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win the Game is a Fan Fiction crossover story based off of Battle Royale and Survival of the Fittest, created and written by FactuallyCYOA. Similarly to the story 72 Hours, the series blends the line of the original and fanfiction, focusing around a similar setting with a new set of students as they are selected for "the program".

The premise of the program is simple; take a class of high school students who have known one another for a good portion of their lives, throw them onto an isolated island with no means of contacting civilization, give all of them randomly selected weapons, and tell them that they have exactly three days to kill one another until there is only one student left, otherwise, they would all die instead. Add in the fact that the map gradually becomes smaller and smaller due to danger zones being added that would automatically detonate the collars of anybody who walks into them, and you have possibly the most dangerous game any of these children will ever face on your hands. Actual reasoning behind why these students have been forced into this game is ambiguous at best, but regardless of that, they're stuck in this game, and if they want to survive, they might just have to kill those around them.

The twist this time? These students are from Hope's Peak Academy, the latest crop of "Ultimate students", particularly gifted in one or more unique talents scouted out by the school itself, with graduation from its ranks meaning guaranteed success in life. For many years, the students of Hope's Peak thought themselves immune from the program due to the school's status as a government-funded institution. Unfortunately, this false sense of protection is obliterated when, under thoughts of the class picking up anti-government rheteroic, they are abruptly dropped into the Program on the last day of classes. And now, if they want to go home, they'll have to kill their classmates, their fellow ultimates, and rob the world of the hope they were supposed to inspire.

The story updates on a periodic basis semi-consistently every other day. If you manage to catch chapters live as they go up, you're directly able to influence what happens next by voting on the decisions the characters make at the end of each chapter. The current version of the story can be found here.

    List of Students 

Male Students

  • Male Student #1, Kiyotaka Ishimaru
  • Male Student #2, Mondo Owada
  • Male Student #3, [[TBA Kaito Momota]]
  • Male Student #4, [[TBA Kiibo Idabashi]]
  • Male Student #5, Yasuhiro Hagakure
  • Male Student #6, [[TBA Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu]]
  • Male Student #7, [[TBA Rantaro Amami]]
  • Male Student #8, [[TBA Ryoma Hoshi]]
  • Male Student #9, [[TBA Kazuichi Soda]]
  • Male Student #10, [[TBA Shuichi Saihara]]
  • Male Student #11, [[TBA Ryota Mitarai]]
  • Male Student #12, [[TBA Teruteru Hanamura]]
  • Male Student #13, Chihiro Fujisaki
  • Male Student #14, Kokichi Oma
  • Male Student #15, Leon Kuwata
  • Male Student #16, Byakuya Togami
  • Male Student #17, Nagito Komaeda
  • Male Student #18, Makoto Naegi
  • Male Student #19, [[TBA Nekomaru Nidai]]
  • Male Student #20, [[TBA Korekiyo Shinguji]]
  • Male Student #21, [[TBA Gonta Gokuhara]]
  • Male Student #22, Hifumi Yamada
  • Male Student #23, [[TBA Gundham Tanaka]]
  • Male Student #24, Hajime Hinata

Female Students

  • Female Student #1, Tsumugi Shirogane
  • Female Student #2, [[TBA Aoi Asahina]]
  • Female Student #3, [[TBA Chiaki Nanami]]
  • Female Student #4, Miu Iruma
  • Female Student #5, [[TBA Mahiru Koizumi]]
  • Female Student #6, Toko Fukawa
  • Female Student #7, [[TBA Kaede Akamatsu]]
  • Female Student #8, Peko Pekoyama
  • Female Student #9, [[TBA Himiko Yumeno]]
  • Female Student #10, Junko Enoshima
  • Female Student #11, [[TBA Mikan Tsumiki]]
  • Female Student #12, [[TBA Tenko Chabashira]]
  • Female Student #13, [[TBA Sakura Ogami]]
  • Female Student #14, [[TBA Sonia Nevermind]]
  • Female Student #15, [[TBA Kirumi Tojo]]
  • Female Student #16, [[TBA Angie Yonaga]]
  • Female Student #17, [[TBA Hiyoko Saionji]]
  • Female Student #18, Kyoko Kirigiri
  • Female Student #19, [[TBA Ibuki Mioda]]
  • Female Student #20, [[TBA Taeko Yasuhiro (Celestia Ludenberg)]]
  • Female Student #21, [[TBA Akane Owari]]
  • Female Student #22, [[TBA Maki Harukawa]]
  • Female Student #23, [[TBA Sayaka Maizono]]
  • Female Student #24, [[TBA Mukuro Ikusaba]]

Tropes that apply to Win The Game include:

  • Adaptational Modesty: All the students in the story are wearing their school uniforms during the game.
  • Adapted Out: Everything related to the Tragedy is entirely absent here, due to the universe instead being set in the one presented in Battle Royale, and thus Junko Enoshima not having substantial enough influence or power of her own merits to cause such a widespread catastrophe.
  • All There in the Manual: Most of the student profiles end up revealing more about the classmates who don't have as much screentime or development, supplying enough to make even the most potentially minor character seem more complex.
  • Anyone Can Die: Considering how the game works, it makes more than enough sense that at any moment, one of the students could ultimately be killed off, eliminating them from the game and thus limiting the pool of students more and more. In fact, by the rules of the game, it'll ultimately end with there only being one student left standing.
  • A-Team Firing: Due to most of the class lacking any kind of experience with firearms, those who have them tend to not aim as much and mostly just shoot at the others with reckless abandon. This usually bites them in the ass afterward.
  • Big Bad: Above the students, Kazuo Tengan and the government itself stands out as the true main antagonist, being in charge of making sure the kids kill each other.
  • Central Theme: The violent horrors of the situation, the tragedy of everything occurring, and how morals can so easily be altered in times of great stress. There's also a consistent theme of dehumanization under stress.
  • Character Death: Spoilers below for this trope.
    • Teruteru Hanamura has his pistol ripped from his grip and is shot through the head with it by Peko Pekoyama.
  • Children Forced to Kill: The only way to survive the game is to be the last one standing, forcing much of the class to have to turn on each other if they want any chance of surviving.
  • Crapsack World: While perhaps nowhere near as bad as the canon Danganronpa franchise in regard to the lack of any sort of world-ending tragedy, on a yearly basis students in Japan are still being forced to kill each other.
  • Deadly Game: One where students must kill their peers if they want any chance of going home.
  • Deserted Island: The competition takes place on a deserted island for its duration. Though, said island also shows signs of potentially having had people living there long before the game started.
  • Everyone Is Armed: Before the game, every student was given a randomly selected weapon, that can be anything from a useful tool like a kevlar vest to a dangerous weapon like a machine gun, or something completely useless like a paper fan.
  • Explosive Leash: Every student has had a bizarre metal collar placed around their necks, that'll explode if the student finds themselves crossing into any of the marked danger zones across the island.
  • Gotta Kill Them All: The prime objective of the game; 48 students are placed onto an island, and if they want to leave, only one of them can be left standing.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: All the students in the game (sans Hajime Hinata, who comes from the Reserve Course and thus only truly knows Chiaki Nanami) have known each other for a long while by the start of the story, and many of them are close friends. And ultimately, this is exactly why it's such a disturbing sight to see them having to kill one another just so they can escape the island and live their lives again.
  • Leave No Survivors: You can only win the game if you are the last survivor, at least if the game is played how it's intended.
  • Morality Kitchen Sink: All the students react to the Program and its rules in a variety of ways due to differing levels of morality.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Most of the people playing the game clearly aren't psychotic killers outside the game, as they're simply doing what they have to in order to survive.
  • Your Head A-Splode: If someone tries to leave the island, the collar that they are wearing explodes, along with their head. Ditto for trying to remove the collar, or lingering in a danger zone. Also, if 24 hours pass with nobody being killed, everyone's collars will go simultaneously.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Among the students, Hanamura died during the first few hours of the three-day game.

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