Digimon UP Mobile Game Revealed at DigimonCon, Trailer and English Account Live

Bandai Namco pulled back the curtain on DIGIMON UP at DigimonCon 2026, dropping an official trailer and launching an English account to mark the announcement. The game is described as integrating with players' daily lives, though specific mechanics behind that pitch remain scarce for now.

The DigimonCon reveal comes roughly a year after Bandai and Toei's March 20, 2025 livestream, a nearly three-hour presentation where the company first teased its push into mobile gaming. That event, covered by Kotaku's Kenneth Shepard, previewed what would become Digimon Alysion, a free-to-play digital trading card game for iOS and Android that Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge described as Bandai's answer to Pokémon TCG Pocket.

Whether DIGIMON UP and Digimon Alysion are the same product under different names, or two distinct titles on separate timelines, has not been officially confirmed. The two games carry different descriptions: Alysion is explicitly a deck-building card battler built on the physical Digimon Card Game, which currently ships in four languages, while DIGIMON UP is positioned around daily-life integration with no card game framing attached to it.

Alysion's development has moved quickly on its own track. Bandai Namco opened closed beta sign-ups from July 28 to August 3, 2025, capping participation at 10,000 players selected by lottery. Android devices required OS 11 or newer with at least 8 GB of RAM; iOS users needed OS 15 or newer and a minimum of 4 GB RAM. No in-app purchases ran during the test period, and all progress, items, and currency were wiped when the beta closed, with none of it carrying into the release build.

Alysion's trailer introduced human protagonist Kanata Hondo and her Digimon partner Gemmon, described as currency-inspired in design, alongside a cast of Digimon pulled from across the franchise's history. Beyond card battles, the game is also set to include an in-depth story mode and Tamagotchi-like virtual pet raising, a combination that pushes it well beyond a straight Pokémon TCG Pocket clone.

DIGIMON UP's 2026 release window puts it on a longer runway, and the English account launch signals Bandai Namco is building Western awareness early. Confirmation of the title's platforms, full feature set, and any relationship to Alysion is still pending from the publisher.