
The concept for Warframe originated in 2000, when Digital Extremes began work on a new game titled Dark Sector. It is supported by microtransactions, which lets players purchase in-game items using real money, but also offers the option to earn them at no cost through grinding. The game includes both player versus environment and player versus player elements. The game includes elements of shooting and melee games, parkour, and role-playing to allow players to advance their Tenno with improved gear. While many of the game's missions use procedurally-generated levels, it also includes large open world areas similar to other massively multiplayer online games, as well as some story-specific missions with fixed level design.


The Tenno use their powered Warframes along with a variety of weapons and abilities to complete missions. In Warframe, players control members of the Tenno, a race of ancient warriors who have awoken from centuries of suspended animation far into Earth's future to find themselves at war with different factions in the Origin System. Cross-save, as well as ports to mobile devices, is planned for 2023.

Support for cross-platform play was released in 2022. First released for Windows personal computers in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in November 2013, Xbox One in September 2014, Nintendo Switch in November 2018, PlayStation 5 in November 2020, and Xbox Series X/S in April 2021. Warframe is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. Action role-playing, third-person shooter
