Should I Buy It Now?

[KaiserSenpai420]

I'm a big fan of the Cyber story series, I heard Survive was more visual novel than game play. Is $30 a good deal? Does it really have nearly no gameplay?

[Chortos-2]

It has some battles (although they’re different from Cyber Sleuth’s), but reading text takes up a far larger amount of time. There are some dialogue choices to be made and branches in the story, but again, pure linear story-reading takes most of your time. And there are sections where you’re asked to explore several areas by choosing and going to different locations and interacting with them or with other characters, which can be interesting or boring depending on your own personality.

There are four major story routes, while the many smaller choices along the way do add some variety but always converge back together. And about two thirds of the game are the same in all routes, so if you want to read the whole thing, you’ll need to redo them several times. There’s a skipping function, but it doesn’t completely skip scenes that you’ve already seen—rather, it speeds them up.

[Chortos-2]

You can also use the game purely for collecting Digimon if you want, and I know someone who did just that, although I wouldn’t personally buy it just for that.

Oh yeah, if you want more battles, there are training areas where you can initiate an unlimited amount of somewhat-random battles, although they’ll be, y’know, more or less the same a lot of the time.