When comparing Doki Doki Literature Club! vs Crashlands, the Slant community recommends Doki Doki Literature Club! for most people. In the question“What are the best singleplayer games on Steam?” Doki Doki Literature Club! is ranked 47th while Crashlands is ranked 71st. The most important reason people chose Doki Doki Literature Club! is:
Unlike your regular psychological horror game, Doki Doki Literature Club doesn't show it head first to you. It delivers it as a form of glitches, or even disturbing imagery which captures the players' off-guard.
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Pros
Pro Uniquely delivers the horror elements
Unlike your regular psychological horror game, Doki Doki Literature Club doesn't show it head first to you. It delivers it as a form of glitches, or even disturbing imagery which captures the players' off-guard.
Pro Completely original and innovative ideas
Original ideas for a horror game. This even extends to the actual game files it runs on, which the player also has to keep a track of.
Pro Nails Horror
If you think this is some happy, go-lucky dating game, well... you'll be surprised what hides. It nails horror and the feeling of helplessness, since in a dating simulator you don't have power. The game keeps you on your toes once you're past act one, and it's generally scary what happens.
Pro Hours of content just in the main quest alone gives the player plenty to do
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
Pro Pleasing graphics that show off a well designed and polished game
The graphics look nice and you can tell time has been put into designing them. While not the most flashy, there is a certain style to the whole game that makes for a very cohesive experience.
Pro Pick up from your last save, no matter the device you are using, thanks to the built in cloud saving
Playable on Android, iOS and PC you're able to transfer the one game between multiple devices (on same or different operating systems) and take it with you anywhere you go. with a Butterscotch ID (the devs self implemented cloud save system).
Pro Excellent progression system where you never feel like you are grinding too much
Progression never feels sluggish or rushed, everything has a good pace to it from the farming of materials and grinding out the various components for the tons of items, to the incredibly unique combat/interaction system, it all blends well into a long gaming experience.
Pro Hundreds items to craft in a deep and varied crafting system that will keep the user busy for hours and hours
There are over 500 items that can be crafted in the game, giving the player quite a lot to experiment with and explore when it comes to crafting items.
Pro Great soundtrack that suits the humor and setting of the game quite well
A great mix of chill and energized music, that fits the setting of the game at all times. A pleasure to listen to on its own as well.
Pro Multiple game modes
Once you've finished the basic mode there's also a challenging and insane mode for replayability.
Pro Good writing
You don't need to read everything to enjoy the game but the writing is very good and really adds to the enjoyment.
Pro Lots of entertaining pop-culture references
Cons
Con Feels like a crappy gaming creepypasta
There’s a lot of cheap tricks used in this game used by a various crappy gaming creepypastas. One example is when a character’s eyes turn HyPeR ReAlIsTIC, which is a common trope in gaming and lost episode creepypastas. The worst part about this is that the characters are really interesting before the game tries to be a bootleg Sonic.exe.
Con Overwhemingly has a mental impact on the player
If you are disturbed easily, DO NOT play this game. Heed the game warnings.
Con Spoiler sensitive
Even though it has a great story, it is prone to spoilers too which is very hard to avoid.
Con Cloud saves not through Google services
An extra account will need to be used in order to take advantage of the cloud saving as it does not work with Googles solution to cloud saves. While this does allow for the cloud saves to work cross platform, people may not want to take the extra step to make a new account with Butterscotch Shenanigans.