Warframe builders Digital Extremes have introduced a brand new spherical of early entry for his or her 2025-bound fantasy action-RPG Soulframe, which I noticed a little bit of final yr and suppose is fairly promising. They’re now including 2000 gamers to a Preludes construct of the sport each week, with every invite electronic mail together with an extra 4 invite codes, so you will get your pals concerned.
For those who’re new to Soulframe, it is a stately swords-and-sorcery affair with a hazy golden open world and procedural dungeons. It has the identical visible opulence as Warframe, with richly woven costumes and an interface of painted scrolls and sigils, and the identical urge for food for screwy jargon-tastic lore writing. Nevertheless it performs issues quieter. All the things seems to be previous and dusty and the pacing of exploration and encounters appears nearer to From Software program’s work – you will weigh up each blow. Final yr, director Steve Sinclair summarised it as follows: “The place Warframe is quick and frenetic, Soulframe goes to be gradual and pensive.”
A little bit of plot: you are a downfallen amnesiac soldier who should type pacts with the spirits of their ancestors. These pacts are the sport’s loadouts, encompassing character stats and units of skills. You additionally get entry to the Nightfold, an extra-dimensional development hub akin to Bloodborne’s Hunter’s Dream. You may increase the Nightfold’s crafting and customisation amenities by asking your ancestors to maneuver in.
Soulframe is one other free-to-play providing from Digital Extremes, and the large fear as ever is how a lot the monetisation will sabotage the expertise. That apart, I am wanting ahead to it. Some smaller prospers: if you die, you reincarnate as a hen on the final respawn website and have the choice of flying again to resurrect your physique. If you transfer between dimensions, your character falls backward via a portal with arms outspread, as if tumbling into mattress on the finish of a protracted day.
You may join Preludes entry right here. For those who do not handle to scrape an invitation, Digital Extremes have additionally lifted restrictions on streams and movies of the Preludes space, so by all means hearth up the Youtubes and have a gander. I am certain any individual’s revealed a ten hour Let’s Play already.