Novels like I Transmigrated, but I’m a Tentacle Monster!
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Transmigrated, but I’m a Tentacle Monster!, best match first.
- 1 A Numb Heart 麻木的心脏 A flesh-and-blood creature, once a boy, crawls up out of the ruins. It is the beginning of every story. Alpha is hatred, Beta is nothingness, and Omega is freedom and order. Disaster strikes, and the blood-red sun hangs overhead. Is it His gaze that turns people into beasts, or have they always been this way? (Warning: contains extremely graphic content.) 11Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 2 Chronicles of the Red Mist Eclipse 红雾时蚀录 A crimson fog sweeps across the world. Amid the eerie scent of rust and jasmine, the evolution of living things is forcibly accelerated. Lin Shou, a convenience store clerk, is bitten by a mutated dog while saving Xiao Man, a teenager with autism, and embarks on a path of inhuman mutation. His pupils develop amber vertical slits, black hooked claws emerge from his fingertips, his body temperature stays at 39°C, and hunger gnaws at his sanity like a beast. Within seven weeks, human civilization 119Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Centipede with a Hundred Heads: Devouring the Myriad Worlds 百头蜈蚣：吞噬诸天万界 [No female lead] [Decisive and ruthless] “Stop, you traitor to this world!” A stream of burly soldiers rushed in and seized a man with a crazed expression. Their leader shouted furiously. “Hahahahaha! You’re too late. The ritual has begun! My lord is about to descend!” The man sneered. A tremendous rumble sounded in the distance. Everyone looked up, and their pupils instantly shrank. A massive claw swept across the sky, tearing open an immeasurably vast rift. A blood-red eye peered through the g 3.3kReads7.8Score267Shelves
- 4 The Lord of Chaos in the Land of Evil 极恶里无序领主 Synopsis: The protagonist transmigrates, with Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel as his primary worlds, and can travel to other worlds. Note: This is not Discord from My Little Pony. This book is its own independent world, an independent story, and a complete story. The protagonist may not appear much, because the other characters have their own stories, their own growth, and their own lives. Please bear with that. Chapters 1–22, Volume 1 (First Arrival) Chapters 23–45, Volume 2 (Marvel Arc, Part One 10.7kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 5 Reborn as an Ant: From the Start, I Have an Ant Queen 重生成蚁：开局一只蚁后 Spiritual qi revival, strange beasts rising, disasters striking: humanity has fallen from the top of the food chain and off its pedestal. All living things are back at the same starting line, and an unprecedented biological arms race is about to begin! Yang Qing was reborn before the spiritual qi revival, but became an exceedingly frail male ant who would die after mating. Watching the ants swarm through the sky on their nuptial flight, Yang Qing faces his first question: how can he survive unti 138Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 6 Order Paradise: I Can Add Points Without Limit 秩序乐园，我无限加点 [Nonhuman Protagonist + Infinite Flow + Data-Based + Logic-Focused + Utterly Dark + Anti-Human Nature + Decisive and Ruthless + No Female Lead] Mu Bei is a cause without origin, with no biological father. After spending eighteen years in a sterile hospital ward, Mu Bei signs a contract with the Paradise of Order. And so begins a story full of slaughter and destruction, devoid of love and mercy, one that feeds on all living beings... (Reader advisory 1: After the first volume, the protagonist bec 346Reads7.3Score113Shelves
- 7 Aloof, Masked Assassin? No, a Softhearted Savior 高冷覆面刺客？不，是心软救世主 [Starts with a leveling-up arc, then becomes invincible][Straight-laced male protagonist, a little like a male power fantasy, often speechless at the gay men around him, no romance] “Hello, Mr. Xie Qing. As one of China's six S-rank Hunters and the world's only White Dragon Druid, you're a powerhouse who also serves as a bard, assassin, swordsman, berserker, priest, and more...” Time was precious. The reporter flipped through the interview outline and had to skip the lengthy introduction to get 11kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
- 8 I’m a Monster, So Why Does Everyone Treat Me Like a Teammate? 我一怪物，怎么都把我当队友了？ [Monster antagonist, one heroine with a mild yandere streak, self-interest, no System, no formulaic tropes, plot-driven, no overpowered leveling and grinding] My name is Shen Shi, and I have a secret. On the eve of the college entrance exam, I became an oddity in my classmates' eyes: a fallen genius, a weirdo who wore a mask in the middle of summer. Stench! Stench! Stench! Everyone gave off the same foul smell! Only my sister, who was with me day and night, smelled sweeter and sweeter. I knew my 18.7kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 9 The Evil God Decides to Raise a Human 邪神决定养一只人类 Dual male leads + light ensemble cast + Lovecraftian elements + the uncanny + infinite worlds + investigation bureau Li Chen has always admitted that he's aloof and arrogant, calculating and willing to do anything to climb higher. So when revenge finally came for him, part of him felt that he deserved it, but only part. More than anything, he was furious! He refused to die like this. He refused to end up without even a body left behind. He refused to let the people who had schemed against him 6.3kReads8.9Score859Shelves
- 10 My School Beauty Girlfriend Dumped Me from the Start, and I Became the World-Destroying Black Dragon 开局校花女友分手，我成灭世黑龙 [High Martial] [Eastern Black Dragon] [Devouring Evolution] [Building a Faction] [The One True Dragon] Thirty years ago, spiritual qi revival began, and countless mutated beasts descended. Forests and oceans became forbidden zones for humanity. The old order had long since collapsed, and a new civilization rose from the ruins. Supernatural abilities and martial arts coexist. Transcendence is the only way forward. Qin Feng transmigrated here with an SS-rank talent, [Eye of Insight], and a school 7.7kReads8.3Score612Shelves
- 11 Apocalypse Monster Nest: I Am the Mother of Monsters 末世怪巢：我即怪物之母 [Monster Raising + Self-Serving Villain + Nonhuman Protagonist + Character Growth + No Romance] [Ruthless and cruel, a true villain. Run if you can't handle it.] [He'll approach humans early on, but he's weak] A monster nest: the lair of monsters. When Xia An opened his eyes, he discovered that he had been asleep for three years. Not only had he missed three years of the apocalypse, he'd also been transformed into a monster and given a bunch of “adorable” children. Jawsplitter hounds, flesh moun 4.8kReads8.7Score696Shelves
- 12 After Becoming an Evil God's Pet, I Ran Wild in the Infinite Worlds 沦为邪神宠物后，在无限世界横行 Yu Shengmeng had thought graduating from college would mark the beginning of his wonderful future. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as he’d hoped. That day, he tried to stop his roommate from jumping to his death, but his roommate shoved him over the edge instead. He’d thought that if he remained conscious after dying, it would be while drinking the soup on the Bridge of Helplessness. But it seemed that wasn’t what happened... 9.3kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 13 When the Game Descends: From Vampire Bat to Lolita Tyrant 游戏降临，从吸血蝙蝠到萝莉暴君 [Gender Transformation + Infinite Flow + Monster Evolution + Genetic Fusion + Shapeshifting Little Girl + Movie Monsters + Urban Conquest] Reborn as the weakest female vampire bat in a cave, Mo Wu thought she would spend a quiet, ordinary life that way. But after Mo Wu reached adulthood as a bat, the Main God’s game descended upon Blue Star, and she awakened the SSS-rank talent [Gene Mastery]! Fuse all things, plunder genes, evolve without limit! From the blood orchids of Anaconda to the perfect 29.8kReads8.8Score3.5kShelves
- 14 A Guide to Everyday Life with Nonhumans 非人类日常注意事项 [Speculative sci-fi + urban + no System + one heroine + slice of life] After the world’s order collapsed and was rebuilt following the sudden appearance of monsters, an ordinary person who wanted nothing more than a quiet life gained the ability to turn into a monster. His everyday life was anything but ordinary. 26.3kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
- 15 Insectoid Maze City: A Tentacle Girl’s Handbook for Raising Her 异虫迷城：触手娘的养育手册 “No System” + “No Formulaic Plot” + “Not Invincible” + “A Relatively Slow Burn” Darkness falls, and humanity is kept in captivity behind towering walls. Beyond them roam vicious, rampaging alien insects and eerie, walking corpses. Inside the walls, people indulge in sensual pleasures, intoxicated by wealth and the perverse tastes of high society. There are also disguised alien insects wearing human skin, who take pleasure in hunting people. The insects eat people and leave their bones behind. Th 8.1kReads8.8Score735Shelves
- 16 I Devoured an Alien God, but I'm Really Not the Villainous Boss 生吞异神，我真不是反派Boss [No heroine, gradually becoming less than human, chaotic fun, decisive and ruthless but not dark] Cheat powers are meant to be fun! I transmigrated, so why should I have to deal with all this social etiquette? What the hell is with these brain-dead villains and stupid heroines? I’ll eat them! Bow to some damn master and make friends? I’ll just rocket over there, do a 360-degree Thomas Flair, and eat them! I’ll chomp down on the leader’s head! The authorities aren’t getting away either! I’ll poun 4.9kReads9.3Score620Shelves
- 17 Human Genius? Sorry, I’m a Deviant 人类天才？抱歉，我是畸变种 [No System] [No Romance] [The protagonist conceals his identity and is on humanity's side] [Ensemble Cast] Su Zhan transmigrated, and from the start he witnessed a scene of domestic harmony. His parents in this new body would do anything for each other, a heartwarming sight. In the city, there was a kind of creature. They looked no different from humans, but they hunted people to survive and grow stronger. People called them Aberrants. And Su Zhan was one of them. 10.4kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
- 18 I Reincarnated as a Sea Squirt Larva and Ate a Brain From the Start 变成海鞘幼虫开局先吃个脑子 [Dark Evolution: I Am the Infinite Universe] [Dark fiction, System evolution, no female lead, no saintly hero, sci-fi, advanced technology] He was cold by nature. After obtaining the System, his humanity gradually faded with the passage of time, leaving him bloodless and merciless. He began by devouring marine life and evolving. He transformed into all kinds of creatures, then into celestial bodies, but that was not the end. He continued to evolve, endlessly and without limit. He would stop at n 1.6kReads8.9Score171Shelves
- 19 Weird Tales: From the Start, I Beat the Eight-Foot-Tall Woman to a Pulp 诡异，开局锤爆八尺夫人 The world of the uncanny was chaotic and lawless. Mountain demons, evil ghosts, phantoms, jiangshi, zombies, slit-mouthed women, Sadako, eight-foot-tall women, Bloody Mary… Every uncanny being once thought to exist only in the imagination was real in this world. Xu Changqing, a martial arts enthusiast, had ended up here by accident. He’d only wanted to scrape by and wait for death, but from the start, he was attacked by an F-rank entity from Sakura Country: the Eight-Foot-Tall Woman. To stay ali 11.3kReads8.7Score981Shelves
- 20 The Serpent Wizard of Hogwarts 霍格沃兹的蛇类巫师 [No Female Lead] It's not that I don't want to write one. I just don't know how. It took Samai Er eleven years after transmigrating to realize he'd arrived in the Harry Potter world, and that he was a descendant of the Gaunt family who had been living abroad. What sparks will fly when Parseltongue meets an onslaught of giant snakes? What will happen when werewolf venom combines with blood magic? And what changes when Orochimaru meets the Azure Snake Three Flower Eyes? Samai Er Gaunt, a wizard in 6.8kReads9.3Score683Shelves
- 21 Survival in the Residential Complex, but I Was Pulled into the Management Group 小区求生，但我被拉入了管理群 [Infinite horror + no female lead + cold-blooded male lead + split personality + author’s mental state is questionable + kill, kill, kill!] When everyone is unexpectedly dragged into a survival game, Cheng Xu discovers that his name appears in the administrators’ group. By day, the survivors search for resources and strengthen themselves and their shelters. At night, ghosts run rampant and disasters erupt. Only those who rely on their shelters can survive. One deadly trial follows another, and b 6.1kReads9.2Score837Shelves
- 22 Global Mutation: The Mutant Frenzy of Trillions of Lives 全球畸变：亿兆生命的变异狂潮 Meat blossoms sprout from the soil, and fangs grow from the flowers. The old order awakens all around them. To it, humble humanity is nothing but vermin to be exterminated. Mount Fuji erupts, and the entire Sakura Isles are ripped up and hurled at Huaxia. The magnetic poles flip, super-earthquakes strike, towering tsunamis rise, and the seven continents are squeezed together by a giant hand. Abnormal memes, twisted reality, and layers of overlapping worlds: as the boundary between physics and co 14.1kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 23 Nightmare Game: This Hunter Is Way Too Terrifying 梦魇游戏：这个狩猎者也太吓人了 [1v4 Mode + Horror Worlds + Fusion with Dangerous Personalities + No Female Lead (Though if there has to be one, it's the Evil God Cthulhu)] The mysterious online game Midnight Nightmare was released. Players could enter horror worlds and tackle dungeons, or choose between the Hunter and Runner factions for an asymmetric 1v4 showdown. Ling Yichuan awakened the Character Template Fusion System. From then on, he fused with one terrifying boss after another, becoming the nightmare of every player! 1.6kReads9.4Score189Shelves
- 24 Reborn in a World of the Paranormal, and You Want Me to Join Bureau 749? 重生诡异，你让我加入749局？ [Devouring Evolution]+ [Self-Interest]+ [Humanity’s Natural Enemy]+ [Nemesis of Its Own Kind]+ [Kills Men and Women Alike]+ [Plot-Driven]+ [Undercover]+ [Villain]+ [Eerie] "No female lead!!! No harem!!! No romance!!!" (Not Eerie in the traditional sense. The protagonist is undercover in the human camp and kills both humans and Eerie, men and women alike. This story is plot-driven, so readers looking for a feel-good monster-grinding power fantasy should think twice.) (The rating has already been 59.3kReads8.9Score8.6kShelves
- 25 From the Start, I Was Divided Up for Food, So I Swallowed the Evil Spirit Whole 开局被分食，我直接生吞邪崇 "A Must-Read in 2026" [Eerie Revival]+ [Revenge before the day is out]+ [Saintly do-gooders must die]+ [The protagonist is crazy, not stupid]+ [No female lead]+ [This is actually a food story] The red moon rises, and the eerie returns. After transmigrating to a world where the eerie has returned and evil spirits roam the earth, Ye Kui opens his eyes to see himself being devoured by monsters! But if monsters can eat people, there’s no reason people can’t eat monsters! After three years of plottin 8.7kReads8.9Score851Shelves
- 26 Transmigrated as a Dragon: The King Sacrifices a Princess From the Start 穿越恶龙：开局国王献祭公主 [Transmigration + System + pseudo-DND + Western fantasy + beast-eared girls + farming + lord + one sweet, pampered heroine, cherished above all others + giant beasts] Su Nian woke up to find that he had become a wicked dragon everyone wanted dead. But what was a little girl doing cowering beside him? “Ding! Hello, Host. I am the War and Plunder System.” “Ding! Hello, Host. I am the Evolution and Modification System.” “Ding! Hello, Host. I am the Evil Villain System.” “Ding! Too many Systems dete 30.6kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves
- 27 The Immortal Food of Mankind 人种仙食 "Weird Cultivation, Behind-the-Scenes Story" The Tang Dynasty: strange things are coming. When Li Qing transmigrated here, he thought Mr. Huayue had kindly taken him in. Little did he know that the man saw him only as livestock to be raised for food. At the brink of life and death, the jade tablet on Li Qing revealed its power, gravely wounding Mr. Huayue and allowing him to escape. But the danger was far from over. The scheme of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to devour all living beings had 37.9kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
- 28 EN Above the Gray Fog 灰雾之上 [Lord of the Mysteries]+ [Potions]+ [Races]+ [Civilization] A hundred years from now, I am a hero. My deeds become stories, praised by all. A thousand years from now, I am a legend. Stories become epics, passed down through generations. Ten thousand years from now, I am a faith. Epics become myths, and the incense offered to me never ceases. P.S. This book is also known as Above the Gray Mist. P.S. The development of the human race provides the backdrop. The focus is on an individual's epic, no 89.3kReads9.3Score7.8kShelves
- 29 You're Supposed to Fight Monsters, So Why Are You Fighting Me! 你们刷怪啊，刷我干嘛！ [Print edition deal signed: no System, plot-driven, fast-paced from the start, no mindless decisions, thrilling and exciting, hard-hitting fights, told from the monsters' side!] Ever since the words [Divine Order 001: Undercover] appeared in Jiang Xia's mind, he felt that he wasn't normal. No matter what he ate or how much he ate, he never felt the slightest bit full. Hungry. So hungry he was about to lose his mind! Then, at the school beauty's eighteenth birthday party, he smelled the presen 508.7kReads9.1Score41.3kShelves
- 30 EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 272.1kReads9.4Score27.8kShelves
- 31 EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138.3kReads9.6Score16.9kShelves
- 32 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 112.4kReads9.5Score12.2kShelves
