Warframe is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026
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Key points
- Free-to-play third-person online multiplayer shooter Warframe is slated for release on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.
- The exact release date is yet to be announced.
- Warframe has a “Very Positive” rating on Steam with 636,349 reviews.
Free-to-play third-person online multiplayer shooter Warframe is slated for release on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026, as was revealed by the title’s developer and publisher Digital Extremes during Devstream 190 on Nov. 1, 2025.
Although the exact release date or even window wasn’t confirmed, game’s creators specifiied that the title will be launched as early as possible can in the new year.
Besides plans to release on Nintendo Switch 2, playable on Windows PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and iOS smartphones, Warframe is also coming to Android devices, with pre-registrations opened on Google Play.
Initially released on March 25, 2013, Warframe is set in a far-future version of the Solar System, now known as the Origin System. At the very beginning of the game, players are given control of members of the Tenno, warriors who have awoken from a millennia-long cryosleep on Earth by the Lotus, who acts as a guide, and join an interplanetary war between the Grineer, a violent, war-driven matriarchal race of militarized human clones; the Corpus, a mega-corporation centered around a religion dedicated to profit; the Infested, disfigured victims of the Technocyte virus; the Sentients, a race of self-replicating machines made by a long-dead transhuman race known as the Orokin; and the Corrupted, brainwashed variants of the previous three factions defending ancient Orokin towers.
As of the time of writing, the game has a “Very Positive” rating on Steam with 636,349 reviews.
