Doki Doki Literature Club has two main ending outcomes. The standard ending is reached by completing the story normally, while the True Ending requires collecting every required character CG before progressing beyond the first major story break.
Ending #1 – Standard Ending
Start a New Game.
Play through the first part of the game normally. Your poem choices and character choices can be anything.
Continue until you reach END.
Select the altered New Game option.
Continue through the story until you are alone with Monika.
When Monika begins talking about “staring into each other’s eyes,” quit the game.
Open the game’s characters folder.
Delete Monika’s character file.
Start the game again.
Continue until you return to the main menu.
Select New Game.
Continue through the remaining story.
Watch the ending and credits.
Ending #2 – True Ending
Start from a fresh game.
Continue until the first poem-writing section.
Save 1
Sayori CGs
Create your first two poems primarily with Sayori words.
Useful Sayori words include:
Adventure
Alone
Amazing
Awesome
Bed
Beauty
Bliss
Broken
Calm
Charm
Cheer
Childhood
Clumsy
Color
Comfort
Cry
Dance
Dark
Daydream
Death
Depression
Embrace
Empty
Family
Fear
Friends
Fun
Happiness
Heart
Hope
Joy
Laugh
Love
Memories
Peaceful
Promise
Rainbow
Romance
Sadness
Smile
Special
Sunny
Sweet
Tears
Together
Treasure
Warm
Wonderful
When asked who to spend time with, choose Natsuki.
When Sayori confesses:
I love you.
Continue until the scene where Sayori hugs you.
Save 2
Load Save 1
Natsuki CGs
Create your first two poems primarily with Natsuki words.
Useful Natsuki words include:
Anime
Blanket
Boop
Bouncy
Bubbles
Bunny
Candy
Cheeks
Chocolate
Clouds
Cute
Doki doki
Games
Giggle
Fluffy
Hair
Heartbeat
Jump
Kawaii
Kiss
Kitty
Lollipop
Marshmallow
Melody
Milk
Parfait
Pink
Playground
Poof
Pout
Puppy
Ribbon
Shiny
Shopping
Socks
Strawberry
Sugar
Summer
Twirl
Vanilla
When asked who to spend time with:
Natsuki
Continue through Natsuki’s weekend scene.
Save 3
Load Save 1
Yuri CGs
Create your first two poems primarily with Yuri words.
Useful Yuri words include:
Afterimage
Agonizing
Ambient
Analysis
Anxiety
Atone
Aura
Breathe
Cage
Captive
Climax
Contamination
Crimson
Desire
Destiny
Determination
Disaster
Dream
Eternity
Existence
Frightening
Graveyard
Heavensent
Horror
Imagination
Infinite
Insight
Intellectual
Journey
Judgment
Melancholy
Philosophy
Portrait
Question
Secretive
Sensation
Starscape
Time
Uncontrollable
Uncanny
Universe
Unstable
Vertigo
Vibrant
Vitality
Vivid
Whirlwind
Wrath
When asked who to spend time with:
Yuri
Continue through Yuri’s weekend scene.
When Sayori confesses:
I love you.
Continue through the story without loading an earlier save.
After reaching END, continue through the remaining acts normally.
When you eventually reach Monika alone, quit the game and delete Monika’s character file.
Restart the game.
Continue through the final sequence and credits to receive the True Ending.
