Doki Doki Literature Club Fan Pack $9.99 Add all DLC to Cart. About This Game Hi, Monika here! Welcome to the Literature Club! It's always been a dream of mine to make something special out of the things I love. Now that you're a club member, you can help me make that dream come true in this cute game! Every day is full of chit-chat and fun. Doki Doki Literature Club uses many of these same familiar concepts, but not in the way you’d expect, and that’s mostly thanks to its breakdown of the fourth wall. Known as “metafiction.

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During the fall season, I spend a lot of time searching for fresh scares. I’m immune to haunted houses and horror movies, because neither one force me out of my comfort zone. I know that movies will progress without my input; even if I’m shrinking back a bit in my seat, it’ll keep moving, and I can live out the full experience.

As for haunted houses, with the exception of a few “intensified” experiences, ghouls can’t touch me, and the scares are predictable. I can round a corner and, well, gosh! It’s a dude in a costume and usually some pretty cool makeup.I often feel the same sense of ease when playing horror video games. Gore doesn’t irk me, and monsters are so yesterday. I've already seen my fair share of Let's Plays without feeling much in my gut. Like I do with haunted houses and horror films, I always know that none of the scares are real.But a romantic visual novel, of all things, petrified me recently — just by completely subverting my expectations. It exploited my confidence in the visual novel genre and turned that into a twisted game of its own.

It taught my nightmares new tricks.(Some light spoilers follow below; here’s your spoiler warning.)Although it looks like a dating sim, is a free-to-play, psychological horror game, produced by indie studio Team Salvato. Since its release, the game has earned a reputation as an innovative scare.

It’s a slow burn that begins with you and group of cute girls who must prove that their literature club is worth becoming an official school organization. Of course, your protagonist is hoping to forge new bonds with some of them along the way. The game encourages you to pick a girl to write a poem for, and depending on your choices, you may draw closer to the club’s charming, sweet members.

A typical scene from early on in Doki Doki Literature Club. Team SalvatoEventually, true to the game’s advertised content warnings (which you should take seriously, by the way), Doki Doki Literature Club leads you down a dark path, leading to the shocking and emotional death of one character.

But in the same moment that it rips your heart open, the game instantly takes a much more unusual twist.After this initial playthrough ends and the main menu restarts, the dead character’s image is pixelated and warped, as if her death affected the game client itself. The save files become inaccessible, forcing the player into a new game. If and when the player moves ahead to begin this new file, the game seems to react at any hint of this former character, and the client loudly glitches and morphs until it seems satisfied with its outcome.Soon into the next run-through, the client repeatedly takes control of itself, speeding through text and tacking on unusual images to create grotesque jump scares. But the reality of a sentient game client becomes nightmare fuel on its own.To make matters worse, in the moment of the character’s death, keen eyes will notice that the game directs the player outside of the client by naming a specific game file, alluding to an outside force changing the game’s universe.

It becomes a terrifying mystery, weaving in and out between the in-game plot and the game files’ cryptic implications: What happened to Doki Doki Literature Club?As I crawled into this “second run,” I wasn’t just horrified; I was mentally trapped in the game's world and its antics. But I still wanted to dive back in, and I spent time with myself to understand what I had to overcome in order to continue the game. In the process, I realized how Doki Doki Literature Club utilizes an underrated aspect of the horror experience: control, or the lack thereof.On a basic level, the fear of fear (the anticipation, in a word) is what makes horror as a genre so difficult for many people.

In interactive media, you’re especially aware of how you’re prompting the horrors by progressing through the work. Worse, a game can mask the world around you in highly efficient ways, bringing down your guard before a good scare.

You can start crawling into a space before getting dragged out, or you can open a door that seemed safe before and encounter a new monster. The point of many games becomes, then, that fear often makes you lose control, and just as often, loss of control makes you lose the game. The game looks like your typical dating sim. Team SalvatoThe “action-adventure horror house” is an effective and proven genre, with tactics such as jump-scares, claustrophobic encounters and high-adrenaline chases that work despite their tired use. Developers have learned how to capture the traditional horror atmosphere and drive tension in such an efficient way that even the aforementioned classic methods are amplified in these settings.Doki Doki Literature Club uses many of these same familiar concepts, but not in the way you’d expect, and that’s mostly thanks to its breakdown of the fourth wall. Known as “metafiction,” this genre of work is explicitly designed to restructure the dynamic between the work and the person interacting with it. In this case, it almost entirely removes control from the player.It’s worth noting that metafiction already has huge potential in horror games, because of their inherent nature of directly interacting with the player.

This isn’t supposed to happen in a video game, right? The window isn’t supposed to exit, that file wasn’t there before, is that character addressing me? It creeps into and mocks our imagination and ideas of what that game is supposed to be, and that quickly gets under players’ skins. Much like horror, a primary theme is control.As a work of horrific metafiction, Doki Doki Literature Club quite literally overwrites that control, taking the tropes of metafiction, horror and visual novel genres and amping them up a few notches. It builds moments based on what is assumed to be your understanding of the genre’s tropes and the fundamentals of interactive media.

There are ominous text files appearing out of nowhere; a “bonus poem” unlocked by the player in this new run-through can either be a sweet “I love you” or a dark regret of our former character. “Scenes” I expected to be cute are overlaid with static and blacked-out eyes, and characters sometimes zoom in with uncomfortable closeness. The game knew that I knew this wasn't normal, and it used that as a tool to make me uneasy. Team SalvatoMore importantly, it kills a character, then explicitly prevents you from doing anything about it. I expected to return to your save file to rescue her or maybe date another girl, but I was not allowed to. She was gone. When the game restarts, it constantly mocked my decisions and regrets.

I wasn't given any idea of how fix the universe, short of a hard reset on the game altogether — which would only bring me back to square one.In sum, this is what’s horrifying about Doki Doki Literature Club: You, as a player and a character within the game’s world, are helpless.As I dug into the game’s newly-warped world, extra poems and the suddenly-appearing game files, my grasp of the game slipped further. The quest to discovering the game’s secrets becomes a paradox, because as much as I wanted to know more, the process untangles the universe further and further. And, when that realization sunk in, I became less sure what the goal was. All I could do was move forward and find some light at the end of the tunnel. (Well, hopefully.)Team Salvato has unearthed a new way of terrifying us by ripping apart our expectations of how interactive media should work. Doki Doki Literature Club is a game that played me, and somehow, I'm content to let it take control.

Doki Doki Literature Club! Is a -based visual novel by Team Salvato, led by Dan Salvato (who was also a developer of and a competitive player of both Melee and Project M).are a member of the literature club, along with four cute girls. In each chapter, you will, which the girls will comment on and compare to previous poems,.The club members are:. Sayori: She's your, and is the one who initially gets you to join the club. Natsuki: Like you, she enjoys reading manga. Yuri: Currently she's into.

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Due to the nature of the game,. The game is free to play and rather short, so it is strongly recommended that you download and play it before continuing further.yes, it's one of games.Not to be confused with,. And heaven help you if you confuse it withThe game contains examples of following tropes:.: Downplayed with Natsuki's father, at least in Act 1 where he just appears to be a somewhat absent, but still stern figure who seemingly disapproves of his daughter's 'immature' manga-collecting hobby and apparently worries about her eating habits (something which might be well-intended, but obviously just serves to make Natsuki's psychological issues worse). It is then played straight in Act 2, where he turns outright neglectful and psychically abusive, which is implied to be a result of Monika tampering with him.: The subject of depression is hardly one you'd expect to directly come up in a romantic visual novel at all. It gets worse when Sayori hangs herself, leaving the player horrified they couldn't prevent it.: There isn't a single adult in sight.

There is mention of Natsuki's father, but he is actually a contributing factor for Natsuki's problems, especially in Act 2, where Monika changes her father from just being stern and mildly critical to flat out physically and emotionally abusive.: After everything, you might be glad Monika is gone, but after Sayori takes over in the normal ending, she's the one to save you. In some cases, you may want to delete your save data to start the game completely over. To do this, navigate to the game folder and delete the file named firstrun. The next time you start the game, you will be asked to delete your save data. Select Yes, delete my existing data. The game will then start from the beginning.:. After Yuri stabs herself in Act 2, the player character is stuck staring at her decomposing corpse over the entire weekend, at least until Natsuki shows up Monday morning.

Monika is visibly shocked that she accidentally left the player in this state. Also Monika herself. As she explains (and alludes to in one of her poems), when the game isn't running she enters a painful state of being assaulted by lights and sounds that make it impossible for her to think and cause her to lose all sense of time. It's also implied Yuri and Natsuki are aware their personalities are changing somehow and something's not right, but they don't know or how to stop it. Sayori's final poem — consisting almost entirely of repeated demands that someone get out of her head — implies that she may be aware of it as well.:. Natsuki's personality sometimes causes her to lapse into being barely capable of forming sentences, instead spewing forth solitary pronouns and interjections, all the while looking like she's about to explode in frustration.

If you write your first poem of Act 2 for her, her towards Monika while looking for the missing manga volume is also presented to look this way, although later suggest it might have been. Or, you know, whatever the equivalent of a typo is in the medium she used to edit the game. Natsuki: fucking Monikammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Another mild example occurs later in the game: Monika's note in the game files where she expresses frustration at being unable to drive the player away from Natsuki and Yuri by them is named 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'. It also starts with 'I hate this. I CAN'T DO ANYTHING.: If you choose to have the player character confess love for Sayori, he says that he can't understand what she's going through, but he wants to take on her burden, share it with her, and help her with it in any way he can. Then he asks her out to the festival. Sayori is touched and hugs him, but she asks why she still feels miserable.: The game is completely American-developed, but it would be easy to mistake it for a real Japanese Visual Novel. This is by Monika during her endless talk with the player in Act 3. Monika: By the way, there's something that's been bothering me.

You know how this takes place in Japan? Well.I assume you knew that, right? Or at least decided it probably does? I don't think you're actually told at any point where this takes place.

I mean, Not to mention. It feels like everything is just there because it needs to be, and the actual setting is an afterthought. It's kind of giving me an identity crisis.: If you load a save from a previous day, the game lets you fast-forward through dialogue you've already seen by either clicking 'Skip' or holding down a key. The skip stops automatically when you reach dialogue that you haven't seen yet.

The game also lets you skip through a part of Yuri's event in Act 2 after she stabs herself to death, which features nothing but string after string of broken font characters meant to last two full days in-story. This works even if the player hasn't seen that part of the game yet.:. 'Monika.' And 'Just Monika.' Get said as full sentences a lot in the late game. Their significance is revealed in the third act. 'Happy thoughts' tends to be associated with Sayori, who covers up her suicidal tendencies with a appearance.

Another expression that shows up quite frequently is '.inside my/your/her head'. It usually refers to Sayori or Yuri and the fact that there is more to them than they let on. More specifically, their extreme self-consciousness, mental health issues, and how much harder it has become for them to control these ever since the joined the club. 'Can you hear me?'

Is repeated several times throughout the game, usually whenever Monika speaks directly to the player. Going through the game files gives us 'the Third Eye', which is either to Project Libitina, a hint towards a, or both.

It's repeated a few times in the game proper, too.: During act 2, one of the glitches of the game is replacing certain facial features of the girls with more photorealistic versions to uncanny effect (the most common version being Yuri getting photorealistic eyes that actually move and look around on her portrait.).: The game never sheds its art style, which makes scenes like Sayori and Yuri's suicides even more jarring.: Monika, the one who causes the death of the other club members and is the cause of almost everything that goes wrong in the game. While it's not until a while into the second act that she becomes clearly evil, she does show shades of unpleasantness even during the first.

Reaching the reveals that it's the game itself that corrupts whoever becomes President of the Literature Club to both realize they're stuck in a game and fall in love with the player.: When discussing one of her poems, Sayori mentions that she likes these. And if one saves and reloads to get all the CGs before Sayori hangs herself, a different ending occurs.

Most of it is the same as what happens in the Downer Ending below, but instead of realizing what Monika did, Sayori is instead touched by what the player did to spend time with everyone. Lamenting how she has nothing to give in return, she only asks that you come and visit again. The CGs during the credits are in color this time, and while the game's script is deleted, the character files remain. Instead of Monika's note disbanding the club, you get a note from Dan Salvato thanking you for playing.: The song that plays during Sayori's suicide is called 'Sayo-Nara'.: Eyes. Both versions of 'Hole in the Wall' compare the experience of becoming meta-aware to being blinded. Yuri's book has an eye on the cover.

Several of the scares in Act II involve in some form or another. And 'third eye' is.: Whenever the characters start acting particularly off-script, their text gains a huge black outline, indicating that something isn't quite right. Later parts of the game strongly hint that this might in fact be Monika directly putting words into their mouths against their will.:. Monika tells the protagonist to make sure to save at important decisions, then wonders who she's talking to. If the player aims their poetry for Natsuki, then she'll accuse the player of cheating, but then jokes about it. There are also some parts of the game that put focus on manipulating your computer unit or the game's files, (said game files are ):. Various image and text files are created as the player progresses through Act 2, but are deleted afterwards during Act 3.

During the end of Act 1, the game mentions the 'traceback.txt' file which contains a trace of errors, and a note written in the first person. When you look into the game files, the traceback.txt is actually created, with a timestamp of when you actually viewed that scene in-game. If the players wish to start over from scratch, all they need to do is delete a single file in the game folder. Because in some parts of the game, the main menu becomes inaccessible, or the game becomes 'unplayable' due to a dialog box instructing you to re-install the game. At one point in Act 3, Monika is aware if the game is being recorded, or is played on the Steam version. Instead of mentioning your inputted name, she mentions the username of the currently logged-in OS profile.

During the said Act, if you try to skip Monika's dialog, she will call you out for it, and promptly disable the feature. Also, the main menu, saving, and loading features will be pre-emptively disabled.

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(when trying to skip text on Act 3) Monika: Are you trying to fast-forward? I'm not boring you, am I? / Well, there's nothing to fast-forward to. / Here, I'll go ahead and turn it off for you.:. In Act 1, when choosing who to go with for festival preparations, picking Monika or Sayori will make Natsuki and Yuri loudly object, and railroad you towards either of them.

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In Act 2, when given a choice between the girls, the cursor starts to gravitate towards Monika. You can select a different option by using the arrow keys. After you select it the choice will be replaced with a list all saying 'Monika'.

Happens to Natsuki in Act 2. Monika throws her a protein bar and Natsuki complains about not wanting it while forcefully pushing it into her own mouth. During Yuri's event at the end of Act 2, regardless of whether the player answers 'Yes' or 'No,' Yuri's reaction is exactly the same. She ends up and kills herself with a chef's knife. On the third day of Act 2, you are forced to spend time with Yuri, even if you chose words that appeal to Natsuki. If your first two poems appeal to Natsuki, she will be very vocal about feeling abandoned and glitch heavily whenever she appears.

In Act 3, all the 'choices' Monika gives the player are one-option only, such as her question if you'll go out with her giving the player literally no other choice but to answer 'Yes'. Also in Act 3 Monika disables skipping. The game up until then allows skipping by checking 'Skip Unseen Text'. But in Act 3, she forces the player to read with no chance of skipping or even making the text all appear at once.:.

Depression. This isn't a game where I can reset and try something else.'

.: Subverted. The trailer never even suggests there's something wrong with the game. However, the website has Monika put herself front and centre, to the detriment of everyone else. That, and the Steam Library icon features, for lack of a better phrase, just Monika.: Or 'Trapped in a Video Game World' — the realization that comes to the character who obtains the position of Club President. Monika even tries to break the game's system just to get closer to the player.: Natsuki behaves much like a textbook version, although it's mostly justified — despite being short and liking stereotypically cute things, she hates being treated like a child, and her defensive cynicism comes mainly from insecurity. Ironically, despite her crankiness and anger issues she's probably the most stable girl in the club.: Taken.

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Not even closing and reopening the game will allow you to play again. What do you have to do in order to play again? You have to erase a particular file from your game's data files.: Everyone aside from the Literature Club's members. 'Uh, can you hear me? Um, so you know how I've been, like, practicing piano and stuff? Not really good at it yet, like, at all. But, I wrote you a song, and I was kinda hoping I could show it to you, cause I worked really, really hard on it, so.:.

Sayori's suicide. The scene even without waiting for the player to advance the text, making the 'wham' part of the trope quite literal. Soon after followed by an even bigger Wham Shot when you're returned to the title screen, only to find that Sayori's portrait is corrupted and 'New Game' is replaced with unintelligible garbage text, revealing that the last Wham Shot wasn't just a normal Bad End and showing the player what kind of game they're really in for. You can potentially get one even earlier. At a certain point, an image called 'Hxppy Thxughts' is discreetly added to the game's folder. The title references one of Sayori's poems.

The image itself looks like a heavily corrupted, crude drawing, looking like something out of a horror game. It depicts Sayori with a creepy smile and red eyes, and she vaguely appears to be hanging from a noose. Attempting to load the game after seeing Sayori's suicide (even before returning to the title screen) has the game inform the player that the saves are corrupted due to sayori.chr missing and a new playthrough is commencing. Discovering that the game itself has erased all your save files in Act 1 can be panic-inducing.: Being the club president makes one aware they are just a character in a game as Monika and Sayori find out.

Whether or not one becomes insane from it depends on how well one takes the circumstances of realizing they are trapped in a visual novel.: The game's theme from the beginning is played over the ending credits, but this time with singing. And since the singer has access to the game and its music files, it might be a literal case of.:. One of Yuri's poems, as a, is just a bunch of short sentence fragments. Several 'broken' messages appear throughout the game, turning from a white sans-serif font to a serif font with a thick black stroke.

Also, the letters are frequently changed to random broken characters when things are really messed up.: Since this is a meta-game this works in two ways:. Solely from the narrative, only five characters are present, with Natsuki's father the only other significant person being alluded to; crowds are mentioned but never seen. And nothing that the characters do has any impact on the outside world. They try to do something on the festival, but it never really comes to that. In a meta way, there is nothing outside of the characters' world, and by the time Act 3 rolls around you're left in one single room with the only remaining character.: Yuri becomes one for the due to Monika's, making Yuri's psychological flaws worse. Monika herself is a meta yandere, as her obsession is for the player instead of the player character. In Act 3, Monika and how it applies to Yuri, but doesn't consider the idea that it might apply to her as well.: It's twofold if you have the player character confess his love for Sayori.

The player character tells Sayori that she means a lot to them, and they want to help her with her depression in any way that they can, and that taking on her 'burden' would make them happy. They even say Sayori will go on a date with them to the Festival. Then Sayori hangs herself the next morning. The player character is truly saddened and guilty. Meanwhile for Sayori, thanks to her depression, she believes that she's not worthy of loving and that the player character loving her is painful. She got what she wanted — the player character's love — but she still isn't happy.

That realization causes her to hang herself, though Monika implies that she also messed with Sayori's personality.: Sayori has peachy-pink, Natsuki has bubblegum pink, and Yuri has purple. Averted by Monika, who possesses light brown hair. All the more evidence she doesn't fit in.: The day of the school festival.