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Third-person looter shooter action RPG with Free to Play positioning, built around Warframe’s action combat niche. Digital Extremes developed and published it in 2013, with 2,883 Steam reviews at 88% positive, a very positive signal for players searching an action indie game.
Overview
Warframe is a 2013 Action game developed by Digital Extremes and published by Digital Extremes. On Steam it has gathered 2,883 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Digital Extremes with publisher Digital Extremes is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 156,000 to 363,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Warframe can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,883
Positive
88%
Steam appid
230410
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0156K to 363K
units (median: 259K)
≈ $1.3M to $3.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Warframe at roughly 156,000 to 363,000 copies, with a median around 259,000, derived from its 2,883 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $11.75Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.75 to $19.99, averaging $18.62 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.75 on 2026-03-31.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Platforms
windows
Tags
Free to PlayAction RPGLooter ShooterThird-Person ShooterActionRPGThird PersonCharacter CustomizationMassively MultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opPvESci-fiSingleplayerSpaceShooterLore-RichHack and SlashParkourNinja
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Warframe sold?
- indielist estimates Warframe has sold between 155,682 and 363,258 units (median 259,470), derived from its 2,883 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Warframe?
- Warframe was developed by Digital Extremes and published by Digital Extremes.
- When was Warframe released?
- Warframe was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Warframe have on Steam?
- Warframe has 2,883 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Warframe within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Digital Extremes's other releases and Digital Extremes's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Warframe sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Warframe page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.