5 games you shouldn’t ignore if addicted to Doki Doki Literature Club

Dressed up like a romantic dating game, Doki Doki Literature Club has made the player exceedingly surprised when showing its "psychological horror" nature. All the good memories, the romantic scene of the previous half of the game have become a setting to raise the ghastliness in the second half. That is the key to make evey one remember Doki Doki Literature Club.
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Not having "tricky" look like Doki Doki Literature Club, these games "reveal their nature" in front of Players' Eyes. However, to a certain extent, they will also give gamers the same experience as what Monika and its friends have brought.
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Yume Nikki
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Dream Diary, a romantic name, a beautiful girl, sounds familiar, right? In fact, Yume Nikki is one of the first works by Dan Salvato, the head of development team of Doki Doki Literature Club. In the game, you will explore the dream world of Madotsuki, a sorrowful determining not to leave her room. The game is always in a dreary atmosphere, and over time you feel extremely stressful to explore this world and to find something meaningful. Solitary and full of emotions, this will be a game that makes you wistful even you have finished the game.

Night In The Woods
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In the game you will play Mae Borowski, a girl has just dropped out of college and come back home. Although always being supported by friends, Mae has to face with many problems, which are obviously darker than laziness. Then, a series of murders happens, and the player begins to realize there is something wrong with this world. Over time, Mae and her friends discover there’s dark power covering their town. And then, the team decided to repulse that power.

Tokyo Dark
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In the game, players will play a detective to investigate a mysterious murder. In this process, the character will be led into the world of selfishness, cruelty and pressure behind the light of the singer. Gradually, the despair spreads out the world, especially when the main character Ayami Ito loses his wisdom. At that time, the world through Ayami's eyes is presented to the player in an extremely odd way. Of course, when you understand what Ayami has experienced in Tokyo Dark, you will not blame her for being "far from the truth."

The Zero Escape Series
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The puzzle in The Zero Escape series promises to make your brain twisted. Start with 999, the game of this series will let the player follow a group of kidnapped characters for unknown reasons, and unless these characters solve those puzzles, they will be killed. The puzzles seem to be cunning and interesting, but when you fail, that enjoyable feeling disappears without a trace. The special features of the game are the secrets of characters, including their life, intrigue and love. Among them, there are good and bad guys, but all are extraordinarily attractive.

Oxenfree
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Writing about teens is always difficult, but Oxenfree has done its job perfectly. When six teenage friends join an overnight party on an island, they not only face crime but also ghosts. Using a radio, characters can change to a supernatural frequency, which can change the environment and allow them to interact with events in the past. In the process of uncovering the secret of the island, characters and players themselves will face countless frightening events, to the extent that their story cannot be finished (characters die or gamers ... drop games).​