Digimon Story Time Stranger rated Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible ahead of release

By Liam Dawe - 10 Sep 2025 at 11:35 am UTC

Digimon Story Time Stranger is coming soon from Media.Vision Inc. and Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. and it's now it has a Steam Deck and SteamOS rating.

Ahead of the release scheduled for October 2nd, Valve slapped the Steam Deck Playable (and SteamOS Compatible) rating onto it with the latest Proton 10 Beta. The only mark against it seems to be it sometimes showing the wrong keybinds (like keyboard instead of gamepad), which shouldn't be difficult for the developer to solve to get it bumped up to a green Verified tick.

One other note is that Valve say it needs an internet connection for the first-time setup.

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Digimon Story Time Stranger is an RPG with monster-taming elements that explores the deep bond between humans and Digimon in an epic story that unravels the mystery of the world’s collapse.

Embark on an adventure that spans across the human world and Digital World, collecting and raising a diverse array of Digimon to fight in turn-based battles.

An Epic Story of Connection
Tokyo, Japan – An agent of a secret organization encounters an unknown creature shortly before a city-leveling explosion. They then reawaken eight years in the past...
Take on a mission to uncover the mystery of the world’s collapse, where chance encounters with unique characters will shape your journey across time and parallel worlds - and change fate itself.

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Any big Digimon fans in the GamingOnLinux readership excited for this one?

Digimon Story Time Stranger | Release Date: 2nd October 2025

Official links:

Steam

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Proton, Steam Deck, RPG, Steam, SteamOS, Upcoming | Apps: Digimon Story Time Stranger

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Linux_Rocks 2 days ago

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Digimon Digital Monsters
Digimon are the Champions

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boriseto 2 days ago

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I really wish they would make a modern PC version of the PSP Digimon Adventure game (that was released only in Japan and could be played through patches). It was great to pickup on the go (emulated on the phone) back in the days.

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Eri a day ago

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I'll try the demo because I'm curious about the training/taming. I loved it in Cyber Sleuth, the back and forth in evolutions to max out a digimon but I'm not a fan of the tamagochi system in the World series.

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cameronbosch a day ago

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I cannot get it working. I tried several different versions on my laptop with an RTX 5090 GPU and the game screen was white and never loaded the game.

I tried several different Proton versions with no luck, but before I could try my Steam Deck OLED, I hit the "5 machine per day" Denuvo limit, and was locked out for 24 hours. On a free demo. What the heck!?

Here are the versions of Proton I tried without success:

Proton CachyOS

GE-Proton 10-15

Proton Experimental

Proton Hotfix

GE-Proton 9-27

Then of course it locked me out.

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cameronbosch 9 hours ago

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Update: My Steam Deck OLED did work, while I was able to get the Demo working on my laptop once I used Proton CachyOS and the latest update to the game demo, which appears to have been released in the last 12 hours. No other arguments were needed. It does seem to be a PC port locked at 144 fps and my PC could easily go past this with everything maxed out (it has an RTX 5090 laptop GPU after all).

Last edited by cameronbosch on 12 Sep 2025 at 1:41 pm UTC

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