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Doki Doki Literature Club! cover art

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Team Salvato · 2017-10-06

Steam

CasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Sep 22, 2017 (Mac), Dec 10, 2025 (iOS), Sep 22, 2017 (Linux), Sep 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 03, 2025 (Android)

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Doki Doki Literature Club! is a Casual, Free To Play, Indie game released in 2017, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 5,000,000 .. 10,000,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (96% of 227846 reviews).

412
playing now
96%
positive of 229k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
28
twitch viewers (latest)
5.6
viewers/channel (concentration)
95/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (534 ratings)
18
Nexus mods (37k downloads)
87/100
opencritic · mighty · 71% recommend · from 8 critics
8.4h
to beat · rushed 9.3h · completionist 13h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

412 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Doki Doki Literature Club! (DDLC) is a 2017 visual novel video game developed by Team Salvato for personal computers and mobile phones. The story follows a student who reluctantly joins his high school's literature club at the insistence of his friend Sayori, and is given the option to pursue her or the other club members, Yuri and Natsuki, romantically. Club president Monika also features heavily in the game's plot. The game features a non-traditional plot structure with multiple endings and unlockable cutscenes with each of the main characters. Although it initially appears to be a light-hearted dating simulator, it is a metafictional psychological horror game that extensively breaks the fourth wall.

Trailer

Doki Doki Literature Club! trailer thumbnail

Doki Doki Literature Club! Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 412 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15,325 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,916/week).
  • · Review velocity up 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 28,912 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4.5k4.5k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 4,495 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 192 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2,860 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2,216 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2,279 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2,603 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1,776 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1,480 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1,114 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3,183 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1,385 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1,510 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1,078 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 959 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 894 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 928 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,488 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,838 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1,178 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 930 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 932 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,844 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1,826 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2,031 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2,343 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3,145 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3,056 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2,890 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2,667 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2,931 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2,494 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1,730 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,969 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2,311 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2,461 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2,865 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2,506 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2,204 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2,125 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,953 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3,323 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 4,457 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 241 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2,593 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 155 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1,437 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1,363 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,889 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,881 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2,044 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 126 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1,702 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1,516 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,336 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,309 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,553 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,561 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,403 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,361 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,135 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,274 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,298 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,411 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,210 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,175 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,185 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1,077 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1,309 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1,825 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,698 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,096 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,161 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,204 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,313 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,481 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,625 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,265 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,141 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,163 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,338 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,623 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,550 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,050 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,679 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,388 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,587 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2,116 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,307 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,353 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,056 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1,103 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,163 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,345 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1,278 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1,021 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,013 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,105 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,557 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,812 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1,479 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,421 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1,533 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,808 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,821 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,342 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2,575 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,737 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 518 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 22 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8943682026-09-14 19:00 — 723 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 476 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 453 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 786 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 704 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 399 players2026-09-22 17:00 — 751 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 600 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 374 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 863 players2026-09-27 23:00 — 683 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 368 players2026-09-30 14:00 — 673 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 572 players2026-10-03 05:00 — 534 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 727 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 605 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 438 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 424 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 779 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 664 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 430 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 719 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 412 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3.9k368Oct 2017Aug 2026Oct 2017 — avg 1,383 · peak 2,326Jan 2018 — avg 3,864 · peak 6,344Apr 2018 — avg 1,003 · peak 1,714Jul 2018 — avg 900 · peak 1,262Oct 2018 — avg 467 · peak 755Jan 2019 — avg 526 · peak 813Apr 2019 — avg 374 · peak 584Jul 2019 — avg 466 · peak 633Oct 2019 — avg 388 · peak 664Jan 2020 — avg 517 · peak 782Apr 2020 — avg 802 · peak 1,061Jul 2020 — avg 783 · peak 910Oct 2020 — avg 595 · peak 885Jan 2021 — avg 732 · peak 972Apr 2021 — avg 605 · peak 850Jul 2021 — avg 1,234 · peak 1,955Oct 2021 — avg 521 · peak 969Jan 2022 — avg 700 · peak 1,004Apr 2022 — avg 577 · peak 848Jul 2022 — avg 556 · peak 760Oct 2022 — avg 434 · peak 739Jan 2023 — avg 443 · peak 676Apr 2023 — avg 407 · peak 638Jul 2023 — avg 480 · peak 710Oct 2023 — avg 376 · peak 587Jan 2024 — avg 438 · peak 637Apr 2024 — avg 374 · peak 585Jul 2024 — avg 444 · peak 593Oct 2024 — avg 504 · peak 834Jan 2025 — avg 581 · peak 846Apr 2025 — avg 429 · peak 629Jul 2025 — avg 429 · peak 540Oct 2025 — avg 394 · peak 617Jan 2026 — avg 550 · peak 826Apr 2026 — avg 526 · peak 858Jul 2026 — avg 697 · peak 1,081Aug 2026 — avg 782 · peak 1,210
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
2812812026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 281 new positive2026-09-21: 12 new negative2026-09-22: 57 new positive2026-09-22: 3 new negative2026-09-23: 37 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 34 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 23 new positive2026-09-27: 43 new positive2026-09-28: 37 new positive2026-09-28: 3 new negative2026-09-29: 38 new positive2026-09-30: 20 new positive2026-10-02: 31 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 45 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 66 new positive2026-10-04: 2 new negative2026-10-05: 39 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new negative2026-10-06: 40 new positive2026-10-06: 3 new negative2026-10-07: 27 new positive2026-10-08: 70 new positive2026-10-08: 4 new negative2026-10-09: 26 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new negative2026-10-10: 54 new positive2026-10-12: 35 new positive2026-10-12: 6 new negative2026-10-13: 28 new positive2026-10-13: 3 new negative2026-10-14: 47 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

2.2k1.2k2026-06-01 — 1,206 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1,758 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1,301 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1,277 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1,350 pageviews2026-06-21 — 1,165 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1,187 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1,268 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1,524 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1,404 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1,279 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1,239 pageviews2026-07-19 — 1,177 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1,360 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1,427 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1,354 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1,284 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1,286 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1,332 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1,419 pageviews2026-08-20 — 1,545 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1,616 pageviews2026-08-28 — 1,437 pageviews2026-09-01 — 1,498 pageviews2026-09-05 — 1,641 pageviews2026-09-09 — 1,408 pageviews2026-09-13 — 1,560 pageviews2026-09-17 — 1,641 pageviews2026-09-21 — 1,637 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1,649 pageviews2026-09-29 — 1,529 pageviews2026-10-03 — 1,514 pageviews2026-10-07 — 1,608 pageviews2026-10-11 — 1,523 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

19202026-09-30 18:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-03 00:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-03 09:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-03 18:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 61 viewers2026-10-04 12:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-04 21:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-05 06:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-05 15:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 00:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-06 18:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-07 03:34 — 94 viewers2026-10-07 12:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-07 21:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-08 06:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-08 15:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-09 00:34 — 158 viewers2026-10-09 09:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-09 18:34 — 80 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-10 12:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-10 21:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-11 06:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-11 15:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-12 00:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-12 18:34 — 67 viewers2026-10-13 03:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-13 12:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-14 06:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 28 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-09-22 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteDarkGoreAnimeIndieHorrorRomanceViolentDating SimStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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