Meta:Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd
| Spike Chunsoft 株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト | |
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| The company's logo, since 2012. | |
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| Type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Planning • development • sales and operation of game content |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | |
| Location | Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Mitsutoshi Sakurai (President) Hiroyuki Kaneko (Director) Tatsuro Suzuki (Director) Sadahiro Hayashi (Auditor) Seiichiro Nagahata (Executive Officer) Yasuhiro Iizuka (Executive Officer) Yukida Koji (Executive Officer) Norihiro Takahashi (Executive Officer) |
| Revenue | ¥480.9 million |
| Operating income | ¥2.7 billion (2025)[1] |
| Net income | ¥601.1 million (2025)[1] |
| Total asset | ¥5.7 billion (2025)[1] |
| # of employees | 225 (2022) |
| Owner | Kadokawa Corporation |
| Parent | Dwango |
| Subsidiary | Spike Chunsoft, Inc. 
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| Website | Official website (Japan) Official website (USA) |
| Status | Active |
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト) is a Japanese video game development and localization company specializing in role-playing video games, visual novels, and adventure games. The company is the result of the merging of two older companies, Chunsoft and Spike, which happened in 2012.
History
Since the merging, the company kept working on new IPs with key people who are, or were part of one of the two companies before making their own company, such as the AI: The Somnium Files series (2019), and Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (2023). Simultaneously, they were also able to work on their existing franchises, made before the merging.
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. The company is named Spike Chunsoft, Inc. 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 would be removed. Spike Chunsoft subsequently announced on July 22, 2020 that they were taking on publishing the Danganronpa series outside of Japan.[2] Similarly, the Nintendo Switch and Steam release of 
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Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate (2020) were not published by Aksys Games but by their subsidiary. This let to a delisting of games not published by Spike Chunsoft but developed by them later on, such as the western Vita release of 
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate who was delisted from the PlayStation Store in 2023.[3] By the middle of 2021, the company's income increased significantly thanks to the success of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX,[4] then became stable with the help of / Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island and Master Detective Archives: Rain Code by 2024.[5]
Works in the Mystery Dungeon Franchise
Profits By Year
- March 2013: 282 million yen (12.1 times higher than the previous year) (
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity said to have contributed)[6] - March 2014: 537 million yen (increased by 90%)[7]
- March 2015: ???
- March 2016: 176 million yen[8]
- March 2017: 455 million yen (increased by 158%)[9]
- March 2018: 422 million yen (down 7.2% on the previous fiscal year)[10]
- March 2019: 446 million yen (up 5.7% on the previous year)[11]
- March 2020: 237 million yen (down 46.8% on the previous fiscal year)[12]
- March 2021: 672 million yen (183% increase) ( Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX said to have contributed)[13]
- March 2022: 575 million yen (14% fall in final profit)[14]
- March 2023: 764 million yen (33% increase)[15]
- March 2024: 793 million yen (3.8% increase) (/ Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island said to have contributed)[16]
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See Also
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- Article on Wikipedia.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://gamebiz.jp/news/409282
- ↑ https://www.siliconera.com/spike-chunsoft-will-handle-older-danganronpa-game-publishing-duties/ Spike Chunsoft Will Handle Older Danganronpa Game Publishing Duties
- ↑ https://delistedgames.com/shiren-the-wanderer-the-tower-of-fortune-and-the-dice-of-fate/ Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/300402 スパイク・チュンソフト、21年3月期の決算は最終利益が183％増の6億7200万円…『ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 救助隊DX』が貢献
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/389371
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/125391
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/138379
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/165132
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/188140
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/215338
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/243515
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/270776
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/300402
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/353089
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/371970
- ↑ https://gamebiz.jp/news/389371