Tron Identity developer Bithell Games is creating a new story-driven adventure game set after the events of the Tron movies, opening up an interesting new storyline that is separate from its predecessors while retaining familiar lore. The game is not stuck on a single trajectory, and Tron Identity's developer has stressed the importance of its story having multiple endings. This should make it exciting to experience the unraveling mystery, and be a part in how it's told.
The Mike Bithell-led independent studio is set to develop multiple games for Disney, starting with this visual novel-styled game set for a 2023 release. In Tron Identity, players enter the world two decades after Kevin Flynn escaped the Grid. While the Flynn family is not personally featured in Tron Identity, the developer has told fans that the game is very aware of its history and mythology.
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In Tron Identity, players will step into the role of a detective program in a new Grid that evolved without supervision, leading to an unprecedented break-in at the Repository. The plot developed alongside Disney provides a strong starting point for the mystery, but doesn't reveal too much about the details. As the game's environment is a totally new Grid, it opens up a lot of new opportunities. However, this doesn't mean that no familiar characters from past titles, like from the 2010 game Tron: Evolution, will be present.
The Grid's unstable nature and the detective aspects of Tron Identity offer a mystery that can unravel in unexpected ways. It is not clear what the player will find, whether there are multiple forces at work, or why the Repository has been targeted in the first place. As the player is responsible for piecing together this puzzle, the outcome will rely on players' choices. The storyline doesn't restrict players into good or bad outcomes, which makes the adventure exciting and unpredictable.
Players will also choose to form alliances with trustworthy characters, desert the ones not deserving of attention, and even derezz those that are a danger to their objectives. The ways that players manage to recover programs' lost memories and the secrets revealed via Identity Discs is up to them. Multiple endings also mean that replay value is greatly enhanced. While the game has a singular mystery, the pathways through understanding it and the conclusions people come to might be radically different. Visual novel-style games can sometimes suffer from predetermined storytelling, but this doesn't seem to be the case with Tron Identity.
The Tron universe is vast and stretched across different Grids and time periods. However, software systems can be easily connected, which could provide the opportunity for interesting tie-ins with other aspects of the Tron IP. Perhaps someone's first playthrough won't reveal the effect the Flynn family had on this Grid, for example, or maybe Quorra makes an appearance in one of the timelines. A specific choice could even unlock a connection with Tron: Uprising's Beck. The possibilities seem almost endless, so hopefully Bithell Games takes advantage of the property at hand.
Tron: Identity releases in 2023 on PC and consoles.