Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2016)

Developer: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., Abstraction Games
Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres: Adventure
Rating: 4.8 of 5, 32,075 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 36 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A tense, darkly comic visual novel where solving murders under a cheerful facade feels like a high-stakes detective game.

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What players say

Players praise the cast and class trials as improvements over the first game, but some find the opening slow and the fan service off-putting. Opinions split on whether it tops the original, and a few call the ending divisive.

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