Doki Doki Literature Club

***Doki Doki Literature Club***, is a 2017 visual novel game, and is the thirteenth game to be played on Butt Spectrum Club. The playthrough started on June 17th, 2021 and ended on March 24th, 2022.

## Plot

The main protagonist is invited by his cheerful childhood friend Sayori to join their high school's literature club as a remedy for his insular nature. He reluctantly agrees to her proposal and meets the other members of the club: the assertive Natsuki, the diffident Yuri, and the bubbly club president Monika. After each day passes in the literature club, the club members are prompted to compose a poem which they share with the other members the following day. Eventually, as the club prepares for the school's upcoming cultural festival in which the club members intend to share their poems with a wider audience, Sayori reveals to the protagonist that she suffers from depression. The protagonist assists either Yuri or Natsuki with their tasks, with each attempting to kiss the protagonist before he encounters Sayori again. The protagonist can either confess to Sayori or friend zone her in this moment. Regardless, the following day, Monika passively shows the protagonist an uncharacteristically morbid poem by Sayori that insistently orders someone to "get out of [her] head". Realizing that something has happened to her, the protagonist rushes to Sayori's home where he is shocked to discover that she has hanged herself, and the game abruptly ends.

The player is sent back to the main menu, with all previous save files corrupted and eventually deleted. The narrative repeats upon the start of a new game, but Sayori is glaringly absent and the characters do not remember her existence. Monika introduces the protagonist to the club in lieu of Sayori. Events proceed similarly to the original playthrough, but some text is rendered illegible, the character sprites appear corrupted from time to time, and what appear to be computer glitches or bugs become commonplace. Aside from the game's frequent distortions, it is revealed through dialogue and unlockable "special poems" that Natsuki is malnourished and being abused by her father, and the normally calm and shy Yuri gradually becomes unstable, possessive, and prone to self-harm. When the planning stage for the cultural festival is reached, a heated quarrel over who the protagonist will help with the festival breaks out. After the player is forced to choose Monika, Yuri ejects her and Natsuki from the room and privately confesses her love for the protagonist. Whether or not the protagonist accepts Yuri's confession, she commits suicide by stabbing herself, after which the protagonist is forced to stay and watch her corpse slowly decompose over the course of the weekend as a result of the broken game script. Natsuki returns upon the script resetting, vomits at the sight of Yuri's body and flees the scene. Monika then appears and apologizes to the protagonist for the "boring" weekend he had spent, compensating by deleting Yuri and Natsuki's character files from existence and restarting the game.

The protagonist is placed in what remains of the literature club classroom with Monika seated across from him. Monika reveals that she is a self-aware video game character, having acquired the ability to manipulate the game's code after gaining sentience. Distraught at the fact she is not a romance option but merely a supporting bystander, she used her ability to amplify the negative traits of her clubmates in a bid to make them unlikable and prevent their confessions of love to the protagonist, only for them to become more determined. She then confesses her own love not to the protagonist, but to the player, due to them being real and autonomous rather than programmed. Monika will sit and talk to the player indefinitely about various topics until the player manually enters the game's directory and deletes Monika's character file. Monika initially lashes out at the player as she disappears, but ultimately forgives them and remorsefully repents by restoring the game and the characters excluding herself.

## Episodes

1. The Gang Bully Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club
2. The Gang Get Horny in Doki Doki Literature Club
3. The Gang Write a Poem in Doki Doki Literature Club
4. The Gang Diss LEGO in Doki Doki Literature Club
5. The Gang Read Manga in Doki Doki Literature Club
6. The Gang Read Poems in Doki Doki Literature Club
7. The Gang Break Up a Fight in Doki Doki Literature Club
8. The Gang Eat Pizza in Doki Doki Literature Club
9. The Gang Makes Natsuki Cry in Doki Doki Literature Club
10. The Gang Read More Poems in Doki Doki Literature Club
11. The Gang Talk About the Festival in Doki Doki Literature Club
12. The Gang Get Worried in Doki Doki Literature Club
	1. The Gang Run Out of Footage in Doki Doki Literature Club
13. The Gang Makes Everyone Sad in Doki Doki Literature Club
14. The Gang Get Real in Doki Doki Literature Club
15. The Gang Spend Time With Natsuki in Doki Doki Literature Club
16. IS THIS A HORROR GAME?!
17. Let's Do this One More Time
18. WHY IS THIS GAME SO F\*CKING SCARY?!!
19. Hungry Hungry Natsuki's
20. Yuri Really Be Out Here
21. Spooky Scary Spooky Scary
22. Slapida Bass
23. Yuri? You Okay
24. J̸̹̋ü̸͈ŝ̶̼ṭ̷̇ ̶͖͊M̶͎͌o̵͔͝n̶͖̆ị̴͑k̷̝͋ȧ̵̦
25. Deleting monika.chr

## Characters

* Monika - Poznan
* Sayori - Algernon
* Natsuki - Algernon
* Yuri - Poznan

## Trivia

* Doki Doki Literature Club is the thirteenth game to be played on the channel
* Doki Doki Literature Club is the eighth game to be complete on the channel
* The hosts are Algernon and Poznan
	+ Algernon is playing while Poznan is watching
* The bois are playing the original Doki Doki Literature Club on the PC
	+ The bois have stated they wish to play Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, wishing to not only see the extra scenes, and also see the original endings for Yuri and Sayori before the game goes crazy.