Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Also known as DDLC Plus · DDLC+
Psychological, Horror · by Team Salvato · published by Serenity Forge · 2021
A cheerful high-school literature club invites you in to write poems and make friends, but the sweetness hides something far more unsettling.
Who it's for: Players who want a short, unsettling psychological horror story that plays with visual-novel conventions, and who are comfortable with heavy themes.
The story (spoiler-free)
You join your school's small literature club at the urging of a childhood friend, swapping poems with its members and settling into what looks like a light, cozy slice-of-life story.
It is best experienced knowing as little as possible. What makes it memorable is how deliberately it plays with the expectations of the genre and with the player sitting at the screen.
This listing covers the Plus edition, a 2021 Unity re-release that packages the original story with new side stories focused on the club members, plus a music player and an unlockable gallery of extra art.
Where to play
Why play it
- +A short, tightly built experience you can finish in an evening or two
- +One of the best-known examples of a visual novel that subverts its own genre
- +The Plus side stories add warmer, character-focused material around the main story
- +Available on nearly every modern platform, including iOS
Keep in mind
- −Deals directly with suicide and self-harm; Steam and the developer flag it as unsuitable for those easily disturbed
- −The early hours deliberately feel like a generic school romance, which some players find slow
- −The Android mobile version was reportedly removed from Google Play in April 2026
- −This is the paid Plus edition; the free 2017 original (a separate Ren'Py release on Steam and itch.io) has the same core story without the side stories
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