Cult horror game Doki Doki Literature Club pulled from Google Play Store for its “depiction of sensitive themes” and content that “violates” its TOS

Visual novel horror Doki Doki Literature Club has been pulled from Google Play Store for violating the Terms of Service and its “depiction of sensitive themes”.

Doki Doki Literature Club – the unsettling but brilliant psychological horror that initially debuted as freeware before joining Steam as a free game almost a decade ago – was finally ported to iOS and Android in December 2025. But while the hugely popular cult game is still available for free on Apple devices, Google has pulled the horror title from its store.

Despite its appealing visual novel aesthetic, DDLC is clearly labelled as a psychological horror game, with an added disclosure in the game’s description explaining “this game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed”. The disclosure is also stressed at the beginning of trailers, such as the teaser embedded on the game’s Steam page. Nonetheless, the…