History VideoGame / DigimonSurvive

** One of your first clues about the Sovereign beasts in the Truthful Route is when you talk to Ryo and Kunemon, the former mentions Kunemon having "one hell of a reaction" below the Amusement Park. That's where your [[spoiler:first Sovereign Beast, Baihumon is residing at.]]

** The in-profile menus include stats for each human and Kemonogami pair. Haru notably doesn't have any stats listed in his profile while the Professor and Miyuki, who also don't have a partner, do. Additionaly, Miyuki has a surname (Miyuki Minase) while brother Haru is just "Haru." Furthermore, If you talk to Haru in a Free Action or exploration segment at the first half of the game, he'll usually give you an item and/or his responses increase Karma values like when you talk to Agumon or Falcomon rather than increasing affinity values (he doesn't have any).

** The in-profile menus include stats for each human and Kemonogami pair. Haru notably doesn't have any stats listed in his profile while the Professor and Miyuki, who also don't have a partner, do. Additionaly, Miyuki has a surname (Miyuki Minase) while brother Haru is just "Haru."

** Takuma is given an option to [[spoiler:go back home rather than back to the other world]] at the end of Part 8 where [[spoiler:you would pick the endgame route. If he chooses to do so, it will trigger a horrible bad ending where Takuma insists to ditch Agumon and Miyuki to go back home, with Agumon saying tearful goodbyes with his human partner. After returning back home, Takuma becomes shunned as a pariah for his fight against Piedmon, and the human world is hit by a series of disasters that were heavily implied to be caused by the Master's RoaringRampageOfRevenge against humanity, and at one point, it forces Takuma and his mother to reolcate from their home. It's also implied that all of his friends are stranded and murdered in the other world.]]

* DownerEnding: The Perceived Memories. Given how they detail the accounts of people who wound up in the Kemonogami world, their fates are a ForegoneConclusion.

** Part 10 of the GoldenEnding path can possibly render the game {{Unwinnable}}. After one of the major boss battles, a Free Action takes place, followed by a cutscene, then the player is thrown back to the map for an Exploration segment, where this bug can potentially happen. No one has figured out why this happens, all they know is that the player is left with nothing but Free Battles on the map, thus no way to advance the story. Hope the affected player keeps multiple saves from before this bug happening.

''Digimon Survive'' is a ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' StrategyRPG VisualNovel game for all eighth-generation platforms, developed by the companies Witchcraft and Hyde, with music composed by Tomoki Miyoshi of ''VideoGame/IAmSetsuna'' fame, and published by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment. Like ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'', the game [[AudienceShift caters to older fans]] with a darker tone rather than leaving them a hopeful PeripheryDemographic. And by "darker", do not be fooled that it's going to hold any punches -- ''AnyoneCanDie'', anyone can [[SanitySlippage go insane before they die]], and there's [[ControlledHelplessness nothing you can do about it]].

* ForWantOfANail: The three main routes (Moral, Wrath and Harmony) diverge during [[spoiler:the Kenzoku attack on the Amusement Park's Castle and how the characters react to it]]:
** In the Moral route, [[spoiler:Miu managed to remember about the trap door she used back in chapter 4 in-time. As such, the group stayed together and fights a fighting retreat together, resulting in Jijimon's death, but no humans are dead or rendered insane in the encounter]].
** In the Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some Amusement Park monsters that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].
** The Wrath route is similar to Harmony route in set-up, the difference being [[spoiler:Aoi's response; she sends Takuma to help Kaito and Miu, while she and Minoru rushes off after Saki, resulting in Saki's death and Aoi going insane]].
** In the Truthful Route, because of [[spoiler:Shuuji and the Professor successfully researching the murals in the Shrine, rather than going to the Amusement Park to ask Jijimon about the Kenzoku (which always fails and causes one death), they go find Baihumon in the same place for answers instead. The invading Kenzoku are all fended off with no casualities and thus the Amusement Park remains intact due to the Master failing to kill Baihumon, and the party manages to get on Baihumon's good side.]]

** In the Truthful Route, because of [[spoiler:Shuuji and the Professor successfully researching the murals in the Shrine, rather than asking for Jijimon about the Kenzoku (which always causes one death), they go find Baihumon for answers instead. The invading Kenzoku are all fended off with no casualities and thus the Amusement Park remains intact due to the Master failing to kill Baihumon, and the party manages to get on Baihumon's good side.]]

** In Moral route, [[spoiler:Miu managed to remember about the trap door she used back in chapter 4 in-time. As such, the group stayed together and fights a fighting retreat together, resulting in Jijimon's death, but no humans are dead or rendered insane in the encounter]].
** In Harmony route, [[spoiler:Miu failed to remember the trap door in time, resulting in Kaito rushing off to fight the Kenzoku, with Miu following after him. Saki then noticed some children that had yet to be saved and rushed off to save them; Aoi decides to send Minoru to find an escape route, while she and Takuma followed after Saki. This resulted in Miu's death and Kaito going insane]].

** The individual chapters usually gives the reader some leeway for rest between tense sections where something horrible would happen. The first half of Chapter 5 is a rather light-hearted arc about catching a Gazimon who stole the parties' private belongings, and the first half of Chapter 10 in the Moral and Wrathful routes is [[spoiler:Aoi or Jijimon taking care of the survivors of the Master's attack against the playground before Renamon makes her move as a last-ditch attempt to take human sacrifices for the Master.]]

** There are certain events in certain Free Actions that allow the player to recruit a Gomamon, Palmon, or Tentomon (normally only recruitable via shadow battles) with no strings attached as long as they know what they are doing, lessening the hassle of completing the Monster Library. [[spoiler:Should the player miss all opportunity by then, Part 10 has an additional Free Action event where all three appear, provided the player has enough action points.]]

** The boss encounter in the Truthful Route's Part 11 will prevent the player from using any Partner Monsters bar a Gabumon that's (very likely) going to be below half his level. To compensate, easier to recruit monsters such as Fangmon, Numemon and Ikakkumon are available in Free or Shadow Battles in the waterway, and the Free Battles have Zudomon and [=MarineAngemon=]. This allows even players who don't have sufficiently powerful Free Monsters prior to instantly cob up powerhouses such as Plutomon and Piedmon and throw them on the upcoming boss encounter.

** The choice for the eight partner Kemonogami in this game also mirrors the eight partner Digimon from the original ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' series (with the exception of Agumon, who fills the same role as the Agumon from the aforementioned anime) in terms of different evolution lines.
*** Labramon is reminiscent of Gabumon/Garurumon in terms of the canine-themed line and she gains full access to one of the free Gabumon lines (Dobermon, Cerberumon, [[spoiler:Plutomon]]).

*** Labramon is reminiscent of Gabumon/Garurumon in terms of the canine-themed line.

* LuckBasedMission: If you're trying to negotiate with a Plesiomon or Anubismon, there's a chance where it can fail because they asked a question with no correct answer. [[note]]Specifically, this happens when they ask "How do clouds in the sky look to you?"[[/note]] Their other questions also only yield one bar if you answer them correctly, so if that pops up in the second or third, the negotiation will always fail.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The ending of the Harmonious route have the surviving characters embark on a new adventure of sorts to try and teach the world about Kemonogami as well as deal with the rise of discrimination against those with fated partners]].

* SanitySlippage: Several characters undergo this throughout the story, usually as a culmination of their worst aspects going unchecked. [[spoiler:Ryo and Shuuji]] are the first to break down during the first few chapters. Later, after the story branching, the Wrath route has [[spoiler:Aoi break down]], and the Harmony route has [[spoiler:Kaito suffer as well]].

* NotUsingTheZWord: In an unusual twist for the series, the Digimon are never actually called Digimon. They're called "Kemonogami" (Beast Gods) or just "monsters" in the user interface, and the world they inhabit is never given a proper name. This has caused the localization to [[DitchingTheDubNames forgo the use of "Digivolution"]] and just use the regular "evolution" instead. [[spoiler:In the Moral route, after the Kemonogami faith has now become an urban legend spread across the internet and the other world affected by the emotions of the people reacting to said urban legend, the Professor believes they'll come to be called Digimon by the public, and the Kemonogami world the Digital World. This also happens in the Truthful route, though its the public who names Agumon and the others Digimon rather than the Professor.]]

* NotUsingTheZWord: In an unusual twist for the series, the Digimon are never actually called Digimon. They're called "Kemonogami" (Beast Gods) or just "monsters", and the world they inhabit is never given a proper name. This has caused the localization to [[DitchingTheDubNames forgo the use of "Digivolution"]] and just use the regular "evolution" instead. [[spoiler:In the Moral route, after the Kemonogami faith has now become an urban legend spread across the internet and the other world affected by the emotions of the people reacting to said urban legend, the Professor believes they'll come to be called Digimon by the public, and the Kemonogami world the Digital World. This also happens in the Truthful route, though its the public who names Agumon and the others Digimon rather than the Professor.]]

** Haru will always follow Kaito in part 3 even if Takuma chose to follow the Mysterious Woman into the cable car. Shortly after, said woman reveals herself to be Arukenimon, who is out to take {{Human Sacrifice}}s.

*** Haru seemingly knows a tad too much about the other world's denizens. When Takuma asks Haru and Miyuki about Aoi's kidnapper in Part 1, Haru quickly deducts the monster as a Dokugumon, despite Takuma's assumption that they were just {{Tagalong Kid}}s. During Part 3 where the party meets Kaito and the Mysterious Woman, Haru and Miyuki will also follow Kaito no matter what, even before we're supposed to know that the Mysterious Woman is actually Arukenimon.

** Haru will always follow Kaito in part 3 even if Takuma chose to follow the Mysterious Woman into the cable car. Shortly after, said woman reveals herself to be Arukenimon, who is out to take HumanSacrifices.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: While in the amusement park, Minoru suggests the group not stay together for too long, because every time they do a group of weak Kemonogami show up to annoy them. Right in the middle of explaining this to Lopmon, Palmon shows up and Saki even calls it [[LampshadeHanging instant foreshadowing]].

* PracticalTaunt: The Vexing Crystal equipments forces an enemy unit in attacking range to attack the monster that equipped it. With the correct setup, you can trivialize most fights by forcing enemy units to attack them as your own attacker units pick them off one-by-one without taking any damage.