The indie hit Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! has sold over 1 million copies across various platforms, including PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Serenity Forge, within eight months of its launch on June 30th, 2021.
Successful Sales and Support for Charitable Causes
The game's creator, Dan Salvato, thanked supporters and promised to use the proceeds from the game's sales to support mental health-related charities and to develop new games that can bring more people together and give them meaning.
A Disruptive Approach to Storytelling
Doki Doki Literature Club! was originally started as a hobby project by Dan Salvato in 2017 and became the highest rated Steam game of the year. With Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, the game has now reached consoles and has been polished up with new technology and content. The new content includes six new "Side Stories" that make the relationship between the fictional characters and the players even more complex.
The game tells the story from the perspective of a student reluctantly joining a literature club and writing and exchanging poems with other members to get closer to them. However, the game gradually reveals itself to be something far deeper than initially suspected.
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is a game that impresses with its disruptive approach to storytelling and its unique art form. It proves that indie games can still play an important role in the video game industry and we look forward to seeing what future games Dan Salvato and his team will bring us.
