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

【My new novel, How Did Our Promised City-Building Game Get a Romance Ending?, is now out! It starts in the Americas in a Stone World, with the American team caught in the middle. If that sounds interesting, please add it to your collection.】 3,700 years ago, all eight billion people on Earth were turned to stone. Human civilization collapsed and vanished, leaving behind only strange, jagged statues. Then one day, you alone awaken from petrification. In this Stone Age, where even fire is unknown, you have a very strange game System with you 【Heartbeat DOKI-LOVE Memories. Host player bound.】 【Work hard to win over the characters and earn heartbeats, so human civilization can survive!】 ? This is hilarious. There isn't a single living person left, so what the hell is there to date for? Paper was ready to scoff at this lousy game, until she saw its store 【Purified Water: 5 heartbeats】 【Rubbing Alcohol: 50 heartbeats】 【Knife: 50 heartbeats】 【Postpartum Care for Sows: 150 heartbeats】 【Secret Technique: Side-to-Side Hopping: 250 heartbeats】 【Introduction to Machine Manufacturing: 500 heartbeats】 【Traditional Chinese Medicine: 1,000 heartbeats】 【Invincible Meow-Meow Fist: 2,000 heartbeats】 【Advanced Farming Techniques: 5,000 heartbeats】 【Aerospace Technology: 1,000,000 heartbeats】 Paper: What romance? I’m going to revive human civilization in the Stone Age! Aaah! Where are all the people I can farm affection points from? Why are you so strict about species?! This dating game is ridiculously limited! One star! A monkey’s heart was pounding like crazy when it ran away!!!!! * 【Host complaint detected. Judgment criteria updated.】 【Ding! Gained macaque heartbeats +1 +1 +1 +1 +1】 【Congratulations, Player! Achievement unlocked: Make a Monkey’s Heart Beat for You 50 Times】 【Congratulations, Player! Title earned: Hairless Monkey King. You are now the highest-ranking creature in the troop. Your strength has made the hairy Monkey King willingly surrender all authority to you.】 【You can now put the monkey troop to work.】 Paper: !!!!!! * Later, people emerged from petrification. To earn the enormous reward of 2,000 heartbeats, Paper started grinding bond levels. 【Once a bond reaches level 5, a confession will have a 100% success rate! You can now unlock the romance route!】 Paper: Do romance routes have bond-level rewards too? 【No.】 Paper: Oh, then never mind. With heartbeats as her only concern, Paper made a habit of maxing out one person’s bond before turning around and grinding someone else’s. As the number of people whose bonds she had maxed kept growing, Paper gradually began to sense that something was wrong Wait! You never said they’d confess to me in turn and force the romance route open too!!! * Bonds achieved so far: Genius Scientist Lv. 5: By the time I reached out my hand to you, you had already taken mine. Before our story could reach its end, we had crossed thousands of years and miles together, arriving at the distant shore of science and civilization that we had longed for and pursued all our lives. Psychological Magician Lv. 5: A tiny candle flame burns gently through your palm, soft, warm, delicate, and a little timid, yet it fearlessly lights your way through darkness and danger. Just as you are willing to cherish and protect him, he has always loved and protected you with a special fondness. Shipboard Sonar Operator Lv. 5: Our bond has long been intertwined and joined, like two palms clasped together, impossible to separate or ignore. Our journey began with a promise to each take half, and I hope it will end the same way. Entrust me with half your life, and let me give you half of mine. Greedy Captain Lv. 5: You are my greatest rival. My gaze, my emotions, my heart, all are drawn to you beyond my control. The chessboard where we face off is vast, yet also so small that only you and I remain, two kings. I placed the crown on your head with my own hands. It was a promise I made, and my most direct confession. *This is a Dr. Stone fanfic! The original is really amazing, so everyone should go read it! *There will definitely be OOC in this fanfic!!! *I’m writing this for myself in a niche fandom. Even if it’s not your thing, please don’t yell at the chef (sob). *Slow burn! Slow burn! Slow burn! It really starts from zero! At the beginning, she has to work hard to make a fire in the primeval forest!! *I want to write a complete story from beginning to end, so this will be relatively long! *The heroine is a complete block of wood and an affection-point-farming machine! She’ll go from having nothing to maxing out all her stats and becoming an ace! *The romance develops slowly! Slowly! Slowly!!! (It takes 100+ chapters just to reach bond level 5.) *Multiple love interests; no confirmed relationships in the main story. One-sided crushes early on, a free-for-all later. *Every character whose bond reaches level 5 will get a separate 1v1 romance-route extra (the four mentioned in the blurb). *For other extra requests, see the pinned comment. *Paper’s name comes from the papyrus plant. Papyrus was used to make paper as early as 3000 BC, and it was an important medium for recording science and literature in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. If you can’t accept this name, I don’t recommend reading this story. *Please don’t mention other authors’ works under my stories, and don’t mention my stories under other authors’ works. *The tone is light and cheerful. Just have fun reading, everyone! *There are countless great stories on Jinjiang. If you drop this one, please don’t tell me! Blurb written April 3, 2025, screenshot archived. Coming soon: NPCs Beg Me Through Tears to Stop Building 【Dr. Stone era + sandbox city-building, fourth-calamity players tormenting the American team】 【Slowly building up a backlog (58,000/60,000 words); will start once the backlog is ready】 You bought a full-dive city-building game called The Magic Builder. Your starting location is the desolate continent of the Americas. As a builder who can imagine and make anything, you’re determined to create the perfect village on this land. 【You have successfully built a bedroom. The villagers can rest now!】 Jeno, a 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 with maxed-out looks and combat-driving skills, puts down his weapon and starts turning the soil. 【You built Stanley a private bedroom. But NPCs’ belongings belong to the player, so you decide to climb through the window into his room, shove him off the bed, and sleep there yourself.】 【You got plans for laser lights from Jeno. With the NPCs’ help, you generated electricity, and decided to use it to light up the dazzling sign for your eye-catching farm.】 【You use a watering can to pour nitric acid. You force-feed a magical creature to tame it. You use a summoning staff to take the NPCs on a 38,000-mile forced march...】 * Your village has reached the required building scale. You can choose the next construction project together with the villagers. 【As a new self-defense weapon for the villagers, you want to make, 】 A. A machine gun B. A cannon C. A bottle-opener chisel You choose C. So Jeno, who should have built a military empire and become a dictator, reluctantly picks up a bottle-opener chisel. 【As entertainment for the villagers, you want to build, 】 A. A science lab B. A shooting range C. A swing You choose C again. So Stanley, who should have been flying planes and firing guns, gets on a swing in full view of everyone. 【Your village’s prosperity has increased, and new villagers are coming to join you! The old villagers should get along with the newcomers.】 Chelsea and Joel, who the player rescued long ago: ? Senku and his group, who have just arrived in North America: !!! Jeno: Hah. This time, there’s no way I’m letting her choose C again. 【You and the villagers can use vehicles to explore a wider world. What would you like to make?】 A. A spaceship B. An airplane C. Skate shoes You’re about to choose C. The furious NPC villagers: Please, stop building things!!! * Aside from city-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. Material costs for some blueprints are permanently reduced by 50%】 The generous rewards leave the player hooked on badge grinding, but the things she gets seem to grow 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 bearing their one-of-a-kind feelings for you.】 【Multiple NPCs have confessed to you. Would you like to start the romance route?】 Player: ??? The nerve! This game secretly installed a mod on me!! I was clearly playing a 12+ sandbox building game! This isn’t 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 stay the same. *The protagonist is a self-centered player who will inflict plenty of fourth-calamity-style torment that the NPCs can’t understand! *Pure straight romance, with separate 1v1 endings. *The tone is fun and lighthearted. It’d be great if it makes you smile! *A medium-length story, told in third person! *There will definitely be OOC in this fanfic! *There are countless great stories on Jinjiang. If you drop this one, please don’t tell me! Blurb written October 12, 2025, screenshot archived. Theme: Science has poetry within it.