

While Monika After Story gives players a chance to make Monika happy, players have also made mods giving that treatment to the other doomed characters. “There’s a million ways the story could go, but you only get to see one.” Since he started modding, Pi went on to co-found the DDLC ModClub subreddit and Discord, as well as to write a template for modders with a tutorial narrated by Monika. Because you have so many choices with no real agency, it really makes the imagination run wild with ‘what if’ scenarios,” Pi said.

It holds the title of "Best PC Game of 2017" from IGN.ĭoki Doki Literature Club! is available for download via itch.io and Steam.“ suggests a lot more endings than it delivers on. It was downloaded over one million times during its first three months of release, with cumulative downloads increasing to three million by the end of its fourth month. Since it's initial release, Doki Doki Literature Club! has been a commercial and critical success. Salvato has previously revealed that his inspiration for creating Doki Doki came from a love-hate relationship towards anime, as well as an affinity for unsettling horror stories.

He was also known for his custom Super Mario Maker levels. Though Doki Doki Literature Club! was Dan Salvato's first video game, prior to the game's release he created extensions for Twitch and was known for his modding work in Super Smash Bros.

The game also breaks the fourth wall in an unconventional and groundbreaking way. Players make choices that directly affect their outcome and can lead to one of the game's many endings. The game told the story of a young male protagonist as he joins his high school's eponymous literature club and befriends the club's four female members. Though the game initially gives off a cutsey otome feel with its anime-style artwork, dating simulator tropes, and joyous music, it's actually a metafictional psychological horror game in disguise. Though the information in Salvato's Tweet is scarce, and there's no confirmation on what form the new DDLC content will take or what the premise and themes will be for Salvato's second visual novel, fans have reacted very excitedly to the news.ĭoki Doki Literature Club! was released back in 2017 as a free game downloadable through itch.io and later through Steam. RELATED: Doki Doki Literature Club Somehow Stirs Up Violent Games Protesters On Indian News Network
