The Essential Switch Ports: Warframe

A complete online action game experience on-the-go

Alex Rowe
5 min readFeb 27, 2020

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I love this Dark Sector-inspired outfit. Screenshot captured by Alex Rowe.

In the run-up to new consoles at the end of this year, I’ll be regularly highlighting my personal favorite Nintendo Switch ports, to help show how ambition and creativity matter just as much as clock speed. Nintendo’s little machine can bring it in spite of its low-powered hardware. You can choose any of my featured games and know you’re getting the same great content you’d get on a PS4 or Xbox One.

If you just got home with your new Switch or Switch Lite, and you want to see just what it can do without spending a cent on new software, it’s time to download Warframe.

Digital Extremes’ Warframe (official site) made a big entrance on consoles at the launch of the PS4 in 2013. It’s been nothing but explosive growth and success in the years since, and the game now has an eager player base of over 50 million users.

Warframe’s impressive lighting system is present and accounted for on Switch. Screenshot captured by Alex Rowe.

The developers constantly add new missions, challenges, and playable frames (characters) to the game. Thanks to some help from the porting geniuses at Panic Button, you can get the whole game on your Nintendo Switch. All it takes is a free ~14…

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Alex Rowe

I write about gaming, tech, music, and their industries. Audio producer, video editor, and former magazine critic. Look mom, I’m using my English degree!