Looking for Horror Game or Rule-Horror Stories Where the Protagonist Is the Behind-the-Scenes Boss or Founder 求惊悚游戏或规则怪谈:主角是幕后Boss或创始人

1. 1 让 I Asked You to Write an Essay, Not a Rule Horror Story! 让你写作文，你写规则怪谈？ Mu Youqingyao木又清遥Mystery622k WordsCompleted [Behind the Scenes]+ [Creating Rules Horror]+ [No System]+ [No Saintly Hero] Lin Chen wrote nothing more than a school essay, yet it plunged all of Longguo into panic. Because the rules horror he wrote had become real! The night before, wanting revenge on the gangsters who bullied him, Lin Chen had used one of their birthday parties as the template for a rules horror scenario. The next day, he was astonished to discover that several classmates who had attended the gangsters' birthday party the p 3.3kReads8.2Score518Shelves

   Reader note

   It's really good-looking [crying] [crying] [crying] It's as good-looking as a masterpiece. After enjoying it to the fullest, it feels like your mouth is broken and you can only say the word "good-looking" [lick screen]

2. 2 规 Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈：我的家人不正常 White Beard白胡子Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr 51.6kReads9.4Score7.1kShelves
3. 3 规 Rule Horror: I Can See Hidden Clues 规则怪谈：我能看到隐藏提示 Xing Wuchen星无辰Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted The world of supernatural tales has arrived, and everyone must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the world of supernatural tales has appeared once more. Sun Kai accidentally transmigrates into it, becoming one of the first contestants representing his nation’s fate. They carry the fate of Xia Nation on their shoulders! If they win, they survive, Xia Nation’s fortunes rise, and its people all benefit. If they lose, they die, the nation’s fortunes fall, and supernatural tales invade the 4.8kReads9.0Score535Shelves
4. 4 规 Rule Horror: I Can Foresee Death 规则怪谈：我能预见死亡 Sanqi Without Sugar三七不加糖Mystery490k WordsCompleted [Original Scenarios + Foreknowledge of Death + Deduction + National Fortune + Live Broadcast + Suspense + Horror] Supernatural tales descend, and the bizarre invades. One person in each country will be chosen as the lucky contestant, entering countless Rule Horror worlds where all manner of horrors lurk. Clear the scenario, and your country will earn a brief respite! Fail, and the rules descend upon a city, bringing disaster and leaving countless people dead or grieving! This time, Su Li is chos 21.9kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
5. 5 穿 After Entering a Strange World, I Was Mistaken for a God 穿进诡异世界后我被当成了神 Snowfall In Winter岁冬下雪了Sci-Fi & Apocalypse353k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + strong female lead + mastermind + supernatural horror + apocalypse + no romance] Escape-game boss Jiang Ning transmigrates into the body of a real heiress who’s on the verge of dying. To extend her life, she starts writing stories online. Wish-granting stars, creepy dolls... One urban legend after another is born from her stories and merges with the existing legends of this world. Her novels become tickets for people to enter Jiang Ning’s haunted stories, and a powerful tool fo 1.1kReads8.6Score158Shelves
6. 6 规 Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆 Alas, Deep Love奈何情深Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra 61.1kReads9.6Score8kShelves

   Reader note

   Don't miss it if you are a book-hungry person! =‌‍ =‌‍

7. 7 无 Infinite Escape: The Museum Curator Rules the Livestream 无限逃生：馆主飒爆直播间 Ling Yu令鱼Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + mostly imaginative horror + romance + ensemble cast] Lu Yu is a little-known actress who has spent three years in the entertainment industry. TV director: “What is this garbage acting? Get out of my production!” Variety show director: “You have no sense of variety-show humor. How could someone as mediocre as you think you can make it in entertainment?” Agent: “You’re good for nothing but your face.” But after Lu Yu becomes the owner of a game arcade and enters an escape game... 12.5kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
8. 8 B The BOSS Is Logging Into the Players' Forum BOSS正在登陆玩家论坛 Ink Rising on the Wind扶风起墨Sports1.2M WordsCompleted [The Fourth Calamity]+ [Newbie village boss]+ [Subverting expectations]+ [Torturing players] On the night the “Divine Revelation” game went on sale, Xia Er died from staying up too late. When he opened his eyes, he discovered he had become a “newbie village boss” in the game. To make sure he survived, all he could do was quietly lurk on the player forums every day and study their latest guides. Player: “There's a secret passage in this dungeon area. We can sneak in through here.” Xia 24.6kReads8.8Score2.8kShelves
9. 9 让 You Asked Me to Write Something Creepy, So I Made the Urban Legend Come True? 让你书写诡异，你反手怪谈成真？ Xunlu Qingyu寻鹭倾羽Mystery211k WordsOngoing [Villain Protagonist + No Female Lead + No CP] They call me mad and defiant, and curse me to sink forever into the endless abyss. Blood for ink, bones for paper. Utterly wicked and evil, with no regard for human decency. A book of eldritch gods, yet I’ve been branded a follower of an evil god. It was clearly meant to suppress evil and keep the world safe, but they feared its power and pinned baseless crimes on me. Since you all call me a heretic, then I might as well grant your wish and ascend t 13Reads6.6Score—Shelves
10. 10 末 Apocalypse Villain: Reborn, I Infiltrate the Protagonist's Crew 末世反派：重生后，我混入主角团 Room-Temperature Sugar-Free Soda常温无糖汽水Sci-Fi & Apocalypse683k WordsCompleted [Zombies + post-apocalypse + doomsday + self-interest + decisive and ruthless + villain] Important: The protagonist is neutral evil when he’s in a good mood and chaotic evil when he’s not. He has almost no humanity. Don’t read if that’s not your thing. Only after Chi You dies does he learn that the hotheaded boy who’s always going on about love and peace is the chosen protagonist, destined to save the world, while he himself is merely a villain serving as a stepping stone along the protagonist 42.2kReads9.2Score4.5kShelves
11. 11 死 Death Note: A Fanatic’s Rebirth 死亡笔记：狂信徒的重生 Judgment of the Three of Pentacles审判星币三Anime Fanfiction236k WordsOngoing A Death Note fanfiction Kira is dead. After witnessing a god fall with his own eyes, the arrested Teru Mikami is consumed by regret and despair, and eventually goes mad and dies in prison. When he opens his eyes again, he's returned to six years earlier. “Kami... Kami...” It must be that God has given him a chance to atone, that God has let him start over! “Please give me a chance to serve as your right-hand man once again...” “This time, I won't let you down!” *The plot and characterization d 995Reads9.4Score156Shelves
12. 12 都 Everyone Wants Me to Save the World, but I'm Really the Mastermind 都让我救世，可我真是幕后黑手啊 Xunlu Qingyu寻鹭倾羽Urban234k WordsCompleted [No female lead + fake mastermind] He awakens from a deep slumber and discovers he has returned to Guixu, which he had left in others' hands after giving up and washing his hands of everything. A bunch of people are slacking off, clocking out the moment their shifts end. Asked who came up with the idea, every one of them denies responsibility, with a perfectly good excuse. Bottle Maiden: “My lord, you know me. I usually don't clock out on time. I just find a way to take leave or sneak out early. 905Reads7.0Score233Shelves
13. 13 人 I'm in a Rule Horror Game, and I'm the Chosen Villain 人在规则怪谈，我是天命大反派 Duanmu Kuai Zi端木筷子Mystery284k WordsCompleted [Subverting expectations + horror administrator + creating rules + no romance, no female lead + invincible] Chen Fan woke up inside a rule-based horror scenario and discovered that everyone else had drawn powerful SSS-rank talents. He alone had no talent and no System. And wasn’t this task a little strange? “Kill the Chosen Ones in the scenario? Am I supposed to kill myself?” “Wait, I’m not a Chosen One. I’m the horror administrator?” “So I don’t have a talent or a System, but I do have all kind 9.2kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
14. 14 演 Performing a Narcissus Play, Audience, Please Don’t Get Too Invested 演绎水仙剧本，观众请别上头 Unintentional Afterglow余晖无意Two Male Leads357k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + beautiful, strong, tragic protagonist + faux narcissistic pairing at first (read with caution if this bothers you) + destined enemies] Xie Yuxing thought he was an ordinary college student. But who could tell him why he'd woken up in a mass grave? A System suddenly appeared and told him: [Host, congratulations. You're dead.] Xie Yuxing: ...Thanks? When he learned how he'd died, he was so exasperated he didn't know what to say. Was he just that unlucky? Sure enough, everyone els 3.7kReads8.7Score421Shelves
15. 15 司 Commander Si, Why Are You Standing with the Monsters? 司统大人，您怎么站怪物那边了？ Little Black the Firebreather喷火小黑Urban3.6M WordsOngoing [No female lead + no romantic tension + no romance + ruthless and decisive] Amid the crowds beneath the neon-lit cityscape, there are monsters wearing human skin, walking among them just like ordinary people. The news says these people are called the Awakened. They feed on human flesh and are savage monsters. One quiet afternoon, an ordinary high school sophomore undergoes a transformation and becomes one of the Awakened, standing against all of humanity! To survive, he makes a pact with a god a 124.2kReads8.8Score13.6kShelves
16. 16 惊 Thriller: I Built the Anomalous Track Containment Society 惊悚：我打造了异轨收容会 Chi Yisheng赤亦生Mystery2.7M WordsOngoing [Horror + Satisfying Power Fantasy + Director’s Tall-Tale Style] Horror games descended upon Blue Star, turning into one eerie dungeon after another. The monsters inside stepped into the real world, and from then on, the world was overrun with the uncanny. Only by conquering every dungeon could humanity stop the supernatural from consuming the world. Otherwise, the eerie realms would merge with reality and turn the human world into a living hell! Shen Yu bound himself to an Anomaly Containmen 56.1kReads9.1Score5.3kShelves
17. 17 先 The Prophet’s Guide to Building a World-Saving Organization 先知的救世组织养成计划 I Can't Do Anything, Ahhh什么都不会啊啊啊Urban1.2M WordsOngoing [Slow-paced, no female lead, not invincible, ensemble cast, not a wish-fulfillment story, not action-packed. The author would rather introduce this world. Also, the author is really bad at writing fight scenes, so there are as few as possible. Please go easy on me (screams).] The world as he knew it fell apart, and Chen Zihong unexpectedly arrived in a world both familiar and strange. When he learned he possessed the ability to foresee the future, he concealed his name and called himself the “Pr 175Reads9.0Score—Shelves
18. 18 无 Infinite Flow: The Unhinged, Elegant, Twisted Master Goes on a Killing Spree 无限流：疯批优雅变态大佬杀疯了 Mocking Laughter笑讽嘲Mystery245k WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + horror game + dark fiction + no female lead + ruthless protagonist] This book was originally titled Infinite Strange Games, and is also known as As Long As I'm Twisted Enough, Even Ghosts Fear Me and I Will Rule the Bizarre. Thirty-six years after the Bizarre Game descended upon the world, it continues to select players and send them into instances full of horrors and strange tales, where they struggle to survive. Specimen maker Si Qi enters the game of his own accord. From that 1.9kReads8.9Score308Shelves
19. 19 诡 The Haunting World: When I Put Pen to Paper, the Apocalypse Begins 诡世：当我落笔，末世降临 The Sole Exemplar of Confucian Dao儒道独尊Mystery514k WordsCompleted (Weirdness, apocalypse, author, multiple sequences, supernatural powers, no goody-two-shoes protagonist) [The death knell rings out. At this moment, the world of the uncanny and reality overlap, and the apocalypse arrives!] On a bus, Qin Ling writes the final chapter of his novel. But he never expects that the novel he wrote, The Uncanny World, will become reality at that very moment! A terrifying, despair-filled apocalypse, thirteen Zodiac sequences with 52 branches, and mysterious hidden seque 75Reads5.9Score—Shelves
20. 20 F A Rank F Rookie? I'm Clearly the Top Player F级新人？明明是第一玩家 Huo Fei惑非Two Male Leads1.2M WordsCompleted (Completed) [Two Male Leads + Infinite Flow + Rekindled Romance + Not Invincible + Twists + Foreshadowing + Happy Ending] [A beautiful but hot-tempered bottom who’s always flirting with death, paired with a seemingly innocent, calculating, vindictive green-tea top.] Gu Wei is a lowly F-rank criminal in the live-stream performance system. After blowing an entire instance sky-high along with his little assistant, he is exiled by the System to a punishment instance. The players thought Gu Wei would 33.8kReads9.4Score6.5kShelves
21. 21 我 I’m Only Playing a Psychopath, but I’m Actually a Good Prisoner 我只是扮演变态，其实我是好囚犯 Walking the Dangerous Path危行Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Male lead is a trouble-loving thrill-seeker + livestreaming + role-playing + no romance, pure wish fulfillment + AI game infinite-flow] Xie Qi transmigrates to a parallel world. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself a prisoner, being taken to an island that houses the world's most vicious criminals. This world is controlled by major corporations, with the government nothing more than their puppet. The Prisoner Island is a massive livestreaming game made for the rich. All the prisoners are an 19.4kReads9.3Score2.9kShelves
22. 22 人 Trapped in a Horror World, I Was Forced to Become the Boss 人在惊悚，我被逼成了BOSS Fearless Elephant无畏象Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [No female lead + infinite-flow + decisive and ruthless + nuclear-grade absurdity + chaotic neutral] As everyone knows, surviving even a single day in a horror game is extremely difficult. Yet Lin Yi was trapped in the Undying Village for a full 29 days! Not only did he manage not to die, he was forced to become the ultimate BOSS of that instance! After resolving his survival crisis, he finally realized there was a problem. Now that I'm a BOSS, why haven't I cleared the game? That is, until a ne 6.9kReads9.0Score728Shelves
23. 23 我 I'm the Administrator of a Death Instance 我在死亡副本当管理员 I'll Get Up Early Next Time下次一定早起Two Male Leads512k WordsCompleted (Main story complete) [Death game + dual male leads + one-on-one romance + a highly moral, clingy instance boss x a rational administrator with questionable morals] Want to exploit bugs in death-game instances and breeze through high-difficulty levels? Want a golden finger that lets you transcend the rules, dominate the instances, and reach the pinnacle of life? Li Qing, head of the Death Instance Maintenance Team, says: No. Absolutely not! Bugs? Patched! Cheats? Banned! No matter how destined y 5kReads9.2Score904Shelves
24. 24 开 From the Start, I Played a Containment Officer and Upended the World's Understanding 开局扮演收容师，颠覆全球认知 Li Li Duck黎璃鸭Mystery267k WordsOngoing [Secret identity + behind the scenes + no romance + horror + roleplay + organization] Yu Chen was an ordinary person from Blue Star, until he transmigrated into Red Star, a world where a strange game had descended. Here, only by clearing every instance can people stop the strange entities from entering the real world. Otherwise, the real world will be invaded and assimilated by ghost realms, becoming a new haunt for strange entities. Yu Chen transmigrated with a card-drawing roleplay System. As 78Reads7.5Score—Shelves
25. 25 欺 Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ Violent Purple-Skinned Person暴力紫皮人Mystery5.2M WordsOngoing [Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you 555.1kReads9.3Score108.7kShelves
26. 26 参 Taking Part in a Horror Game? But I’m the Developer 参与惊悚游戏？可我是开发者啊 Xunlu Qingyu寻鹭倾羽Mystery339k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead + No Romance] In one world, there are plenty of talented people, but no law or order. In one game, everyone just watches the show, killing, setting fires, and screwing themselves over. An Sheng finds no joy in completing missions. He thinks he can lead his companions into staging a farce. He says this loop is meaningless, and that blowing up a train would be much more fun. “Tell me, what if we move into that apartment and enjoy the show with the security guard?” “Look, they've ga 2.5kReads8.9Score590Shelves
27. 27 颠 Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球：开局扮演反派大佬 Blazing Heavenly Inquiry炽生天问Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th 33.4kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves

    Reader note

    1265 Hours old bookworm strongly recommends it, if it doesn't look good, you can just mock me with electronic music⠀‌‍‎

28. 28 规 Rule Horror: Furina Breaks the Horrors 规则怪谈：芙宁娜把诡异玩坏了 A Fox阿福克斯Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Transformation + Rules-Based Horror + Genshin Impact + The Supernatural + Lighthearted + Power Fantasy + National Destiny + Mischief-Maker] Bai Tang wakes after transmigrating and discovers that he has turned into Furina, the Hydro Archon. Rules-based horror has now swept the globe, trapping countless people in its deadly scenarios. Bai Tang thought he wouldn’t survive past the first couple of episodes, but to his surprise, he gets bound to the Joyful Mischief-Maker System! As long as he finds 2.5kReads9.3Score302Shelves

    Reader note

    [Transformation + Strange Stories about Rules + Original God + Weirdness + Relaxation + Cool Articles + National Luck + Fun People] Bai Tang woke up after traveling through time and found that he had become the water goddess Funina.

29. 29 怪 Weird Tales Space: Starting with the Creation of Fake Humans 怪谈空间：从制造伪人开始 Yaoguang Ersan San瑶光贰叁叁Mystery704k WordsCompleted [Smart protagonist + villain + infinite flow + mastermind + creating eerie urban legends + no heroine + dark] [Don't judge by the rating. It was lowered by review bombing.] [Author's new book: I Loaded an Urban Legend Game into the World] After being forcibly reincarnated by a dump truck, Feng Hou did not transmigrate to another world. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a lightless black sphere: an eerie space capable of creating all kinds of urban legends and absorbing humanity's ne 282Reads8.6Score101Shelves
30. 30 规 Rules of the Strange: My Companions Are All Anime Characters 规则怪谈，我的伙伴全是动漫人物 Chaos Without a Thought混沌无念Anime Fanfiction1.8M WordsCompleted [Rules-based horror + beast taming + comedy + System + no romance] The protagonist isn't a bleeding heart! (This isn't traditional beast taming or a national-fate rules horror story, so feel free to dive in.) After waking from a night's sleep, Lin Yu found himself transmigrated into a parallel world where people mainly made contracts with the supernatural. He was also a soon-to-be senior in high school, training to become a supernatural beast tamer?! "All I did was stay up late watching Blue Fox 11kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
31. 31 规 Rule Horror: My Murder Mystery Has No NPCs 规则怪谈：我的剧本杀没有NPC Xing Dao Shu行道数Mystery98k WordsCompleted Lin Yuanzhou inherited a script murder mystery shop on the verge of closing and found a USB drive under the cash register. The moment he plugged it into a computer, the screen went black, and a line of text appeared: "Welcome back, Rule Observer No. 7." Each of the shop's six themed rooms corresponded to a real, long-buried unsolved case. On the first night he entered "The Secluded Island House," the door locked by itself, and the first rule appeared on the wall: After dark, do not look directly —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    You can read this book

32. 32 规 Rule Horror: I'm a Scholar!! 规则怪谈：我是读书人啊！！ Yam and Blueberry Don't Go Together山药不搭蓝莓Mystery365k WordsCompleted Guan Ziliang had just passed the written portion of the national civil service exam when he got so excited that he keeled over and died. When he woke again, he was in a strange new world. [Welcome to the Haunted Park] [Loading the Game of Despair…] [Ding! Player Guan Ziliang of the Dragon Kingdom, successfully loaded!] “If you can’t understand reason, this monk knows a few moves with his fists.” “Technically, you’re not allowed to hit the supernatural, but he’s the one who makes the rules.” A hi 9Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    The author of this book is really very detailed.

33. 33 惊 Thriller Game: I'm the City Lord Behind the Scenes 惊悚游戏：我是幕后城主 The Little Turtle Who Can't Swim不会游泳的小乌龟Mystery265k WordsOngoing Betrayed by his friend, Qin Xiao becomes the Lord of the City of Desire, a hidden ten-star instance in a world of horrors. He can also wander through other instances disguised as a human player. To improve his own instance, he has to “invite” ghosts from other instances to the City of Desire, by hook or by crook. As a player, he keeps harassing both humans and ghosts, gaining Horror Points and growing stronger until he becomes someone both sides loathe. The Phantom of the Opera: He actually made —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    I think this book is good, and I am a long-time fan of this author. I haven't read a book in a long time, so I read it for him today in the same author's old style, who likes to have fun. Now that I'm watching it, I'm very curious about what kind of amazing operations the protagonist can do in this world. I'm looking forward to watching it if you like romance and thrillers, and it'll be a great experience.

Other lists with I Asked You to Write an Essay, Not a Rule Horror Story!