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Team Salvato · 2017 · 96 % positive of 210,717

24 games that play like Doki Doki Literature Club! and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: How To Date A Magical Girl!, Kid,napper: Gosh, I'm Kidnapped by a Pupil and Love at First Sight.

Player tags

  • Psychological Horror
  • Visual Novel
  • Anime
  • Free to Play
  • Dating Sim
  • Cute
  • Horror
  • Dark

At a glance

What games like Doki Doki Literature Club! have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Doki Doki Literature Club!: Visual Novel (23 of 24), Anime (20) and Psychological Horror (16).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2024, 21 of them after Doki Doki Literature Club! (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Sucker for Love: First Date (98 % positive of 2,745).
  • Blooming Nightshade, Distant Memoraĵo and Black Lily's Tale both play and look like Doki Doki Literature Club!.

By gameplay

Plays like Doki Doki Literature Club!

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. XOXO Blood Droplets90 % positive of 244Shared: Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Dating Sim
  2. Fujiwara Bittersweet87 % positive of 399Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Dating Sim
  3. Love, Sam94 % positive of 541Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  4. Amelie91 % positive of 390Shared: Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Anime
  5. Save Me, Sakuya-san!97 % positive of 871Shared: Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Anime
  6. Furry Angel Take In98 % positive of 605Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Dating Sim
  7. Black Lily's Tale85 % positive of 382Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Story Rich
  8. Kirakira Monstars53 % positive of 320Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Dating Sim
  9. Lost girl`s [diary]82 % positive of 1,099Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Horror
  10. missed messages.96 % positive of 15,196Shared: Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Anime
  11. The NOexistenceN of you AND me93 % positive of 6,585Shared: Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Anime
  12. Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™90 % positive of 6,110Shared: Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Anime

By look

Looks like Doki Doki Literature Club!

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Blooming Nightshade83 % positive of 218
  2. 我的纸片人女友/Make butter together!92 % positive of 652
  3. Black Lily's Tale85 % positive of 382
  4. Dandelions in the Sky89 % positive of 216
  5. NUKITASHI96 % positive of 2,170
  6. Marco & The Galaxy Dragon97 % positive of 7,068
  7. Wet steps92 % positive of 283
  8. Sentimental Death Loop65 % positive of 164
  9. Without Romance78 % positive of 180
  10. Lucid9: Inciting Incident90 % positive of 1,035
  11. Gaokao.Love.100Days90 % positive of 7,937
  12. Dream Ending96 % positive of 3,119

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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