Death Note: Successors to L

Matches take place on grid based stage boards instead of the first game's phase structure. As Kira, one character carries the notebook and can drop a Death Note Space that kills any investigator who steps on it within two turns before it decays into a harmless scrap of paper; Kira characters can also destroy L's surveillance cameras and swap disguises with each other to steer investigators toward the wrong suspect. As L, the player commands a squad of investigators, sized differently per stage, equipped with tools for gathering evidence. Kira wins by wiping out the investigators, running out the clock, or reaching the stage's marked goal tiles; L wins by arresting whichever Kira character is holding the notebook or by reaching the equivalent goal tiles.

The stage list works through the early manga roughly in order, starting with Light's discovery of the Death Note and ending at the Yellow Box Warehouse confrontation, so the campaign functions as a scenario by scenario retelling rather than an original spinoff plot.

Konami again developed and published the game, releasing it exclusively in Japan for the Nintendo DS on July 12, 2007. Like Kira Game before it, Successors to L never left Japan.