Characters
As the game's official club president, she is the only character who knows she is trapped inside a video game and talks directly to the player
Who is Monika?
Despite looking like a lighthearted romantic visual novel, the game opens with a mandatory content warning stating that it is actually a psychological game of this genre.
What is Horror?
The internet became flooded with memes and trauma after Act 1 abruptly concluded with the shocking image of this character hanging in her bedroom.
Who is Sayori?
If you close the game during Act 2 and immediately open it back up, there is a small chance the game skips the standard splash screen and displays a dark, unskippable message stating that "This game is not suitable for" these individuals
What are Children?
During Act 3, Monika writes and performs this iconic, bittersweet credit song dedicated entirely to the player.
What is "Your reality?"
This cheerful character serves as the Vice President of the Literature Club during Act 1, frequently keeping the peace between Natsuki and Yuri. Most funny line to fans she says in Act 1 is “Big and beautiful!”
Who is SayorI?
To progress the narrative and romance the different girls in Act 1, the player must complete a nightly mini-game centered around selecting twenty of these.
What are Words?
After completely losing her sanity and confessing her love to the protagonist at the end of Act 2, Yuri shockingly uses a large kitchen knife to perform this fatal action.
What is Decaying?
During Act 2, if you write a poem for Natsuki, her sprite will suddenly display completely blank white eyes and perform a terrifying 90-degree snap of this body part.
What is Her neck?
The unsettling, heavily distorted background track that plays when the protagonist discovers Sayori's room is titled with this Japanese phrase for "Goodbye."
What is "Sayo-Nara"?
To appeal to this character during the poem minigame, you must select words like "melancholy", "suicide", "intellectual", and "philosophy".
Who is Yuri?
Before the tragic end of Act 1, Monika accelerates Sayori's depression by telling her off-screen that she should do this specific action instead of confessing her love to the player.
What is Hanging/Killing herself?
Unlike Sayori and Yuri, Natsuki never gets an on-screen suicide sequence; instead, her death occurs when Monika abruptly deletes her text data following this horrific physical reaction.
What is Snapped neck?
During Act 2, there is a 14.28% chance that the traditional classroom background changes permanently, replacing a standard school poster on the back wall with a disturbing sketch of this character hanging.
Who is Sayori?
When Yuri completely loses her mind and confesses her obsessive love at the end of Act 2, the game plays a highly unsettling, ambient track driven by a rapid, frantic heartbeat, officially titled this body part.
What is "My confession"?
Unlike the other three club members, this character is the only girl who never receives a formal love confession scene, no matter which route you choose.
Who is Natsuki?
Unlike Sayori's sudden script deletion, the end of Act 2 forces Monika to manually delete Yuri and Natsuki after Yuri spends an entire weekend doing this right in front of the player.
What is Stabbing herself?
The President of the literature club deleted everyone The players can delete her file.
Who is Monika?
During Act 2, there is a 1.67% chance that the standard team splash screen is replaced by a creepy black-and-white message. Due to a famous translation bug in the game's engine, the text eerily reads that:
What is I have granted kids to hell?
This trendy, loud, yellow-haired himedere character is widely known as the "Fifth Doki" whose tragic Act 2 story arc ends with her jumping off the school rooftop after Monika manipulates her medication.
(trick question) Who is Kaori? but kaori is actually a fan made doki doki literature club oc (original character)!
The expanded lore in DDLC Plus reveals that the original Doki Doki Literature Club game is actually a highly advanced simulation running under this specific project codename.
What is Project VM?
Kaori is an April fools joke oc for doki doki literature club. Monika does not delete her files how did she die?
What is Messing with her medication and leading her to jump off the school rooftop?
When launching Act 2, there is an incredibly rare 1.67% chance that the standard menu is replaced by a black screen; clicking it triggers a full-screen jumpscare of a distorted, colorless face belonging to this character.
Who is Monika? (The ghost menu is a black and white 1950s vibe of the loading screen instead of nice pink pastel colors it's black and white with everyones eyes being pitch black.)
This fan made sayo-nara version sounds like sayori is rotting fans thought it would be the original sayo-Nara but it's just a fan made version.
What is "Sayo-Nara V2"?