With Doki-Doki Universe, ‘cute’ was one of the first words to pop into my head. The entire game, from the world and characters to the HUD and menus, looks as though it were handdrawn by a child. All ...

Doki Doki Literature Club doesn't do much to stand out on the Steam store. It looks like yet another cutesy, low-budget visual novel, and one without the overflowing sex appeal of many competitors.

Fun fact: the Japanese words for cute and scary sound quite similar. This is especially appropriate when considering the phenomenon that is Doki Doki Literature Club, a bleak, horrifying psychological ...

Doki-Doki Universe doesn't just join the recent trend of games not focused on conflict; it takes a spot at the front of the charge. Maybe "the charge" is a bad analogy here. I don't think I've played ...

Doki Doki Literature Club has surpassed 1 million downloads. Dan Salvato, the founder of Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) developer Team Salvato, made the announcement, thanking the many media outlets ...

Doki-Doki Universe is a game about empathy, and that's weird. In many of the games I played this year, you often solve problems by shooting people in the face. That, I can handle. In Doki-Doki ...

Audrey has been writing about video games for ten years and playing them for over twenty. A freelance journalist, they have been published in AniFem, Astray, and Anime Herald. In their spare time, ...

The Zero Escape series is more of a sci-fi thriller than a horror game, but if you’re really into the fourth wall breaking antics of Doki Doki Literature Club, no other series does it better. The ...