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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the first game in Spike Chunsoft's acclaimed horror series of visual novels, is coming to Steam in February.The peculiar series follows a group of high school students who are imprisoned by a sadistic bear named Monokuma who forces the teenagers to kill each other. Part Hunger Games, part Persona, and part Saw, the horror series was considered a commercial success by European and North American publisher NIS America that claimed the first two entries in the franchise shifted a combined total of over 200k units in the west. Not bad for a Vita-exclusive title over here.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc originally launched as a PSP game in Japan where it later received iOS and Android ports. It didn't make its way west until 2014 after the Vita version came out. Since then it's been succeeded by sequel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, and the series' third main entry, New Danganronpa V3, is on the docket for a Japanese release this year. No Western release has been confirmed for the upcoming entry, but it seems very likely given the series' success in English-speaking territories.
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