While the girls are fairly well written and with enough personality that they aren’t just generic stereotypes, they do slot in into pretty simple roles that you’ll often find in video games of this ilk. You’re a high school student who has been encouraged to join the school’s literature club, which already has four anime girls as members that your player character is immediately interested in potentially dating. For anyone aware of the tropes found within the visual novel and dating sim genres, it starts off feeling like simply a decently well written game set in those genres. This simple way of alerting the player that there is something more to this game than a run-of-the-mill dating sim manages to instill the expectation of something unique and interesting without completely revealing its hand, and it is probably one of the smarter ways of generating interest without hinging on complete spoiler avoidance.ĭoki Doki Literature Club does start off playing things absolutely straight despite the disclaimers. Quite often people will try to recommend a game like this with phrases like “Don’t look up anything about it, just play it,” and it can lead to disappointment or may even make the player leave before whatever strange twist awaits them has the time to crop up. Despite having the trappings of a visual novel dating sim, Doki Doki Literature Club’s Steam page has the “Psychological Horror” tag loud and prominent, and the game description and the opening screen of the game itself warn about potentially disturbing content.
If you have heard about Doki Doki Literature Club before this review, then you likely know that the game is not what it seems… then again, the game does not really try to hide that fact.
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