Determining when a game has "soul" seems like a difficult trait to qualify objectively, but generally speaking, I think you can just sort of tell when games fee

Determining when a game has "soul" seems like a difficult trait to qualify objectively, but generally speaking, I think you can just sort of tell when games feel like they have that special touch put in by a human designer. IMO, TF2 (and most other Valve games) demonstrate "soul-ful" level design pretty well.