Disaster Report 5

The goal is to escape the destroyed city, finding safe paths through collapsing buildings and dealing with panicked and fleeing people.

The game was to feature over 60 characters, the largest in series history. The player would have had to work with these people to escape.

The game takes place in Hisui City in the year 201X. It is July, the heart of summer, and the main character is visiting the city for a job interview. The city is suddenly hit with a major earthquake, which causes the bus they are riding on to crash and stranding them in the city.

The protagonist escapes from the wrecked bus and gets their bearings, meeting several residents of the city: Ms. Higa, a schoolteacher assigned to three highschool students who were caught in the earthquake, Tomoya, who was attacked by a "scary-looking man" and whom tasks the protagonist with retrieving a box from his locker in the Hisui City underground metro, Yayoi, a young woman who, like the protagonist, was caught in the earthquake while attending a job interview, and Mr. Kirishima, the president of the struggling IT company Vestola. After retrieving the item from Tomoya's locker, they rescue a young woman named Kanae and escape a pair of drunken thugs.

The game was originally being developed and published by Irem for the PlayStation 3, it would have supported 3D output and PlayStation Move. Initially, the game was planned for release on March 10, 2011, a day before the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but was pushed back to a Spring time frame. Chief producer, Kazuma Kujo said the reason for the delay was because the game could not be completed in time. The game was officially cancelled on March 14, 2011.

In December 2014, Kujo revealed that his new company, Granzella, had acquired the intellectual property of the Disaster Report series; they planned to formally announce the game in Q3/Q4 2015. The new game was eventually announced in November 2015 with the title Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories. It is being developed for PlayStation 4. Kujo has also stated the re-branded title started development from scratch.

The game received mixed reviews. On review aggregator Metacritic, all versions of the game received "mixed or average reviews". The Nintendo Switch version received an average score of 59 out of 100, the PC version 58 out of 100, and the PlayStation 4 version 51/100.

The game debuted at 3rd place in the top 20 games sold with 42,272 copies sold as of November 25, 2018.