You take the role of Digimon Tamer rookies ascending the ranks of your tamer team,[1] before a strange virus causes an earthquake in the Sunshine and Darkmoon districts, damaging the access points to the Digital World and causing many Digimon to mysteriously degenerate into Digi-Eggs.

[2] Despite being two separate games, they have parallel story lines that interweave, with the main tamer teams being in opposition of each other.

[5] Digimon that don’t fit into the party are instead sent to the Digifarm, allowing them to slowly gain experience, the rate of which can be influenced by decorations that are purchased for the farm.

[1] The Digimon that it evolves into is based on player choice along a branching pathway once a certain level or prerequisites are met and causes its appearance to change and statistics to greatly increase.

There are also opportunities to return to a prior evolutionary form, called degenerating in which afterwards the player can select a new evolution path for the Digimon to progress along.

[4] RPGFan gave the games a rating of 7.5/10, calling them solid RPG experiences but for players to not expect a deep plot or exceptional graphics.

[1] Both games received a score of 7 from IGN, who expressed disappointment with their tedious approach to story quests but enjoyed the amount of content to experience and the battle mechanics.