[Steam] Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition 90% off history low

I actually bought Digimon Survive on the switch, where it sits in my backlog for a time when I have a slow/long weekend and can justify busting out a new story. But it's competing with other story-based games for my attention, haha.

Some of the details were pretty thin though. I only found out via the reviews that there is an element of freedom in taming/raising, whereas story-centric games can sometimes lock you behind only selected companions or a sequential unlock path predetermined for the story. Naturally my interest in Digimon is in the monsters.
...which I know is a bit of a weird contradiction given Survive is a visual novel, and more than likely has those exact restrictions, but genre matters too!

Thanks for the info btw.

I should clarify : I've seen threads (elsewhere) of people asking what is a good game to break into the digimon world, largely getting digimon fans replying, there was no clear consensus and most games had significant gripes about their balance between gameplay/story, annoying mechanics, etc. Maybe that's the bias of opinions within the fandom and how they can sometimes trash the things they love most, but when looking at the steam reviews from the top down, most positive ones state they were already digimon fans or don't elaborate much on what works (gameplay, etc), whereas the negative ones, infrequent as they are, mention the grind.

I've found that steam reviews are mainly useful as an indicator of things like mass bugs, critical flaws, developer unreliability, etc, because tastes vary so much and where a franchise is involved a lot of things can be overlooked, y'know? Specifics are helpful, and when positive or negative reviews are mostly generic and don't underline anything, that suggests to me that they just 'vibe' with it, like the flavour matches their palate. But when specifics are mentioned or repeated, I find that tends to ring truer.

I mean, grind isn't even necessarily bad so long as its fulfilling, not obnoxious, and you like what the game is laying down for you, but its a noteworthy factor.