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The Warframe devs want you to come try their luxurious fantasy action-RPG SoulframePrelude pre-alpha now inviting 2000 new players a week
Prelude pre-alpha now inviting 2000 new players a week
Image credit:Digital Extremes
Image credit:Digital Extremes
Warframedevelopers Digital Extremes have announced a new round of early access for their 2025-bound fantasy action-RPGSoulframe, which I saw a bit of last year andthink is pretty promising. They’re now adding 2000 players to a Preludes build of the game every week, with each invite email including an additional four invite codes, so you can get your friends involved.
If you’re new to Soulframe, it’s a stately swords-and-sorcery affair with a hazy golden open world and procedural dungeons. It has the same visual opulence as Warframe, with richly woven costumes and an interface of painted scrolls and sigils, and the same appetite for screwy jargon-tastic lore writing. But it plays things quieter. Everything looks old and dusty and the pacing of exploration and encounters seems closer to From Software’s work - you’ll weigh up every blow. Last year, director Steve Sinclair summarised it as follows: “Where Warframe is fast and frenetic, Soulframe is going to be slow and pensive.”
Soulframe is another free-to-play offering from Digital Extremes, and the big worry as ever is how much the monetisation will sabotage the experience. That aside, I’m looking forward to it. Some smaller flourishes: when you die, you reincarnate as a bird at the last respawn site and have the option of flying back to resurrect your body. When you move between dimensions, your character falls backward through a portal with arms outspread, as though tumbling into bed at the end of a long day.
