Digimon Story: Time Stranger Previews
Check out Digimon Story: Time Stranger previews from Critics around the web.
I feel that there’s a real opportunity for Digimon Story: Time Stranger to take advantage of. After some difficult times for Pokémon games, which are now shifting to a new real-time battle system, Digimon Story is sticking to the tried and true turn-based battles that could bring traditional monster battling fans to its yard.
Read Full Preview
After three hours with Digimon Story Time Stranger at PAX West, I'm a believer now. It pretty quickly shot up to near the top of my October wishlist.
Read Full Preview
Get ready to dive back into the Digital World with the latest entry in the Digimon Story series, Digimon Story Time Stranger which brings exciting new twists to the beloved series. On our second preview of Digimon Story Time Stranger we’ll cover the game’s opening sections, battle system, exploration mechanics, and various gameplay elements.
Read Full Preview
Building on the blueprints of past Digimon Story titles, specifically Cyber Sleuth – which first released on the PS Vita – and its pseudo-sequel Hacker’s Memory, Digimon Story Time Stranger is a creature taming RPG where its closest analogue is a famous Nintendo franchise that begins with the letter ‘P’.
Read Full Preview
At PAX West in Seattle, Washington, I met up with the Bandai Namco team to play several hours of Digimon Story: Time Stranger across two save files: the first brought me through the game's opening hour, and the second save skipped ahead a bit to demonstrate the mid-game experience. As expected of a creature collecting JRPG, the game's opening is heavy on exposition and tutorialization, and was mostly an on-rails affair. Meanwhile, the mid-game portion saw many of its systems open up, including Digivolution, the personality system, the Agent Skill tree, and—say this ten times fast—Dedigivolution.
Read Full Preview
My recent hands-on with Digimon Story: Time Stranger for three hours at PAX West 2025 allowed me to figure out exactly how Digivolutions and De-Digivolutions worked in this new Digimon Story entry.
Read Full Preview
Digimon Story: Time Stranger seems to get the Digimon series, but there’s also the foundation of a really good JRPG here, too. I mean the kind that you could spend a long time digging into. One that might be able to appeal to Digimon oldheads while creating new fans. If licensed games have a holy grail, it’s that. And Time Stranger might be able to find it.
Read Full Preview
I am so excited for the release of Digimon Story: Time Stranger. I spent about three and a half hours in the game, and all I wanted to do after the fact was play more Digimon Story. October is a crowded month for video games, but I do think this is the one to get for that month.
Read Full Preview
During PAX West, I had the chance to go hands on for an almost four-hour demo to check out the beginning of the Digimon Story Time Stranger experience, as well as jump a head to check out the upcoming RPG a few hours into its narrative. And while I have some reservations, I came away even more excited for the game than I was going into the demo.
Read Full Preview
One of Digimon's biggest strengths has always been its ability to lean into nostalgia, and that's no different in Digimon Story: Time Stranger, the seventh entry in the franchise's role-playing-focused gaming series. Like past Digimon Story games, Time Stranger puts a big emphasis on narrative, but this time around, it was the creature collecting and turn-based battles that made me want to keep playing long after my three-hour preview session ended.
Read Full Preview
Digimon has really been on a tear with their “Digimon Story” series lately, what with the release of Cyber Sleuth ten years ago and Hacker’s Memory soon after that. They’re fantastic if you’ve never played them, but if there’s one complaint I’d lob their way, it’s that the games tend to lean more into the visual novel territory than the monster-catching side; think of it as kind of a 60/40 split. Digimon Story: Time Stranger seems to rectify that to even things out from what I saw in my nearly four hours with the game.
Read Full Preview
The short of it all is, a couple of hours just isn’t enough to fully grasp what Digimon Story: Time Stranger is doing, especially coming into this whole thing with fresh eyes. But the crucial bit is this – I am fucking with it. I plan on downloading the other Digimon Story games ahead of an upcoming trip to Tokyo, where I will binge them at every given opportunity, in the hopes that they are anywhere near as intriguing and moreish and this one is shaping up to be.
Read Full Preview
At this year’s PAX West, I had the opportunity to go hands-on with developer Media.Vision’s latest title, Digimon Story Time Stranger. The latest Bandai Namco-published RPG based on everyone’s favorite digital monsters showcases tactical turn-based battles and the ability to fine-tune your squad of Digimon to handle any situation. After several hours with the game, I’m excited to build my own squad of Digimon and see where the adventure takes us.
Read Full PreviewThe game is difficult to set down—I was fully invested in expanding my collection and refining my party, looking forward to each encounter where I might discover a new Digimon. For collectors and completionists, as well as fans of party-based combat, Digimon Story: Time Stranger is teeming with content and certainly scratches the optimization itch. It feels like a middleground between Pokemon and Shin Megami Tensei: more complex systems than the former, but not as unforgiving as the latter—while still making its own meaningful contributions to the genre.
Read Full Preview
I'm halfway through my three-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore roleplaying game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for.
Read Full PreviewThis will be the Digimon game that makes me finally jump into Digimon games, and that’s beyond exciting.
Read Full Preview