

That all remains intact in DDLC+, though there are unlockable images, additional music tracks, and the double resolution artwork.

To say anything more would be a spoiler, but Doki Doki spins off in interesting directions, both in terms of its story and the ways in which you're able to interact with it." "You reluctantly agree to join and meet the other members of the club, all of whom are girls, and each day you make decisions about who to spend time with. Incidentally, it appears that Yuri likes the word ‘horror’ in her poems, so keep that in mind if you’re going for Yuri."Your childhood friend invites you to join the school literature club," explains Mexi Gremillion in RPS's list of best visual novels. The trailer also highlights several disturbing words that players can choose to put into their poems, including the blunt option of ‘horror,’ all while peaceful background plays. Not only is the trailer full of references to iconic moments in the original game–Yuri sprawling on the classroom floor, Monika at her piano, Monika in general–it straight-up refers to the four girls of the literature club as unspeakable horrors, which seems a bit mean. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, however, is being marketed with the full knowledge that it’s a horror game in disguise, which leads to some pretty nice moments in this launch trailer.

A game can be marketed with pastel colors, cute anime girls, and a promise of sweet romance and still end up being pretty terrifying, as the many, many fans of Doki Doki Literature Club can attest. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is an expanded re-release of the psychological horror dating sim that taught us all to check a game’s genre tags carefully before playing. Doki Doki Literature Club was one of the most horrifying games of 2017, helped by the fact that its initial release was completely free, and now it’s ready to give fans something to scream about in 2021 as well.
