Team SalvatoĮventually, 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. 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.Ī typical scene from early on in Doki Doki Literature Club.
Of course, your protagonist is hoping to forge new bonds with some of them along the way. 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. Since its release, the game has earned a reputation as an innovative scare. (Some light spoilers follow below here’s your spoiler warning.)Īlthough it looks like a dating sim, Doki Doki Literature Club is a free-to-play, psychological horror game, produced by indie studio Team Salvato. It exploited my confidence in the visual novel genre and turned that into a twisted game of its own. Like I do with haunted houses and horror films, I always know that none of the scares are real.īut a romantic visual novel, of all things, petrified me recently - just by completely subverting my expectations. I've already seen my fair share of Resident Evil 7 Let's Plays without feeling much in my gut. Gore doesn’t irk me, and monsters are so yesterday. I often feel the same sense of ease when playing horror video games. I can round a corner and, well, gosh! It’s … a dude in a costume and usually some pretty cool makeup. As for haunted houses, with the exception of a few “intensified” experiences, ghouls can’t touch me, and the scares are predictable.
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. I’m immune to haunted houses and horror movies, because neither one force me out of my comfort zone.
However, she is very lonely and desperate.During the fall season, I spend a lot of time searching for fresh scares. This girl is very caring, especially of other girls. Her inner world is beautiful and soft, and her personality is arrogant. A “pink” girl, having pink eyes and pink hair. Her favorite color is purple, even her hair is purple. She is one of those you are able to write poems for. She is a Vice-President of the literature club. She is a real bookworm, although very romantic. You can’t write poems for her until the 3 rd Act. When playing, you understand that she has her self-consciousness, and she leads to errors in game, breaking it. That is a very skeptical and unusual President of the Club. Unfortunately, we see her just in the 1 st and 4 th acts, while she hanged herself and the players could not see her for a while. She really wanted a lead character to be happy, even with others, but felt jealous. Eventually, she ended her life by committing suicide. After her confession, she started to write depressive poems. She used to be a great, positive girl until she fell in love with the main character. Who is your favorite Doki Doki character? Sayori, Monika, Yuri, or Natsuki? Let’s look at each of them in details.