Recently, there has been a bit of confusion about the release date of Digimon Survive, the upcoming tactical role-playing title being developed by Witchcraft. While the game’s official website still lists the expected release year as 2020, that date was recently changed to January 2021 on Toei Animation Europe’s website, though there was neither confirmation from the developer nor official announcement of a delay.
Now January 2021 has been removed from the Toei Animation Europe site and no release date for Digimon Survive is listed at all. When the Western version of the game was first announced in 2019, Toei Animation’s official press release stated that it would be available on current gen platforms sometime in 2020. Whether the change in date on the website was made in error or simply a show of uncertainty is not clear.
To further add to the confusion, in April 2020 Weekly Famitsu Magazine listed Digimon Survive’s release date as “unspecified.” The game’s publisher Bandai Namco quickly clarified that the change in date was an error and that the title was still slated for release in 2020.
Digimon Survive, whenever it does finally hit store shelves, will be a single-player survival strategy RPG in which a group of teenagers out on a camping trip find themselves mysteriously transported to the world of Digimon. Players will have to learn to survive in a world full of monsters using different gameplay modes that combine elements from old-school tactical RPGs and adventure games. These include drama parts to advance the story and battle parts that allow players to digivolve their Digimon.
Digimon Survive will be released on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
Source: Toei Animation Europe (via DualShockers)