Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Hooks you right away
What the data shows
- 94% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 7+ hours (98%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 95% of games we track.
- 80% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Thank you” (Love, Monika): only 80% of starters get there.
- Only 61% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 33,080 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 9.3h for positive, 5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (61.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Thank you Love, Monika Most players quit here 80% −20
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (19)
story milestone ending side
- Start a New Game Start a New Game. 100%
- Doki Doki Poetry Slam Spend enough time during the poem minigame for the music to loop. 99%
- Perfect! Monika Write a perfect poem for Monika. 88%
- Error Your desktop wallpaper could not be changed due to an administrative policy restriction on this computer. For more information, contact your system administrator. 85%
- Ruin everything Ruin the game. 85%
- Thank you Love, Monika 80%
- Any% WR attempts Write a poem in 20 seconds or less. 74%
- No Choose not to quit DDLC. 73%
- 2-Stocked Delete Monika twice while getting deleted zero times. 51%
- She will never be real Listen to a lot of what Monika has to say. 42%
- Perfect! Sayori Write a perfect poem for Sayori. 39%
- Perfect! Yuri Write a perfect poem for Yuri. 37%
- Perfect! Natsuki Write a perfect poem for Natsuki. 36%
- Dan says hi Find Dan's special note. 30%
- Buy my mixtape Spend 20 minutes listening to music on the desktop. 29%
- Good feature Draw boxes on the desktop. 27%
- Friendship and Literature Finish all of the Side Stories. 26%
- Stonks Review Paula's project plan. 24%
- Breakthrough Achieve 100% data collection. 15%