Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, developed by Media.Vision and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, and based on the Digimon franchise. It is the fifth game in the Digimon Story series, following 2011's Super…

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Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is an adventure developed by Media.Vision, released 12 March 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 41 hrs to finish.

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What Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is an adventure game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2015. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Players assume the role of either Takumi Aiba or Ami Aiba , male and female Japanese amateur hackers. They receive a device called a Digimon Capture from a mysterious stranger in a chat room which allows them to capture and befriend Digimon, creatures who inhabit a next-generation version of the internet called Cyberspace Eden which users can physically enter. After traveling to the lowest levels of Eden, they are attacked by a data-based entity called an "Eater" who leaves their bodies half-digitized, and find that they can now freely travel between the real world and the virtual world via terminals. They are approached by a woman named Kyoko Kuremi, head of the Kuremi Detective Agency…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 103 achievements to unlock.

Where it sits in the Digimon series

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is the 57th of 85 entries we hold in the Digimon series. The next entry was Digimon World: Next Order in 2016. Its critic score of 79 is 17 points above the series average of 62. The highest-rated entry is Digimon Story: Time Stranger at 84.

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How it was received

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 69 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 41 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium G4400 or AMD A8-6600K, 4 GB RAM and GeForce 9800 GTX+ or Radeon HD 5770 or Intel Iris Pro 6200. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth launched on 12 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Quick answers

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth — frequently asked questions

When did Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth come out?

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth was released on 12 March 2015 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth?

At minimum, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth needs Intel Pentium G4400 or AMD A8-6600K, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 9800 GTX+ or Radeon HD 5770 or Intel Iris Pro 6200 graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.

How long does it take to beat Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth?

The main story of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth takes around 41 hrs.

How many GB is Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth?

The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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