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01About Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Makoto Naegi and his classmates are trapped at Hope’s Peak Academy and drawn into a deadly game by Monokuma. Investigate murders, search for clues, and speak with students to solve each case. Trials turn their statements into verbal contests where you expose contradictions and counter lies through timing- and reflex-based systems.Steam player rating: 96%% positive from 36,919 reviews.Release date: February 18, 2016.Interface languages: Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese.
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Language support
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Traditional Chinese
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English
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Japanese
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Play style
The Steam PC version is single-player and has full controller support.
Language and audio
English and Japanese have full audio; Traditional Chinese has subtitles. Interface languages are English, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese.
03Frequently asked questions
What do you do in the game?
Investigate crime scenes, gather clues, and talk to classmates before challenging their statements in verbal trials.
What is the story about?
Monokuma traps Makoto Naegi and his classmates at Hope’s Peak Academy and forces them into a deadly game.
Does it have Steam features?
Yes. The Steam PC version supports Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Steam Trading Cards.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviews
Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
Welcome to Hopes Peak Academy where the Ultimate's hope falls into despair.
Trapped and forced to play a murdery game.
Let's begin with the simple rules of explaination:
Live forever in a peaceful life within the school.
Inorder to get graduated students have to murder each other without being caught.
Game is divided into 2 sections:
Daily live:
Story continues as usual and player got the opportunity to know their classmate better.
Deadly live:
Murder occours and player are forced to investigate inorder to survive.
During Class Trial player has to represent evidences, argue a lot by finding contradictions. Also summarizing the case is the reward to close it once and for all !
Pro
Shows a perpective from an ordinary boy.
Can tell how the characters react towards despair.
The dialouge offers player many positiv adjectives, interesting quotes and humors that can either be: Irony or sarcasm.
Offers you to think instead of sitting there and read.
Highlights the definition of hope and despair.
Offers an alternative mode.
The soundtracks are indeed fitting into situations that players are confronting with at the spot.
Con
Some achievments requires you to grind a lot.
The character's audio speaking is somehow irritating.
No alternative scenes.
Conclusion:
This game is funny and got indeed lots of mysteries which are waiting to be discovered to enjoy but after you've reach a certain part, it can be boring.Show moreShow less
29 hours at review391 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
If you're reading this review then you're either rather lucky or you've filtered by negative reviews, because all negative reviews are immediately downvoted by all the fanboys. But in any case, I'll tell you why you should consider not buying this game despite all the positive reviews:
I like gathering evidence, solving mysteries and exposing the culprit!
Too bad, the amount of hand holding in this game is abysmal, there are but a few moments where you're not told where to go and where to look. That also goes for the trial, where player agency is limited to some action minigames (nothing special here) and answering rather simple questions. You'll never feel like being the one who solved the case.
It's a visual novel, not a puzzle game! I just want an interesting story and cool mysteries!
Well, the trailer didn't make it look like just a visual novel, but whatever.
There are only a couple of cases really and they're either very easy to guess (and I don't even read mystery novels or play mystery games, I'm generally terrible at guessing "what happens next") or impossible to guess because you're not given all the evidence (by that I mean it's not possible to get all the evidence, you'll have to wait for the trail). As for the story, there's nothing much, really. Don't expect anything rational, that's for sure.
I don't care about the trials, I just want to see the final plot twist!
I won't spoil anything, I'll just say that a part of it was actually quite cool Junko being the mastermind while the other was so silly I regretted all the time I spent playing this game the way the world ended... despair? Seriosuly?
But look at how much time people spent playing this game, it must be worth the money!
The gameplay time is so high only because everything in this game is so slow. Almost every line of dialog is repeated multiple times, there's an uncountable number of gasps and ahhs and ohhs and so on. There's one scene near the end that is later repeated at least four times like if the game wasn't sure if the player has even a bit of a brain. The controls are also rather terrible (played with a controller).
I don't care about all that, I just want to see people die
I, uh, have no answer to that. Go ahead, I guess.Show moreShow less
26.5 hours at review93 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Much like group projects at normal high school. I ended up doing all the work while everyone else tried to ruin itShow moreShow less
6.7 hours at review384 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
It's a sub par PS Vita port, some textures are very low quality. No mouse support on the options menus. not worth the price. I would wait for a significant sale taking into account the age of the gameShow moreShow less
0.6 hours at review86 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
All of my friends are dead.Show moreShow less
8.4 hours at review362 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
This review is Spoiler Free.
This week I finally buckled down and purchased Danganropnpa during this year's summer sale. After years of reading good reviews and articles of recommendations, I was ready for an excellent mystery VN adventure. At first I did enjoy myself...for a bit. I'm honestly baffled at how much praise this title gets because I was genuinely disappointed. I guess it just boils down to the fact that I'm not the target audience. I used to be a huge anime nerd and today I still watch it from time to time but I can't stand the tropes and cliches. Which brings me to the main problem I have with this game--the CHARACTERS.
Nearly all of the characters are walking anime cliches pumped up to the nth degree. This made it really hard for me to care about any of them and when I don't care about the characters, then I can't get into the story. I believe alot of fans find these character quirks interesting or endearing, but I just see it as poor writing. It was a chore to get through the parts of the game because I just wanted them to shut the f*** up. Free Time was especially rough. Every now and then the game goes into Free Time where you walk around and you can choose which of your fellow classmates to talk to. But as the game progressed and more of them bit the dust, I was stuck with only two characters who didn't annoy me. Quite frankly, I was looking forward to some of these students getting killed but unfortunately not all dreams can come true.
I won't go into the story because as I said before, I want to keep this review spoiler free. However, I will say that the story is okay but it gets alittle too hokey towards the end with big plot points essentially being brushed aside. I understand that some plot points are clarified in the sequels but I'm not interested in visiting this franchise again.
______TLDR________
If you like zany anime characters and are okay with overused tropes, then check Danganronpa out. You may enjoy it. However, if you hate anime cliches and ridiculously stereotyped characters then avoid this by all means. If you're looking for a good mystery VN with a story that doesn't go completely off the rails, then I recommend Umineko or Higurashi.Show moreShow less
33.3 hours at review73 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
"But I watched the anime, I don't need to play this, right?"
Let-
Let me stop you right there.
The anime is trash*, plain and simple, but this... this is another matter entirely.
Danganronpa answers the age old question of "What happens if you let a mechanical bear with a despair fetish capture a bunch of highschool students with extreme proficiency in one field and force them to kill each other?"
The answer, of course, is one of the most incredible visual novel experiences I've ever had. Danganronpa takes everything up to 11, shows you what it would look like if you went to 12, and then skips straight to 15. Everything about it is enthralling and horrifying all at once. I lost a lot of sleep thinking about this game.
Do yourself a favor and just sit down and play it straight through. Don't read anything else about it. Don't risk ruining the experience for yourself, because hot damn is it an experience. Everything after like the first 30 minutes is a game changing spoiler.
I can come up with about 11037 more reasons why this game is great, but I'll spare you my ramblings. Just... just play it.
*This is called comedic hyperbole. Please read my edits.
EDIT 1: In response to some of the comments on this review, let me expand my discussion on the anime a bit. The anime is a direct adaption of only the most essential elements of the plot of the original PSP game. The result is next to nothing as far as character development, and the suspense and thrill of solving the crimes is completely eliminated by the investigation/courtroom montages that sort of just... exposit, with little of interest otherwise. I have absolutely nothing against the adaption as its own work or even against anime in general. It's just that when compared to the extremely detailed characterization every single character gets in the game and the satisfaction of actually having to solve all the crimes yourself, the anime falls flat.
In short, the anime is definitely not a substitute for actually playing the game. I hope this helps!
EDIT 2: Well... yes, if you've watched the anime you'll have the plot spoiled for you. However, like I said, you still only know the gist of how each crime happened. You still have to actually do all the legwork to prove it, which is still a lot of fun in and of itself. At least I think so. Plus, there character events and bonus scenes that can't be seen by just watching the anime. So if you have any attatchment to the characters, then yes, I do think there is value in playing the game. If you just wanted the plot, well... you got it.Show moreShow less
44.6 hours at review351 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I have just finished this game and while it was entertaining enough to keep me going to the end, I'm moderately disappointed with the overall experience, especially considering all the praise it receives. I'll be listing some of my issues with the game, trying to make sure not to spoil anyone's experience. Keep in mind that this is a review of the first game as an entry isolated from the rest of the series:
- Protagonist is an annoying wet noodle, especially early on
- The other characters are generally portrayed as *really* dumb and unable to think for themselves, so the player (through the protagonist) must keep pointing obvious points as to keep the debates going, this really took me away from the fiction as a whole as it seemed like none of the characters could be trusted to act like people when it came to their reasoning
- Overall, some characters have really nonsensical motivations for doing things
- Debates can get a little aggravating with you trying to figure out how you're supposed to explain the thing you already know, also many cases of arguments that seem like they'd be relevant not being what the game wants you to point out right now
- Rhythm minigame is poorly executed overall
- You'll run into some logically unsound situations and arguments, the mysteries are hardly water-tight
- Game doesn't really take the player's intellect seriously, you'll often figure the twists out way before you're expected to and have to go through a looooot of dialogue until the characters catch up to you
- Game really slows down by the third act
- The resolution is really unsatisfying and poorly executed, definitely the low point of the entire experience
My overall recommendation is: If you're looking for a good point of entry into visual novels I'd recommend getting the Zero Escape or Phoenix Wright collections. If you've played both of those and want some more "mainstream" VNs before jumping into more traditional entries, this is not a terrible pick.Show moreShow less
30.7 hours at review56 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
God I want Junko to step on meShow moreShow less
46.4 hours at review298 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Tough game to review. Shame about the binary rating system.
If you're fine with all the Japanese storytelling clichés and archetypes; consider my 'not recommended' inverted, you'll likely be fine with it.
Still with me?
Here goes.
I have *no* idea who the target audience for this game is.
The plot is simple; You're the 13 ultimate something teenagers, and a hyper-advanced robot bear who speaks in a high pitched voice wants you to kill other teenagers in secret, and if they don't find out you absolutely murdered someone you get to go home free, but he'll kill EVERYONE else - but if they figure out it was you, he kills you in the most gruesome way he can imagine instead.
Yeah, you might need to re-read that a few times.
Now, since your disbelief is already suspended this far, you'll also have no problem believing that the other teenagers waste no time at all to get murdering, leaving you (for some reason) as the only capable investigator to go and find out 'whodunnit'.
And it was the whodunnit elements that got me interested and put this game on my radar.
I'm not much for the ... for lack of a better word .. Japaneseness of it all, but I figured I'd look past all that and look for the game underneath.
Oh boy. If the plot seems contrived, the gameplay makes even less sense.
The problem is that the game offers some cases that are really contrived and far-fetched and therefore hard to solve with just logic and deductive reasoning. For example, in one case, an innocent character actually sneaks into the crimescene and messes with it just to make things harder for you.
Disregard that you failing would get him killed too.
So, since the game isn't playing to your deductive skills - it instead makes everyone else bumbling idiots who can't tell a lie or remember an event for longer than three lines in. The game is then played by targetting the words they speak that contradict events.
But, because the game assumes you, the player, are also a bumbling idiot, they highlight the words you can target in bright gold.
If you then still don't get it (or just wanted to read the full dialogue before deciding), they'll throw a hint at you that makes getting it wrong just about impossible.
There's a bunch of variations on this, where sometimes you have to shoot letters to spell a word, or just rhytmically tap buttons without any pretense that thought is involved or present evidence the game won't let you miss (because the only way to advance is to find *all* the evidence).
So ... yeah. If you were hoping to put your grey matter to use in Dangonronpa, forget about it.
If you instead wanted to read a weird visual novel about a group of misfits killing each other to please a robot bear ...
This 'll be right up your alley.Show moreShow less
31.1 hours at review51 people found this helpful
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