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Oh... right... I apparently never actually got around to writing a post about this, even though I played it back in September 2024.
So... Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is essentially the same game as the freeware original game.
Except!
It comes in a new wrapper, which simulates a computer desktop environment (whereas the original game just literally dropped metafictional files into your actual game file folders [none of which are required to complete the game and were things I didn't even know existed during my first playthrough back in 2017]).
Also, vague spoilers, DDLC+ has some additional meta stuff that was not included in the original game. I will not discuss the nature of the additional meta stuff beyond acknowledging that it exists. I'll just say, though, that accessing some of this stuff requires even more screwy UI manipulation than the original game did (which was simply to go look at the game folder from time to time to find the newly generated files). In Plus!, it requires specific (in-game) system clock manipulation, among other things, to find it all. I eventually ended up just looking up the conditions on the wiki to find everything I'd missed.
Oh, and the extra side stories that focus on the origins of the Literature Club (prior to the asshat main character of DDLC proper showing up) are pretty cool, too. If you've never played any version of DDLC, I would recommend playing the main game first, before playing the side stories, even if the side stories are technically prequels to the main game, but if you have played DDLC before and are planning a replay, might as well do the side stories first. Or not. *shrug*
And, lastly, here is the obligatory comment that the soundtrack for the sides stories is pretty good. Some of it is original stuff, and some of it consists of remixes of tracks from the (warning, possible musical and music title and maybe even video thumbnail spoilers for the actual game here) original game's soundtrack. For example.
So... Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! is essentially the same game as the freeware original game.
Except!
It comes in a new wrapper, which simulates a computer desktop environment (whereas the original game just literally dropped metafictional files into your actual game file folders [none of which are required to complete the game and were things I didn't even know existed during my first playthrough back in 2017]).
Also, vague spoilers, DDLC+ has some additional meta stuff that was not included in the original game. I will not discuss the nature of the additional meta stuff beyond acknowledging that it exists. I'll just say, though, that accessing some of this stuff requires even more screwy UI manipulation than the original game did (which was simply to go look at the game folder from time to time to find the newly generated files). In Plus!, it requires specific (in-game) system clock manipulation, among other things, to find it all. I eventually ended up just looking up the conditions on the wiki to find everything I'd missed.
Oh, and the extra side stories that focus on the origins of the Literature Club (prior to the asshat main character of DDLC proper showing up) are pretty cool, too. If you've never played any version of DDLC, I would recommend playing the main game first, before playing the side stories, even if the side stories are technically prequels to the main game, but if you have played DDLC before and are planning a replay, might as well do the side stories first. Or not. *shrug*
And, lastly, here is the obligatory comment that the soundtrack for the sides stories is pretty good. Some of it is original stuff, and some of it consists of remixes of tracks from the (warning, possible musical and music title and maybe even video thumbnail spoilers for the actual game here) original game's soundtrack. For example.
