Doki Doki Literature Club! - This is the story of the visual novel
At first glance, Doki Doki Literature Club looks like a normal dating simulator with little story. This is also the case in Act 1, but the more you play, the stranger and more confusing the game becomes. We will explain what the individual files are all about. Warning: spoiler!
The Doki Doki Literature Club story
Doki Doki Literature Club has an extensive story, which is divided into 4 acts. You can't stay in one act indefinitely because sooner or later the story will take you through a turning point to the next chapter. And this is how the story goes:
Act 1 in Doki Doki Literature Club
In the first chapter of Doki Doki Literature Club everything is still harmless. They come to the club as a new member and are introduced to the girls.
- You start writing poems after the first day. There are certain words and phrases for each of the girls, depending on whose heart you want to conquer.
- Little by little you learn a little more about the other club members, especially Sayori. She confesses her love to you in Act 1 and is sad when you worry more about another girl.
- In the finale of Act 1, Sayori hangs himself. It is an inevitable event. From that point on, the game begins to glitch.
Doki Doki Literature Club: This happens in Act 2
Act 2 of Doki Doki Literature Club transforms the romantic, rather innocent looking "Dating Simulator" into a visual novel of the finest kind. It starts with Monika restarting the game and deleting Sayori's character file.
- You will also be deprived of a choice between Yuri and Natsuki as the game forces you to have a relationship with Yuri.
- Monika wants to make you spend less time with one of the two and then changes their characteristics. Yuri becomes morbidly addicted to your character and attention, while Natsuki is constantly glitched.
- They also discover that Yuri is hurting himself. You can choose some answers yourself, but this does not change anything at the end of the act.
- At the end of the act, Yuri confesses her love to you. How you react to this, however, does not change your fate and she stabs herself before your eyes with several knife stings.
- When Monika finds her after the incident, she quickly deletes Natsuki and Yuri from the game.
The story in Act 3 of Doki Doki Literature Club
In Act 3, you just sit in a room with Monika and talk to her about everything that has happened. She tells you about her knowledge that she is just a character in a game and that she is afraid.
- Her fear made her want to spend more time with you. She then started playing with the other girls' character files and changing them.
- They learn that she exacerbated Sayori's depression and did the same with Yuri's obsessive behavior.
- After her admission, you can either listen to Monika indefinitely or delete her character file. The latter leads you to Act 4 because Monika realizes her mistake, deletes herself and starts a new game for you.
- Act 3 is basically a kind of enlightenment and you learn what the glitches and the problems were all about.
Act 4 and the ends of Doki Doki Literature Club
In Act 4, you actually have no real choice about what happens. Depending on how you acted in Act 1 in particular, your end will take shape.
- If you have not seen all the graphic scenes of the girls, you will receive a note from Monika after the credits. It says that the Literature Club has been dissolved.
- Otherwise Sayori thanks you for taking care of every girl. She is happy that you tried to please everyone. After the credits you will receive a thank you note from the developer.
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