- Primary Subject: Danganronpa 4
- Key Update: Fans are still holding out hope for a fourth mainline installment to resolve the massive narrative cliffhangers left by both Goodbye Despair and Killing Harmony.
- Status: Opinion / Franchise Discussion
- Last Verified: July 6, 2026
- Quick Answer: While Spike Chunsoft hasn't announced Danganronpa 4, unresolved cliffhangers regarding V3's audition tapes and the Future Foundation leave plenty of room for a sequel.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony came out in 2017, and yet I'm still begging and pleading for a fourth addition to the franchise.
Danganronpa is one of my all-time favorite video game series. It's a series that explores the conflict between hope and despair, with talented students forced to kill each other (and avoid being caught in a trial) to escape the hell they are trapped in.
While the third game could be considered a definitive ending to the series, I am still hoping for a fourth game. And here's why.
Spike Chunsoft, Please Make Danganronpa 4
Take note that if you haven't played the second and third Danganronpa games, I'll be spoiling the endings, so read on with discretion.
In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Tsumugi claims that every student involved volunteered for the killing games. They were initially regular people who auditioned to take part in "Danganronpa 53 (V3)," the 53rd season of a lethal reality show that is based on the Danganronpa media franchise. To be part of the show, they had their memories wiped and personalities overwritten with The Flashback Light.
However, this is never proven to be true. During the ending, the survivors consider the possibility Tsumugi was lying about their past selves volunteering for the show before departing for the real world.
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This ending was, well, frustrating. I had gotten attached to several of the characters, and now we're left unsure if their whole persona was fake and written for the show or if they actually are Ultimate students who were kidnapped. The so-called audition tapes are likely fake since, in the prologue, the characters directly remember being kidnapped before the Flashback Light was used.
So what's reality? Is there actually a TV program like The Truman Show that controls people's lives, and humanity is just sitting by watching? The fourth game can dissect this further - maybe the survivors depart for the real world to find the truth. Were they kidnapped? Is there a TV producer they need to hunt down - and are being stopped from doing?
Now, I know that Danganronpa director Kazutaka Kodaka has stated V3 is not truly "canon." It's set in a world where the previous Danganronpa games are fiction and is separate from the past two games. Okay, fine.
But there's still content from the second game that can spur a fourth entry.
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In the ending of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, it's discovered that this killing game was actually a virtual reality simulation called the Neo World Program. All the students involved are "Remnants of Despair," or former terrorists who followed Junko Enoshima and caused a global apocalypse.
At the end of the game, the program is shut down. The students awake with partial amnesia but are determined to atone for their pasts as Ultimate Despairs.
I'd like to see a fourth game where these students join the Future Foundation. I want to see them grapple with their past lives as terrorists and what they've learned (and remember) from the Neo World Program. I want to see how they'd react if Despair tries to poison humanity again, with some form of Junko looming in the background. And I'd want to see the members of the Future Foundation thrust into another killing game.
Both games ended on a cliffhanger. We never know what happens to the characters, and we never know if Despair is fully eradicated. Sure, we're getting Danganronpa 2x2 this year, but it's just additional content for Danganronpa 2 and not a full sequel to the game.
There's so much of the IP to play with, and all three games have been majorly successful. Spike Chunsoft, there's still time - if you release a fourth Danganronpa, you have a player in me.
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