Digimon has been around since the late 90's and begins as pets in tamagotchi video game And anime. 2025, Digimon Story: Time Stranger launched on PS5, XBX/S and PC, while Digimon beatbreak Anime broadcast her first section on October 5. It is obvious that the franchise is a massive global phenomenon.
Although they produced dozens of games for more than three decades, Digimon Is not really as synonymous with games as it should be. Bandai has a habit to just try different genres to see if something gets stuck, but things have stuck quite a lot recently. So let's do it! Here is best Digimon game ever, from someone who has lively memories from playing all three games on PS1 and even the terrible Digimon World 4.
Big Digimon games that never did it from Japan
Unfortunately, Digimon Has a very inconsistent history of producing Western ports, with lots of games that never leave their nation. We cannot officially include these games because we cannot play them because they are intended. But if you understand Japanese or in any way a miracle occurs and you find a way to play through these Digimon gameI recommend that you take advantage of the opportunity:
- Digimon World Re: Digitize Decode – A fantastic 3DS Pet Raiser and without doubt the best example of this format. Shame None of its versions came to North America.
- Digimon Adventure -A charming turn-based JRPG at PSP that goes through the original anime season. Nothing too special, but fun.
- Digimon Story lost Evolution – The successor to Dawn and dusk at Nintendo DS. No idea why it was not transferred, and the same is true for Xros Wars Red and Blue.
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Digimon World PS1 trilogy
Digimon's early days were confused, messy and lovely
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Digimon World 2
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April 3, 2001
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E for all // mild violence
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Bec
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Digimon World 3
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June 5, 2002
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E for all // mild violence
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Bec, Bandai, Boom Corp.
Look, I'm not going to sit here and say that PS1 Digimon World Games are always masterpieces that helped to shape the pet-enhancing and toured RPG genres. Bandai clearly had no clear direction for the series, so we got three games that are so very different to describe them as a trilogy is a joke.
- Digimon World is the most loved nowadays, with its urban construction and pet training mechanics that are reviewed a lot of subsequent games in the series. You start with an egg Digimon, and you have to exercise, feed and potte-train them to hopefully make them gigolve into something useful. Meanwhile, you complete assignments to convince Digimon to join your own. The game is equal parts fun and frustrating.
- Digimon World 2 Loses the pet-enhancing aspect and is only a 3V3-Tur-based JRPG, which would become a staple in the franchise later. You join a team that has to explore domains to defeat Blood Knights, while growing your team through digivolution, business and DNA Digivolutions. DW2 Is exhausting, with each dungeon that looks exactly the same and fighting takes forever. *Sigh, it's one of my favorite JRPGs in childhood, but I can't say it's good.
- Digimon World 3 is theoretically speaking the best of the trilogy, but it is also the most forgetful because it copies Pokemon Much more than the other two games. For all their shortcomings, DJ and DW2 do their own things. DW3 is just a much worse grip on Pokemon Concept, although it is otherwise an ok RPG.
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Digimon World Dawn & Dusk
The addictive Digimon grinds (and the early days of something large)
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Digimon World Dusk
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March 29, 2007
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E for all // alcohol reference, raw humor, mild cartoon
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Bec
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Digimon World Dawn
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March 29, 2007
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E for all // alcohol reference, raw humor, mild cartoon
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Bec
While you are marketed as Digimon World in North America, Dawn & dusk is part of Digimon Storythat started in 2006 and still runs in 2025 with Digimon Story: Time Stranger. No doubt represent these maintenance Digimon On its absolute best, especially the more modern records.
Tempting as it might be to completely ignore everything that came out before Cyber SleuthThe Twilight & dawn Still solid and long RPG that gets a lot of things right, especially a tour -based combat system that emphasizes positioning rather than just Turd. You also have hundreds of hundreds of Digimon to scan, create, exercise, etc. But Twilight & dawn Goes a little overboard in the grinding (because gaining experience is based on type). Collecting the whole of Digimon is not viable or valuable, and things become exhausting fairly quickly.
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Digimon World: Next order
Digimon World Goes Modern Gen
When it came out, some people may have been disappointed by Digimon World: Next orderWhen it followed the amazing Cyber Sleuth. Anyone who went into expectation of another tour-based RPG Dungeon Crawler would have been extremely surprised to find a slowly moving creature trainer with automatic battle and an almost disc-of-life rhythm. Digimon have produced a pair of these types of pet enhancing swims for decades, but Next order was the first title to receive a Western edition then Digimon World.
For the most part, The next world is really just modern Digimon WorldWith much more digitolution lines, an almost open world design, quite stylish graphics and a little more control over both battles and your partner's way forward. Honestly, the game is mainly a vibe that either clicks or penetrates you to tears. I personally prefer the toured RPGs, but I had fun 30 hours with The next world.
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Digimon survives
A history-driven Digimon video game Epic
For better or worse, Bandai deserves praise for taking significant risks with Digimon. Yes, it has resulted in a franchise that has only recently begun to maintain speed (within the video playing world), but it has enabled projects as a project such as Digimon survivesThe Digimon World: Next orderand Digimon Story: Time Stranger to debut within a decade of each other. Of these three, Digimon survives Be the biggest game, and it's the least “Digimon” game that came out since the Wonderswan years.
Although it does not lack battle, the campaign is mainly presented as a visual novel, a popular yet very niche genre that can be horrifying to people who are just not in these types of stories. These long dialogue distances are broken by network -based tactical battle that is serviceable but nothing too special and definitely not rich enough to guarantee a recommendation only on their own. Fortunately, Digimon survives tells perhaps the best story in someone Digimon Games, with fully realized characters that are put through an experience that is about as close as the franchise has ever received. As I said I can just recommend Digimon survives to visual novel fans.
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Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth + Hacker's Memory
Digimon produces one of the best toured JRPGs in the 2010s
Although continuously producing games, Cyber Sleuth felt like a return to appearance for Digimon In North America, especially the HD PS4 version that came out in 2016. At nominal value, this project is a fairly simple development of Digimon World 2Where you explore dungeons, participate in 3v3 turn -based battle (with reserves) and engage you in a digit solution system that makes you map out complicated roads so you can get Megas and Ultras in your dreams. You spend hours grinding Digimon with Platinumnunemons for Exp -increases, while you sometimes take on assignments for the private investigator.
Cyber Sleuth is only good. It is not necessarily fantastic or groundbreaking, but it is completely satisfactory in a way that Digimon Game is usually not. The story, although uneven, is decent and has some quite dark moments. You have to grind, but not to Insanity (and it is fun to work to build your ultimate team from 200+ Digimon available). Dungeons are repetitive and bland, a side effect of the game's PS white origin, but they are also not unpleasant on their eyes.
Even more important is that this game is huge and is often packed with its prequel, the equally large Hacker's memory. They are basically the same, only with different stories.
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Digimon Story: Time Stranger
The best Digimon game and crown jewel in a fantastic series
This can be a little too early to say, as the game has only been out for a couple of days, but Digimon Story: Time Stranger Seems mostly to fine -tune and improve the very good ideas of their predecessors. The story has a really fun hook that involves time travel and places the emotional core of the friendship between a girl and a Digimon, which helps to add a touch of heart and intrigue to what is otherwise a story about cartoon on Saturday morning.
The 3V3-Tur-based battle returns mostly, although you get more options to change that structure through a human agent that can perform attacks, along with a heavier emphasis on reserve figures. You also have more than 400 digimon to scan, lean, digivolve, de-digivolve, DNA Digivolve and all that well. Prepare yourself to lose yourself in many statistics. It is addictive.
