The game got more than one million downloads three months after it was released. Reactions ReceptionĪfter the game was released, Doki Doki Literature Club! got a very devoted fanbase very quickly. The end credits come and Monika sings a song called "Your Reality". Monika comes back to delete Sayori and the game glitches. Sayori tells the player that she knows about Monika and how she is in a game. In the new game, Sayori, Yuri and Natsuki are alive, but Monika is gone. When this happens, the game glitches again, and restarts. To stop this, the player has to delete her character file. She continues talking for a long period of time. She reveals that she pushed Sayori and Yuri to kill themselves. She tells the player that she knows she is in a game and can change the character files. The game glitches again and it restarts again. Yuri soon stabs herself several times and dies, or Natsuki's neck cracks and she dies. Unusual events happen, like only being able to choose Monika's options. The player gets involved in the club again and gets closer to either Natsuki or Yuri. If Sayori is mentioned, the game glitches and she appears as a mix of all the other characters' appearances.
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When the player begins a new game, the game is very close to the first run, but Sayori is missing. The game shows a lot of glitches and it restarts. Sayori soon commits suicide by hanging herself. Near the end of the first act, Sayori tells the player that she has depression and loves the player. The player begins to get involved in the club and getting to know the girls better. The player's character is invited by his childhood friend, Sayori, to join the Literature Club. Text documents show up about the next scenes. At certain times special files appear in the game files. If the player decodes the character files, there are extra stories unlocked. The game has a lot of foreshadowing that tells the player certain things about the story. The game also makes the player view some of the files that the game uses to play. If certain words are picked, different parts of the story can be viewed. These words correspond to a certain girl. The game has a poetry minigame where the player chooses certain words. Sometimes, the player has to make decisions that change how the story goes. ĭoki Doki Literature Club! is a visual novel, so most of the game is the player reading the game's story. The expansion was later released to macOS on August 12, 2021.
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On June 30, 2021, Team Salvato and Serenity Forge released an expanded version of the original game, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, to Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. The game is free, but if you pay $10, you can receive the downloadable content. At first, Doki Doki Literature Club! was released on itch.io then released on Steam. Before creating this game, Salvato created modifications, or "mods", to Super Smash Bros. The creator of the game, Dan Salvato, was working on the game for close to two years. It is a game that breaks the fourth wall very often. At first, it looks like a light anime dating simulator, but it soon becomes a psychological horror game. The story involves a high school student that joins the school's Literature Club and the way the character interacts with its four female members. On 6 October 2017, it was released for Steam.
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It was released on 22 September 2017 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. Doki Doki Literature Club! is a visual novel that was created by Team Salvato.