--- title: "Soulframe opens its pre-alpha to all PC players on November 6 as Digital Extremes’ teaser passes 155,000 views" url: https://badiyaa.com/soulframe-open-preludes-november-6-trailer/ published: 2026-11-02T08:09:00+00:00 modified: 2026-11-02T08:09:00+00:00 section: Gaming publisher: Badiyaa --- # Soulframe opens its pre-alpha to all PC players on November 6 as Digital Extremes’ teaser passes 155,000 views The Warframe studio's fantasy spin-off has been invite-only since December 2023; a 58-second teaser on the official Soulframe channel confirms the date and a Steam release is pencilled for 2027. Soulframe, the fantasy sister game to Warframe, drops its waiting list on Friday, November 6. Digital Extremes confirmed the date in a 58-second teaser posted to the official Soulframe YouTube channel on Friday, October 30, and the clip had passed 155,000 views within two days. The studio’s message is blunt: once “Open Preludes” begins, anyone with a PC can sign up at soulframe.com, download the launcher and start playing. No invitation, no code, no Founders bundle required. ## What Soulframe is Soulframe is a free-to-play action role-playing game from the Canadian studio behind [Warframe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulframe). Where Warframe is space ninjas and gunfire, Soulframe swaps the hardware for swords, forests and the magic of the Fey. Players become an Envoy, a warrior with a blue Pact Arm, defending the living world of Alca, a setting the studio has said draws on Gaelic storytelling and on Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke, from the Ode, a technologically advanced invading force whose mercenaries, the Sinecure, descend from Skytowers to strip the planet bare. Geoff Crookes and Steve Sinclair direct the project, with Keith Power and George Spanos on music. It runs on the studio’s own Evolution engine and is currently Windows-only, with Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 versions promised once the game leaves alpha. ## What “Preludes” has meant until now “Preludes” is the name Digital Extremes gives to Soulframe’s pre-alpha. The build first became playable in December 2023 and has been patched in numbered chapters ever since, with the sixteenth, “Of Hook & Hound,” landing on September 18, 2026. Getting in has been the hard part. Access started as invite-only. The gates opened briefly during the studio’s TennoCon fan conventions in July 2025 and July 2026, with anyone who registered that week keeping permanent access. Otherwise, players waited on 2,000 random email invites sent out every Wednesday, watched Twitch streams for drop codes, or paid for a Founders bundle, a paid route the studio opened on November 25, 2025. Open Preludes removes all of that friction. In its October 15 news post the studio said that after 16 updates it wanted “more voices helping us build the world of Alca,” and framed the move as a development milestone rather than a launch. ## The Badiyaa timeline: from TennoCon reveal to open doors - **July 2022:** Soulframe is revealed with a cinematic trailer at TennoCon. - **December 2023:** The first pre-alpha build, Soulframe Preludes, reaches invited players. - **July 2025:** First temporary public opening during TennoCon. - **November 25, 2025:** Founders bundles go on sale, offering paid access plus exclusive Pacts, weapons and armor. - **July 2026:** Second TennoCon opening. - **September 18, 2026:** Preludes 16: Of Hook & Hound. - **October 15, 2026:** Studio announces Open Preludes and a Devstream for October 30. - **October 30, 2026:** Teaser trailer names the date: November 6. - **Late autumn 2026:** Preludes 17: Verse of the Veilands, date to be announced. - **2027:** Steam release, date to be announced. ## Reading the trailer The teaser is short on gameplay and long on mood. At 58 seconds it is an invitation card more than a showcase, built around the studio’s line, “Join us, won’t you?” and a sign-up push to soulframe.com. That is the right call for a clip whose only job is to broadcast one date, and the view count suggests it did that job. The honest caveat for newcomers is that “open” does not mean “finished.” Soulframe stays a pre-alpha after November 6. Expect missing systems, balance swings and wipes of the kind early testers have lived with for almost three years, and expect the Founders bundles to keep selling alongside the free route; the studio has said the program continues into later 2026 and will return when the console versions arrive. By our count, that is roughly 35 months between the first invited players in December 2023 and open doors in November 2026, longer than many games spend in a full early-access run. Warframe fans who sat out the lottery can find out on Friday whether the wait was worth it, with Preludes 17 due before the year is out. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Soulframe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulframe) *Image: uniquelycat (Cathy) Smith, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*