

The higher the card rarity of the character you are playing as, the more significant their stats will be boosted during board game evets.

The player has 50 days (50 turns) to navigate the Jabberwock Island camp map, encountering other characters, raising their character's abilities, learning skills or obtaining equipment based on which tiles they land on on the board.

The player unlocks these characters by earning cards via a gacha system. The player can play as any main character from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - or, new to this new installment - Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls.Like it's predecessor UTDP, the game features three main modes which work in a cyclical system: The game features 60 characters and over 1,000 different character events. Danganronpa S features new sets of sprites featuring the characters in beachwear, new CGs, and new encounters not featured in the original board game.

Danganronpa S is set in an alternate universe in which characters from all four games are able to interact as peers, in a non-killing peaceful environment based on Jabberwock Island, the tropical location of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp is an expanded, stand-alone installment of the board game minigame Ultimate Talent Development Plan (UTDP) which previously featured as post-game bonus content in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
