>>58152894You're searching for the Story series. Cyber Sleuth can be find cheap nowadays, but understand they're originally PS Vita games, so it can be ugly at times and the dungeons are not interesting (it's the main criticism). The main attraits are the story, characters and the evolution system.
Or you can wait for Time Stranger in early October. Since 2015. They were working on updated models and will have the most amount of Digimon with 451. That's why Hackers Memory reused the first Cyber Sleuth style and why Survive went for simplified arts, just so they could take the time to remake the models, contrarly to the lies said by Game Freak when they said the DexCut was because they remade models, which was debunked by Dataminers as being lies because most of them didn't change or receive minor change, like fusing two coincident edges and call it a day
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You fear that your Digimon will not evolve into your liking? Don't worry with the Story game, you can de-evolve anytime and choose another path. Your Digimon can literally be any Digimon in the roster, but for some you will need a few back and forth.
As for the last game, Survive, it's not for everyone. It's a VN with TRPG element, but mostly VN at 70%. The TRPG part are quite simple. Still, on the Digimon subreddit, I remember some VN fans who came saying they didn't know much about Digimon and only played it for the VN aspect, which is rare nowadays from big companies, and considered it as one if not the best VN they played in recent years. But if you don't like VN, it's not worth your time and you don't have much alternate evolutions for some characters.
