Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
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This casual indie game, released in 2021, has garnered 28,771 positive Steam reviews. It offers a unique visual novel experience with a focus on character interaction and narrative.
Overview
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is a 2021 Casual game developed by Team Salvato and published by Serenity Forge. On Steam it has gathered 29,497 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Team Salvato with publisher Serenity Forge is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
29,497
Positive
97%
Steam appid
1388880
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
123
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $9.1M to $21.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 60 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 29,497 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $15.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
53 observed days · window low $10.49Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $10.49 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 20:45 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! sold?
- indielist estimates Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! has sold between 1,061,892 and 2,477,748 units (median 1,769,820), derived from its 29,497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!?
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! was developed by Team Salvato and published by Serenity Forge.
- Who published Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!?
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! was published by Serenity Forge, developed by Team Salvato. See Serenity Forge's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! released?
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! have on Steam?
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! has 29,497 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! worth playing?
- Steam players rate Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! 97% positive across 29,497 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as I Wani Hug that Gator!, NEKOPARA Vol. 3, Class of '09, Monster Prom 4: Monster Con, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Team Salvato's other releases and Serenity Forge's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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