One of the best free-to-play live-service experiences you can have, and one that you can experience the full breadth of without paying a cent. Warframe is such a fun game, with excellent movement tech, class variety, weapon choice, and depth of customization in both drip and gameplay. You want numbers? Here's all the numbers. You want to mess around and tear through hordes of enemies with a power fantasy that truly feels earned? Anything less is unacceptable. Few games can give a dopamine drip quite like Warframe. It really is a shame that it is just absolutely impenetrable to get into due to a lackluster player introduction, and an absolutely gargantuan amount of content thrown at you with little explanation. Following the Star Map and completing missions in sequence is the best advice to new players, but even then, the game just inundates you with so any difference systems, locations, gameplay options, and gear, that even after 400 hours, I had to step away from sheer overload of information.

It's free-to-play, so jump right in and give it a shot. You never have to pay a cent thanks to being able to trade the in-game reward for premium currency with other players, though doing so is a very involved process. You may be overwhelmed with what to do and how to do it, but looking up helpful videos, as well as just interacting with the friendly community that will help guide new players with free currency or gear, all helps to ease you into the experience. Once you're over that barrier, the excellent gameplay will draw you in, the surprisingly great story missions will keep you invested, and the deep loot mechanics will motivate you to continue. When all is said and done, fashionframe is endgame, and you will spend hours dripping out your frames not because you have to, but because you WANT to.

Reviewed on Feb 15, 2024


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