Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 33.6h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.2 compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 71 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52) and Cube Escape: Paradox (free, scores 93).
The math says it holds its tier up to $41.47, and you are being asked for $19.99.
83 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 33.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 664 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
73% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 33.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
494 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 02:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Better than the first game in most aspects. A lot better thought out murders, better and improved trial mechanics and they feel more interactive and alive. Atmosphere - is basically the only thing that was better in the first game, it felt a lot more serious and eerie. From the weird setting to unsettling murder reveals and reactions. This time it just feels a lot more chill and not really creepy, as well as the...
not finished, but far better than the original, which is one of my favourite games. play it if you like twinks
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/413420/danganronpa-2-goodbye-despairReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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