Bandai Namco's new work "Digimon Story: A Time and Space" has caused a craze on the Steam platform, attracting more than 70,000 players within 24 hours of its debut.The role-playing game reached a peak of 70,964 players at the same time, making it one of the most successful Japanese role-playing games on the platform recently.Last year, "Metaphorical Fantasy" produced by Atlus surpassed this performance with a score of more than 85,000 people.
This strong start has enabled Digimon Story: Alien Time and Space to surpass many well-known JRPG series: Square Enix's "Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth" peaked at only 40,564 people this year, and Persona 3: Remake is 45,002 people.Other popular works such as "The Legend of Dawn" (60,274 people) and "Persona 5: Royal Edition" (35,474 people) have also failed to reach it.Even the peak of 21,010 people in "Final Fantasy Strategy Edition: The Battle of Ivalis", which was released recently, is far inferior to the results of "Digimon Story: Alien Time".
The popularity of the game has been revealed before.At the beginning of this week, physical editions were sold out in many places in Japan. Bandai Namco issued an apology statement, suggesting players to purchase digital editions during the replenishment period and promise to continue supply to meet demand.
"Digimon Story: A Time and Space" developed by Media.Vision is the seventh work in this branch series and is also a new work that has been eight years since "Digimon Story: Memories of the Cyber Detective Hacker" in 2017.The game has been launched on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Windows platforms on October 3, 2025.Both physical and digital versions are popular, indicating that this game will become one of the most successful role-playing games in Bandai Namco in recent years.
