When I first played Digimon Story: Time Stranger at Summer Games Fest several months ago, I was very surprised at how refined everything felt. It was a vast step-up from Cyber Sleuth and Hacker’s Memory, but I only got to play a small slice of it. Bandai Namco gave me another chance to play it at PAX West 2025 and this time, they locked me in a room for three hours with the game. This time, I was able to check out the first hour and half when starting a new game and another hour and a half with a later section not too far into the game.
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I usually don’t put up many previews, let alone second previews, to games I’m interested in because I think any further personal thoughts are best left to the final release after that. Plus, I don’t want to spoil the game as much as possible both for myself and for people. So instead of another written preview that might spoil some story stuff, I figure I’ll use this opportunity to report on a bunch of new Digimon Story: Time Stranger information based on what I personally saw. I learned so much that I decided to make a separate article discussing the Digivolution system in Time Stranger alone.
Since there’s a lot of info I share here, I’ll include a Table of Contents that you can click on if a specific section is of interest to you.
Digimon Story: Time Stranger PC Settings
- Display Mode
- Resolution
- Frame Rate
- Image Quality Preset
- VSync
- FXAA
- MSAA
- TAA
- Depth of Field
- Bloom
- Volumetric Fog
- Screen Space Reflection
- Ambient Occlusion
- Texture Quality
- Texture Filtering
- Character Density
Although it’s been previously reported that the PC version of Time Stranger will support up to 60fps, I did notice that the Frame Rate option cycled between 60, 30, and then 144 in this preview build, so it is highly likely that the PC version does support higher framerates in its final release.
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Digimon Story: Time Stranger Button Config Options
Can You Change Your Protagonist Later?
Yes! After selecting either the male (Dan Yuki) or female (Kanan Yuki) protagonist and choosing a custom name for them or not, there is a pop-up dialogue that says you can change both their name and appearance later. You can change to the other protagonist and their name as early as the first dungeon area in the game simply by going into the Game Settings and they’ll have options to change them right away. You can also change the Difficulty level here, as well.
The protagonist you don’t select serves as your Operator, and is a lot more chatty than your chosen character especially in cutscenes. You’ll hear their voice more often than your chosen main character.
Starting Digimon Stats, Skills, & Resistances
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