Content Warning: This article contains mention of suicide.

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus is a captivating mix between a horror game and a visual novel, tricking unsuspecting players into believing it's a dating simulator before plunging into a much darker narrative, and its multiple endings follow suit with surprises of their own. However, as is common with visual novels, the core gameplay revolves around dialogue options, the right combinations of which are key to reaching one of these three endings.

[Warning - major plot spoilers for Doki Doki Literature Club Plus follow.]

In Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, the player's character joins a school club, meeting a handful of seemingly nice girls to befriend and potentially date. As time goes on, the girls reveal darker aspects of themselves, including suicidal thoughts and possessive tendencies, and the game often breaks the fourth wall by "ending" and sending the player back to the main menu, showing "deleted" and "corrupted" save files.

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