Digital Extremes – the studio behind free-to-play sci-fi shooter Warframe, has announced Soulframe, a new fantasy themed action-MMORPG set in a sister universe to Warframe.
Soulframe will be Digital Extremes’ first new game in over five years, following on from 2017’s short-lived team-based FPS The Amazing Eternals, but details remain slight at this juncture.
Like its predecessor, Soulframe will adopt a free-to-play model when it eventually arrives at some unspecified future point, and Digital Extremes has shared a few additional details in an interview with The Washington Post. Here, it explains Soulframe will be built around “slow and heavy” melee combat, have a focus on exploration, and will feature a hub world similar to Warframe’s open-world planets. That world is said to be “a little angry about what’s been done to it”, causing the ground to shift throughout the day – leading to some proceduralism within the (presumably explorable) cave networks and crevasses beneath its surface.
And if you’re curious to know how all that might look, Digital Extremes has also released an enigmatic five-minute cinematic trailer – featuring everything from massive wolves to shiny buttocks – as a means to set the scene for things to come.