Danganronpa 2x2 Brings Goodbye Despair to PC and Consoles With New Storyline in 2026

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is making a comeback successful the signifier of Danganronpa 2x2 for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.

Spike Chunsoft announced a remaster for its 2012 ocular caller sequel during today’s September 2025 Nintendo Direct. A trailer for the upgraded re-release reintroduces players to fan-favorite Hope’s Peak Academy students specified arsenic Gundham Tanaka, Nagito Komaeda, and Mahiru Koizumi, arsenic Monokuma traps them successful yet different twisted sidesplitting game.

Danganronpa 2x2 is expected to motorboat for PC and consoles successful North America and Europe sometime successful 2026. Spike Chunsoft says it volition see a “freshly revamped” mentation of the archetypal communicative script featured successful Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, including updated visuals successful an acquisition that volition “deliver a much beauteous and satisfying gameplay experience.”

The existent gully with Danganronpa 2x2 is the committedness of an additional, caller communicative for players to descend their teeth into. It’s unclear however precisely it volition rotation disconnected from the Goodbye Despair storyline fans person enjoyed for much than a decade, but it is astatine slightest confirmed to bring backmost the archetypal formed of characters.

“Danganronpa 2x2 includes a brand-new script based connected Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair,” Spike Chunsoft said successful a statement. “The mounting and formed of characters stay the same, but a definite incidental triggers a wholly antithetic concatenation of events with antithetic victims, culprits, and tricks. This caller script offers a measurement of contented connected par with the original.”

Danganronpa 2x2 comes to PC and consoles sometime adjacent year. While we hold for updates, you tin cheque retired everything announced during today’s September 2025 Nintendo Direct.

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