Visual Novel Truer Than You Announced By Transcenders Media

Swedish Indie studio Transcenders Media has announced Truer Than You, a visual novel that’s not afraid to shy away from big topics like Love, loss and the meaning of life. The game is set to release across PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch in 2025.

Truer Than You puts players in the feet of Rin, a 26-year-old who’s joined a mysterious company, Truer Than You, as a gig worker. The secretive company specialises in renting out actors for real-life situations, and Rin has to balance sticking to the script or going full improv across a catalogue of unique scenarios.

As Rin, gamers are free to make their own decisions about how they approach clients, with the company only giving a few rules to guide the situation. The key rule is not to expose Rin as an actor which can be harder than it first seems as players won’t know who is also an actor, or if Rin is even talking to the right person.

Throughout Truer Than You, the situations can range from pretending to be someone’s date at a dinner party to filming anonymous videos for an activist group. As Rin finds themselves dragged into a sequence of unusual events and meets a series of characters, players can lead the conversion in a multitude of different ways. These could lead to deception, conflict or even romance. The developers have advised there are over 1000 options that can lead to different relationships and endings for Rin.

The team at Transcenders Media is a small studio formed of two people who’ve been in the game industry for a while, working on games including LittleBigPlanet 3 and Little Nightmares 2. Their first game was Knife Sisters, a visual novel that explores the dark side of life that includes love, obsession and manipulation.

While Truer Than You is penned as a spiritual successor of sorts to Knife Sisters, they can be enjoyed as separate experiences. From what we’ve seen so far, Truer Than You looks to incorporate stunning pop-art style artwork with a sprawling dialogue system that will encourage players to seek out multiple story paths for Rin. We’ll keep an eye on Truer Than You as it heads towards a release in 2025.

Truer Than You is set to launch on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2025.

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