Warframe has truly blossomed during its ten-year life to date, and continues to thunder forwards. Now, however, Digital Extremes is working on a brand-new IP to sit alongside it; it’s familiar in some ways yet very, very different in many others, and the name makes the connection and difference clear. Soulframe is coming, and the more we learn about it, the more impatient we grow for its arrival. Please, share our pain.
The broad strokes are very Warframe – there’s an emphasis on story, and it’s a free-to-play online co-op adventure, yet it’s also friendly to solo players – but the fine detail reveals that it’s very much its own game. For one thing, the setting is a world of fantasy rather than science fiction. As Steve and Geoff explain, however, when it comes to the ways in which Soulframe distinguishes itself, this is just the beginning.
PLAY Give us the pitch! What is Soulframe?
It’s a sword-and-sorcery looter shooter; an MMO-lite. It takes the high speed and gun focus of Warframe and flips it upside-down. It’s a much slower-paced
