critical hit/damage mods are almost completely useless.

    -The levels are reused constantly. It's not uncommon to play on the same level multiple times within one short gaming session.

    -The handling leaves a lot to be desired. The game tries to be Assassin's Creed/Darksiders but it just doesn't have the polish things like wallrunning, sliding, and complex maneuvers need to function. Very rarely will you pull off super awesome stunts your friends will be wowed by. Once you get into the higher level content it all boils down to cover shooting because you just will not survive being in the middle of the grinder.

    To sum it all up, you pay out the ass for the conveniences premium currency offers, the game gets stale and very grindy, very quickly. I've read people praising the massive updates but they apply sweeping changes that completely alter the game, keeping it in a perpetual state of imbalance.    … Expand
  2. DAwG4Hire
    Mar 27, 2013
    4
    It seemed like a pretty good game, but after a few hours in its flaws became readily apparent. First off, I kept asking myself, didn't I just play that level? Because I pretty much did just play that level. It's the same thing, over and over and over and over and over again.
    Even then, the movement and combat mechanics seemed pretty awesome. If that was the only thing I was basing my    It seemed like a pretty good game, but after a few hours in its flaws became readily apparent. First off, I kept asking myself, didn't I just play that level? Because I pretty much did just play that level. It's the same thing, over and over and over and over and over again.
    Even then, the movement and combat mechanics seemed pretty awesome. If that was the only thing I was basing my rating on, that would be an 8.5.
    But the real kicker to the groin is the real money system. $20 will get you a cheap warframe, a weapon, and some respawns. (So if you die a lot, you end up having to pay just to continue playing the game)
    If you really want everything, you can pay $260, and you after some time you may end up spending even more money.
    Their greed has completely ruined what could have been great. If, instead of charging us large sums for absolutely nothing, they had provided a wealth of content and charged us reasonable prices, they could have had a gold mine, but right now the game tailors to spoiled rich kids.    … Expand
  3. zachi2
    Mar 24, 2023
    3
    The issue I run into is only partially with the game, but most with the developers, DE.
    The game has, I feel, grown too big for its own good. There is just a feeling of monotony now, and when the new flavor of the month comes out, everyone has to shift gears and hope that bugs done ruin it.
    My big issue with DE is their lack of accountability with hacked accounts/plat and instead say    The issue I run into is only partially with the game, but most with the developers, DE.
    The game has, I feel, grown too big for its own good. There is just a feeling of monotony now, and when the new flavor of the month comes out, everyone has to shift gears and hope that bugs done ruin it.

    My big issue with DE is their lack of accountability with hacked accounts/plat and instead say that people, who actively and honestly, use the market are guilty by association when they manage to get traded hacked in plat and are forced to pay for it out of pocket.    … Expand
  4. AvaKit
    Aug 6, 2022
    0
    Terrible game. Developers are too lazy to make new content, so you'll be forced to do the same thing every day. The game has several locations and several modes for so many years of development. You can also be banned for no reason. At the same time, the ban is not for several days, but immediately forever. Don't waste your time and money on this garbage.
  5. digiart247
    Jun 21, 2022
    0
    Unfortunately, it is repetitive with a total grind to progress or just pay money for everything. Unfortunately, underwhelming.
  6. Viktor224
    Jun 22, 2022
    0
    I have been playing periodically since 2013, recently they began to spoil relations with the players with a toxic agenda, the publisher becomes the same marginal and toxic as Blizzard
  7. palebluelight
    Sep 15, 2022
    0
    New update and new creative director completely just destroyed every reason to play this game. Forcing a extremely dated and what can only be called an early 90's attempt at a new mode is complete abject failure. It throws everything a player loves about warframe away for a clunky restricted retro type mode that has zero nostalgia. It is the antithesis of warframe. The game is dead
  8. Norvel
    Sep 9, 2022
    0
    to nerf a weapon, they just delete it... lol (they reduce ammuniyion so after 5 hit you can't fire anymore)
  9. Jollyolfun
    Nov 18, 2022
    3
    i played this game before i was old enough to get a job and afford better games
  10. GodOne
    Aug 29, 2020
    4
    1)It's the best GRINDING game, It uses dirty psychological tricks(gambling) to get you addicted and this makes a lot of people frustrated go to point 4).
    2a)If you don't have any good rivens or rare mods you will see the other people destroying everything and you will can sit down and watch the match.
    2b) Random is a big words considering you see really "weird" random events and    1)It's the best GRINDING game, It uses dirty psychological tricks(gambling) to get you addicted and this makes a lot of people frustrated go to point 4).
    2a)If you don't have any good rivens or rare mods you will see the other people destroying everything and you will can sit down and watch the match.
    2b) Random is a big words considering you see really "weird" random events and generations, maybe a "conditioned random" term is more appropriate...After you roll a riven 100 times and you get only zoom ,recoil and ammo and then you realize a lot of other people get damage, multishot and critical with an unrolled riven..
    3)To get some essential mods you will need a lot of grinding and time(months or years) but if you farm and sell stuff 10 hours per day(for at least 6 months) or you pay cash for platinum(thousand of dollars to get everything)... hey i am playing an action game not a TCG!
    4)Very often in public games you will get really bad toxic players or totally idiots that will ruin your day.
    People will give you free idiot, or whatever in their languages screaming on their mics because you don't spam energy with trinity so they can destroy everything and you just have to press the keys 2 and 4. You will get an idiot because for a bug you find yourself after a mission in a solo mission of another person. You will get a **** because you haven't disconnected from the previous squad after 5 seconds. More other hundreds of these nice episodes...
    And this happened in few months...If you like these kind of persons then this is the right game for you.
    5) there is no or little information in game, you need to rely on the external wiki page made by fans. When you begin you have absolutely no idea what to do and you will waste precious resources you will need later...The fun is you will not have any idea even after months or years because often other people will complete a mission in few seconds and you will just press "w"
    to reach the extraction point.
    6) Full of bugs and after 30 minutes of mission you will get a change host and BANG! you loose the loot you were "working for".
    7a) There is not an internal market system to sell or buy objects in game, you rely on the trading chat and often it's a mess and you must rely on external sites...
    7b)Most of the time for the point 1) you will see absurd prices overall for rivens, 10.000 or even 20.000 plat(one of the in game currencies) , 20.000 platinum are $1000 and you can't convert plat to dollars so i don't understand(really i do but it's better if i don't write anything about...) why people ask and other buy at these prices...
    8) The gameplay becomes repetitive after few months, the only objective will be to get more powerful weapons and mods to humiliate newbies destroying everything on the map in few seconds, on the same mission you have repeated thousand(and thousand again) of times.
    The PVP was the only hope but is practically dead because people love to repeat the same mission thousand an thousand of times!
    The endless missions where you can test your skills are used by everyone to level their weapons and frames.. this means you can't go further.
    9)The graphic and design are nice.
    10a)You can play it for free if you want a new job as "tenno" 10 hours per day. If you don't have at least 8 free hours per day it's better you start to pay hundred of dollars to get the new powerful weapon, the last frame or the "god" riven mod that will make you COOL AND POWERFUL!
    10b)If you are not powerful and cool enough please don't try the Sorties missions(because i am fkin tired to repeat 10 times the same mission because people has no idea what to do for the point 5) or because they try to kill 10 level 100 bombards with an unmodded pangolin sword or their brand new MK1-braton..)
    11)Full of weapons! Yes there are thousand(again)of weapons!! And do you wanna know something? 99% of them are just pure crap, you will need to build them, grinding the resource to build and use them a dozen of times(no not thousand this time sorry) to upleveling your experience and to rank them! But hey it's the same crap so you need to polarize it to use your powerful mods so you will need to rank it again another dozen of times, and if a weapon need 6 forma you will do that totally hundred of times on the same mission... And All of this to discover you will make 1% of the total damage and killed 1 enemy while the other guys destroyed everything.
    13)Nice for few months after that you will understand that something is wrong repeating thousand and thousand(yes thousand!) the same mission to get an useful mod or a part for something you need!

    It's a such waste because this game has great potentials throwed away by extreme grinding and boring missions.
    After i wasted many hours just to find hard contend, endgame or something offering a real challenge, they nerfed all the enemies to make this game just a click game using OP abilities or spamming melee most of the time.    … Expand
  11. John3161
    Nov 30, 2020
    0
    It’s a kinda fun game, but there’s no real progression as everything can be 1 shot and nothing can really kill you ever, wouldn’t be a problem if the game didn’t hide all the good gear behind a 500+ hour plus grind. Eventually all you can do is log in build you thing log off and log back in tomorrow to claim the thing you built yesterday. The last lvl of improving your builds is basicallyIt’s a kinda fun game, but there’s no real progression as everything can be 1 shot and nothing can really kill you ever, wouldn’t be a problem if the game didn’t hide all the good gear behind a 500+ hour plus grind. Eventually all you can do is log in build you thing log off and log back in tomorrow to claim the thing you built yesterday. The last lvl of improving your builds is basically sitting in a chat room cuz you have to actively sell a buy stuff, this community is cult like and will die on the hill that this game isn’t pay to win meanwhile they spend all their time trying to trade for premium currency. The game is basically do the same thing over and over except different results… Expand
  12. Pprtb05
    Oct 1, 2022
    0
    you have to be such idiots to impose your LGBT propaganda on Muslims, then you wonder why they consider you pigs
  13. Xonerix
    Dec 13, 2020
    4
    Used to be one of the best games on Steam with absolutely terrible and ignorant virtue signaling developers.
    Got banned after 6+ years of playing the game (over 3k hours in-game) just for posting in their forums some scientific facts that oppose their ignorant view on gender, that there are 2 biological human genders..
    The game used to be pretty good several years ago, now it's just same    Used to be one of the best games on Steam with absolutely terrible and ignorant virtue signaling developers.
    Got banned after 6+ years of playing the game (over 3k hours in-game) just for posting in their forums some scientific facts that oppose their ignorant view on gender, that there are 2 biological human genders..
    The game used to be pretty good several years ago, now it's just same blueprint copy paste content every year, more dumb weapons, more dumb and idiotic warframes every year that make no sense.
    Promises on content never delivered as supposed to be.. Content in this game got so out of touch with their own twisted views on what the hell this game even supposed to be. This game is basically dead and Digital Extremes killed it themselves. Not worth playing anymore, you'd just be wasting your time.    … Expand
  14. SweStars
    Sep 13, 2013
    4
    Two words: 1. Repetitive. 2. Grinding.
    Alot.
    The level design is incredibly boring and you only shoot and slice with your katana/sword/thingy.
    I really did not appreciate this game after 1-2 hours of gameplay. And it took forever to get ANYTHING. Not even a single weapon or upgrade after 2,5 hours gameplay. Not even an item to build.

    Not recommending. But since it's free, try it.
  15. TkoTeJebe
    Dec 6, 2014
    4
    600 hours into it. Currently all I do is logging in for events. If you can't get the message out of that, read the whole review.

    It looks fancy and shiny, but after you get your eyes adapted to it, it becomes an endless grind. Gfx: Solid. The optimization for physx sucks, but the game looks amazing without it. Audio: You could say it's ok. Gun sounds are, often, allright,    600 hours into it. Currently all I do is logging in for events. If you can't get the message out of that, read the whole review.

    It looks fancy and shiny, but after you get your eyes adapted to it, it becomes an endless grind.

    Gfx:
    Solid. The optimization for physx sucks, but the game looks amazing without it.

    Audio:
    You could say it's ok. Gun sounds are, often, allright, although most of them just lack the oomph part. Ingame music is like any other. You'll turn it off after a few hours and play your favorite playlist.
    Ambient sounds, like bullet ricochets, doors, elevators, are too quiet.

    Content:
    Apparently, DE thinks quantity>quality. In 2 words, power creep. It just doesn't work.
    In a lot more words,
    The mod system looks intriguing and as if it offers a lot of diversity, but in reality you'll be using the same set of mods for every enemy type and every mission. Basically, there are unused useless mods and mandatory mods.
    When you look at the mission map, you get the feeling you'll have to play a very long time in order to
    experience everything. Wrong. each tileset can be fully experienced, and gotten sick of, within several missions.
    The game offers boss fights! Awesome, right? When majority of the boss mission is running around 1shotting everything with your ubermodded weapon, and then killing a boss vastly inferior to your weapons, it's quite a meh experience.
    The newly added syndicates are yet another example of quantity>quality. 10 "different" factions, that all require the player to do 1 thing : grind mindlessly and endlessly.

    Guns:
    In correlation with previously mentioned power creep, there are uber awesome weapons and there are useless and unfun weapons. It's all fun and games while you're ranking up fun weapons, but run out of fun weapons and it becomes a chore worse than washing the dishes.
    DE isn't doing much to remedy this issue, but rather adding more weapons hoping they'll hit the right note occasionally.

    Grind:Reward ratio
    Grind's not always bad, if you reward the player. This game doesn't do that.
    Currently, there are plans to reward players with a high master rank(a general progress indicator), but it's all just paper.
    The newly added syndicates require such an enormous amount of farming to reach useful rewards that it's a major turn off for casual players.
    RNG drops. When the gods are on your side, it's a fun night, otherwise it's pretty frustrating seeing a weapon part, that you already have 10 of, drop mission after mission.

    Multiplayer factor:
    The game can be played solo, which is good but also says a lot about how much developers are investing in player to player interaction.
    There's the mandatory general chat, trade chat, guild chat, group chat, friends chat. That's it sadly.
    There IS a player hub planned, but seeing the previews, it's not really promising.
    Clans can have their own "dojos", but they end up being large abandoned museums of someone's creativity.
    Oh right, PVP. There IS pvp, but it's a sideshow, and a really bad one.

    The feel:
    First couple mastery levels(namely 8) - "Cool, I'm getting these mastery levels I don't know **** about, while trying out all these fun weapons. I don't care I have no idea what they do, it's cool and awesome."
    Post 8 - "Ugh, yet another **** weapon to level to get mastery up." *checks inventory and sees 20 more rank 0* "yeah, **** it."
    The fact that the game is discouraging use of single equipment a player finds fun, is rather baffling.

    P2W factor:
    The only mandatory platinum market purchases are inventory slots and weapon power ups, called potatoes.(they increase the mod capacity of a weapon by 100%)
    Thankfully they're pretty cheap and the powerups can occasionally be gained on special mission.
    Other than that, everything is attainable through farming, albeit it'll take much longer.

    Summary:
    The game doesn't feel new, but it sure feels fun the first 100 hours. If you don't mind being played a fool with "new" content based on the same principle, grind, you can keep being a positive statistic on their charts.
    The quite positive thing is the nearly non existent P2W factor.
    Basically, if you REALLY have nothing better to play, or have a fetish for ninjas in space, this is the game you can sink your money into. If not, wait for a 50% platinum discount, buy some platinum in the worth of an average indie game, buy inventory slots and kill time. Contrary to what fanbois preach, this is NOT an AAA title.    … Expand
  16. soler2121
    Aug 22, 2021
    0
    Play Warframe. Play it for more than a few hours, preferably with friends, and keep an open mind into doing some third-party research to straighten out some of these systems. Warframe takes so much of what makes ARPG’s addictive, and rounds it out with more polish and depth than most its competitors on the current games market. If the hooks aren’t deeply embedded by then, maybe somethingPlay Warframe. Play it for more than a few hours, preferably with friends, and keep an open mind into doing some third-party research to straighten out some of these systems. Warframe takes so much of what makes ARPG’s addictive, and rounds it out with more polish and depth than most its competitors on the current games market. If the hooks aren’t deeply embedded by then, maybe something this in-depth isn’t for you. 0/10… Expand
  17. neytirix77
    Sep 15, 2019
    3
    I just..

    The story is good.
    The rest of the game is a grind with cookie-clicker combat.

    ...What?
  18. Access77
    Mar 9, 2023
    2
    Microtransactions, Tencent game, and lowers the capabilities of previous gear to sell more of new content. Promotes streams by bribing people to be there, still not even worth joining the twitch stream as devs ignore player input. Toxic players slowly gravitate here as they get banned from other games, yet to see a case actually handled. Find a core game group of 3 other friends, andMicrotransactions, Tencent game, and lowers the capabilities of previous gear to sell more of new content. Promotes streams by bribing people to be there, still not even worth joining the twitch stream as devs ignore player input. Toxic players slowly gravitate here as they get banned from other games, yet to see a case actually handled. Find a core game group of 3 other friends, and discord only. Anything else will be dealing with people who ignore objectives, yet blame you for losses.
    As an example of some of the grind, you will run across items with an official .1% drop rate in only very specific circumstances. The devs felt farming these circumstances for this astonishingly rare mods were too common, so they further limited the opportunities of this circumstances occurring.
    Useless content gets taped on, and players pushed to utilize it. In a game about being a mercenary/ninja-assassin that uses 2 spaceships and a jetpack, you get pushed to learn to use a glorified skateboard. A skateboard that glitches you repeatedly into the ground, locking guns up and preventing you from continuing the mission. Meet the K-Drive, the nightmare of combat-loving players.
    Now, they advertise options, but to access these options you need slots. Slots need platinum, platinum needs real $$$. Grinding for the pieces of each item in a broken rng system isn't enough, they want you to pay to use the content. Cosmetics, understandable. Core content? I'd say "May your test server crash", but the devs don't test...    … Expand
  19. bulldog83
    Jun 18, 2013
    1
    Generic run and gun action game. Difficult to tell any characters apart, very bland design. Enemies uninteresting. The focus is more on shooting than on the powers you are supposed to have making it quite generic. Levels are maze like and frustrating. There is no way to know what the drops/ pickups do so you never know if something is worth it. UI and controls don't feel natural, you oftenGeneric run and gun action game. Difficult to tell any characters apart, very bland design. Enemies uninteresting. The focus is more on shooting than on the powers you are supposed to have making it quite generic. Levels are maze like and frustrating. There is no way to know what the drops/ pickups do so you never know if something is worth it. UI and controls don't feel natural, you often don't know what you are supposed to press to do something. Not really worth your time.… Expand
  20. Bulletsponge
    Sep 6, 2013
    3
    My my... where do I begin with Warframe...

    Let's start with the good things first, because this game does have a few. It's a nice idea; I've always wanted to be a ninja in deep space. The ability to craft stuff is good too, and the level design, aesthetically at least, is rather well done. Now to the bad things, and strap yourselves in, because there are lots and lots of critical    My my... where do I begin with Warframe...

    Let's start with the good things first, because this game does have a few. It's a nice idea; I've always wanted to be a ninja in deep space. The ability to craft stuff is good too, and the level design, aesthetically at least, is rather well done.

    Now to the bad things, and strap yourselves in, because there are lots and lots of critical flaws.

    Let's start with the aesthetic, or lack thereof; this game, even on the highest settings, looks awful. Half the time I didn't know what I was looking at.

    The sound design is terrible. The guns do not feel like guns in anyway, and the voice acting is practically criminal.

    The level design is linear, cramped and doesn't explore the main mechanic of the game being a ninja. Please tell me how I am supposed to be a ninja in the corridor of a spaceship? You better get used to it too, because the levels are pretty much corridor, room, corridor, room, corridor, with no variation inbetween.

    On the topic of the guns, none of them have any recoil, or anything, really. There's not really much reason to use anything else other than reading the stats and deciding which of the only slightly different weapons you prefer.

    The UI is probably one of the worst I've seen since ArmA II. I spent about an hour figuring out how to craft, and still to this day, I have not worked it out.

    The game is far too easy. I am roughly five hours in and I still have not received anything close to a challenge. This is reinforced by the all the enemies having severe mental defects. There are two types of AI, the ones that run straight at you, and the ones that stand in the same place and shoot you.

    The game also has one of the worst transaction models I've seen. You get two starting characters. Want another? Sure. £20, please. A weapon? £5.

    The whole "ninja" thing is clunky and not well designed, many a time did I find myself stuck to a locker in a corridor full of enemies. Luckily for me, the enemies seem to just be using BB guns.

    Warframe is bad game. Some people will say "Oh, it's still in beta, it's allowed to be bad". It's not, it's allowed to be bad if bugs are breaking it, but the core gameplay mechanics are. It's worth nothing more than to get the trading cards on Steam, and then just leaving it to rust away.    … Expand
  21. bazzbro
    Jan 1, 2015
    2
    It fronts as a game about space ninjas, but there is no stealth or interesting ninja mechanics, it is a series of copy and pasted corridors with every mission playing out exactly the same as the last as you grind away at the same enemies. There is no story, there is no visceral combat, there is nothing much outside of spamming an ability, a fire arm, and a melee button at the same baddiesIt fronts as a game about space ninjas, but there is no stealth or interesting ninja mechanics, it is a series of copy and pasted corridors with every mission playing out exactly the same as the last as you grind away at the same enemies. There is no story, there is no visceral combat, there is nothing much outside of spamming an ability, a fire arm, and a melee button at the same baddies in the same corridors for hours and hours.… Expand
  22. Auth3ntic0
    Feb 18, 2014
    0
    It looks nice at first, all the ninja, enemies and all that stuff (from a design perspective) it's actually pretty awesome. But the game itself is boring, lackluster and a huge grind fest. Also, it promotes into oblivion all the Nvidia Crap PhysX so it is a no go for AMD users (making the game like it's holding out on features on purpose and leaves an empty space).
  23. HeavenWolf712
    Sep 30, 2013
    3
    This game has a great hook and constantly comes out with new content on a (somewhat) regular basis. It's unique and holds a nice standard of promise.

    However, this game has no longevity and is a large grind to get certain things you want. Not to mention that if you want to get to late game, there are certain items that are gatekeepers to the late game that you have to -buy- with money    This game has a great hook and constantly comes out with new content on a (somewhat) regular basis. It's unique and holds a nice standard of promise.

    However, this game has no longevity and is a large grind to get certain things you want. Not to mention that if you want to get to late game, there are certain items that are gatekeepers to the late game that you have to -buy- with money just to proceed into the game. Or you have to wait for them to do a livestream and MAKE a special alert for said items.

    This game is good for a small time frame, but it sadly just does not hold my attention. If want to grind for items, I'll play an MMORPG that actually rewards you for something that's impactful rather than farming for a new skin of something that already exists.

    Hope this helps.    … Expand
  24. Demonix74
    Oct 15, 2014
    1
    I couldn't get into the art, the story is sub par compared to what's out there. The missions are a repeat, rehash...and get pretty boring fairly quickly. The parkuor stuff was neat, but they don't expand on it's gameplay at all.

    And the ai feels dated by roughly ten years.

    I feel not much thought was put into this game other than the store items...
  25. EvilxFish
    Nov 9, 2013
    3
    Well it is a great game... at first, the issue is it gets very boring very quickly. Repetitive levels and missions that usually consist of going to a location doing something and getting out whilst hacking everything in your path to bits as you do so. It has no real story no sense of achievement just mindless hack and slash and if that's what you look for in a game go for it, after all it is free.
  26. sinadoom
    Sep 14, 2013
    1
    Yet another disappointing free to play game. What is it nowadays with these games overcomplicating everything? Nobody cares about story or context. No-one wants to spend time in unintuitive user interfaces. A free-to-play should be instant jump in and play without the need for a tutorial. Warframe is yet another brick in the wall of free to play games that make no effort to attract yourYet another disappointing free to play game. What is it nowadays with these games overcomplicating everything? Nobody cares about story or context. No-one wants to spend time in unintuitive user interfaces. A free-to-play should be instant jump in and play without the need for a tutorial. Warframe is yet another brick in the wall of free to play games that make no effort to attract your attention unless you are willing to play it for hundreds of hours. The graphics are horrible, controls aren't smooth and general gameplay is dull.… Expand
  27. lynxx
    Jun 24, 2013
    2
    This game is nothing but a soulless third person shooter. There is absolutely no storyline. They didn't even try to write something. You are that and that and shoot them. Why? Who cares? SHOOT THEM! Okay. I've seen games like that... like L4D2. But that was awesome because of the lot of guns and the lot of cool enemies to shoot the hell out of. And one big stab... This game is repetitiveThis game is nothing but a soulless third person shooter. There is absolutely no storyline. They didn't even try to write something. You are that and that and shoot them. Why? Who cares? SHOOT THEM! Okay. I've seen games like that... like L4D2. But that was awesome because of the lot of guns and the lot of cool enemies to shoot the hell out of. And one big stab... This game is repetitive as hell... You go on a mission. The place looks cool... but if you play on that one little place again for the 16th mission. It is just absolutely stupid, boring and as I said soulless. You shouldn't play this game. Not a second. If you want to have a Co-op third person fun time then play Gears of War. 10 times better.… Expand
  28. wardenwells
    Aug 27, 2013
    3
    Honestly, the only reason I gave it a 3 is because there aren't a lot of games like this, especially F2P's. However, that doesn't mean I had any fun whatsoever running around like a maniac completing mindless quests and mashing buttons. The controls are wonky, the enemies are stupid, and the weapons aren't very inspiring. But SPACE NINJAS! If that's enough for you, I recommend thisHonestly, the only reason I gave it a 3 is because there aren't a lot of games like this, especially F2P's. However, that doesn't mean I had any fun whatsoever running around like a maniac completing mindless quests and mashing buttons. The controls are wonky, the enemies are stupid, and the weapons aren't very inspiring. But SPACE NINJAS! If that's enough for you, I recommend this game, otherwise it's about as deep as a teaspoon and less fun.… Expand
  29. skarr
    Aug 4, 2013
    1
    Amazing gameplay and graphics. But Lord o Lord it gets boring quickly. First of all, there is nothing in the game that is challenging in terms of difficulty. You could pretty much walk through enemies and bosses and laugh at how easy they die. The levels, bar some variations are pretty much the same and enemies variation is lacking to say the least. The loot, which we all love and cherishAmazing gameplay and graphics. But Lord o Lord it gets boring quickly. First of all, there is nothing in the game that is challenging in terms of difficulty. You could pretty much walk through enemies and bosses and laugh at how easy they die. The levels, bar some variations are pretty much the same and enemies variation is lacking to say the least. The loot, which we all love and cherish is uninspired and boring. It basically consists of the same weapons plans and mods with no variations to power. The game could have inspired itself from random loot generation in the likes of Diablo and Borderlands, but decided otherwise. This pretty much means everyone has the same weapons, the same mods and the same warframes which in my opinion provides no attachment to the character or sense of character uniqueness to the player. Last but not least is the cash shop. While I got a bundle at -75% steam summer sale, the normal prices are just too steep for any player. In addition, the only access to platinum (the currency used to purchase weapons and warframes directly, i.e. without crafring) is through the cash shop, contrary to some other f2p games where it is possible to gain small amount of the coveted currency through challenges or as rewards for difficult content.
    All in all, it is a good game to try and the free to play model should be incentive enough to try it out. But I would not spend more time on it since its novelty wears down pretty quickly.    … Expand
  30. YavielsNight
    Jan 10, 2015
    0
    Time to write a proper review and tell You gamers out there how bad “Warframe” really is. Since my first post has been taken down. I’m an early closed Beta tester over 2 years now, and I doubt many have my experience and knowledge about the game, so listen.

    What you get: (after 2 years) -100+ Missions sharing . . . -only 5 Maps with extremely repetitive map layout -few gamemodes with    Time to write a proper review and tell You gamers out there how bad “Warframe” really is. Since my first post has been taken down. I’m an early closed Beta tester over 2 years now, and I doubt many have my experience and knowledge about the game, so listen.

    What you get: (after 2 years)
    -100+ Missions sharing . . .
    -only 5 Maps with extremely repetitive map layout
    -few gamemodes with the objective to kill all or defend and kill all
    -a very very very bad AI, best at not killing you
    -quiet bad game sound, most of us players have Warframe muted
    -long loading & connecting times between missions (SSD & 8-core)
    -lag, due to player hosted at every time
    -30fps or lower due to the extremely bad optimised “Evolution Engine” (GTX 970)
    -and a game being in beta for 2 years, only getting worse -> most importantly more PAY2WIN.

    Digital Extreme: Ninjas Play Free!
    Players: Cool. Well it took me 5 hours but now I got this blueprint for my second weapon, what do I do with it?
    Digital Extreme: (Grins) First you farm a lot for the resources then you’re going to wait 12 more hours for it to finish. OR you buy the weapon in the market for 5€ only.
    Players: Oh okay, ill craft it overnight then. (night passes) Wait, now it says I don’t have enough inventory space for it, what can I do? And what about Warframes?
    Digital Extreme: Pay us.

    I know, to make something it takes money, or passion. They have enough money, easily – but have no idea how to make a game – good. Grindfest =/= Fun. They don’t listen to the community. They nerf and delete things we liked, worked ingame and implement things we never need or asked. The Devs ignore even the simplest requests. I have yet to see a more arrogant bunch of developers.

    No lore, you can fantasize about it, but there is none.
    No quests, you can call your missions quests if you want, that’s what the developers do.
    No endgame, you read right, no endgame. Just the same missions and enemies all over again.

    But the best (worst) part about the game is the progression (experience) mechanic. Using your cool stuff to level up sounds really good, but not in Warframe. I wont go into details but I can say to use your weapon/warframe you have to level it to 30. Which takes many hours!
    Digital Extreme: But wait, you can buy boosters to level quicker! And a catalyst to make it 60 (not just 30)!

    That’s basically what you (cant) hear but see everywhere in the whole game. Pay us & grind free.
    I discussed a lot with people why Warframe has such a high user scoring on “Metacritic” and we came to the point it’s because about the first few hours, it looks good, many weapons, warframes and a lot to do.

    Every update just includes more weapons MUCH more to grind, just to level them and throw away afterwards, nothing fun. There are no improvements, no engine fixes, no nothing. You spam 1 key ingame and win.

    It is addicting somewhat somehow (at first), you want more, better weapons, the best actually! 50 hours of grind is enough and you will have access to everything ingame. And that’s exactly the point you realize how much time you wasted and now that you finally have your weapon - there’s nothing more.    … Expand
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#14 Most Discussed PC Game of 2013
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#10 Most Shared PC Game of 2013

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. PCMag
    Oct 2, 2020
    70
    Warframe is a shockingly polished free-to-play action game that boasts great visuals, gameplay, and replay value. Unfortunately, grinding and odd design choices bog down the late-game experience.
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  2. The Overpowered Noobs
    Nov 29, 2017
    80
    Play Warframe. Play it for more than a few hours, preferably with friends, and keep an open mind into doing some third-party research to straighten out some of these systems. Warframe takes so much of what makes ARPG’s addictive, and rounds it out with more polish and depth than most its competitors on the current games market. If the hooks aren’t deeply embedded by then, maybe something this in-depth isn’t for you.
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  3. GameStar
    Sep 11, 2014
    77
    The idea with the Tamagotchi-space-dogs is already absolutely amazing.
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