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'''''Doki Doki Literature Club!''''' is a 2017 visual novel by Team Salvato, available on [[Steam]] and [https://teamsalvato.itch.io/ddlc itch.io] for free.

An [[Ordinary High School Student]] ([[Hello, Insert Name Here|with a custom name]]) is invited by ~~her~~ ditzy childhood friend Sayori to the [[Japanese School Club|Literature Club]]. Reluctant at first, he finds out all four members, including Sayori, are ''girls!'' As he bonds with Natsuki, the cute but feisty [[Tsundere]], Yuri, the shy bookworm, and Monika, the club's President, he may fall in love just in time for the Festival…

An [[Ordinary High School Student]] ([[Hello, Insert Name Here|with a custom name]]) is invited by his ditzy childhood friend Sayori to the [[Japanese School Club|Literature Club]]. Reluctant at first, he finds out all four members, including Sayori, are ''girls!'' As he bonds with Natsuki, the cute but feisty [[Tsundere]], Yuri, the shy bookworm, and Monika, the club's President, he may fall in love just in time for the Festival…

{{quote|'''This game is not suitable for children'''

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'''''Note''': The main character will be referred to here as "MC". Also, tropes that happen during the Festival should go on [[Doki Doki Literature Club!/The Festival|this page]].''

* [[Adaptational Jerkass]]: Implied in a meta-level, especially with the deluxe edition. Before {{spoiler|Monika gains sentience and corrupts the program}}, all the girls are friendly with each other. Indeed, rather than {{spoiler|manipulating her into a suicide}}, Monika ''hugs'' Sayori and comforts her {{spoiler|through a depressive episode}}, while she helps Yuri write an apology letter to Natsuki. Then you get to the main story...{{spoiler|Monika hacks the story so that both Sayori and Yuri die by suicide, while Natsuki becomes more abrasive due to her father starving her. While she realizes that she went too far, because she just wanted to make her friends unlikable, not ''kill'' them, Monika erases most of the world, including the innocent player character, so she can have the actual player to herself}}.

* [[Adaptational Personality Adjustment]]: Act Two enforces this on the girls after {{spoiler|someone drives Sayori to suicide and erases her, resetting the game without her}}. Yuri goes from a [[Shrinking Violet]] to a [[Yandere]] that practices [[Self-Harm]], while Natsuki transitions from irritable and hungry [[Tsundere]] all the time to straight up [[Broken Bird]] owing to her father going from neglectful to outright abusive. Monika goes from kindhearted [[Team Mom]] of the Literature Club to [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]], which makes sense when we learn {{spoiler| ''she'' was the one who erased Sayori and is altering her friends' personalities. We find out that she used to be nicer, until realizing that she was in a video game and that her life had no meaning.}} In Act Four, {{spoiler|after the player deletes Monika, Natsuki and Yuri are reset to their Act One personalities, but Sayori gains the same awareness that she's in a video game and starts going down the same path as Monika. In the Golden Ending, Sayori doesn't snap but instead thanks you for playing and making everyone happy}}.

* [[Adult Fear]]:

** Sayori reveals to the MC that {{spoiler|she suffers from bad depression, and has for several years. The only reason she gets out of bed in the morning is because of her crush on the MC}}. All MC can do is promise to be there for her, {{spoiler|and hug her after declaring that he loves her if you make that choice. He doesn't know how to comfort Sayori as she admits that she's thrilled he loves her, but is still feeling sad}}.