10 Best Stories That ONLY Work As Video Games

10. Doki Doki Literature Club

Here's another spoiler warning in case you're years late to this party.

Doki Doki Literature Club is an experience unlike any other, so long as you go in blind. You take on the role of a nameless protagonist who joins his friend's literature club and begins to romance three of its members. However, things take a drastic turn when you discover that the fourth, non-romanceable girl (Monica) is fully aware she's a character in a video game.

She then manipulates the code to try and become the object of your affection and ends up creating some incredibly horrifying experiences, killing off the other girls and eventually deleting herself and resetting the game.

How can you make a story about a sentient video game character who breaks the fourth wall and messes with the player in a medium other than video gaming and expect it to work?

This story of a game character growing sentience is flawless here as the fourth wall breaking makes it feel uncomfortably real. This ties in with some incredibly cathartic scares, which centre on the mechanics you've experienced thus far, making this a true video game story.