Digimon Story: Time Stranger - PlayStation 5

Digimon Story: Time Stranger launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows (PC). This means players across console and PC can enjoy the game, making it broadly accessible.

The game released globally on October 3, 2025, with some versions (particularly in Japan) earlier for certain platforms.

Digimon Stories: Time Stranger is a turn-based JRPG with heavy monster-taming and raising elements. Following the formula of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, you will collect, train, and Digivolve a huge roster of Digimon to battle alongside you while uncovering a deep, story-driven mystery.

In Time Stranger, you’ll encounter digimon in the Digital World zones, defeat or scan them, then recruit them into your roster. They gain experience, learn new skills, and can digivolve into more powerful forms given certain conditions (such as stat thresholds, Agent Rank, or personality traits). Additionally, a “Digifarm” mechanic allows you to train and raise your Digimon further, changing personalities or attributes.

In Time Stranger, each Digimon has a “personality” stat that influences which attributes they grow in (for example, Valor, Wisdom, etc.). Your responses in dialogue and how you treat your Digimon affect these personality vectors. Meeting certain digivolution criteria doesn’t just rely on level or stat thresholds — personality traits and Agent Rank can also unlock higher evolutions.

No, you do not. Digimon Stories: Time Stranger features a completely standalone story with a new cast of characters and a new setting. While fans of Cyber Sleuth will appreciate the familiar gameplay systems and refinements, new players can jump directly into Time Stranger without any prior knowledge.

Digimon Stories: Time Stranger features over 450 Digimon to collect, raise, and battle with. This includes many fan favorites as well as new Digimon.

The story follows a protagonist who is part of a secret organization investigating strange urban legends. During a mission, a catastrophic event destroys Tokyo and sends the protagonist eight years into the past. Trapped in the past, you must team up with new allies (both human and Digimon) to uncover the origins of the disaster and find a way to change the future.

Digimon Stories: Time Stranger builds directly on the successful foundation of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory. It retains the 3-on-3 turn-based combat and the core loop of Digivolving and De-Digivolving your partners. However, it introduces several new features and quality-of-life improvements, including "Digimon Personalities" and "Agent Skills."

Time Stranger introduces several key new mechanics:

• Digimon Personalities: A new system where each Digimon has one of 16 different personalities (e.g., "Daring," "Adoring"). These personalities influence stat growth, skill acquisition, and even Digivolution conditions, adding a new layer of customization to team building.

• Agent Skills: This is a skill tree for the human protagonist. By completing missions, you earn points to unlock passive buffs and active abilities, such as enhancing Digimon with specific personalities, increasing experience gain, or assisting in battle.

• Cross Arts: Powerful combination attacks that fuse the player's Digivice with a Digimon's power during combat.

• Jogress Skills: Special in-battle Jogress (DNA Digivolution) skills that allow two specific Digimon to unleash a powerful joint attack.

No, Digimon Stories: Time Stranger is not an open-world game. Like Cyber Sleuth, it is a traditional JRPG that features distinct zones, dungeons, and city hubs that you explore as you progress through the main story and side quests.

Digimon Story Time Stranger Deluxe Edition inludes -

• The Base Game
• The Season Pass, which contains three "Additional Digimon & Episode Packs" that will be released post-launch.
• A Season Pass Bonus item: Farm Item "Golden Moai"
• A Deluxe Edition Bonus: Costume "Cyber Sleuth Set"

The Digital Ultimate Edition is the most comprehensive digital bundle, containing all the content from the Deluxe Edition plus several extra cosmetic and audio packs. It includes:

• The Base Game

• The Season Pass (including the "Golden Moai" farm item)

• The Costume "Cyber Sleuth Set" (Deluxe Edition Bonus)

• An additional Costume Pack (Swimwear, Chosen Children, and Digimon Costume sets)

• The Costume "Public Safety Suit & Special Supplies Set"

• The Cyber Sleuth BGM Pack (lets you listen to music from Cyber Sleuth)

• An Early Unlock for the special "Kizuna" forms: Agumon - Bond of Bravery and Gabumon - Bond of Friendship. (Note: These Digimon can still be unlocked through regular gameplay).