Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Worth it · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.84. Typically $10.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.26/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 32,753
- Critics
- 81 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.84 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.6h
- To 100%
- 14.6h 3.2x the story
- Achievements
- 19
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $10.04 June 2022
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 87 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 9% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 46 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. $6.84 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($3.99, scores 36).
More about Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 16 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to November 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 691 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 474 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 2,789 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.6 hours; clearing it takes 15, which is 3.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This is the best game ever because I finally have a girlfriend! Now I can spend everyday with her and stare into her beautiful emerald green eyes for eternity.
2 more reviews
I genuinely love this game. It never gets old and the characters are all super interesting and well written. The side story episodes really helps establish all the dynamics and understanding the characters as a whole. I had a really fun time getting every achievement unlike a lot of other games. Theres so many great details and hidden lore within the game, it's files and the emails. Yuris whole connection with the...
Played this game as a joke while screensharing on discord to my friends and this shit ended up becoming my favorite game
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1388880/doki-doki-literature-club-plusReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.