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Digital Extremes, the studio behind Warframe, announced its brand new game over the weekend: Soulframe. And the latter is definitely not a continuation of the former.
While Warframe is a fast-paced shooter set in a sci-fi universe, Soulframe is a fantasy MMO with an emphasis on melee combat. Not exactly a sequel, then, or even a spiritual successor, but after watching the same game for a decade, you can’t blame director Steve Sinclair for abandoning Warframe to go and do something new.
Here’s the very long, weird and very heavy announcement trailer:
Soulframe Official Teaser Trailer
“Whereas ‘Warframe’ is focused on shooting, this one is focused on melee,” Sinclair told the Washington Post in an interview discussing the new project. “Whereas ‘Warframe’ is super fast and crazy high speed, this one will be much slower and heavy.” But there are still a lot of similarities to the genre we’re experienced in.”
While it’s easy to look at this trailer and think, “Okay, Digital Extremes has played too much Souls,” Sinclair says the inspiration for the world itself comes from things like Princess Mononoke and The NeverEnding Story, with a game world that is “a bit angry about what’s been done to it” which means “the base underneath tends to change during the day” resulting in procedurally generated areas set in places like caves.
Soulframe will also have a large open-world hub to serve as its overworld, with Sinclair adding that the team wants this game to have a much greater focus on exploration. “I’m chasing that ‘short session but heavy immersion,’ where you’re in and out of your yurt and you’re where you last checked out,” he told the Post, “but the world feels like it’s going on without you.”
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If you think it all sounds very vague and “back of the napkin” in terms of design and goals, it is! This game is very early in development, in case you couldn’t tell by the state of this trailer, though the team hopes to have some fans playing rough builds of it “within a year.”
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