Digimon Story: Time Stranger
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| Name | Digimon Story: Time Stranger  Digimon Story Time Stranger
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| System | PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X/S Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch 2 PC |
| Release Date |  October 2, 2025 (PS5, Xbox) October 3, 2025 (PC) October 3, 2025 (PS5, Xbox, PC) July 10, 2026 (NSW, NSW2)
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| Language | Japanese, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Neutral Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean |
Digimon Story: Time Stranger (デジモンストーリー タイムストレンジャー, Dejimon Sutōrī Taimu Sutorenjā) is a video game.
It is the seventh entry in the Digimon Story series.
Story[edit]
- See also: Digimon Story: Time Stranger Prelude
The story begins with an animated trailer of a popular anime known as Agent Alpha, produced by OcculTokyo TV. From there, the protagonist, Yuki Dan or Yuki Kanan, supposedly an agent working for Adamas, appeared in Shinjuku and was tasked to investigate an anomaly inside the government building, which is surrounded by a massive wall known as the "Wall of Hope" and is covered up by the Japanese government. The protagonist moves past a large crowd protesting to force the government to speak the truth and moves into a subway to rescue a client. The agent escapes a Metal Greymon (Virus) and encounters the client, a time-displaced Inori who asked them where "he" is. Midway, they were attacked by the Metal Greymon again, but an Omegamon heavily implied to be summoned by Yggdrasill easily defeats it, allowing them to proceed. They transverse through the ruined government building and eventually encounters a large robot activating and emerging out from the building's underground. This separates them until the protagonist reaches the rooftop, where they encounter Inori and several fighting Digimon. After defeating a Kuwagamon that swept in and attacked them, a strange shadow appears to attack Inori. When she tried to escape, the robot attacks her as well only to be stopped by a Jupitermon: Wrath Mode arm coming from a spacial rift, creating a massive explosion that destroyed the world in an event coined as the "Shinjuku Inferno".
The protagonist then awakens inside a mysterious hall and encounters Lunamon, Coronamon and Minervamon, where they are instantly attacked by another black shadow, who was approaching the egg of the Great Guardian. They give pursuit only to shatter both the glass panel where it is at and the floor, and both them and the egg were transported back to the human world 8 years prior to the incident, where Shinjuku was in a relatively peaceful state. They landed in the Shinjuku park and accompany Misono Kosuke to retrieve his daughter back, who was trapped inside the waterway. Eventually, the two encounter Inori nursing an injured Elecmon she nicknames "Coo-chan", who was attacked by a Raremon. "Coo-chan" runs away and vanishes after the battle and the three escape the waterway.
Inside the human world, the protagonist gets to know several others; livestreamer Sagisaka Hiroko, scientist Monica Simmons, and Public Security agents Shiroki Asuna and Kuroi Shota, and does various errands for them. They helped Hiroko film a livestream in the waterway about "monsters" appearing in the waterway and helped Inori get "Coo-chan" back, at which "Coo-chan" evolves into Aegiomon to help the protagonist defeat it. Inori developed a brother-sister relationship with Aegiomon and dressed him with her deceased brother's outfit and a beanie hat to cover his horns. Then, they save several children Aegiomon befriended from being preyed upon by Vademon, only for the children to realize Aegiomon is a monster and distance away from him. After that, they meet Minervamon again and aided her in defeating a Greymon (Blue), and assisted Monica Simmons in defeating several Black Tailmon who stole a key compartment for her new device.
Eventually, the protagonist was roped by Hiroko into filming a "weird shadow" that appears inside the Shinjuku subway. Upon the Shadow's appearance, Hiroko faints from shock and the party gives chase, eventually ending up in the water resovoir, where they investigate the broken egg of the Great Guardian, which they identify as having been hatched from Aegiomon. They were instantly attacked by Titamon, who opened a gate to the human world through pure strength. The party defeats Titamon and banishes him back into the gate, but the digital gate sucks Inori, Aegiomon and the protagonist in, and they end up in Central Town of the Digital World.
Upon arrival, the party plans on asking Mercurymon for advice on how to return back to their own world, but a Knightmon defending him won't let the party go to meet him until they have Minervamon in tow with them. They plan on asking Lunamon on Minervamon's whereabouts, but her friends, Coronamon and elder brother Bearmon went into the sewers where hostile Digimon reside. The party goes there to save them and encounters them being attacked by Titans. They defeat the Titans with Minervamon's help and return to Mercurymon, who promises to contact Junomon, the one responsible for maintaining the Digital Gates through the Radio Tower. However, the tower is under attack from the Titans. The party storms the tower and takes out the Titans with Minervamon and Mercurymon's help, and discover that the Factorial Area ruled over by Vulcanusmon is under attack as well. As the Factorial Area was in charge of the Locomon line's power supply, the party is unable to go to the Guardian Palace to ask Junomon to send them back to the human world. Therefore, they have to go to the Factorial Area to suppress the Titans and meet Vulcanusmon. Vulcanusmon mistakes the party for Titans and attacks them, but was defeated. It was revealed that he turned off the Locomon rail's power supply to prevent the Titans from abusing it, and the party manages to convince him that they are not intruders and he could turn the power supply back on. Vulcanusmon restores the power supply for the Locomon rail and the party goes to the Guardian Palace to meet Junomon so they can return to their own world.
Junomon was pleased that the Great Guardian of Iliad appeared in front of her, and tells the party about the legend of hero Chronomon. The party asks her to open the Digital Gate so they could return to the human world, but Junomon refuses, stating that she did not want any more hostile Digimon appearing in the human world following the attack that occured in the human world 3 years prior. However, she proposes that if the party manages to suppress the Titans in the Abyss Area, she will let them go. They find out that the Abyss Area was under attack by Titans and Shellmon was nursing a wounded Titan Hangyomon back to health. They deliver some herbs to Shellmon's house to help her heal the injured Hangyomon back to health, but the entire town was destroyed directly after and all of its inhabitants have either been killed or evacuated to somewhere else. Shellmon however, left a note to call Whamon to deliver them underwater, where the Titan leader Sharkmon resides. When the party encounters Sharkmon, Hangyomon tries to appeal to him, but he declares him a traitor and attacks the party. They defeat him and report to Junomon, and realized that the Titans are targeting the current of Iliad, whose core resides in the Gear Forest.
The party continues their journey to the Gear Forest where they meet Bacchusmon in hopes of convincing him to join the war against the Titans. However, he was drunk on wine, forcing his songstress Sirenmon to go with them alone. They repel a Titan invasion, but noticed that the current of Iliad has now been altered. Bacchusmon arrived sober and late to check on the situation, and the realization that the Titans altered the current made him prepare for full-blown war against them. He also asks the party to report to Junomon. At the meantime, Hawkmon reports to the party that the Guardian Palace is also under attack.
Hearing the news, the party boards the Locomon rail trying to stop the assault. They take out all of the invading Titans, but Titamon appears in the Guardian Palace for Chronomon's treasure. He knocks down Junomon and tries to steal it, but Junomon gives the treasure to the humans and asks them to escape back to their own world and demands Aegiomon to stay in the Digital World and defend it from the Titans with her. Aegiomon refuses, causing Junomon to suddenly fly into a rage and create numerous Digital Gates across the Digital World, inadvertently summoning a large Titan army alongside other rogue Digimon into the human world alongside the party.
Once in the human world, the Titans and other Digimon began rampaging across Shinjuku. The party goes to the Government Building to pursue Titamon, hoping to stop him from obtaining Chronomon's treasure. They help the government with suppressing the rogue Digimon and receive an EMP device from Simmons, and go in front of the Government Building to confront Titamon, this time riding a SkullBaluchimon. Upon his defeat, he absorbs Chronomon's treasure and goes berserk, now being capable of performing his strongest attack without charging. He is still no match for the party however, partially thanks to Simmon's new invention. Titamon was killed when Chronomon's treasure explodes and destroys the government building, while Aegiomon absorbs it and gains time-travelling powers. Once Aegiomon uses his powers to travel in time, they end up in the In-Between Theater where they accidentially stumble upon the three host servers, who instantly kick them out of the theater.
The party then ends up in present day Shinjuku where Aegiomon became a target of several onlookers. Once they went back to the Misono Household, they found out that a grown-up Hiroko was the only person in the household, and Inori's father went back to working in Public Security. Hiroko reveals that not only did a giant rift to the Digital World opened in the ruins of the government building following the party's battle with Titamon where massive amounts of Digimon came out of it and their existence became common knowledge, the government built D-SAT, an offshoot of public security intent on suppressing all Digimon with military force (in spite of the Digimon appearing in the human world being mostly peaceful) and containing them in the Wall of Hope where the government building once stood upon. On the next day, Inori, the Agent and Aegiomon attempted to go out and get familiar with the new Shinjuku. Right when they stepped out of the door however, they were instantly arrested by D-SAT director Kuroi and several armed policemen for housing a Digimon. While being locked inside the D-SAT research center, they were rescued by Asuna, who reveals that she has defected from Public Security because of their cruel actions towards Digimon. Asuna escorts them to Rebellion Village, a Digimon settlement inside the human world inhabited by Central Town refugees. They meet Simmons inside the village, who reveals that she also defected with Asuna. They then go to meet Mercurymon only to find him ailing to his own wounds in his room alongside other defeated warriors who ran away from Central Town. Mercurymon asks the party to negotiate with the Titans in Central Town for a healer.
It was revealed that Central Town was occupied by Titans who polluted the town, turned it into a lawless land and forced whoever that remained to work for them. They go into the bar and meet a seemingly friendly Ranamon, who guides them to the Abyss Area to meet a healer who will willingly take care of anyone, Titan or otherwise. They meet Venusmon, who in exchange for Mercurymon being healed, requests the party to deliver a flask of wine Ranamon gave to her to the Titan leader taking control of the Abyss Area. The Titan leader turns out to be Neptunemon, the same Hangyomon Shellmon saved 8 years ago. The party delivers him the wine and it turns out to be poisoned, killing him instantly. It was then heavily implied that Venusmon died of guilt and despair and Ranamon used Master Blimpmon to spray deadly poison into the ocean and eradicated the Abyss Area. The party almost died as well, but they survived courtesy of Aegiomon's time powers. Now back in time, they go to warn Venusmon and Neptunemon and find out that Ranamon actually faked defection and used deception to stand out from other Titans. They go back to the Abyss Sanctuary's throne room to warn Neptunemon not to drink the wine, and Ranamon reveals that she was the one who deceived Kuremi and injured him 8 years ago. She transforms into Calamaramon only to be defeated and slain. Now saved from their potential ruin, Venusmon and Neptunemon become the first Apostles of Iliad.
After saving three more apostles of Iliad (Bacchusmon, Marsmon and unknowingly, Ceresmon) from their tragic demises through time travel, the party was tasked by Dr. Simmons to appeal to Misono Kosuke, now a director of D-SAT who is about to unleash the Giant Slayer to combat the large amounts of Digimon appearing from the sky. Inori tries to plead him to stop, but to no avail, and the protagonist escapes out of the government building alone. The city was overran by a three-way war between the Digimon remnants of Rebellion Village, Titans and humans, with noticeably larger and more dangerous Digimon appearing compared to the ones in the prologue because of Aegiomon traveling back and forth in time. They eventually witness Aegiomon and Inori relieving the Shinjuku Inferno as they escape by traveling back in time. Inori is trapped in a space-time rift (and displaced in time back to the beginning of the game), and Aegiomon evolved into Aegiochusmon: Dark jumping between time to find her back.
While alone, the protagonist saves Mercurymon, Plutomon, Vulcanusmon, Apollomon, Dianamon, Junomon and Minervamon and escorts the latter five back to Rebellion Village, encountering Chronomon's soul taking the form of Cherubimon (Vice) while saving Mercurymon, Plutomon and Junomon. From Plutomon, Aegiomon and Junomon, the entire truth is revealed; Chronomon was in fact, no hero, but the de facto instigator of all suffering in the game itself. In the past, he and the Titans were protector of Iliad, but realized that a higher being was controlling the fate of all things, and thus led the Titans into a rebellion against the higher being. They were struck down quickly, Chronomon was sealed inside the very system he rebelled against, and the Titans were banished into the Dark Area and branded as villains. To free himself from the system, Chronomon seeks death by creating Aegiomon, preferably if Aegiomon would succumb to hatred against the world before he dies. To this mean, he poisoned minds and influenced tragedies, and possessed Plutomon, then Junomon to further his own plans.
When the protagonist enters a gate opened by Junomon to finally confront the Giant Slayer, they were met with a reveal of their true identity; they were actually a digital lifeform created by Homeostasis using a Aegiomon shadow left over during his time travelling rampage, and their appearance is based on a character from Agent Alpha, an anime series Inori's younger brother loved. Their goal is to help Aegiomon break the time loop by saving all of the Apostles of Iliad. With the reveal, the protagonist, alongside all other Aegiomon shadows, merge back with Aegiomon and evolves into Jupitermon. The sprout that was Sirenmon awakens into Ceresmon as well, marking the official formation of Iliad's guardians, the Olympos XII. Two of the Olympos XII, Apollomon and Dianamon, fused into Grace Novamon and was able to keep Jupitermon in check and contain the collision caused by Jupitermon: Wrath Mode and the Giant Slayer. The latter is destroyed and the former splits back into the protagonist and Aegiomon, and they save Inori by pulling her out from a space-time rift. The now-reunited party and most major characters were then whisked into the Akashic Records where they team up for the final battle regardless of their past grudges and relationships.
There, Chronomon's soul welcomes the party and asks them to slay and free him from the prison, then fuses with the defunct body of the Giant Slayer into Chronomon: Destroy Mode (Robot). As Chronomon is bound by the Akashic Records, he is instinctively driven to repel all intruders. The party battles through clones of the Seven Great Demon Lords as reality collapses and locations in both the Digimon and human worlds were literally erased from reality and transferred there. Eventually, the party, the Olympos XII and Plutomon gather atop of Ceresmon's back and drop down from it to confront Chronomon.
During the battle, Chronomon is protected by a barrier that prevents him from being damaged by natives of Iliad, forcing Yggdrasil to summon the Royal Knights to destroy it and allow them to do actual damage. Throughout the battle, Chronomon explains his origins to the party, and expresses bewilderment on Aegiomon's rejection towards the very despair and misery he sowed. Aegiomon rebukes him, telling him that this is because he met Inori and forged bonds with others, and that Inori did not fall into despair and hate Digimon despite losing her younger brother and mother to them. After a difficult fight, Yuki uses a Cross Arts skill that summons all of the Olympos XII, and fuses with Aegiomon back to Jupitermon, who becomes empowered by the Olympos XII Digimon. Jupiitermon deals one final blow to Chronomon, who thanks it for freeing him as he perishes and disappears.
Only Jupitermon and Inori were left in the battlefield, and reality continues to collapse in the Keeper of Time's absence. As a result, Jupitermon tells Inori that he must become Chronomon's successor, or the space-time continuum will collapse entirely. In other words, it must part with Inori in spite of the bonds they made. Realizing that she might have been truly lost everything, Inori tearfully parts with Jupitermon as it vanishes towards a space-time rift.
In the middle of the rift, Jupitermon splits back into Aegiomon and Yuki. Aegiomon tells Yuki that he will make Inori happy by creating a new timeline where the Digital Gates never opened. As a result, they will never meet, but all of the tragedies Chronomon unleashed upon the world will be undone, and her entire family will come back to life. He also sends the Agent back to the human world to keep an eye on her.
In the new timeline Aegiomon created, Inori's mother and her brother, Misono Yuta are now alive. Yuta rushes towards Yuki becoming excited about their phone, while Inori calms him down. She notices the Agent, who reminds her of Aegiomon, and smiles at them.
After the credits, Aegiomon (as Jupitermon) regroups with his comrades in the Gear Forest, and they all vow to spread the Olympos XII's name far and wide.
Gameplay[edit]
Major changes (Compared to Cyber Sleuth/Hackers Memory)[edit]
- Two new functions are added in terms of Digimon management:
- Load enhancement allows the player to sacrifice "fodder" Digimon into another Digimon to allow them to get experience points and bonus stats equal to 10% of the fodder Digimon's.
- Return to Data allows the player to convert Digimon into Yen, consuming them.
- A new Agent Skill system is added; this system allows the player to upgrade their Digimon and their ability to raise and evolve Digimon by investing in Anomaly Points. Anomaly Points are rewarded through progessing the story and completing side missions. Investing in Anomaly Points allows the player to evolve their Digimon into stronger forms, with level 3 unlocking Adults, level 5 unlocking Perfects, level 7 unlocking Ultimates, level 8 unlocking Super Ultimates and level 9 and 10 unlocking specific Digimon.
- Cross Arts are new, powerful attacks innately usable by the Agent that are powered up by a CP meter. Performing an action in battle increases CP. If the CP meter is full, the Agent can launch a Cross Art of their own and unleash either a powerful attack or a powerful buff effect.
- The personality system is directly revamped to affect evolutions, allow access to certain perks and increase a Digimon's stats. Jogress Evolutions require the material Digimon to be of a specific personality. There are Agent Skills that cut a Digimon's evolution requirement by up to 4.71 if their personality matches those of the Digimon they want to evolve to.
- Enemies now have "Genes" (因子, Inshi) that can be targeted for bonus damage for certain signature skills. They are prevalent in the skillsets of Perfect or Ultimate-level Digimon.
- Most major bosses now have their own CP Gauge. If this gauge is filled (usually happening after the boss reaches a certain HP threshold), they will start charging for two turns and a "weak spot" will be exposed. The weak post tends to possess different weaknesses from the original Digimon. Destroying the weak spot in-time incapicitates the boss for a single full turn. If the player fails to break the gauge in-time, the boss will activate their own signature move with an unskippable animation, usually dealing lethal or near-lethal damage. Several bosses have zero-turn signature moves that they will use instantly if their gauge reaches a certain point, often resulting in significant damage.
- Bosses are usually affected by certain status conditions and all debuffs as opposed to in Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory where they are uniformly immune to all of them.
- Personality Skills are added. Each personality has a set of four passives, with unique passives having a 20% and 10% of appearing (odds can be increased by Agent Skills). They can be changed by speaking to the Digimon or through the Digifarm.
- The Agent can speak to their Digimon to change their personality or alter their passives. Some Digimon have unique dialogue when first being spoken to.
- Sometimes, Surprise Encounter Digimon (ヒョッコリ, Hyyokkori) can spawn while entering a standard encounter. These Digimon drop large sums of money and valuable items on defeat and always escape on the 5th turn. All of them have abnormally high evasion and defense stats. The following are the available Surprise Encounters;
- Black King Numemon (Drops Talent Awakening Booster)
- Gold Numemon (Drops Friendship)
- Platinum Numemon (Drops Digi-Jewel)
- Digitamamon (Drops Immortal Egg; extremely rare)
- DigiRides are added. Some Digimon can be mounted by the Agent. While mounted, the Digimon will automatically attack any target they run into and some of them move faster or slower than the Agent themselves. Rideable Digimon are signified by an icon next to their name.
- While devolving a fusion Digimon, the material Digimon are not consumed. Dinobeemon, Paildramon, Silphymon and Shakkoumon have non-Jogress evolutions that can be evolved from normal Digimon; if this happens, devolving the fusion Digimon results in the secondary Digimon being cloned with the same Maximum Talent, Bond and Personality as the base.
- Outer Dungeons provide various minigames and challenging boss fights.
- The camera is now set to back view for most of the time (as opposed to the top-down view past games use). This might result in the player's line of vision being blocked, especially with larger Digimon. Certain DigiRides mitigate this issue.
- Most skills are revamped. Defense piercing skills no longer exist in the game.
- Each Digimon now has 4 Attachment Skill slots instead of 20. They can also now be freely configured.
- Certain Digimon and their evolution lines are revamped.
- About the DigiFarm:
- One can now skip training by paying 10,000 Yen.
- Food now no longer increases stats and only increases Bonds.
- The Farm can now only contain 30 Digimon.
- After clearing the game, the player might play a New Game Plus in the Ultimate or Super Ultimate difficulties. The Difficulty can be changed at any time.
- In Ultimate, all foes have higher levels and 9999 Attack and Intelligence. Their Defensive stats and Speed are lower, however.
- In Super Ultimate, all of the foes have significantly higher levels and stats. In addition to Attack and Intelligence above the usual 9999 cap (the display is capped at 9999 and does not display the true value), they have around 3000 to less than 6000 in each defensive stat and 5000 to around 8000 Speed on average. Some optional bosses might have over 9999 speed, ensuring that they move first no matter what. The player also cannot escape from any battle or use items. These qualities create a significantly more difficult challenge and requires substantial optimization to participate.
- The Memory Usage system is now removed and the player can only have 6 Digimon in their team, excluding guest allies.
- The Intelligence stat is now split into the Intelligence and Spirit stats. Intelligence is the Magical attack stat while Spirit is the magical defense stat.
- The Speed stat now no longer grants extra turns on higher values and only affects turn order.
- Using an item in-battle no longer uses up the turn.
- All Digimon now have fixed 2 equipment slots (similar to Digimon Survive).
- Individual passives are removed.
Evolution Mechanics[edit]
Certain compatible pairs of Digimon can perform Jogress Evolution, which acts as a powerful attack that requires a SP cost from both participating Digimon per turn. The attack techniques of Digimon evolved by Jogress Evolution are hinted by alphabetic Digimoji under the Signature Techniques of pre-evolved Digimon. For example, XV-mon's Signature Techniques list both Hell Masquerade (Dinobeemon's Tech) and Desperado Blaster (Paildramon's Tech) in the English dub of Digimoji, aside of its own Signature Technique X-Laser.
Slide Evolution was introduced as the game mechanic in the battle for exclusive Hybrid-Level Digimon, where the player have to select the appropriate Special Technique as an attack in order to trigger Slide Evolution. For example, Agnimon can evolve into Vritramon by selecting Corona Blaster as an attack, and Vritramon can evolve into Agnimon by selecting Burning Salamander as an attack.
Status glossary[edit]
Deadly Poison, Immobilization, Deep Sleep and Chaos can only be removed or prevented by advanced items or equipment. They can also overwrrite their standard counterparts.
- Poison: Target loses HP and SP each turn, based on their maximum HP and/or SP. Does not wear away on its own.
- Deadly poison: Target loses twice as much HP and SP.
- Paralysis: Target's Speed is decreased and might not be able to move during their turn. Goes away after a certain amount of turns.
- Immobilization: Target is always unable to move.
- Sleep: Target loses a turn as long as the status is active. Goes away on its own or if the target is attacked.
- Deep Sleep: Never goes away on its own. The Digimon can still be awakened by being attacked.
- Confusion: Target has a 50% change to lose their turn and randomly attack foes or allies as long as the status is active. Goes away on its own or if the target is attacked.
- Chaos: Never goes away on its own. The Digimon can still be snapped out by being attacked.
- Crystalization: Target appears on the battle field as their 8-bit sprite and cannot use any skills. The Agent can still use items on the afflicted Digimon or use Cross Arts.
- Injury: Target is prevented from recovering HP. Goes away on its own or by certain skills. Non-standard status condition and cannot be prevented through normal means.
- Sickness: Target is prevented from recovering SP. Goes away on its own or by certain skills. Non-standard status condition and cannot be prevented through normal means.
- Reverse: Target's elemental affinities and type attributes are all flipped.
- For example, when reversed, Agumon, a Vaccine-type Digimon that is weak to Ice and Electricity and resists Fire and Earth, becomes weak to Virus-types, Fire and Earth, while resisting Ice and Electricity.
- This applies both offensively and defensively. Therefore, for example, a Digimon that is originally weak to Dark (takes 1.5x damage) is reversed, it takes resisted damage (50%) from Dark instead.
- Immunities become 4x weaknesses and 4x weaknesses are convered to immunities on reverse.
- Taunt: Foes are forced to attack the target if possible. Does not affect party-wide moves.
Characters[edit]
Main Characters[edit]
Humans[edit]
- Sagisaka Hiroko
- Monica Simmons
- Shiroki Asuna
- Kuremi Kodai
- Kuremi Kyoko (DLC storylines only)
- Mikagura Mirei
- D-SAT
- Misono Yuta
Higher Beings[edit]
Ally Digimon[edit]
- Olympos XII
- Royal Knights
- Other Digimon guest members
- Other Digimon allies
- Piyomon
- Birdramon Transportation Service
- Zudomon
- Blimpmon → Master Blimpmon
- Locomon
- Tyumon
- Kamemon → Jumbo Gamemon
- Kunlun faction
- Enbarrmon → Craniummon + Enbarrmon
- DLC only
Antagonist Digimon[edit]
- Cherubimon (Vice) → Chronomon: Destroy Mode
- Giant Slayer
- Titans
- Plutomon → Zombie Plutomon
- Titamon → Titamon + Skull Baluchimon → Berserk Titamon → Tunomon
- Skull Baluchimon → Dorimon
- Greymon (Blue)
- Metal Greymon (Virus)
- Orgemon
- Fugamon
- Hyougamon
- Minotaurmon
- Goburimon
- Shamamon
- Snow Goburimon
- Parrotmon
- Hangyomon
- Coelamon
- Anomalocarimon
- Dagomon
- Skull Seadramon
- Sharkmon
- Ranamon → Calamaramon
- Witchmon
- Big Bearmon → Callismon
- Ultimate Brachimon
- Tyrant Kabuterimon
- Gran Kuwagamon
- Okuwamon
- Kuwagamon
- Flymon
- Snimon
- Kabuterimon
- Sunflowmon
- Cannonbeemon
- Greymon
- Skull Greymon
- Megadramon
- Mugendramon
- Breakdramon
- Chimairamon
- Venom Vamdemon
- Parallelmon (DLC storylines only)
Digimon[edit]
There are 451 Digimon in this game, excluding the Digimon obtained via DLC. The Digimon in this game but not in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory below are marked with carets. The rideable Digimon below are marked with asterisks.
Note that Justimon: Blitz Arm can Mode Change to Justimon: Accel Arm and Justimon: Critical Arm when using its Trinity Arm attack, but the latter two are not counted as separate Digimon.
The following Digimon were cut: the Sistermon variants, the Arkadimon's evolutionary line, Hudiemon, and the five NXEDGE Style Digimon.
- Agumon
- Agumon (Black)[1]
- Armadimon
- Bakumon^
- Bearmon^
- Betamon
- Coronamon^
- DORUmon
- Dracomon
- Dracumon
- Elecmon
- Falcomon
- Floramon^
- Funbeemon
- Gabumon
- Gabumon (Black)[1]
- Ganimon^
- Gaomon
- Gazimon
- Gizamon^
- Goburimon
- Gomamon
- Gottsumon
- Guilmon
- Hackmon
- Hagurumon
- Hawkmon
- Hyokomon^
- Impmon
- Kamemon^
- Keramon
- Kokuwamon^
- Kotemon^
- Kudamon
- Lalamon
- Lopmon
- Lucemon
- Lunamon
- Monodramon
- Muchomon^
- Mushmon
- Otamamon
- Palmon
- Patamon
- Penmon^
- Pico Devimon
- Piyomon
- Plotmon
- Renamon
- Ryudamon
- Shakomon
- Shamamon^
- Shoutmon
- Snow Goburimon^
- Solarmon
- Tentomon
- Terriermon
- Toy Agumon
- Tyumon
- V-mon
- Wormmon
- Zubamon
- Aegiomon^
- Airdramon
- Angemon
- Ankylomon*
- Aquilamon*
- Bakemon
- Bao Hackmon
- Birdramon
- Black Tailmon
- Blimpmon^*
- Buraimon^
- Centalmon^*
- Chrysalimon
- Clockmon
- Coelamon
- Coredramon (Blue)
- Coredramon (Green)
- Cyclomon
- Deltamon^
- Devimon
- Dinohumon^
- Dobermon^*
- Dokugumon^*
- DORUgamon*
- Drimogemon^*
- Firamon^*
- Flymon^
- Fugamon^
- Galgomon
- Gaogamon*
- Garurumon*
- Garurumon (Black)[1]
- Gawappamon^
- Gekomon
- Geo Greymon*
- Geremon
- Ginryumon*
- Gold Numemon
- Golemon*
- Greymon*
- Greymon (Blue)[1]
- Growmon*
- Gryzmon^*
- Guardromon*
- Guardromon (Gold)*
- Hyougamon^
- Ice Devimon
- Icemon
- Ikkakumon*
- Kabuterimon*
- Karatuki Numemon
- Kyubimon*
- Kiwimon^
- Kuwagamon*
- Lekismon
- Leomon*
- Mechanorimon^*
- Meramon
- Minotaurmon^*
- Mojyamon^*
- Monochromon*
- Musyamon^
- Nanimon
- Numemon
- Octmon^
- Orgemon*
- Peckmon*
- Platinum Scumon
- Raptordramon*
- Raremon
- Reppamon*
- Revolmon^
- Sangloupmon*
- Scumon
- Seadramon
- Shellmon
- Snimon^
- Sorcerimon
- Starmon
- Stingmon*
- Strikedramon
- Sunflowmon
- Tailmon
- Tankmon*
- Togemon*
- Tuchidarumon*
- Turuiemon
- Tuskmon^*
- Tyranomon*
- Unimon*
- V-dramon*
- Vegimon
- Waspmon*
- Wendimon^*
- Witchmon^*
- Wizarmon
- Woodmon*
- XV-mon
- Yukidarumon*
- Zubaeagermon*
- Aegiochusmon^
- Aegiochusmon: Blue^
- Aegiochusmon: Dark^
- Aegiochusmon: Green^
- Aegiochusmon: Holy^
- Aero V-dramon*
- Andiramon*
- Andromon*
- Angewomon
- Anomalocarimon^*
- Archnemon^*
- Astamon^
- Atlur Kabuterimon*
- Big Mamemon^
- Black King Numemon
- Blue Meramon
- Brachimon^
- Butenmon^
- Cannonbeemon*
- Catch Mamemon
- Cerberumon^*
- Cerberumon: Werewolf Mode^
- Chimairamon^
- Crescemon
- Cyberdramon*
- Dagomon*
- Dark Superstarmon^
- Death Meramon*
- Delumon^
- Digitamamon
- Dinobeemon*
- DORUguremon
- Duramon
- Enbarrmon^*
- Etemon*
- Ex-Tyranomon^*
- Fantomon
- Flaremon^
- Garudamon*
- Gerbemon^
- Gigadramon
- Grademon
- Grappu Leomon*
- Great Gryzmon^*
- Groundramon*
- Hangyomon^
- Hippogriffomon*
- Hisyaryumon
- Holy Angemon
- Infermon*
- Insekimon
- Jewelbeemon^
- Jyureimon*
- Knightmon*
- Lady Devimon
- Lilamon
- Lilimon
- Loader Leomon^*
- Locomon^*
- Lucemon: Falldown Mode*
- Mach Gaogamon*
- Mamemon
- Mammon^*
- Master Blimpmon^*
- Matadrmon
- Megadramon
- Megalo Growmon
- Mega Seadramon
- Metal Greymon*
- Metal Greymon (Virus)[1]
- Metal Mamemon
- Metal Tyranomon*
- Mistymon^
- Monzaemon*
- Mummymon
- Nanomon
- Okuwamon*
- Omega Shoutmon
- Orochimon^
- Paildramon*
- Pandamon*
- Panjyamon*
- Parrotmon^
- Piccolomon
- Pumpmon
- Rapidmon
- Rize Greymon
- Savior Hackmon
- Shakkoumon*
- Sharkmon^
- Shawujinmon^
- Silphymon
- Sirenmon^
- Skull Baluchimon^*
- Skull Greymon
- Skull Satamon
- Skull Seadramon^
- Superstarmon
- Tankdramon^*
- Taomon
- Tonosama Gekomon
- Triceramon*
- Tyilinmon*
- Vademon
- Vamdemon
- Volcamon*
- Waru Seadramon^
- Were Garurumon*
- Were Garurumon (Black)[1]
- Whamon*
- Wingdramon*
- Wisemon
- Yatagaramon*
- Zudomon*
- Alphamon*
- Ancient Wisemon^
- Apollomon^*
- Avenge Kidmon^
- Bacchusmon^
- Bacchusmon: Crapulence Mode^
- Bancho Golemon*[1]
- Bancho Leomon*
- Bancho Lilimon[1]
- Bancho Mamemon*[1]
- Bancho Stingmon*[1]
- Barbamon
- Beel Starmon^
- Beelzebumon*
- Belial Vamdemon^*
- Belphemon: Sleep Mode*
- Black War Greymon[1]
- Blitz Greymon*[1]
- Boltmon*
- Breakdramon
- Callismon^*
- Ceresmon^*
- Ceresmon Medium^
- Chaos Dukemon
- Chaosdramon*
- Cherubimon (Vice)*
- Cherubimon (Virtue)*
- Chronomon: Holy Mode^
- Chronomon: Destroy Mode^
- Clavis Angemon^
- Craniummon*
- Cres Garurumon[1]
- Crossmon^*
- Darkdramon*
- Demon*
- Diablomon*
- Dianamon
- DORUgoramon*
- Duftmon*
- Duftmon: Leopard Mode*
- Dukemon
- Dukemon (X-Antibody)[1]
- Durandamon
- Dynasmon*
- EBEmon
- Gaioumon
- Gankoomon*
- Goddramon*
- Gran Kuwagamon*
- Grand Dracumon*
- Grand Locomon*
- Griffomon*
- Gundramon^*
- Herakle Kabuterimon*
- Hi Andromon*
- Holydramon
- Hououmon*
- Imperialdramon: Dragon Mode*
- Imperialdramon: Fighter Mode
- JESmon
- JESmon (X-Antibody)[1]
- Jumbo Gamemon^*
- Junomon^
- Junomon: Hysteric Mode^
- Jupitermon^
- Justimon: Blitz Arm
- King Etemon*
- Kuzuhamon
- Leviamon*
- Lilithmon
- Lotusmon
- Lord Knightmon*
- Magnamon (X-Antibody)[1]
- Magna Kidmon^
- Marin Angemon
- Marsmon^*
- Mastemon
- Medieval Dukemon^
- Megidramon*
- Mercurymon*
- Metal Etemon*
- Metal Garurumon*
- Metal Garurumon (Black)[1]
- Metal Seadramon
- Millenniumon^
- Minervamon
- Mirage Gaogamon
- Mugendramon*
- Neptunemon*
- Ofanimon
- Ouryumon
- Parallelmon[1]
- Pharaohmon^*
- Piemon
- Pile Volcamon*
- Pinochimon
- Platinum Numemon
- Plesiomon*
- Plutomon^
- Prince Mamemon
- Pukumon^
- Ravmon
- Rosemon
- Rust Tyranomon*
- Saber Leomon*
- Saint Galgomon*
- Sakuyamon
- Seraphimon
- Skull Mammon^*
- Slash Angemon^
- Slayerdramon*
- Sleipmon*
- Shine Greymon*
- Tiger Vespamon
- Titamon*
- Tyrant Kabuterimon*
- Ulforce V-dramon*
- Ulforce V-dramon (X-Antibody)[1]
- Ultimate Brachimon^
- Valdurmon*
- Valkyrimon
- Venom Vamdemon
- Venusmon^
- Vikemon*
- Vulcanusmon^
- War Greymon*
- Zanbamon^*
- Zombie Plutomon
- Agumon -Yuki no Kizuna-^
- Alphamon: Ouryuken*
- Apocalymon
- Armagemon*
- Beelzebumon: Blast Mode*
- Belphemon: Rage Mode*
- Chaosmon*
- Chaosmon: Valdur Arm*
- Craniummon + Enbarrmon^
- Dukemon: Crimson Mode
- Examon*
- Gabumon -Yujo no Kizuna-^
- Grace Novamon^
- Imperialdramon: Paladin Mode
- Jupitermon: Wrath Mode^
- Lucemon: Satan Mode
- Mervamon^
- Mirage Gaogamon: Burst Mode
- Omegamon*
- Omegamon Alter-B*[1]
- Omegamon Alter-S*[1]
- Omegamon: Merciful Mode*[1]
- Omegamon (X-Antibody)[1]
- Omegamon Zwart*
- Omegamon Zwart Defeat*[1]
- Ravmon: Burst Mode
- Rosemon: Burst Mode
- Shine Greymon: Burst Mode
- Susanoomon*
- Titamon + Skull Baluchimon^
Non-Playable Character Only Digimon[edit]
Locations[edit]
Human World[edit]
Shinjuku[edit]
Shinjuku is the main hub and starting point of the game.
Akihabara[edit]
It is considered to be apart from Shinjuku and can only be traveled to through the Metro or by Taxi. The party first goes there to find Monica Simmons for help.
Digital World: Iliad[edit]
Central Town[edit]
A bustling commercial settlement defended by the mighty Mercurymon and his loyal army.
Central Tower[edit]
The radio tower used by Central Town to communicate to other zones of Iliad. Wild Digimon sprawl the area around it and the tower proper.
Guardian Palace[edit]
A key infrastructure of Iliad defended by angel Digimon. Its area guardian is the Divine Oracle of Iliad, Junomon, the overseer of the Egg of the Great Guardian and the only one who can open gates to the human world.
Temple of Beginnings[edit]
The Egg of the Great Guardian was housed here before it was sent to the human world.
Abyss Area[edit]
The ocean area of Iliad, inhabited by aquatic Digimon.
Factorial Area[edit]
The power source of the Locomon rail, inhabited by machine Digimon. The power source of the Locomon rail is operated by the eccentric and fickle Vulcanusmon.
Gear Forest[edit]
The forest area of Iliad. The Energy Vein is located here and is important for the continued prosperity of Iliad, making the forest itself a key infrastructure to its survival. It is protected by the hard-partying Bacchusmon, whose sheer might prevents any invaders from compromising Iliad's key infrastructure.
Cosmic Area[edit]
It was once uninhabitable before Coronamon and Lunamon moved there to train. Eventually, the two became their area guardians and made it hospitable by other Digimon.
Dark Field[edit]
The Dark Area of Iliad and a sacred land for the Titans. It is completely unaffected by the Energy Vein, making it difficult to live in by ordinary Digimon, but the Titans live here without problem. Plutomon presides over here after the Titans fell.
Akashic Records[edit]
A multidimensional space where Chronomon was imprisoned in following his failed rebellion against Homeostasis. Near the end of the game, it encroached into both Iliad and the human world and destroyed huge swathes of it, and created a series of distorted landscapes by fusing them together.
Akashic Backdoor[edit]
A setting exclusive to the later-added DLC campaigns. It is an illusory space created by Parallelmon, who uses it as if it was a tunnel to search for prey.
Threshold Theater[edit]
An extra-dimensional space ran by the Host Computers and Mirei Mikagura. The player might access the DigiFarm, buy items, or access Outer Dungeons from here.
Screenshots[edit]
Image Gallery[edit]
Reception[edit]
Famitsu gave Time Stranger a good score of 8/9/8/9 [34/40]
Staff[edit]
| Position | Name | Kanji/Kana |
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| Developer | Media.Vision Inc. | メディア・ビジョン株式会社 |
| Producer(s) | Hara Ryōsuke | 原 良輔 |
| Character Design | Yasuda Suzuhito | ヤスダスズヒト |
| Boss Character Design | Ōgure Ito (Oh!Great) | 大暮 維人 |
| Music | Takada Masafumi | 高田 雅史 |
Theme Song[edit]
- Title: wherever you are
- Artist: reche
Development[edit]
This game was first announced on December 8, 2017, just before the release of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory. Producer Habu Kazumasa stated that making a new game for PlayStation 4 from scratch (with the other recent games being handheld releases) would take around four years of development time, so they decided to develop Hacker's Memory and the new Digimon Story game simultaneously, and release Hacker's Memory first. This way, fans wouldn't be waiting a long time for the next game.[1]
A year later, on September 12, 2018, Bandai reconfirmed the game's development and stated that—alongside Hacker's Memory having been made for the same reason—they had decided to create Digimon Survive to give the Digimon Story team more time and to once again make sure there wasn't a big gap in between the releases of Digimon video games.[2]
In 2019, the two Cyber Sleuth games were ported to new systems, for the same reasons as the prior two games' announcements.[3] Digimon Survive found itself delayed for over three years, originally intending to release in 2019, only to be delayed to 2022.
On February 27, 2022, Bandai once again confirmed that the Digimon Story game was being worked on and revealed that the game would take place in the Digital World (unlike the two Cyber Sleuth games) and that the game would feature the Olympos XII as the main characters.[4]
On February 20, 2024, Habu revealed he was no longer working on Digimon games as of April 2023. He stated the game was still being worked on, but that someone else (Hara Ryosuke) had taken over his role.[5] Hara later admits in an interview that the development team was unable to fulfill Habu's original vision for the story after he took his role, despite the base concept was already complete. Therefore, they will have to omit certain details off from the story itself for an "emotional story focused on various characters".[6]
On February 12, 2025, eight years after first being announced, its first trailer was shown in a State of Play stream—with the platform changed from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5.[7] A few hours earlier, the game was leaked by GameStop—who stated the game would also be coming to Xbox Series X/S.[8] The game was then listed for Steam a few hours later.[9]
At the "State of Play Japan" held on November 12, 2025, the first trailer for the Season Pass DLC premiered. The first "Additional Digimon and Episode Pack" was revealed to be titled "Alternate Dimension".[10]
Downloadable Content[edit]
Digimon Story: Time Stranger features various types of Downloadable Content (DLC), including cosmetic costume packs, a Season Pass, special edition bonuses, and pre-order bonuses.
The Season Pass DLC is split into three "Additional Digimon and Episode Packs", featuring Parallelmon as the antagonist. Pack 1 is titled "Alternate Dimension" and prominently features Digimon like Blitz Greymon and Cres Garurumon, as well as human characters like Kuremi Kodai and Kuremi Kyoko. Pack 2, "Fluttering Gakuran", features the Bancho group and Sagisaka Hiroko. Pack 3, "Anti-ParadoX", features Shiroki Asuna, Monica Simmons, and the X-Antibody forms of certain Royal Knights.
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Trivia[edit]
- According to chief producer Hara Ryōsuke, Time Stranger has no direct connection with Digimon Crusader, although some of the lore and worldview from Crusader was followed-up in the game.
- Most of the locations in the Human World's Shinjuku can be found and are nearly identical to the real-life Shinjuku Ward. Most of the same locations also appeared in Digimon Tamers.
- Unlike Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory, Digimon World -next 0rder- International Edition, and Digimon Survive—whose PC releases were exclusive to the west—Time Stranger is set to release on PC in Japan as well. Survive's Xbox release was also exclusive to the west, whereas Time Stranger is also coming to Xbox in Japan.
- Like Digimon World -next 0rder- International Edition, this game will have an English dub.
- This is the first game where all seven non-collaboration Omegamon variants are available as raiseable Digimon. Only the standard version and Omegamon Zwart are available out of DLC, however.
- BT-24 Time Stranger is a booster set of the Digimon Card Game based on this game, featuring cards of characters, Digimon, and more from the game.
- On December 11, a free update that coincided with the Alternate Dimension DLC pack's release added in a Gekkomon T-Shirt for purchase, and banners and TV Advertisements for Digimon Beatbreak can be seen in the present day version of the Shinjuku Vision Square (the advertisements do not appear in the 8 years ago version).
- Among the game files, it can be found a non-playable area inside Master Blimpmon named "Master Blimpmon: Gondola" that was ultimately scrapped for the final version, even if parts of it can be seen during a few cutscenes of the game. In this area, you may find some unused content like some Kamemon, a Shawujinmon, a throne with Venusmon, two elevators, some interactable fuel tanks and a portal to the Threshold Theater. There's also unused data for a Shawujinmon with a captain hat, but the hat model is not in the game files.
