It also helps that some of Doki Doki Literature Club‘s best moments take place outside the game proper. Players have no idea what to expect, or when to expect it, which keeps the scares fresh and terrifying. But partway through the game, Doki Doki Literature Club switches tone from a fan-service title to a horror experience that toys with the fourth wall. The game starts off with a simple dating sim-type loop that involves talking to the club’s four girls and using a fill-in-the-blank system to create puzzles. In Doki Doki Literature Club, players control the only male student in a literature club full of girls, and all of them are in some way attracted to the protagonist.
By the time players realize the game’s true nature, it’s too late. But like an anglerfish, that design is intentionally deceptive. If anything, it looks like your typical, run-of-the-mill anime visual novel. On the surface, Doki Doki Literature Club doesn’t look like a horror game. While Alan Wake features plenty of action segments, expert pacing ensures players never get used to the scares. Alan Wake’s levels shift from inviting to threatening with just a tweak in lighting, and it knows when to lay on the scares and when to give players a breather, if only to rip any sense of safety away with more tension and horror shortly after.
The upshot of that traumatic event is that much of this game plays out like a horror novel. While he does start writing again, he only does so under the influence of a malevolent entity that is now bringing his book to life. He’s an award-winning author with a nasty case of writer’s block, so to get the creative juices flowing, Alan’s wife brings him to Bright Falls, Washington. Alan Wake revolves around, predictably, a man named Alan Wake.
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