Soulframe First Look, Hands On With DE's New Game

Honestly kind of a big fan of having to reveal the language via exploration and picking up lore fragments. I think it’s a really cool concept that I’ve only ever seen once before!

I got to play this game few months back when they gave out more keys the second time, and played recently because of the Embargo lift; while I genuinely do enjoy what DE's cooking here, I've noticed this game carries an old bug from Warframe that requires some animations to be played out properly after being interrupted, like using the Healing Elixirs. I think they should have gone for a more edited engine than what Warframe was running on, because this game is too distinctly different to be using the same shooter-looter engine. To me, it's similar to an extent with how Snail Games used Ark's engine blatantly to make a Pirate game (Atlas), to the point where you'd accidentally access Ark's own menus within Atlas when it released. Now, I know it's still Pre-Alpha and not even a public build, but I don't think it's going to change at its core beyond what we have right now, at least not any time soon.

I also know the main reason for them sharing an engine is, as Rebb put it, sometimes the developers make a breakthrough or develop new tech to be used in their respective games, and want to share it between them - would be hard to translate this between two different engines. The volumetric fog was developed by Steve for Soulframe, but it turned out well and optimized enough that they carried it over to Warframe, most notably used in Albrecht's Labs.

I've played over 50 hours. If I'm to be honest the UI is completely unusable. The content is so thin there really is none for the moment and the combat is extremely stale I've found.

There's no goal currently. You do the first quest and then pretty much told to go explore. The Systems just aren't intuitive enough. Controls are not explained well. My mother who is also playing (longtime hardcore gamer) has had a lot of trouble finding any meaning to anything she does in the game and after a decent amount of time trying to make it work I feel the same.

So what’s the premise of the story?

it looks so cool man

Thanks for this video, it's look interesting and awesome but the combat is... Ugh! Not for me i think

The world still feels so empty

A sincere question for y'all in the UK: if y'all call a vacation holiday, what do you call a holiday like Xmas?

It's souls-like in the sense of overall weirdness

Its 2024 digital extremes, you can zoom the camera back, it will be ok

Its mmo RPG pvp ???

It's just like the tennocon footage it looks super artsy and vague and now has things that will just get tedious like the returning to body thing


DE really need to understand that things that look and sound cool won't always be the best to play from a gameplay perspective


If it stays the way it is it will only get a niche playerbase and that's not enough to fund a live service game of the scale they are planning

I was one of the first 500 players to get a chance to play. The game is alright. Needs a lot of work still obviously but it wasn't bad :)

I really think the combat should take some inspiration from god of war, especially from 2018 because currently it just looks slow and extremely boring. Giving it that lite god of war treatment could go a long way from making encounters more dynamic and making the flow of combat more intense. Game looks incredible thanks to DE unique artstyle and they could come up with some pretty amazing environments in the future. However, without that impactful combat, it just feels like a pretty game but nothing else at the moment.

I have had access to the game since NDA started and it was pretty rough back then, i will need to try again soon

I watched a little bit during the live, and it really didn't make me feel that itch to play it. I think that it is the combination of how slow it is combined with how barren the world is.
Of course going to wait to see the final product before making an actual judgement on it, just not really feeling what the game is putting forward right now.

Thanks for the first look Tater. Was a hoot🦉

Do I just have to sign up to the SoulFrame website to have a chance of getting a code?

You've heard of Ash Prime
Now get ready for:
- Ashen Prime -

Will Soulframe be free when it gets released, or will it cost money?

Is this in the evolution engine still? It looks incredible

slow attack and movement speed, but still has a lot of slip in slide animation. I hope they can figure it out and give a bit more depth for the animation, they might even need to cut frames for quick movement and attacks while adding more at lower speeds rather than slowing down the animation itself.

Man, sorry I'm not watching the entire video, spoiler stuff and all that jazz, just wanted to take a peek. I cant say there's many games that I'm more excited to see be released. I think it's Soulframe, Light no Fires, and of course 1999 are my main contenders. Thank you for recording your experience!