Digimon mobile TCG game teased ahead of Digimon Con 2025

Bandai has teased an upcoming Digimon mobile TCG game expected to be fully unveiled this Thursday, March 20th, during Digimon Con 2025.

The teaser for a "new project" was posted on the official Digimon TCG X (formerly Twitter) account, showing the fan-favourite foxlike Digimon Renamon sucked into a mobile phone.

"Latest information stage live broadcast in progress. Digimon Card Game - new project coming soon," the post read, translated via Google Translate.

The post also linked to a stream of Bandai Card Games Fest 24-25, which featured the physical Digimon card game - further hinting towards some form of TCG coming to mobile.

Into the digital world

Digimon Con is scheduled to take place on March 20th, 2025 with a trailer for the anime’s 25th anniversary, information on a new game, a live music performance and "announcements for toys, Digimon trading cards and more" expected to be showcased.

Bandai launched its physical Digimon card game in 2020 alongside a mobile app which served as a tutorial, aptly named Digimon Card Game Tutorial App. But a fully fledged mobile game based on the TCG would be timely after the success of 2024’s Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, which generated over $500 million in a little over three months.

Pokémon Pocket also has "a large number" of users signed up to its premium subscription service, suggesting its earnings may sustain long-term.

Pocket is far from the only hit card game on mobile, following in the footsteps of Blizzard Entertainment’s genre pioneer Hearthstone, Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links and Second Dinner’s Marvel Snap. The latter earned $275m in its first two years, with tie-ins to various superhero movies supporting its success.

However, with Pokémon and Digimon inexorably linked and compared throughout the decades, the timely nature of a mobile Digimon card game would likely lead to further comparisons with the latest mobile behemoth specifically.

While the Digimon franchise is much smaller than Pokémon, the market for mobile card games could help make a digital Digimon TCG a success in its own right.