Following today’s announcement of upcoming new Tron game Tron Identity, Bithell Games head Mike Bithell and Disney producer Heidy Vargas have shared a handful of details on what to expect from it, including its genre and setting: it’s a detective game set years after Tron: Legacy.
Sitting down with IGN for an exclusive interview, Bithell explained that Identity takes place so far in the future that characters from the other Tron stories are legends that have shaped the history of Identity’s setting, and are loved and hated for their contributions.
It takes place in a secondary Grid created by Flynn for the ISOs to inhabit after promising he’d return, though as we know, he never did. We get a look at what society and culture has evolved since then, through the eyes of a detective named Query assigned to solve a robbery and the mystery that surrounds it.
We also got a look at a few other characters, including Proxy, who is a program that has started to live outside the established hierarchy. She’s a rebel who arrives on the scene of the theft, looking to see if she can benefit from the events that follow.
Bithell says that Identity will have “hybrid” gameplay, featuring puzzles interspersed with conversational elements, similar to a visual novel. The story will focus on the nature of Identity Discs, and will use them as a device through which the detective can uncover the mystery at the heart of the plot.
According to Bithell and Vargus, we can expect to see more “very soon.” In the meantime, Tron Identity was just one of a number of Disney games that were announced or shown off at today’s Disney and Marvel Games Showcase. You can see our full roundup of everything we saw right here.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.