Soulframe Looks Promising in New TennoCon Showcase; Digital Extremes Will Talk A Lot More About It in 2024

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Ahead of TennoCon 2023, Digital Extremes kindly invited me and other press colleagues to check out some of what they have in store for attendees when it comes to Soulframe and Warframe reveals. Soulframe, as you may recall, is the new game announced by the Canadian studio at last year's TennoCon. Another slice of prototype gameplay was shared back in March.

For the TennoCon 2023 preview, Chief Creative Officer Steve Sinclair quickly recapped the basics: it'll be a free to play live service game like Warframe, though it does differ in some regards, being a slower game that is set in a fantasy setting instead of sci-fi. Most of the game will take place in a large open world island area, but there also Warframe-like procedural dungeons; more on that later.

Players are outcast soldiers of the Ode, the big bad faction. They're also Envoys capable of traveling to the plane of Souls, where over time they'll build a village inhabited by the various Ancestors. They'll also get to build a foundry, an armory, and so on.

Soulframe is a roleplaying game. It features a straightforward attribute system with the three Virtues: Spirit, Courage, and Grace, each corresponding loosely to the Fighter, Mage, and Assassin archetypes.

That's one part of the progression system. Another is gathering the Souls of the Ancestors; attuning with them allows access to their skills, such as Archery, Blades, Arcanic, and Athletics to name those shown in the demo. The Ancestors will also offer lore tidbits here and there to explain this mysterious world to players.

Finally, there are different Pacts to choose from, which were likened to classes and have three abilities each. These can be switched freely at any time. The Fey Pact is the default one, but the