Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 39.4h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA@ GeForce@ GTX 460 or better, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was January 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 44).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 659 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 39.4 hours. Doing everything runs 98, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
74% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
164 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
interesting game, but probably my least favorite from the main 3. i love the characters in this one a lot and it has my second favorite cast, but it's the last chapter that really makes me not like this game as much. i know it already receives a lot of hate, but... i understand why??? i do really get what the story was trying to convey, but the ending just doesn't hit the same as all the other ones. other than that...
I'm seriously in love with this game. I loved the cast, I loved the scenarios, I loved the cases, I loved the music and I really REALLY loved the plot, INCLUDING the ending. I think this game is incredibly creative and innovative, the new mechanics and minigames are awesome, the cases are very original and complex, the trials feel very dynamic and the game is SO fun. Definitely my favorite Danganronpa. All the...
A completely unnecessary follow up to the original trilogy where they have bloated every aspect of the game and padded it out as much as possible. Class trials being 3-4 hours long is absolutely mental, and mostly consists of very basic points repeated ad nauseum. PC port notes: While the game runs mostly well like 1 and 2, V3 has a very annoying issue of regularly dropping inputs and not registering it at all which...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/567640/danganronpa-v3-killing-harmonyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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