9 Video Games That Used Everything You'd Learned Against You
3. Doki Doki Literature Club Makes You Question Everything
If you took a quick glance at screenshots of Doki Doki Literature Club, you'd have absolutely no idea that there was something horrifying element lying underneath its cutesy anime appearance.
Even its name sounds tame, and that's exactly what the game is meant to do!
It's meant to lull you in so you think you know you're dealing with a bog standard visual novel game and then, suddenly, it starts to become something really quite unnerving, making you question everything you thought you'd already learned.
We won't spoil too much of the plot, but about halfway through, one of the characters does something awful, and the game abruptly ends, kicking you back into the main menu. Your save files are completely corrupted, and they're also deleted too.
Upon restarting the game, that same character will be completely missing, and - somehow - the game's characters don't know anything about her existence at all. The game also starts corrupting slowly throughout, and more and more unnerving, fourth-wall breaking antics happen up until the game's conclusion.
Doki Doki literally takes everything you'd learned on your first playthrough and throws it out of the window.