Digimon Up

Digimon Up Review: A Licensed Idle Game That Asks You to Tap Through the Idling

Pick a Partner, Feed It, Train It, Send It to the Battle Terminal

The design is a Tamagotchi-shaped idle battler: you choose a partner from the anime's starters, feed it meat and drinks, train it on a punching bag through a hex grid of stat nodes, and digivolve it over days, while a team of support Digimon fights automatic rounds in the Battle Terminal — and dungeon bosses such as Picodevimon. Supports come from a gacha. A July 17 App Store five-star from a self-confessed idle-game collector loves the new addition; a September 1 Play one-star with six votes says the sprites look nice and the gameplay is tedious. The specific idle complaint is structural: the game makes you leave the phone on to progress and click through tasks repeatedly even when the tasks take seconds, so it is neither idle nor active. An August 26 three-star with nine votes logs in once or twice a day for bonuses and leaves.

One Summon a Day, a Filter That Bans Ordinary Words, and Numbers Nobody Explains

The gacha draws the strongest words: a September 9 Play two-star calls it the worst gacha system it has experienced — one special summon per day with free currency, bad rates, garbage rewards, better results from the general pool — and an August 21 App Store one-star says free resources pile up unusable because only one draw a day can spend them. An August 5 three-star warns in capitals that anyone with an addictive personality should beware, citing ad boosting, a gacha with abhorrent currency conversion and stacked passes. The chat filter is a running joke: a July 21 four-star and a September 20 three-star cannot say basic English words in the one social feature the game has. A September 19 one-star asks for explanations of anything — numbers that make no sense and mechanics learned only by YouTube and Reddit. Launch bugs — dungeon bosses, Apocalymon — were patched through August, and a July 21 two-star sums up the fan reaction: not what anyone wanted from the franchise, zero story, glitches galore.

DigiDiamonds to $64.99, an $8.99 Ad Skip Pass, Two More Passes, Loot Boxes

The App Store shop lists DigiDiamond packs A through E from $0.99 to $64.99, an Ad Skip Pass at $8.99, a Premium Plan Digital Boost Pass at $5.99, a DigiDiamond Pass at $5.99; Google Play's range is $0.99 to $64.99 with random items declared, and both stores show advertising — optional ad boosts that the Ad Skip Pass removes. Data collection is the broadest on this shelf: Google lists financial info, messages and four other types collected; Apple lists purchases, contact info, user content, browsing history, identifiers and usage data linked to you. The iOS build is 266 MB on iOS 15 or later; Android needs 9; ten languages; rated Everyone and 9+. Two months in it shows 1 million-plus installs and 64,100 reviews at 4.0 on Play, 9,326 App Store ratings at 4.4 — a Digimon audience arriving on the name. Prices are regional.