After receiving the baking CGs with Natsuki, save that as your third save, and reload up your first save for poem selection and gear it towards Yuri.

Click “I love you.” After you reach the scene where Sayori hugs the protagonist, save your game NOW as your second load, and reload your first load, or else you’ll reach “that” scene and will be forced to play through Monika’s route again (which you don’t want).

On the weekend choice, you’re given a 2nd choice.

On the third day, you’re given a choice whenever to hang out with either one of the four girls, but only Natsuki or Yuri’s choice will advance the game.

Her words are as follows: Adventure, Alone, Amazing, Awesome, Bed, Beauty, Bliss, Broken, Calm, Charm, Cheer, Childhood, Clumsy, Color, Comfort, Cry, Dance, Dark, Daydream, Dazzle, Death, Defeat, Depression, Embrace, Empty, Excitement, Extraordinary, Family, Fear, Feather, Fireflies, Fireworks, Flower, Flying, Forgive, Friends, Fun, Grief, Happiness, Heart, Holiday, Hope, Hopeless, Hurt, Joy, Laugh, Lazy, Loud, Love, Lucky, Marriage, Memories, Misery, Misfortune, music, Nature, Ocean, Passion, Peaceful, Pain, Party, Play, Prayer, Precious, Promise, Rainbow, Raincloud, Romance, Rose, Sadness, Scars, Shame, Sing, Smile, Sparkle, Special, Sunny, Sunset, Sweet, Tears, Together, Tragedy, Treasure, Unrequited, Vacation, Warm, Wonderful.

Reinstall the game for a fresh and brand new start.

View the end credits, and uninstall the game.

Any choices that appear don’t matter as you will end up with the same ending.

Click “new game” and go along with the story once again.

Follow the story and you’ll return to the main menu. Delete Monika’s file and reload the game once again.

Head to your game files, and enter the characters folder.

If you did indeed reload, quit out again. At this point you may reload the game up again to get some bonus dialogue, but it doesn’t effect your game play.

Wait until she mentions “staring into each other’s eyes” and wait for a bit until the next batch of text appears.

Continue on with the story until you reach what you see in that picture of Monika. Click on it to begin the second half of your first play through.

After you reach “END”, you’ll find all your game saves deleted and the words “New Game” replaced by some technical jumble.

Right now for your first play through, just randomly choose words and go with the story. What I mean is that during occasional segments, you are asked to compose a poem based on words they give you. In any way, here is a correct order in how to play DDLC. I will try my best to keep this spoiler-free.

Here is a guide on how to complete this visual novel. Doki Doki Literature Club is an indie visual novel created by Dan Salvato, and follows a plot as simple as cake.

Doki doki literature club monika ending