Every Doki Doki Literature game, ranked
All 2 Doki Doki Literature games we hold, spanning 2017 to 2021: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 259,237 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Doki Doki Literature Club! (GamingPickz Score 8.3), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For the money: Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Doki Doki Literature games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Doki Doki Literature games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Best for: Trying the genre without spending anything
8.3GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceDoki Doki Literature Club! at a glance Released 2017 Studio Team Salvato Player sentiment 96% positive of 227,039 Critics No aggregate Price Free Steam Deck playable Install size 0.34 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 96% shrinks to 96.0 on 227,039 reviews, giving 8.3. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- 96% positive across 227,039 reviews is a strong signal at that volume, where a few enthusiasts cannot move the number.
- Free to download, so trying it costs only time.
- Small install at 0.34 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
8.2GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDoki Doki Literature Club Plus! at a glance Released 2021 Studio Team Salvato Player sentiment 97% positive of 32,198 Critics 81/100 Price $14.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 3 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 97% shrinks to 96.8 on 32,198 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 8.2.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 3 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 97 against 81. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Doki Doki Literature game we can score is Doki Doki Literature Club! at 8.3. The lowest is Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! at 8.2, a 0.1-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Doki Doki Literature Club! at Free. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Doki Doki Literature entries on Steam:
- Verified: Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
- Playable: Doki Doki Literature Club!
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Doki Doki Literature games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Doki Doki Literature series, game by game
Every Doki Doki Literature game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2017
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed. (Steam)
Plot
The protagonist is invited by his cheerful best friend Sayori to join their high school's literature club as a remedy for his introversion. He meets the other members: assertive Natsuki , shy Yuri , and confident president Monika . Each day, the members write and share poems. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception The game was received positively by critics, and accumulated a score of 78/100 on Metacritic based on seven reviews. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received "mighty" approval, being recommended by 71% of critics. Steven T. (Wikipedia)
- 2021
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story. (Steam)
Plot
The protagonist is invited by his cheerful best friend Sayori to join their high school's literature club as a remedy for his introversion. He meets the other members: assertive Natsuki , shy Yuri , and confident president Monika . Each day, the members write and share poems. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception The game was received positively by critics, and accumulated a score of 78/100 on Metacritic based on seven reviews. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received "mighty" approval, being recommended by 71% of critics. Steven T. (Wikipedia)
Doki Doki Literature, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Doki Doki Literature vs other series
How Doki Doki Literature stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Doki Doki Literature games are there?
We hold 2 Doki Doki Literature games in the catalogue, released between 2017 and 2021. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Doki Doki Literature game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Doki Doki Literature Club! rates highest at 8.3. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Doki Doki Literature games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2017 to 2021. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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