The Best Video Game Stories That Mess With Your Head
Doki Doki Literature Club
There’s a certain expectation that comes with dating visual novels, and players of Doki Doki Literature Club most certainly didn’t see the game straying from them at first glance.
A cute and bubbly tale of growing closer to the members of a school’s book club, it presents itself as standard romantic stuff. Each girl rests firmly in an established trope, and each choice seems to set players on track to find a match by the game’s end.
The further into the story they go however, the more the story twists and warps into something different and terrifying.
Each girls’ actions become more erratic and unpredictable. The game appears to glitch out more and more often, with code and unusual visual textures popping up seemingly at random.
It gets to the point where each girl dies and is subsequently deleted one by one, an unknown presence taking control of the game.
Players are helpless to watch, instead driven toward an ending where only one, omnipotent character remains. It’s unnerving, horrifying, and an utterly inimitable experience.
