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Native name
  
株式会社スパイクチュンソフト

Headquarters
  
Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Number of employees
  
200 (2016)

Industry
  
Video game industry

Founded
  
2012

Parent organization
  
Dwango

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Romanized name
  
Kabushikigaisha Supaiku Chunsofuto

Type
  
Kabushiki gaishaSubsidiary

Key people
  
Koichi Nakamura (Chairman and CEO)Mitsutoshi Sakurai (President and CEO)

Products
  
Danganronpa seriesDragon Quest seriesMystery Dungeon seriesZero Escape series

Video games
  
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa Another Episode, One Piece: Burning Blood, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト, Hepburn: Kabushikigaisha Supaiku Chunsofuto) is a Japanese video game development and localization company specializing in role-playing video game and visual novels. The company was founded in 1984 as Chunsoft Co., Ltd and is the result of a 2012 merger with Spike. It is owned by Dwango.

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The company was founded by Koichi Nakamura, a video game designer and programmer who had clasped with Enix. The "Chun" in the company name, is from the company founder name's first kanji Naka (中), meanwhile Naka is read as "Chun" in Japanese Mahjong. Spike Chunsoft is the creator of the Mystery Dungeon series, the first five installments of the Dragon Quest series of role-playing video games, and the graphic adventure game series Sound Novels, Danganronpa, and Zero Escape.

Developed as Chunsoft

  • The Portopia Serial Murder Case (1983)
  • Dragon Quest (1986)
  • Dragon Quest II (1987)
  • Dragon Quest III (1988)
  • Dragon Quest IV (1990)
  • Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin (1991)
  • Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (1992)
  • Otogirisō (1992)
  • Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon (1993)
  • Kamaitachi no Yoru Advance (1994)
  • Banshee's Last Cry (1994)
  • Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (1995)
  • Machi: Unmei no Kousaten (1998)
  • Torneko: The Last Hope (1999)
  • Shiren the Wanderer 2
  • Shiren the Wanderer GB2 (2001)
  • Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 2 - Mystery Dungeon (Torneko: The Last Hope) (2001)
  • Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko no Daibōken 2 (2002)
  • Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3: Mystery Dungeon (2004)
  • The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon (2004)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (2005)
  • Homeland (2005)
  • Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (2005)
  • Shiren the Wanderer DS2 (2006)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (2007)
  • Imabikisō (2007)
  • 428: Shibuya Scramble (2007)
  • Shiren the Wanderer (2008)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness (2009)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Keep Going! Blazing Adventure Squad!, Let's Go! Stormy Adventure Squad!, and Go For It! Light Adventure Squad! (2009)
  • Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009)
  • Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate (2010)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (2010)
  • Kowa-Oto (2010)
  • Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel (2010)
  • Wii Play: Motion (2011)
  • Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (2012)

    • Developed as Spike Chunsoft

  • Conception: Ore no Kodomo o Undekure! (PlayStation Portable, 2012) (only published)
  • Kenka Banchō Bros. Tokyo Battle Royale (PlayStation Portable, 2012)
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, 2012)
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Android, iOS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, 2012)
  • Shiren the Wanderer 4 Plus: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel (Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, 2012)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (Nintendo 3DS, 2012)
  • Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars (Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, 2013)
  • StreetPass Battle / Warrior's Way (Nintendo 3DS, 2013)
  • Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (iOS, 2013)
  • Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains (Nintendo 3DS, 2013)
  • J-Stars Victory VS (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, 2014)
  • Fossil Fighters: Frontier (Nintendo 3DS, 2014)
  • Sekai Seifuku: Costume Fes. (PlayStation Vita, 2014)
  • Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (PlayStation Vita, 2014)
  • Danganronpa: Unlimited Battle (iOS, Android, 2015)
  • Kenka Bancho 6: Soul & Blood (Nintendo 3DS, 2015)
  • Ukiyo no Shishi (PlayStation 3, 2015)
  • Ukiyo no Roushi (PlayStation Vita, 2015)
  • Etrian Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo 3DS, 2015)
  • Shiren the Wanderer 5 Plus (PlayStation Vita, 2015)
  • J-Stars Victory VS++ (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, 2015)
  • Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, 2015)
  • Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo 3DS, 2015)
  • Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky (co-developed with Tri-Ace) (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, 2015)
  • Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS, 2016)
  • One Piece: Burning Blood (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, 2016)
  • Zero Time Dilemma (Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, 2016)
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, 2017)
  • Project Psync

    • Games localized for Japanese release

  • Hotline Miami (2012)
  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2012)
  • Saints Row: The Third (2012)
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012)
  • Dead Island: Riptide (2013)
  • Metro: Last Light (2013)
  • Terraria (2013)
  • Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (2013)
  • Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (2013)
  • CastleStorm (2015)
  • Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
  • Crypt of the NecroDancer (2016)

    • References

    Spike Chunsoft Wikipedia
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