Danganronpa 2.9: Welcome to Despair District

"Ah! Despair District! Such a nice place, you can check out any time you want but you can never leave!"

- Luce

Danganronpa 2.9: Welcome to Despair District is a visual noval murder mystery video game developed by Zeta Labs and published by Spike Chunsoft, making this the first Danganronpa game to not be made by Spike Chunsoft. It is a game set between the events of Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and Danganronpa 3. It maintains several of the previous games gameplay concepts as well adding a few of their own.

Premise
Chika Kasumi, the Ultimate Journalist, is sent to investigate a location that is related to the Worst Incident of Mankind, a place entitled Shinpi Street. As soon as she enters the street's limits, Chika falls unconscious. Upon waking up, she starts suffering from amnesia, only remembering her ultimate title and name. She meets up with a group of talented high schoolers and meets the "mayor" of the street, a tall and thin man dressed as a gentleman named Luce. Luce reveals that the he has renamed the street to Despair District and that he has put barriers everywhere around the district making it impossible to leave. Unless they can commit the perfect murder and not be found out during a Public Trial, they won't be able to leave the city.