I Revived Human Civilization in the Stone Age with a Dating RPG

[My new story, “This Was Supposed to Be a Base-Building Game, So How Did It End with a Romance?” is now underway. It opens in the Americas in the Stone World, with the American characters caught in a love triangle. If you’re interested, add it to your favorites!]

3,700 years ago, all 8 billion people in the world were petrified. Human civilization collapsed, leaving behind nothing but strange, jagged stone statues.

Then one day, you were the only one to awaken from petrification. In this Stone Age without even fire, you had a strange game System

[Heart-Pounding DOKI-LOVE Memories. Host player successfully bound.]

[Please work hard to win over characters and earn Heartbeat Points, so human civilization can continue!]

? That’s hilarious. There isn’t a single living person left. What the hell is there to date?

Pisha had scorned this lousy game, until she saw the game’s shop

[Purified Water: 5 Heartbeat Points]

[Rubbing Alcohol: 50 Heartbeat Points]

[Small Knife: 50 Heartbeat Points]

[Postpartum Care for Sows: 150 Heartbeat Points]

[Secret Technique: Side-to-Side Hopping: 250 Heartbeat Points]

[Introduction to Toolmaking: 500 Heartbeat Points]

[Traditional Chinese Medicine: 1,000 Heartbeat Points]

[Invincible Meow-Meow Fist: 2,000 Heartbeat Points]

[Advanced Farming Techniques: 5,000 Heartbeat Points]

[Aerospace Technology: 1,000,000 Heartbeat Points]

Pisha: Why bother with romance?! I’ll revive human civilization in the Stone Age!

Aaaah, where are the people I can farm Heartbeat Points from?!

Why is the game so strict about what counts as a species? For a dating game, you’re awfully narrow-minded! One star!

A monkey’s heart was clearly racing when it ran away!!!!!

*

[Host complaint detected. Criteria have been revised.]

[Ding! Earned Heartbeat Points from a monke: +1 +1 +1 +1 +1]

[Congratulations, player! Achievement unlocked: Make a Monkey’s Heart Beat for Me 50 Times]

[Congratulations, player! You have earned the title: Hairless Monkey King. You are now the highest-ranking creature in the monkey troop. Your strength has made the Hairy Monkey King willingly hand over all authority.]

[You can now command the monkey troop.]

Pisha: !!!!!

*

Later, people emerged from petrification.

To earn the huge reward of 2,000 Heartbeat Points, Pisha started grinding bond levels.

[Once a bond reaches Level 5, a confession will have a 100% chance of success! You can now unlock the romance route!]

Pisha: Are there rewards for bond levels on the romance route too?

[No.]

Pisha: Oh, then never mind.

With Heartbeat Points as her only concern, Pisha began grinding one person’s bond to the max, then immediately moving on to the next. As more and more people reached max bond with her, she gradually realized something was wrong

Wait! You never said they’d confess back and force the romance route to start!!!

*

Bonds currently achieved:

Genius Scientist Lv. 5: When I reached out my hand to you, you had already taken it. Before our story could reach its conclusion, we had crossed thousands of years and miles together, reaching the distant horizon of science and civilization we had yearned for and pursued all our lives.

Psychological Magician Lv. 5: A tiny candle flame gently burns through your palm. Soft, warm, delicate, and a little timid, it nonetheless shines into the darkness and danger without hesitation, just as you’re willing to cherish and protect him. He, too, has always loved and protected you above all others.

Sonar Operator at Sea Lv. 5: Our bond has long been interwoven and entwined, like palms clasped together, impossible to separate or ignore. We started with an agreement to each give half. I hope we’ll end the same way. Entrust half your life to me, and let me entrust half of mine to you.

Greedy Captain Lv. 5: You are my greatest rival. My gaze, my emotions, my heart, all are helplessly drawn to you. The chessboard on which we face each other is vast, yet also small, small enough to hold only you and me, the two kings. I place the crown on your head with my own hands. It is a promise I made, and my most direct confession.

*This is a Dr. Stone fanfic! The original is amazing, everyone should read it!

*Fanfic characters will definitely be OOC!!!

*I’m writing for a rare ship in a tiny fandom. If it’s not your thing, please don’t yell at the chef (cry).

*Slow burn! Slow burn! Slow burn! They really do start from zero! At the start, she has to work hard to make fire in the primeval forest!!

*I hope to write a complete story from beginning to end, so this one will be relatively long!

*The heroine is a total block of wood and a ruthless coupon-clipping machine! She’ll go from having nothing to maxing out her stats and becoming an ace!

*The romance develops slowly! Slowly! Slowly!!! (It takes over 100 chapters to reach Bond Lv. 5.)

*All pairings. No relationships are confirmed in the main story. One-sided crushes early on, then a love rivalry later.

*Every character whose bond reaches Lv. 5 will get a separate 1v1 romance route in the bonus chapters. (The four listed in the blurb.)

*For other bonus chapter requests, check the pinned comment.

*Pisha’s name comes from the papyrus plant. Papyrus was made into paper as early as 3000 BCE, and served as an important medium for recording scientific and literary works in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

If you can’t accept this name, this story probably isn’t for you.

*Please don’t mention other authors’ stories in my comments, and don’t mention my story in other authors’ comments.

*The tone is light and cheerful, so just enjoy yourselves!

*There are countless great stories on Jinjiang. If you drop this one, there’s no need to tell me!

Blurb written April 3, 2025, screenshot archived.

Coming soon: “The NPCs Are Begging Me to Stop Building”

[Dr. Stone + sandbox base building, fourth-dimensional disaster player wreaks havoc, American characters caught in a love triangle]

[Slowly building up a backlog (58,000/60,000 words). It’ll start once there’s enough.]

You bought a virtual-reality base-building game called “Magic Builder.” Your starting location is the barren continent of North America.

As a builder who can imagine and create anything, you’re determined to make the perfect village on this land.

[You have successfully built a bedroom. The villagers can rest now!]

Gen, the scientist who only cares about military projects and research, comes home on time every night to lie down on a straw mat.

[You have successfully built farmland. The villagers will help you cultivate it!]

Stanley, a former soldier whose combat skills and looks are both maxed out, puts down his weapon and starts tilling the soil.

[You built a private bedroom for Stanley. But NPC belongings belong to the player, so you decided to climb through the window into his room and shove him off the bed so you could sleep there yourself.]

[You obtained the blueprint for laser strip lights from Gen. With the NPCs’ help, you completed the power system, and decided to use it to light up the dazzling sign for your farm, which practically screams, “Look at me!”]

[You used a watering can to pour nitric acid, force-fed the monsters with taming food, and led the NPCs on a 38,000-mile march with your summoning staff...]

*

Your village has reached the required size. You can choose what to build next with the villagers.

[To give the villagers new weapons for self-defense, you want to make,]

A. An assault rifle

B. A cannon

C. A bottle opener

You chose C.

So Gen, who should have built a military empire and become a dictator, reluctantly picked up a bottle opener.

[To give the villagers something for recreation, you want to build,]

A. A science lab

B. A shooting range

C. A swing set

You chose C again.

So Stanley, who should have been flying planes and shooting guns, was left swinging in public for everyone to see.

[Your village’s prosperity has increased, and new villagers are coming to join you! The old villagers should get along with the new ones.]

Chelsea and Joel, whom the player had rescued ages ago: ?

Senku and the others, who had just arrived in North America: !!!

Gen: Hmph. This time, we absolutely cannot let her choose C again.

[You and the villagers can use vehicles to explore farther afield. What would you like to make?]

A. A spaceship

B. An airplane

C. Roller skates

You were about to choose C.

The furious NPC villagers: Please stop building things, we’re begging you!!!

*

Besides base building, the game also has an NPC bond badge system.

[You have collected 10 badges. Reward: 3 ultra-rare blueprints.]

[You have collected 20 badges. The materials required for some blueprints have been permanently reduced by 50%.]

The generous rewards had the player hooked on collecting badges, but what she got seemed to be getting stranger and stranger.

[Congratulations! The game filter has been removed. You can now see and touch him as he truly is.]

[Congratulations! You have received a ring holding TA’s one-of-a-kind feelings.]

[We’ve detected that several NPCs have confessed to you at once. Would you like to start a romance route?]

Player: ???

How dare this game secretly install mods on me?!

I’m playing a 12+ sandbox building game! This is not an 18+ dating sim!!!

*This is a Dr. Stone fanfic. The original is amazing!!

*The original game concept has been dropped for various reasons. The blurb and setting may change, but the core idea will remain the same.

*The protagonist is a self-centered player who’ll subject the NPCs to plenty of fourth-dimensional disaster antics they can’t understand!

*Pure romance, BG pairings, with separate 1v1 endings.

*The tone is lighthearted and fun. Making you laugh would be the best!

*Medium-short story, told in third person!

*Fanfic characters will definitely be OOC!

*There are countless great stories on Jinjiang. If you drop this one, there’s no need to tell me!

Blurb written October 12, 2025, screenshot archived.

Theme: Science itself contains poetry.