Doki Doki Literature Club!

Rating:5 (1 votes)
Played:132 times
Developer:Team Salvato
Released:22 Sep, 2017
Platform:Browser, Windows
Technology:HTML5

Doki Doki Literature Club! is a visual novel that looks cute and light on the outside, but inside is a haunting psychological trick that combines romance, horror, and meta-narrative (i.e., the game is self-aware).

Doki Doki Literature Club! Game Story

Your cute neighbour drags you, a normal student, into an all-girls literature club. It seems like a simple school dating game, with dialogue options to flirt with girls, but...

Gradually, the atmosphere in the game becomes suffocating, strange and unstable. Unusual behaviour, blank stares, and distorted background music begin to appear. The game will break the "fourth wall," manipulate your own system and drag you into a subtle nightmare where you no longer believe in anything.

Doki Doki Literature Club! Gameplay

How to play: Mainly reading and choosing dialogue. But later on, the game changes the way you play it.

Every night, you choose 20 words to write a poem. Each word corresponds to a girl's taste: Natsuki likes adorable words, Yuri loves dark words, and Sayori leans towards emotions. Depending on which way you choose, you will be close to one and distant from the other.

The first few days of the game are quite peaceful—reading poems, chatting, and choosing responses. But the more you play, the more things... go wrong. The images are distorted, the dialogue repeats, the game crashes, and the characters start to behave strangely.

Later, you are no longer playing the game but have to go to the installation folder to delete the character file. That's right—if you don't delete a person yourself, you won't be able to continue.

Notable features

  • Deep character psychology: Each girl has a past, psychological problems, and things that are not easy to face.
  • Breaking the traditional game structure: What you see, hear, and choose will gradually become meaningless.
  • Manipulate the entire game file: Sometimes, you have to go into the game installation folder to solve the problem.
  • Characters know you're playing the game: And they'll talk to you, not the characters in the game—to you, really.

Doki Doki Literature Club! is a game worth playing if you want to experience unexpected psychological twists and explore the depths of loneliness and control. Prepare yourself for another chilling experience with To Put Your Childhood Sweetheart Into A Refrigerator.

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