Soulframe

Warframe developer Digital Extremes unveils Soulframe, a brand new fantasy MMO game inspired by Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke and Hayao Miyazaki.

The Soulframe website has an interactive puzzle before giving players the option to join for updates, access, information, and more on Digital Extremes’ new intellectual property releasing at a later date. Digital Extremes has announced Soulframe, a new MMO inspired by the works of Studio Ghibli that is currently in early development status. “Our team is really interested in this idea of nature and humanity colliding and we’ll be exploring a lot of those themes through our own lens while playing with ideas of restoration and exploration,” Crookes explains.

Announced during TennoCon 2022, the free-to-play fantasy MMO will be “heavily influenced by themes of nature, restoration, and exploration.”.

Combat in the game is planned to be far slower-paced than sister game Warframe, with a focus on melee. “Ironically, other titles that were maybe borrowing from Warframe might have been some sort of reverse influence. “Where ‘Warframe’ is focused on shooting, this one’s focused on melee,” Steve Sinclair, Warframe director said.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes has unveiled Soulframe, a brand-new fantasy MMORPG. The shiny new game - a trailer for which debuted at TennoCon 2022 ...

"Even more of an honor is being able to do it with members of the team growing into roles that form Warframe’s new leadership. We'll get to play as an outlaw known as the Drifter in a new open world-based expansion to Warframe and "fight to break free from Duviri’s endless daily cycle of death and rebirth". "It is an honor, and an emotional one at that, to be a part of Warframe’s future in the Creative Director role," Ford said.

Digital Extremes has announced Soulframe, a spin-off of its popular MMO Warframe, during its TennoCon convention overnight.

Once you’re in, you can sign up for the game’s newsletter and claim your game name nice and early. You can currently stake a claim on your Soulframe name (or “envoy title”) at the game’s official website. “With Soulframe‘s worldbuilding and thematic elements, we are really looking to go back to our childhood favourites and pull inspiration from the elaborate fantasy worlds that we fell in love with growing up,” said creative director Geoff Crookes in a press release.

Digital Extremes, the studio behind Warframe, announced over the weekend their brand new game: Soulframe. And the latter is most definitely not the sequel ...

If you think that all sounds very vague and “back of the napkin” in terms of design and goals, that’s because it is! Soulframe is also going to have a large, open-world hub serving as its overworld, with Sinclair adding that the team wants this game to have a much greater focus on exploration. “Where ‘Warframe’ is focused on shooting, this one’s focused on melee,” Sinclair told the Washington Post in an interview discussing the new project.

During TennoCon 2022, Digital Extremes announced Soulframe. Here's what we know about the fantasy action hybrid-MMORPG, and sister game to Warframe.

Platforms were not announced, but you can probably expect a PC launch with a console release coming at some point. These open-world planets that Warframe has only recently added will be a core pillar for Soulframe. Themes of romanticism and fantasy are on full display, and Creative Director Geoff Crookes revealed:

Warframe developer Digital Extremes has announced their next free-to-play MMORPG titled Soulframe which is set in a fantasy setting.

So there’s going to be proceduralism within the cave networks and crevasses and so on underneath the world.” The world of Soulframe, according to the developers, might be the most interesting. In the interview with the Washington Post, the developer described the game as more of a sister to Warframe. The game is being led by Steve Sinclair, the director of Warframe who’ll be stepping down from his role to focus on Soulframe.