History VideoGame / DigimonSurvive

** The UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} version of the game averts this for the most part; the majority of the game's Achievements are hidden, so the player won't be spoiled about bosses or potential endings. However, this version also gives Trading Cards that can be traded in Steam's marketplace and redeemed for wallpapers and emotes, and not only do the cards include pictures of [[spoiler:Renamon and Piedmon]], but the wallpaper featuring [[spoiler:Ryo, Shuuji, Kunemon, and Lopmon]] has the rather foreboding name "[[spoiler:Bitter Ending in the Parallel World…?]]"

** The start of Part 6 and Part 11 in all routes have free battles that commonly contain Digimon that will always drop an Enlightenment Slab of their level upon a successful negotiation (Monzaemon and Zudomon in Part 6, [=WarGreymon=], [=MarineAngemon=] and [=GranKuwagamon=] in Part 11), allowing you to evolve your Free Monsters as soon as when the game expects you to deal with stronger enemies on a more common basis. In a similar vein, monsters that drop Perfect and Ultimate Evolution slabs show up almost everywhere in some form or way, allowing the player to beef up their party even if they have no viable Free Monsters.

* HeroMustSurvive: [[AvertedTrope Generally not the case]] but, in certain battles, letting certain units get knocked out will cause instant defeat for the player.

In a similar vein to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', and to a lesser extent ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'', the game revolves around a group of {{Ordinary High School Student}}s (or rather, mostly middle school students, in this case), who after an incident during a school camping trip, find themselves TrappedInAnotherWorld filled with strange monsters. The protagonist Takuma Momozuka, alongside his friends and classmates Minoru Hinata, Aoi Shibuya, Saki Kimishima, Ryo Tominaga, Shuuji Kayama, as well as two locals Kaito Shinonome and Miu Shinonome, quickly find monster partners amongst the foes and together, they have to work to help survive the hostile wilderness surrounding them. In the process, they also must figure out what got them there, and if they can ever find their way home. Unfortunately, their trek in the other world is not an adventure where ThePowerOfFriendship wins over all but a danger-filled ordeal, and some of them might not come out to the other side and tell the tale.

* CrapsackWorld: The Kemonogami World is quiet possibly the most hostile incarnation of the Digital World in the entire history of the franchise, even making the one in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' look like a picnic in comparison. The monsters in the other world are deadly, hostile beasts who will often attack on sight, there's a deadly fog sprawling around that vanishes children and monsters alike and kills them, and there's a horrible group of {{Serial Killer}}s lying around waiting to kidnap children. Though it's somewhat migitated by the fog and mysterious child abductions being done by [[spoiler:an insane and grief-ridden man.]]

* CrapsackWorld: The Kemonogami World is quiet possibly the most hostile incarnation of the Digital World in the entire history of the franchise, even making the one in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' look like a picnic in comparison. The monsters in the other world are deadly, hostile beasts who will often attack on sight, there's a deadly fog sprawling around that vanishes children and monsters alike and kills them, and there's a horrible group of {{Serial Killer}}s lying around waiting to kidnap children. Though it's somewhat migitated by the fog and mysterious child abductions being done by [[spoiler:an insane man.]]

* CrapsackWorld: The Kemonogami World is quiet possibly the most hostile incarnation of the Digital World in the entire history of the franchise, even making the one in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' look like a picnic in comparison.

** Once you reach Part 7, the battle against Piedmon is hyped up as the final battle before the survivors return to the real world. However, if you look at the evolution screens of your partner or free monsters, you'll notice that not only there are four evolution stages per monster as opposed to three, you literally cannot obtain Megas yet if this is your first run. It's ''far'' from being over yet.

* BreakingOldTrends: ''Survive'' is the first ''Digimon'' game for consoles since ''All-Star Rumble'' to not feature any appearances from [[VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize Mirei Mikagura, Rina Shinomiya, or their respective partners.]]