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The Hidden Ones features an official collaboration with the Bruce Lee estate. This page covers what the collaboration actually is, and is careful to separate the confirmed parts from what has not been announced.

The Collaboration

The collaboration is an official partnership with the Bruce Lee estate. It was the headline of the game's first reveal in December 2023, when the project was still going under its working title, Project: The Outcast. The collaboration was presented as a way to deepen the game's appreciation of martial-arts technique and philosophy, with more details promised for later.

Be Water and Combat Design

What the collaboration brings to the game is design inspiration rather than a confirmed character. The combat is explicitly inspired by Bruce Lee's be-water philosophy and Jeet Kune Do, the idea that a fighter should be adaptable and flow like water rather than stay rigid. That influence sits underneath the broader Combat System and its emphasis on reading attacks, adapting, and flowing between offense and defense. The roster's framing around The Eight Secret Arts, where each discipline is meant to feel distinct, fits the same goal of expressive, varied martial arts.

Is Bruce Lee Playable?

Whether Bruce Lee appears as a playable character in The Hidden Ones has not been announced or confirmed. The confirmed parts of the collaboration are the official estate partnership and the be-water and Jeet Kune Do inspiration behind the combat design. No official trailer, listing, or roster reveal has shown a playable Bruce Lee fighter. Until an official reveal explicitly shows one, he should not be treated as part of the roster.

Confirmed: an official Bruce Lee estate collaboration and be-water-inspired combat. Not confirmed: Bruce Lee as a playable fighter.