The Hidden Ones is a live-service fighting game, so its roster is built to grow over time rather than arrive fully formed. This page is the hub for the fighters who have actually been shown in the game's trailers and test builds. It lists each confirmed fighter, the starting lineup from the playtest, and an honest note on how large the launch roster is expected to be.
Confirmed Fighters
The fighters below have appeared in this game's own material, whether in an official trailer, an official listing, or a hands-on test build. The style notes are limited to what has actually been shown so far, so several entries are short. The game draws its cast from the original The Outcast franchise, but a name being famous in that source does not mean it is in this game, so only fighters confirmed for this build are listed here.
Fighter | Style / Notes | Status |
|---|---|---|
The series lead and one of the three starting test fighters. His fighter guide calls him the inheritor of the Qi Origin and the wielder of Yang Thunder. | Confirmed | |
A fast close-range fighter with a kitchen knife or machete, strong combos that are hard to break, and a forward dash. Introduced as looking like a teenager while carrying the composure of an elder. | Confirmed | |
Billed as the Master of Taoism, wielding the power of the Eight Trigrams. Previews add Tai Chi movement with parkour traversal, crowd control, and big single-target damage. A story protagonist. | Confirmed | |
One of the Ten Masters and the owner of one of the Eight Secret Arts, the Universal Talisman. Trapped by the Twelve Prison Formation and pushed into extreme anger, he fights with ruthless, combo-heavy pressure. | Confirmed | |
The heir of the Zhuge sect, billed as its peerless genius and credited with mastering all of the Zhuge Qimen. | Confirmed | |
A mechanical puppet built by Ma Xianhong using the Mechanism. Two variants have their own guides: the Two-Headed Snake, which fights with a rope dart, and the Blazemaster, which can be equipped with various weapons and holds enemies at range. | Confirmed | |
The youngest disciple of the 65th generation Celestial Master Zhang Zhiwei and a high-ranking official at the Celestial Mansion. A user of Yin Thunder. | Confirmed | |
A retired special forces soldier who fights with a superhuman physique and skilled combat techniques, billed as a master of special defensive skills. | Confirmed | |
A new generation disciple of the Zhuge Sect and the cousin of Zhuge Qing. Carefree, and described as impatient in combat. | Confirmed | |
Proficient in the Eight Trigrams Palm, and the great-granddaughter of Lu Jin. | Confirmed | |
An elder of the Quanxing sect and an alchemist, carrying a prized artifact called Nine Dragons Son. Known for bizarre and versatile moves. | Confirmed | |
One of the direct disciples of Zhang Zhiwei, with a hearty and upright personality and punches described as extremely forceful and fierce. | Confirmed |
Most of the detail above comes from the developer's own per-fighter gameplay guides, a series of short videos published on the game's official channel between December 2024 and February 2025 alongside recruitment for the first test. Each guide gives a fighter's affiliation, temperament, and in some cases a named technique. The developer attaches a caveat to them: character and skill names shown in the guides are subject to the official in-game versions, so wording can still change before launch.
Ru Hua is the one entry that covers two guides rather than one. The Two-Headed Snake and the Blazemaster are presented as separate builds of the same mechanical puppet, with different weapons and different ranges, so the roster count and the guide count do not line up exactly.
The Starting Trio
In the February 2025 playtest, players began with a fixed trio of three fighters and unlocked more through in-game progression. That starting trio was Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Wang Ye. Treat this as the test build's starting lineup rather than a confirmed launch default.
Roster Size
The roster size has shifted between builds, so no final launch count has been confirmed. In the pre-alpha test, the Duel Mode lineup was larger, around fourteen fighters in that build. Previews of the game indicate roughly nine fighters available at launch, with the lineup expanding over time as a live-service title. The exact final count has not been confirmed, so it is best read as around nine at launch and growing, not a fixed number.
The developer has kept introducing fighters through its per-fighter guides, through character-spotlight posts, and through pre-registration rewards. Xia He is confirmed as a pre-registration reward: every pre-registered player receives her, together with an exclusive outfit for her, when the game launches. The studio announced that outfit as the reward for clearing the thirty-million pre-registration milestone. She has no gameplay guide of her own yet, so she is not listed in the table above. Names are added to the confirmed list only once the game's own material shows them, so that table will keep growing as more fighters are revealed.
Another fighter is on the way. In August 2026 the studio's lead planner used a progress update to introduce a new fighter built for the competitive side of the game, alongside a report on how development was going. That update did not name the character in its text, and no name has surfaced in the game's store listing or on its international video channel since. It was built around a video carried only on the studio's regional channel, so the fighter may well have been shown to that audience already. Until a name reaches the game's international material, there is nothing to add to the table above beyond the fact that the roster is still growing.
Xue Fan has been shown without being confirmed playable. An official gameplay trailer published in February 2025 is introduced on the game's own channel as hers, describing her as summoning vengeful spirits and resonating with the souls of the departed through weeping. That is a character described in the game's own material rather than a roster listing, and she has no gameplay guide of her own, so she is not in the table above either.
Many famous names from the source cast have not been confirmed as playable in this game. They are not listed here and will be added if and when an official reveal shows them in-game.
How Fighters Play
Every fighter shares the same skill-based foundation. The Combat System is built on basic attacks, skills, blocks, and dodges, with color-coded attack tells and a stamina economy that applies to all characters. The disciplines are framed around The Eight Secret Arts of the source world, which is why each fighter's moveset is meant to feel distinct. The combat design also carries an official Bruce Lee Collaboration that informs the be-water flow of movement.
Where to Go Next
Zhang Chulan: the series lead and a starting test fighter.
Feng Baobao: a fast close-range fighter called very strong in previews.
Wang Ye: the Master of Taoism and a story protagonist.
Lu Jin: holder of the Universal Talisman, one of the Eight Secret Arts.
Zhuge Qing: the Zhuge sect heir and its billed peerless genius.
Ru Hua: a mechanical puppet with two weapon variants.
Zhang Lingyu: a Yin Thunder user from the Celestial Mansion.
Baron: a retired special forces soldier billed on defensive skill.
Zhuge Guan: Zhuge Qing's cousin and the sect's second announced fighter.
Lu Linglong: an Eight Trigrams Palm practitioner and Lu Jin's great-granddaughter.
Yuan Tao: an alchemist elder of the Quanxing sect.
Rong Shan: a heavy striker trained under the same master as Zhang Lingyu.
Bruce Lee Collaboration: the official estate collaboration behind the combat's be-water inspiration.