Doki Doki Literature Club released on Google Play in December. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. Google has removed Doki Doki Literature Club from its Google Play Store due to perceived violations of its Terms of Service. The cult visual novel surprise-released on the storefront in December following its initial PC release in 2017. It's since been ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and iOS. Doki Doki Literature Club was a phenomenon on its release nine years ago. By all appearances it's a run-of-the-mill Japanese visual novel about a teenage boy who joins a high school literature club "full of cute girls", as per the Steam description. At first the game progresses just as you'd expect: the protagonist interacts with the fawning members of the literature club, many confiding conversations are had, and there's a minigame involving the composition of overwrought high school poetry. Necessary spoilers follow: things gradually take a darker turn when one of the club members falls head-over-heels for the protagonist. The tone continues to sour and the cliche visual novel trappings gradually erode, giving way to potent psychological horror dealing with depression and suicide.