Doki Doki Literature Club! is a visual novel developed by Team Salvato in September of last year. It is a psychological horror game that is disguised as a dating simulator and it does a lot of fourth wall breaking. There are not a lot of opportunities in the game because it is a visual novel. However there is a mini game after each day that allows you to choose words to make a poem for three of the four girl based on their tastes.

The four main character is the game are Sayori, Natsuki, Yuri , and Monika. Sayori is your childhood friend who makes you join the literature club. Monika is the club president who is the only one you can’t go for as a love interest which serves a big plot point. Throughout the game you share poems with the other club members which allows you to get closer to them but the poems from the girls hint and foreshadow the problems they have.

Sayori suffers from depression, Natsuki is being abused by her father, and Yuri is obsessive and cuts herself. However these are problems that are caused or amplified by Monika who is self aware and can manipulate the game, even being able to delete the other girls from the game so you only pay attention to her.

Due to Monika tampering the game it starts to glitch throughout the story like deleting all past saves, showing messed up text and the characters’ sprites glitching out. The game gets more and more disturbing as the other girls are influenced by Monika and end up dead by killing themselves or by her killing them and deleting them from the game.

The game has several different endings but the “default” ending is when Monika has deleted all the other girls and you end up sitting across from her in a room she made. The game only ends when you delete her character from the game files which causes her to restore the other girls and remove herself out of her love for the player. However when you start the game Sayori is club president and intends to do what Monika did so Monika comes back one more time to completely delete the game.