Google bans Doki Doki Literature Club from their store due to "sensitive themes"

[TheRealSamusAran]

Vodacixi said:

It should be noted that the "Plus" version of the game includes an alternate scenario without involving us the player. In this scenario, the girls develop their own stories and the bonds between each other, exploring themes like depression, abuse and self-harm in a very realistic, but warming way. There's no gore, there's no sexual content. Just 4 girls going through their problems and supporting each other as friends.

People often leave this part out (well, it's behind a paywall, so it's somewhat understandable), but this content is probably one of the most mature and well put together stories about mental health that I've seen in a video game. And if you play it after the main game, you get an incredibly cathartic effect after all the horror that the girls had to go through. Just for this alone I think it's a game worth playing and definitely shouldn't be pulled off from any store due to "sensitive themes". It helps a lot more than it harms.

I never looked into what the Plus version offers, because I figured it was just a cash grab, specially with that version releasing on consoles, when the original game being on PC was such an important part of the experience.

But... I want to play that now.