User Reviews

I like this game, I really do but I can't lie and say it's as good as people hype it up to be. It took me about 2 hours to get to the interesting parts of the game and I was tempted to quit on many occasions but kept playing cause I had some time and the reviews were good so I hoped it would change soon. Once the game actually changed from its facade it improved massively. My main problem is that the game is really slow to start, then it peaks and I was happy that it got better, then it drops again and I wasn't really satisfied with the last hour or so as well. Not to be too harsh but the peak itself was extremely predictable and yet people were acting like it was the most unexpected thing since the plot twist in The Usual Suspects. Now I'm just going I say before people get annoyed at my review, I do not hate this game. The parts of the game that were interesting made up for the parts that were extremely boring, however once it drops its outer image it decides to put it back on again and lose what made it interesting.

Another thing, people treat some of this game like its extremely unique and never been done before, however I hate to tell people it has been done before not too long ago in the form of Undertale. I mean yeah it isn't identical but there is a LOT i can see that is almost exactly the same.

The reason I rated it 7/10 rather than 6/10 is that it was free and that was the perfect price for it. In the end I didn't mind spending a few hours on it and did enjoy it but I can't deny that I feel very unsatisfied and have to say it is more of a ride along than a game.

I love this game! It's a great game to play late at night. I love how hard-hitting Sayori's death was and still is. This game has also inspired so many fabulous mods. 10/10

It takes several hours to get to the interesting part. Personally, i enjoyed the first, ,,boring" act, but it's understandable that a lot of people didn't. Sayori's suicide was unexpected and disturbing, but i feel like the second act is a bit of an untapped potential. The breakage of the 4th wall is very impressive and some jumpscares might give you chills, but the gore isn't that dense if you're a less sensive person with darker interests. I didn't feel fully comfortable playing the game, so it did its job, but i feel like it still could be better. I love the way it's free, its a good price bearing in mind that it only lasts a few hours and you can play a whole game in one day. Also, i know it's a detail, but im amazed by how unique and refined the poems are, even the girls' handwriting matches their personalities and if you're attentive their art can hint you a lot about them even before the second act. I played it several times and it's very nostalgic to me, but it obviously has some imperfections. I still think its a great game worth playing, you just need to pay attention to it.

Until about 4 out 5 hours into the game, it's just an ordinary harem visual novel, and personally I'm not really into both harem or visual novels, so for me it was just kinda boring. I played this because a friend told it's awesome and can see why he would say that, the fourth wall breaks were really clever and the horror stuff came out of nowhere, but until the last hour of the game I was really bored

And then I played it again cause I'm a completionist and I hate my free time.

Im not that far into it, but its honestly really good!! I love how all the characters have there own ´dere´ types but are still unique characters!!!! I especially like sayori, shes really cool and i love the ´best friend to lover´ trope!! Im actually trying to get her ending (If she has one) and i cant wait to see the game more, tbh tho i dont rlly know how to feel about monika, she hasnt rlly been an importance to the game except for the fact shes the club leader and we went to the same school last year, its also weird how shes not in any of the little extra scenes (ex: Sayori walking home with us) but im sure its fine. I do feel a lil bad for sayori since monika said we left her hanging,. I hope shes alright!! Anygyas, great game!!

I didn't know a lot about Doki Doki Literature Club except that it was a creepy and bizarre bait and switch game.

I didn't know a lot about this game except that i had heard a lot about it and that it was a free psychological horror game on steam. But WOW.. it's REALLY well made!

You join a literature club with 4 anime girls who all (i think?) have interests in you.

What this game does good is that it gives you a slow but not TOO long build up on the characters so that you get to know them a little bit better and know a little bit of they're backstory.

In the end of the first act of the game you get to choose between two choices:

If you want to say "I love you" to Sayori. Or if you want to say something like "I'll always be you're friend " to Sayori.

This is a very heartwarming moment because the game has told a lot of story about Sayori and that SHE has feelings for you and that she is also shy and has depression.

When you come to this point of the game it really feels like a romance game done REALLY well.

In the end of act 1 Sayori h*ngs herself and takes suicide. This is a very bizarre and sad moment because when you feel like you and Sayori are alike and that you somehow have a connection with each other you can really feel sad when you've planned to help with the "party?" (I think it was?) for the literature club. You open the door and there she is h*nging. This part even made me cry lol.

After Act 1 the game starts to slowly get creepy and unnerving. You come out to the title screen of the game and then you see that everything is glitched out.

When you get back into the game you see that Sayori is gone and only Yuri, Monika and Natsuki is in the room. The characters begin sometime glitching and this is when you focus on Monika, Yuri and Natsuki. Each have they're different personal feelings.

I don't remember a lot from the game but what i do remember is that Yuri k!lls herself, Natsuki (i don't really remember) and that Monika is the evil character in this game and that she is the one that reprogram the games source code. This is a very creative and cool moment that you can do. You can delete Monika by taking her away from the games source code.

In the end of the game she traps you in a room and tells you why she did this. She sits there like forever and can ask you really weird questions. She even says you're real life name which is REALLY creepy.

If you exit out of the game and go back in again Monika is still there. This is a very creepy, un-expected and unnerving moment to end a psychological horror game.

But if you want a creative, FREE and unnerving horror game i DEFINITELY recommend it! This game makes you feel on edge, it makes you feel emotion and more. The game is just TOO well done to be true!

The only negative that i have about the game is maybe that the creepiness doesn't start until 1 hour or more in the game. Of course they have to introduce the characters and make you know them better. But i think they do that just a little too long. Otherwise this game is AMAZING! 10/10!