Once there, you try to win over the girls in attendance Monika (the club's president), Natsuki, Yuri, and of course Sayori. You play a young boy who, on the first day back at school, decides to join his friend's book club. The game plays with reality, by letting you alter its files and restart multiple times in ways that affect the narrative. But with little warning, it takes a drastic turn that results in the characters killing themselves. You attend your school's literature club and try to win over the girls there. Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) is a psychological horror game in the form of a high school dating simulator.