So, you reluctantly join and everything is pretty innocent. Your childhood friend, Sayori, pressures you into joining the newly formed Literature Club with three other girls. This character is really just supposed to be a stand-in for you. You play as an average schoolboy who is into anime and video games and isn’t really interested in anything else. It is definitely a narrative you would not be able to reproduce outside of gaming.

It uses its medium to mess with the player and tell its story in a similar way to Nier: Automata or MGS2. And it’s a story that can only be told in the format of a video game. And finally, after playing it in the form of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, I can state it was all true.ĭoki Doki Literature Club is a wild, subversive, smart horror game masquerading as a cute dating sim. Over the years I would still hear about Doki Doki and its wild tonal shift mid-way. Doki Doki? A horror game? So, I downloaded it, I started it, I bounced off it quickly and never found the time to go back. What confused me more were the YouTube clickbait titles of ‘This is the SCARIEST game of the year’.

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