Regardless of having fun with recognition primarily within the 90s, we’d most likely rank Digimon within the area of interest class lately. However we’d be fallacious, as a result of new recreation Digimon Story Time Stranger is blowing up in an enormous approach.
Whereas we’ll must await much more data, followers have observed that the sport has peaked at over 70k concurrent gamers on PC storefront Steam.
Whereas concurrents don’t mirror gross sales, a bigger quantity usually means the next proportion of gamers, which in concept means the title has bought effectively.
In actual fact, in the event you evaluate to earlier Digimon video games, the distinction is dramatic.
For instance, Digimon Survive – which, admittedly, is a part of a special sub-series – peaked at a bit over 6k gamers.
In the meantime, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth – Time Stranger’s direct predecessor – peaked at barely 3.5k gamers. That recreation did arrive on PC a number of years after its PlayStation launch, although.
We clearly don’t know the way many individuals are enjoying the PS5 model, however on the US PS Retailer, the sport is at present seventh on the digital best-sellers listing, behind solely the likes of Ghost of Yotei, Fortnite, NBA 2K26, and Madden NFL 26. It’s really above Roblox and Battlefield 6!
We’re positive if issues are going in addition to they appear, Bandai Namco will launch a gross sales replace shortly.
It’s a disgrace, then, that the sport didn’t fairly hit our reviewer’s expectations.
In our 6/10 verdict, we mentioned the sport “squanders a lot potential”:
“If Digimon Story Time Stranger simply sat again and allowed its largely unbelievable RPG methods to breathe, it might be counted amongst the best of Digimon video games. However as a substitute, it will get slowed down in disappointingly linear design that limits fight and party-based development at nearly each flip. Regardless of being full of such clear potential, Time Stranger finally ends up feeling like a irritating misfire.”
Do you agree with our evaluate? Are you one of many seemingly many individuals having fun with Time Stranger? Tell us under.
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