Game entry

Doki Doki Literature Club!

2017 · Visual novel, Horror, Adventure · PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android · Team Salvato

Doki Doki Literature Club! carries 1,692 ELO points on GameForever and holds position no. 501 in the world ranking, with 67% of duels won out of 335 played. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Steins;Gate: 10 duels settled, 4 to 6. In its strongest family it holds position no. 4 out of 75 (Visual novel).

World rank

no. 501 =

ELO score

1,692

Wins

67%

Duels played

335

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About Doki Doki Literature Club!

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

The community says

The genre needed a jump scare more than it needed another visual novel with actual writing, apparently! I say this with love because I still think about it…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,692 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Steins;Gate 40% 10 duels played · 81 points ahead
against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All 50% 8 duels played · 14 points ahead
against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 38% 8 duels played · 197 points behind
against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations 86% 7 duels played · 2 points behind
against Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You 67% 6 duels played · 160 points ahead

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Around this spot

The games Doki Doki Literature Club! sits between in the world ranking.

Released in 2017

The standing

Where Doki Doki Literature Club! ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Doki Doki Literature Club! stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 4 out of 75 (Visual novel).

Where Doki Doki Literature Club! ranks
Ranking	Position	Games competing
World ranking	501	5,035
Visual novel	4	75
2010s	211	2,050
2017	26	223

The community

The debate

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RustyRider

The genre needed a jump scare more than it needed another visual novel with actual writing, apparently! I say this with love because I still think about it constantly.

IronPilot

Same genre debate, different day, and I'm still not tired of having it.

Frédéric_1997

Franchement je le rejoue de temps en temps, pas pour l'effet de surprise qui ne marche plus du tout, mais pour l'ambiance du début, celle avant que tout parte en vrille, ça reste agréable en soi.
Cortez_1998

The interface stays deliberately simple for most of the runtime, which makes the moments it breaks that simplicity land much harder than they would in a flashier engine.
RogueNinja97

It starts like the cutest thing imaginable, then it doesn't stay that way at all. The tonal whiplash is the whole point.

SammieDragon

Same, still get chills...
NovaMaster2

But nobody wants to admit the back half leans entirely on shock, and once you know what's coming the writing underneath is pretty thin, the tone shift is clever exactly once.

Save_Crona

Same happened to my gf, she left the room during act two and never came back tbh.
Kuphal99

My roommate at the time refused to be in the room once she saw my face during act two.

rowe_trystan

My roommate thing happened to me too, except it was my brother refusing to even look at the screen after that.

LootAce

Yo también prefiero Ace Attorney para volver a jugar, este no aguanta una segunda vuelta igual

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