Spike Chunsoft

 is a Japanese video game development and localization company specializing in role-playing video games, visual novels and adventure games. The company was founded in 1984 as Chunsoft Co., Ltd. and merged with Spike in 2012. It is owned by Dwango.
They created games such as the first five "Dragon Quest" installments and the "Mystery Dungeon" franchise as Chunsoft, and the "Conception" series as Spike Chunsoft. They also developed titles such as "The Portopia Serial Murder Case", the "Sound Novel" series (consisting of "Otogirisō", "Kamaitachi no Yoru", "Machi" and "") and the "Zero Escape" series as Chunsoft, and the "Danganronpa" franchise as Spike Chunsoft.
History.
Chunsoft.
Chunsoft was founded by Koichi Nakamura, a video game designer and programmer who had worked with Enix. The "Chun" in the company name is from the first kanji Naka (中) of the company founder name; Naka is read as "Chun" in Japanese Mahjong. In 2005, it was bought by Dwango and became a subsidiary of the company.
Before the project, Sega were helping Chunsoft in developing and releasing their games for the Dreamcast. From 2006 to 2008, Sega have made a collaboration with Chunsoft titled "SEGA x Chunsoft Project". Their goal was to provide support and sales for development funds and help port their games who were only purchasable in Japan at the time, such as the Nintendo DS remake of "Shiren the Wanderer" or "428: Shibuya Scramble".
Merger.
In 2012, Chunsoft merged with its sister company Spike and the new company would be called Spike Chunsoft.
Subsidiary.
In 2017, Spike Chunsoft established a North American subsidiary based in Long Beach, California to carry out localization and publishing of its own games, in addition to games by its sister company 5pb./Mages under a newly formed partnership. Their first game under the Mages partnership was the Microsoft Windows version of "Steins;Gate", taking over publishing of the game from Mages in 2018; they have since continued publishing further games in the "Science Adventure" series, including "Steins;Gate 0" and "Chaos;Child".
On July 16, 2020, NIS America announced that "Danganronpa" games on the Playstation Store will be removed. Spike Chunsoft subsequently announced on July 22, 2020 that they will take on publishing the "Danganronpa" series outside of Japan. Similarly, the Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows release of "Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate" would not be released by Aksys but by their subsidiary.
Titles.
Spike Chunsoft.
Published internationally by Spike Chunsoft, Inc..
This table lists video games published internationally by Spike Chunsoft's American subsidiary Spike Chunsoft, Inc. since its foundation on December 1, 2017. Outside of titles from Spike Chunsoft in Japan, the company publishes titles from Mages (which was also part of Spike Chunsoft's parent company Dwango until July 2019) and from other companies.