The Medium” centered on the title’s concept of depicting two realms simultaneously, revealing to players both a rundown (yet still typical) real world and a cursed underworld teeming with malevolent spirits. Nevertheless, certain horror games evoke fear in multiple dimensions.
“Doki Doki Literature Club” first appears and behaves like an ordinary anime visual novel, intentionally. You assume the role of an unnamed, indistinct student who enrolls in their school’s Literature Club, filled with adorable anime girls. Throughout the gameplay, you write poems, interact with the girls, and…discover their dismembered remains. Yes, that “psychological horror” label is not there by coincidence. And it’s merely the beginning.
The narrative twist of “Doki Doki Literature Club” is that one of the characters “understands” they are part of a video game.
