Doki Doki Switcheroo! is a fan mod by MWRoach
. In this fan game based on Doki Doki Literature Club!, you play the role as the childhood friend of Satori who asks you to join his club one day. Despite some initial hesitation, you agree. Upon arriving to the literature club, you meet Natsuko, a flirtatious young man with an attitude; Yuuri, a tall, shy boy with a deep fascination with books; and Mateo, the witty president of the club.
After three years of development, the full version was released on October 31, 2021, just in time for Halloween. The mod can be downloaded here.
This fan mod provides examples of:
- Adaptation Personality Change: While the characters for the most part remain the same, they have different personalities traits or in the case of Mateo, very different. Unlike the original Monika's friendly personality, Mateo is much more arrogant and rude towards the protagonist, which is revealed in Act 3 that it was a cover by Mateo as he had feelings for the protagonist. Yuuri likes fire instead of knives, the female protagonist is more of a delinquent than the original, Natsuko is much more romantic and flirts with the protagonist openly, and Satori, while still cheery and joyful, is more serious and mature than Sayori.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Mentioned above but Mateo isn't as friendly to the new protagonist as Monika was to the old protagonist. He has unbelievable amounts of arrogance, which the protagonist even states nearly word for word. He is also not welcoming at all to the protagonist and instead of wanting her to stay in the Club, he asks if it's a short visit and warns that joining the Club is not for "the faint of heart", showing that he does not want her to be around at all. Downplayed because in Act 3, Mateo mentions that he loves the protagonist a lot and that his rudeness was only a cover to prevent the protagonist from joining the Club.
- Absurdly Short Level: Act 3 is much shorter than it is in DDLC.
- Bait-and-Switch: After following the plot of DDLC very closely, it subverts the reader's expectations right at the climax of Act 1, with Satori being alive and Mateo committing suicide.
- Body Horror: Instead of Yuuri's death, the player is treated to a CG of the MC's face graphically melting after Yuuri sets them both on fire.
- Balancing Death's Books: The mod's hidden premise is that a form of this has been inherited from the original game: Someone must die at the end of Act 1, then someone must be deleted for Act 3 to end; the victim can change, but there must be one for each.
- Depending on the Artist: There was a different artist for every boy's CGs, so there is a noticeable difference in art styles between them.
- Evolving Title Screen: After Act 1 end, Mateo is deleted from the title screen, then in Act 4 he is restored, but Satori's deleted instead.
- Foreshadowing: During the weekend event with Yuuri, when the player character enters his room, she smells bacon. This is an early hint at Yuuri's pyromaniac tendencies.
- Gender Flip: If it wasn't obvious enough.
- Genre Shift: Like the original game, it changes from a romance/harem visual novel to psychological horror, before going back to a normal visual novel at the end.
- Hollywood Psych: Bipolar Disorder is abbreviated as BPD in the game. In psychology, BPD is the abbreviation for Borderline Personality Disorder, which is a very different mental condition.
- Hotter and Sexier: Downplayed. There are more dirty jokes and sexual innuendos than in DDLC, justified by how the player character is more forward, but there is no actual sex shown or implied.
- My Death Is Only The Beginning: Mateo kills himself at the end of Act 1,with no warning or reason. At the very end it turns out to be part of a masterplan to make the game go the way he wants.
- Permanently Missable Content: Just like the original game, when you start Act 2, there is no way back. If you want to collect all CGs from Act 1, you have to restart the game.
- Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...: At some point in the game, a poem that starts like this shows up in the game files.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The only ending of the game has Satori being permanently deleted and Mateo taking over the story.
- Wham Shot: Mateo's lifeless body in the clubroom with his neck gushing blood. Unlike its equivalent in the original, it isn't foreshadowed in the least.
- You Can't Make an Omelette...: Mateo's plan of getting his happy ending involved his suicide in Act 1, so he could come back to life in Act 4. In addition, the person who became the President of Literature Club in Act 2 had to get deleted from existence in Act 3.
