Every Danganronpa game, ranked
All 2 Danganronpa games we hold, spanning 2010 to 2012: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 70,915 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (GamingPickz Score 8.0), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Danganronpa games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Danganronpa games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
8.0GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDanganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at a glance Released 2010 Studio Spike Player sentiment 96% positive of 38,287 Critics 82/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 5 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 96% shrinks to 95.9 on 38,287 reviews, then blends with the 82 critic aggregate, giving 8.0.
What the data supports- Small install at 5 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 96 against 82. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.8GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDanganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair at a glance Released 2012 Studio Spike Chunsoft Player sentiment 96% positive of 32,628 Critics 83/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 5 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 96% shrinks to 95.9 on 32,628 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.8.
What the data supports- Small install at 5 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 96 against 83. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Danganronpa game we can score is Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at 8.0. The lowest is Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair at 7.8, a 0.2-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Danganronpa entries on Steam:
- Playable: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Danganronpa games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
| PlayStation | 1 of 2 |
The Danganronpa series, game by game
Every Danganronpa game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2010
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger. (Steam)
Plot
See also: List of Danganronpa characters Danganronpa takes place at an elite high school named Hope's Peak Academy ( 希望ヶ峰学園 , Kibōgamine Gakuen ) , which accepts talented "Ultimate" students ( 超高校級 , chō-kōkō-kyū ; lit. Super High School Level) of the highest caliber in various fields each year. Makoto Naegi , a fairly optimistic but otherwise average student, is selected in a raffle and chosen to enroll into the academy as the "Ultimate Lucky Student". (Wikipedia)
Reception
Sales During its first week on sale in Japan, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc sold a total of 25,564 copies and was the eighth best-selling game of the week. After three months of sales, the game had sold over 85,000 copies, a number Sakurai labelled a success. In Japan, the game has sold a total of 258,250 copies on the PSP and is the best-selling Danganronpa game. (Wikipedia)
- 2012
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries. (Steam)
Plot
See also: List of Danganronpa characters In Goodbye Despair , players control the new protagonist Hajime Hinata , an amnesiac boy who has just become one of Hope's Peak Academy's "Ultimate" students alongside fifteen others, including the calm but mentally unstable lucky student Nagito Komaeda and the seemingly ordinary and quiet gamer Chiaki Nanami . The game is set on a remote tropical island called Jabberwock Island, where they have been marooned by… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical response Reception Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair received "generally favorable" reviews based on Metacritic reviews. Upon its release in North America, the game was met with praise for its plot. VideoGamer said " Danganronpa 2 tells a great story that is worthy of your time" while GameSpot was "hooked from the get-go, enthralled by every surprise turn taken by the story, stunned by every unexpected character revelation, devastated at every… (Wikipedia)
Danganronpa, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Danganronpa vs other series
How Danganronpa stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Danganronpa games are there?
We hold 2 Danganronpa games in the catalogue, released between 2010 and 2012. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Danganronpa game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc rates highest at 8.0. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Danganronpa games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2010 to 2012. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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