Danganronpa 2x2 wants an RTX 4070 and 32GB of RAM — for a visual novel

Danganronpa 2x2, the remake of the 2012 PSP visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, has published its PC specs ahead of its January 14, 2027 release date — and the recommended requirements have left fans baffled. The game was originally due this fall before Spike Chunsoft delayed it.

The minimum specs ask for 8GB of RAM, which is reasonable enough. The recommended specs, though, call for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 and 32GB of RAM. That's the kind of hardware you'd expect from an open-world game with dense physics simulation — not a visual novel where static backgrounds sit behind cutout character sprites and dialogue boxes. One player on X summed up the community mood: "32GB of RAM for a visual novel, ffs, AT MINIMUM Nagito has to get off the screen and give me a kiss on the mouth for all this."

The timing makes it worse. RAM prices have spiked hard recently — 32GB of DDR5-5600 memory that cost under $250 when Danganronpa 2x2 was first announced now runs closer to $1,250. There is some precedent for these numbers getting walked back: TT Games originally listed 32GB as recommended for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight earlier this year, then cut that requirement in half before launch. Spike Chunsoft still has time to do the same, since the game doesn't ship until January 2027.

Even a revised 16GB recommendation would feel steep for a game with no open world, no destructible environments, and no obvious technical justification visible in any footage released so far. Whether Danganronpa 2x2 is hiding something substantial under the hood or is simply heading toward launch as one of the worst-optimized visual novels ever shipped remains the game's biggest unanswered question.