Move like a space ninja. Build like a mad scientist.
That One Thing
Bullet-jumping through a ventilation shaft, drawing an energy bow mid-somersault, and pinning an entire squad of Grineer soldiers to the wall in slow motion.
Warframe is Digital Extremes’ long-running free-to-play looter shooter: space ninja frames, parkour, guns that turn into melee, and a solar map that has been added to for more than a decade. You can play the whole way as a solo player — the game even has an official Solo matchmaking setting — or run squads of four through the same nodes.
It is generous for a live-service shooter and it is still a live-service shooter. Platinum buys cosmetics and convenience. Founders and deluxe skins exist. The foundry, mods, and Prime vaults are a second game about logistics. None of that makes the shooting bad. It does mean PlayBound will not stamp genuinelyFree on it.
The Windows client is a substantial download. Official installers come from Warframe.com (MSI) or Steam. PlayBound will not send you to a random ‘free Warframe’ zip. New players should expect a busy UI and a wiki tab. The payoff is one of the few F2P action games that still feels like a crafted co-op shooter rather than a battle-pass template.
We picked Warframe because it’s one of those games that gets better the deeper you go. What starts as stylish space-ninja combat quickly opens into an enormous universe of missions, customization, progression, and strange little systems to obsess over. We love that it doesn’t feel like a typical free-to-play game. You can genuinely sink hundreds of hours into it without spending anything. More importantly, Warframe has the kind of personality we look for at PlayBound: ambitious, weird, generous, and constantly evolving. It’s a game we can recommend knowing there’s a good chance players will discover something they didn’t expect.
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Minimum
Windows 10 64-bit · Dual-core · 4 GB RAM · DX11 GPU · 50 GB · broadband
Recommended
Quad-core · 8 GB RAM · GTX 1060-class · SSD · 50 GB+
It is free to download and play. Platinum and a large cosmetic/convenience shop exist. You can progress without paying; you will see the shop.
Yes. Digital Extremes ships an official Solo matchmaking option. Some content is easier in a squad, but the game is not raid-gated at the start.
Plan on tens of gigabytes. The launcher download is much larger than a typical open-source catalog title.
Either official path is fine. Steam is simpler if you already live there. The standalone MSI from warframe.com is the other supported client.
No. It is a commercial live-service title listed so free-to-play PC games have accurate pages, not because it matches the FOSS quality bar.
Yes. Warframe has multiplayer. Its multiplayer runs through the game's own online service or menus, so PlayBound Connect parties and PlayBound dedicated servers are not available for it. There is no subscription and no paid multiplayer tier.
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This game natively supports a controller — no setup needed.
Default bindings for every input method Warframe supports. These are the game's own defaults — anything you have remapped will differ.
Default keyboard and mouse bindings.
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Move | W, A, S, D |
| Jump / crouch-slide | Space / Ctrl |
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Fire / aim | Left / Right Mouse |
| Melee | E |
| Use abilities | 1–4 |
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Reload / interact | R / X |
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Gear wheel | Q |
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Default gamepad layout, using the standard face-button names.
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Move / look | Left / Right Stick |
| Jump | A / Cross |
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Fire / aim | Right / Left Trigger |
| Melee | B / Circle |
| Abilities | Right Bumper + face buttons |
| Action | Default input |
|---|---|
| Reload / interact | X / Square |
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Community
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