Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Worth it · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $10.04, a BANGER if it drops to $6.84.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $2.18/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
What drives the score
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $10.04, set in June 2022. It has been discounted 45 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $10.04 at 33 percent off matches the lowest price in the record. $6.84 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Take the discount away and it is a 70. With it, 78.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pony Island ($4.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 16 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 748 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 521 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 2,771 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.
The drop-off
61% start to 9% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
76 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
this game changed my gooning life forever. I was metal hard during this entire game. Every time yuri was on screen i was stone hard.
DDLC + is an absolute masterpiece, as a long-time fan, playing this extended edition with the side stories and all was a dream come true ♡ The characters are beautifully written, the story is unforgettable, and the fourth-wall break's are some of my favorite parts of the game ♡♡♡
This is a great addition to DDLC, adding new side stories that give backstory to the club, as well as giving new lore to the overall story. I loved playing through the side stories and 100%ing this version, and playing through the main game again was nice. I ended up getting the physical edition for the Nintendo Switch a while ago, and it was nice getting the little goodies with it. Although I recommend the original...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1388880/doki-doki-literature-club-plusThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Sep 23.
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