Doki Doki Literature Club had some unique endings that only made sense for computers. The remaster adapts these for console and adds new stories.

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus has newly released and fans are extremely elated. The game has a dedicated following, with lots of cute fanart that masks how terrifying the game can be. To help market the game on consoles, publisher Serenity Forge is being very upfront that it can be very disturbing and anxiety inducing.

What may concern past players the most is how the iconic endings work. Team Salvato has thought this through, and all versions of the game include a computer desktop interface. This allows anyone to relive the excitement of Doki Doki Literature Club and find even more secrets.

Virtual Machine Endings in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus

Unlike the original release, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus reframes the main game as a virtual machine simulation titled DDLC. Any time players load up the game a second time, they will need to enter the DDLC application from the top of the Windows-style Metaverse Enterprise Solutions main menu. For the most part, DDLC is the same as the first edition of Doki Doki Literature Club, with a few adjustments for console limitations.

Standard Ending

To get the normal ending, players need to go through all of DDLC’s Act 1 as presented without restarting and trying new outcomes. This means the three poem creation sections should only be attempted once (or even twice, but not three times) and players should only pick either Yuri or Natsuki to spend the weekend with (not both). During Act 2, players may make any choices as this doesn’t affect the final outcome.

In Act 3, players will need to exit out of DDLC and return to the Metaverse Enterprise Solutions desktop. Now, browse through the files option and into the Characters folder. Here, delete Monika.chr and then resume the DDLC application. If all of this is done, Act 4 will conclude with a farewell from Monika.

Good Ending

To get a much happier outcome, players will need to have a minimum of three separate save games during Act 1. In each individual save, players will need to construct two poems for each of Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki, respectively. This will unlock CG art for each love interest on that day. Also, on at least two saves players will need to spend the weekend once with Yuri and another time with Natsuki. Finally, at the end of the weekend tell Sayori “I love you”. All of this must be done before entering Act 2. If Act 1 has already been passed, players will need to exit DDLC and run reset.sh from the main files directory. This will reset all progress and delete any saves stored on the Metaverse browser.

Players will need to complete the rest of the game, and if successful, Act 4 will end with a personal thank you letter from creator Dan Salvato.

Sudden Ending

To get the abrupt shock ending, instead of selecting the New Game option in DDLC, players will need to immediately exit to the Metaverse Enterprise Solutions desktop. Browse the files, into the Characters folder, and immediately delete Monika.chr. Re-enter the DDLC virtual machine to view a very sad and traumatizing ending. If players can stand waiting ten minutes, an extra message will eventually show up.

Play With Me Ending

A somewhat brief ending can be seen during Act 2. To view this, players will need to write poems for Natsuki on both night one and night two. When Monika suggests sharing poems, players should select Natsuki. While this will result in the “end” screen, players will be brought back to the classroom without any prompt or reset.

Side Story Endings in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus

Side Stories are a new feature of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus. They are separate from the DDLC application, having their own section on the Metaverse desktop. Players that enter the desktop before doing anything in DDLC will notice the menu is empty. To acquire them, players will need to create poems that use each girl’s favored words on different days and view their related scenes. Gaining Side Stories is easily done as part of the good ending path, but is also possible to achieve them through multiple playthroughs of DDLC.

Sayori Words

Sayori prefers emotional, family, and romantic words.

• Adventure
• Alone
• Amazing
• Awesome
• Bed
• Beauty
• Bliss
• Broken
• Calm
• Charm
• Cheer
• Childhood
• Clumsy
• Color
• Comfort
• Cry
• Dance
• Dark
• Daydream
• Dazzle
• Death
• Defeat
• Depression
• Embrace
• Empty
• Excitement
• Extraordinary
• Family
• Fear
• Feather
• Fireflies
• Fireworks
• Flower
• Flying
• Forgive
• Friends
• Fun
• Grief
• Happiness
• Heart
• Holiday
• Hope
• Hopeless
• Hurt
• Joy
• Laugh
• Lazy
• Loud
• Love
• Lucky
• Marriage
• Memories
• Misery
• Misfortune
• Music
• Nature
• Ocean
• Passion
• Peaceful
• Pain
• Party
• Play
• Prayer
• Precious
• Promise
• Rainbow
• Raincloud
• Romance
• Rose
• Sadness
• Scars
• Shame
• Silly
• Sing
• Smile
• Sparkle
• Special
• Sunny
• Sunset
• Sweet
• Tears
• Together
• Tragedy
• Treasure
• Unrequited
• Vacation
• Warm
• Wonderful

Yuri Words

Yuri likes intellectual, dark, and mysterious words.

• Afterimage
• Agonizing
• Ambient
• Analysis
• Anxiety
• Atone
• Aura
• Breathe
• Cage
• Captive
• Climax
• Contamination
• Covet
• Crimson
• Desire
• Destiny
• Determination
• Disarray
• Disaster
• Disoriented
• Despise
• Disown
• Dream
• Effulgent
• Electricity
• Entropy
• Essence
• Eternity
• Existence
• Explode
• Extreme
• Fester
• Fickle
• Flee
• Frightening
• Graveyard
• Heavensent
• Horror
• Imagination
• Incapable
• Incongruent
• Infallible
• Inferno
• Infinite
• Insight
• Intellectual
• Journey
• Judgment
• Lust
• Landscape
• Massacre
• Meager
• Melancholy
• Philosophy
• Pleasure
• Portrait
• Question
• Raindrops
• Secretive
• Sensation
• Starscape
• Suicide
• Tenacious
• Time
• Uncontrollable
• Uncanny
• Unending
• Universe
• Unrestrained
• Unstable
• Variance
• Vertigo
• Vibrant
• Vitality
• Vivacious
• Vivid
• Whirlwind
• Wrath

Natsuki Words

Natsuki gravitates towards fashion, food, and animal related words.

• Anger
• Anime
• Blanket
• Boop
• Bouncy
• Bubbles
• Bunny
• Candy
• Cheeks
• Chocolate
• Clouds
• Cute
• Doki Doki
• Email
• Fantasy
• Fluffy
• Games
• Giggle
• Hair
• Hop
• Headphones
• Heartbeat
• Jump
• Jumpy
• Kawaii
• Kiss
• Kitty
• Lipstick
• Lollipop
• Marshmallow
• Melody
• Milk
• Mouse
• Nibble
• Nightgown
• Papa
• Parfait
• Peace
• Pink
• Playground
• Poof
• Pout
• Pure
• Puppy
• Ribbon
• Swimsuit
• Shiny
• Shopping
• Skipping
• Socks
• Spinning
• Sticky
• Strawberry
• Sugar
• Summer
• Twirl
• Waterfall
• Whisper
• Whistle
• Valentine
• Vanilla

Side Story Chapters

Each Side Story is divided into two parts. As the protagonist of DDLC does not appear in these, players do not need to make any specific choices as all have finite conclusions. Each second part will also unlock new wallpaper backgrounds for the Metaverse Enterprise Solutions machine.

• Trust: Monika and Sayori
• Understanding: Sayori and Yuri
• Respect: Natsuki and Monika
• Balance: Sayori and Natsuki
• Reflection: Yuri and Monika
• Self-Love: Natsuki and Yuri

By viewing both parts of all six main Side Stories at least once, players will unlock a seventh epilogue installment titled Equals. This serves as the true end of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus. Players will also receive a new e-mail message from System Administrator Rea Vorte and background images for the desktop.

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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Switch.