Novels like Escape Game: A Ticket to Hell
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Escape Game: A Ticket to Hell, best match first.
- 1 I Fight for Survival in a World of Ghost Stories 我在怪谈世界惊悚求生 A group of people are trapped in a world of the uncanny, struggling on the brink of death as they are forced to take part in deadly ghost stories. They have just one goal: survive! Beijing No. 81, Platform 13 underground, the eighth child in a Hong Kong commercial, the secluded Fengmen Village, the pig-headed butcher, the cat-faced old woman… “Players, welcome to the world of the Heart-Pounding Game!” 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Infinite Abyss Waystation 无限深渊驿站 [Infinite Flow] [Mystery] [Light Horror] True terror has never been in the shadows, but in the rules… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Infinite Final Exam Survival Guide 【无限】期末月生存指南 During finals, you were pushed off a building! Poisoned! Crushed by a lamp! Congratulations on dying during finals month! The Academic Affairs Office will reward you with a chance to come back to life and retake your courses. Make sure you cherish it! [Your major is Clinical Medicine, difficulty rating: six stars! The Academic Affairs Office will automatically assign your teammates based on your dorm room! Oh my, the whole family died together! How lovely~] The four students in Room 106: … Unhin 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Endless Encore 无限续场 [No Rating Means a Masterpiece That'll Make You Build a Coffin, a Niche and Unorthodox Fantasy Novel] [Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Scheming Old Foxes + Shamelessness + Wild Shenanigans + Subverting Expectations + Three-No Characters + Dark Humor + For Everyone] A friend asked: Is this an infinite-flow story or a mental hospital? Other people enter an instance: They nervously solve puzzles and cling to life by a thread. My Yu Yu: What? The rules in Greenbird Complex are numerous and complic 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Eerie Wanderer 诡异行者 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [Survival] [Not mindless] [Not invincible] [No harem] [Not a saint] The paranormal has arrived, and everyone has been chosen to become a paranormal traveler. Every month, they are forcibly sent on a journey. These worlds are rife with danger. One careless mistake, and they'll be trapped there forever, never to return to the real world. People speak like ghosts, and ghosts speak like people. On the journey, trust no one. Fight to stay alive. Make it to the end of the 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Death Will Be Televised 死亡将映 (Infinite Flow + mild horror + deduction + survival + one heroine) To uncover the ultimate secret, he must endure one round of slaughter and struggle after another. I thought I only had to complete a simple death mission to go home, but I was forced to uncover the ultimate secret. I thought I could open the Forbidden Zone of God and grow stronger, only to be told that the human body was also a treasure locked in chains. When I finally reached the end, I discovered that I had walked this road bef 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 When the Drum Sounds, Death Is Certain: Is It Really Cheating to Lead the Team? 鼓响无限死，带队开挂不过分吧？ [Infinite Realms, No Cliches, No System, No Idiocy, Not a Power Fantasy. Enter at Your Own Risk.] In a blood-red plank walkway, six people awoke after being buried alive, only to hear a drumbeat ringing with the promise of death. The drums marked the start of a death game. They were forced to die over and over, then keep going. They saw butchers gnawing on corpses along the walkway of living flesh, ventured into the Cave of a Thousand Voices and heard a silent hell, listened to paper figures sin 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Welcome to the Horror Tale Shop 歡迎光临怪谈商店 Redemption-focused\No CP\Strong Female Lead\Ensemble Cast\Running a Business\Apocalypse\Infinite Realms\Rulebound Horror Qi Yu’s life was a blank slate. The moment she woke up, she was told she had to travel between worlds on the verge of collapse and save them. Qi Yu: “What kind of high-risk, exploitative, round-the-clock job is this? Can I refuse?” X20: “Negative. Host, STW offers excellent employee benefits, and this is not a round-the-clock job. You’re free to pursue personal interests outsi 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Endless Maze 无终迷程 (Infinite Flow, no System, no harem, not a power fantasy) (Featuring worlds from Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, World of Warcraft, The Cabin in the Woods, Godzilla, and more) A legion wreathed in Fel Fire, a Resident Evil plot gone completely off the rails, zombies possessed by vengeful spirits, an ancient Thai evil god, a giant of light from thirty million years ago... One bizarre world after another. How far can you go on a journey with no end in sight? 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Uncanny Descends, and Merciless Slaughter Begins! 诡异降临，无情杀戮开始！ [No saintly heroine + No female lead + No melodramatic plot + Decisive and ruthless] Yesterday, I was just an ordinary student, but a bizarre disaster forced me to learn how to be cruel. The world has changed. With death always around the corner, the ugliness of human nature is on full display. Believe me, good people don’t live long. A strange bus and a strange village led me into a world no one knew existed. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Nightmare in the Red Chamber 噩梦红楼 [Infinite Flow + Horror + Survival + Ensemble Cast + Not Purely Puzzle-Solving] A strange red apartment building has swallowed ten innocent residents. Every week, someone inside the building is randomly chosen to undergo a trial. Within those trials lurk terrifying, uncanny beings they have no hope of resisting. Then, suddenly, an eleventh room appears in the building. Then Li Ming struggles to survive one trial after another. As he looks at the building, now empty except for himself, all Li Min 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reincarnation Space: The Path of the Strong 轮回空间：强者之路 Transmigration + Reincarnation + Infinite Worlds The protagonist, Zhou Fan, transmigrates by chance into the legendary Reincarnation Space. As he journeys through one reincarnation world after another, Zhou Fan embarks on the path to becoming stronger, one step at a time. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Earth Dies One Hundred Thousand Times 地球死亡十万次 Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Not a Mindless Power Fantasy + Decisive and Ruthless, No Saintly Heroics + Not Invincible + Plot-Focused + Protagonist Growth Global dungeons have arrived. Failure to clear one means death. Jiang Bai is selected as one of the first “Pioneer” players to enter a dungeon, but unexpectedly encounters the highest-difficulty S-rank dungeon in history… After dying 100,000 times, Jiang Bai finally clears the dungeon and returns to the real world, only to find that everyt 145Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 14 Nightmare Script: Surviving in a Horror World 噩梦剧本：我在惊悚世界求生 [Mild horror + Not a wish-fulfillment story + Scripted scenarios + Roleplay + Deduction and reconstruction] (The scenarios are extremely difficult. Enter with caution if you can't handle psychological pressure.) Jiang Cheng is a private detective. While helping a woman with insomnia, he encounters a bizarre incident and gets pulled into a scripted world. Rainy Inn: Six-player scenario. Dark clouds gather as torrential rain pours down. In a strange inn where time has fallen out of sync, Jiang Ye 17Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 15 My Cozy Daily Life in the Infinite Flow 我在无限流温馨日常 [Infinite-flow novel + male protagonist + fast-paced] [Overpowered style + no angst + no-brainer fun + no female lead] [The protagonist gets a ton of golden fingers] [Writing isn't easy. If it's not for you, please move along. The author is sensitive, so please don't bash it. Thanks~] Horror games descend upon Blue Star, and everyone is randomly pulled into game instances to clear them. Those who succeed receive rewards. While everyone else enters an instance with the goal of clearing it and sta 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 There’s a Library 有个图书馆 A job ad that appeared out of nowhere gave recently unemployed Wu Hao a glimmer of hope that life might get better. But that same job ad led him to the boundary between the human world and hell. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Infinite Flow: She Becomes a Legend Through Deduction in a Bizarre World 无限流：她在诡异世界靠推理封神 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Mystery] Dong Zhi wakes up in a huge bed. She assumes it's the setup for a CEO romance, but never expects it to be the opening of a horror story. A hotel shrouded in black mist is filled with all kinds of guests. Every so often, they are forced to take part in a horror game. Impostors and rebels are erased on the spot. The driverless bus is both an unknown danger and a hope everyone eagerly awaits. After Dong Zhi completes one game mission after another, 1Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 18 Tomb Raider: Candle Dragon Pierces the Heavens to Hunt Bugs 盗墓烛龙：洞穿诸天猎bug What kind of world has Yu San, a former tomb raider, stumbled into? The Candle Dragon and the Golden Buddha vie for control of the Gate to the Myriad Heavens. How will it all end? Have you seen Mr. Vampire? Do you know how many plot holes it has? Why wasn't Uncle Nine at the funeral home? Dong Xiaoyu's tombstone says it dates from the seventh to the twenty-seventh year of the Xiantong era. Was that Tang dynasty date really just because the production ran out of money? Then how do you explain 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Death Classroom: Confess Your Sins 死亡教室：请说出你的罪恶 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Survival + No Female Lead] Here’s a quick introduction to me in two sentences: First, I’m not very capable. Second, I only have five golden keys. “Mr. Ye Tong, sorry to interrupt, but five golden keys are exceptionally rare across all the Death Classrooms. In other words, you’re already at the top.” “Oh, really? But I stole these keys from my senior fellow apprentice. Does that still count?” “???” Every Death Classroom is filled with all kinds of strang 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Welcome Aboard the Hell Bus 欢迎乘坐地狱巴士 They died, yet somehow ended up on a bus. Can they really come back to life after fifty missions? Welcome aboard the Hellbound Bus, train GUI_511! This train will take you on an inconceivable, bizarre, and fantastical journey. A mysterious matriarchal village, a strange university dormitory, a terrifying hotel that eats people, a bizarre dried-corpse case, an unbelievable midnight subway... Behind every mission lies a story no one knows. Cause and effect always come full circle. See how two girl 256Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 21 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 293Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 22 Player Logged In 玩家已登入 An infinite-flow story with no male lead, no team-ups, and a System that only sends players into instances and settles their rewards. She likes making friends with ghosts and monsters, and she has no problem working with other players. She navigates one instance after another with ease. She is all alone. 1.7kReads8.0Score410Shelves
- 23 Building 7, Room 211 7栋211 At the edge of Modu Academy stands a mysterious student apartment building: “Building 7,” a cursed place. Every night at midnight, it turns into a living hell and issues bloody missions that cannot be avoided. Ordinary college student Li Feng is caught up in it by accident and has no choice but to fight for survival amid the terror. As the missions continue, he uncovers the horrifying secret hidden behind the apartment building... 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Master of Horror, Dare You Come In? 恐怖大师你敢进来吗？ Ghosts taking revenge, possessing people, pressing down on sleepers; summoning, taming, driving away, and controlling ghosts; romances between humans and ghosts, humans and ghosts merging, and ghosts joining forces. Which is reality, and which is illusion? Are we living in reality, or in a world of our own creation? Yao Keke’s best friend, Cui Yueshuang, vanished right before her eyes. Where did she go? As she searches for her friend, Yao Keke receives help from an expert who teaches her the art 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Real Death Cinema 真实死亡影院 A horror movie poster taken from a corpse's mouth has Luo An's name listed among its cast, drawing him into an endless series of horror films. He must play a character who could die at any moment and survive a never-ending stream of movies where the deaths are real. Only after his fan count reaches one hundred million will he have a chance to escape. This is the story of Luo An, a man with dissociative identity disorder, as he takes one step at a time toward becoming an award-winning actor. [Cin 1Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 26 I Perform Causality Repair Surgery Across the Myriad Worlds 我在诸天万界做因果修复手术 Mystery + Infinite Flow + Twists + Imaginative Premise + Original Scenarios The protagonist wakes up on a train and discovers that he's trapped in a sealed carriage with seven other people. A figure in black robes announces the rules: “One of you is hiding an ‘it.’” “Find it within three hours, or everyone will be erased.” Only after surviving does he learn that this train carries the souls of the dead who still have unfinished business. Your ticket is your regret, and your mission is your redem —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Who Am I? A Tale of Terror Beginning with a Stage Performer 我是谁？从戏伶开始的惊悚 [Not Fanfiction] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Slow Pace] [A Mashup of Settings from Multiple Novels, with Major Changes] [No System] [Don't Read If That Bothers You] On an ordinary workday, Wang Anle, just another office worker, merely dozed off for a moment. When he woke up, everything around him had gone completely out of control. One by one, his coworkers turned into “death-faced” people, and the entire office building was sealed inside a bizarre domain. Alongside his death-faced coworkers 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Brutal Game of Reincarnation 超残酷轮回游戏 Hardcore Infinite! The dungeons in the Reincarnation Game are brutally cruel, with an extremely high death rate. The dungeons amplify players' emotions, driving them to extremes. Desire grows stronger, the timid become even more afraid of death, the brave become almost reckless, and even the dark little secrets in people's hearts are acted upon. After passing the Bronze Trial, players unlock personal talents and awaken extraordinary abilities. The protagonist, Jiang Han, awakens the dual talents 9Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 29 Ten-Day Reincarnation: From the Start, Fifty Thousand People Died at School 十日轮回，开局学校死了五万人 He wakes to screams echoing across the school. Fifty thousand teachers and students perish in an instant, and familiar classrooms are strewn with blood and severed limbs! When the world falls silent, time abruptly rewinds, taking everything back to ten days before the disaster. The protagonist is horrified to discover that he is trapped in a time loop, and only he holds the “memory code” that can turn the tide. Is this a cruel joke played by fate, or a slim chance at being reborn? Over these rep 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 After I Became an NPC at a Cthulhu Amusement Park (3) 我在克苏鲁游乐园当NPC后，（3） After I Became an NPC at a Cthulhu Amusement Park (3) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 After I Became an NPC at a Cthulhu Amusement Park (2) 我在克苏鲁游乐园当NPC后，（2） After I Became an NPC at a Cthulhu Amusement Park (2) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Haunted Classroom 幽魂教室 A mysterious classroom, 16 sets of desks and chairs, 16 sacrifices, and countless cycles of reincarnation. After taking the death exam again and again, how many people will ultimately escape alive? This is an eternal curse!!! 85Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 33 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 34 You Think College Makes Life Easy? 上了大学就轻松了？ Infinite-loop horror + slow burn + no golden finger + challenges + rule-based horror + the supernatural + instances + conflict An ordinary school suddenly turns into a “meat grinder”! All kinds of deadly rules: ignore the “teachers,” don't run, follow the schedule to the letter... All kinds of bizarre instances, movie scenes, teamwork, and going it alone... Ten universities compete online. Staying alive is the only hope! When you graduate from your senior year of high school and take the college 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Nightmare Invitation 噩梦邀请 [Infinite flow, original instances, mild horror, no romance] An invitation sent from the Nightmare World drags a group of people into a haunted place, where they struggle desperately to survive. Those pulled into the Nightmare World have no idea what lies ahead. They only know they must do everything they can to stay alive. Fight the locals! Fight the ghosts! Fight the Nightmare World! Until... they escape the Nightmare World. 1.4kReads6.6Score104Shelves
- 36 Eerie: After Completing the Puzzle, I Somehow Ended Myself 诡异：凑完拼图莫名把自己终结了 [Mystery + Eerie + Deduction + Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Flawless Logic] Have you ever felt despair? Lu Bai wakes up in a dim room, where a mysterious force orders him and several other poor souls to go on missions in one strange place after another. Complete a mission and live. Fail, and die. Black Dragon Pool, the old elm tree, the ancient well at the village entrance, the strange funeral home. After Lu Bai and his companions rack their brains, endure countless hardships, and narrowly es 142Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 37 Infinite: Searching for the Moon in a World of Haunted Domains 无限：我在诡域世界寻找月亮 [Infinite-loop horror + survival + suspense + mystery + no System] A photograph recording the deepest secrets of the heart draws people into one eerie world after another, each filled with endless terror. At first, Lin Yi only wanted to prove that he wasn't mentally ill. But instead, he became trapped in an endless succession of terrifying stories. The truth seems to be far more complicated than that. The moon's disappearance is only the beginning of all the strange horrors… [Mount Lingshan Tunn 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Haunted World: I Can See Things from the Ghosts' Point of View 诡世界：我能看到鬼视角 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Female Lead] Every year, countless people around the world vanish without explanation. According to local rumors in Nanshan City, they all seem to have entered another world. No one knows what happened there... But from the moment Li Yenan stepped out of the subway station, he was already inside that world... A woman who knows everything, a strange perspective that only he can see, and rules from the eerie world: it all feels like a game of chess laid out just f 610Reads5.5Score114Shelves
- 39 A Thousand Ways to Exorcise Ghosts on Livestream 直播驱鬼的一千种姿势 Infinite-Flow Rules Horror! He’s a horror-game streamer whose persona is a sweet, naive coward, but beneath the surface he’s a shameless, diabolical big shot. The System bound him to a livestreaming system, and he turned around and gave the System a surprise of its own. The ghosts and monsters huddled together, trembling; his fans’ worldviews teetered on the brink; and his teammates were fuming. “If he’s going to be this outrageous, what does he need us for?” Our streamer smiled faintly. “To sel 235Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Escape Game: From Couch Potato to Big Shot 逃生游戏：从咸鱼蜕变成大佬 A heroine who grows over time, not all-powerful: the journey of an ordinary girl gradually becoming a big shot. Sun Miao went from an ordinary undergraduate to a diligent office drone who spent more than two years slacking off at work. Her dream was to lie flat. Then one day, by chance, she was chosen for a survival game. System: Dear player, congratulations! You have been chosen for our escape game... Sun Miao: ... System: Please get ready to enter the game. Sun Miao: A herd of ten thousand mud 98Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 41 Infinite: Paradise 无限：乐园 You are about to enter a whole new world. [Infinite Worlds, Paradise, Backrooms, Horror, Doomsday, Zombies, Sci-Fi, No Formulaic Tropes, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Plot-Focused] This story may take some brainpower to follow. Zelin transmigrates to a place called Paradise. Faced with life and death intertwined and an infinite horde of monsters, he chooses to climb higher. He has nothing. The only things he can rely on are himself and the ability known as [Good Luck]. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Gate Between Worlds: Trapped in an Infinite Loop, Fighting to Survive 界中门【陷入无限循环只为求生】 He opened his eyes for the seventh time. Lin Yi realized he hadn’t died. Instead, he had entered a world within a world and become trapped in an endless loop. There was a white shadow here that looked exactly like him, and it wanted to take his place. He had to fight back with everything he had. He wanted to live. Whenever he was about to be replaced, all he could do was give up his sense of self and wait for the next loop. To break the cycle, he had to keep clearing the instances behind the doo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Tracing Memories: The Strange Tales Begin Again 溯忆【诡谈重启】 [No Clichés + No Stupidity + No Saintly Hero + No Invincibility] If this bothers you, read with caution. If not, dive right in. Three in the morning. Silence as deep as a grave. The phone screen suddenly lit up, and blood-red words appeared like a ghostly curse: [Factory reset complete]. This was the thirty-seventh reset! Only twelve percent of my memories remained, flickering like a candle in the wind. The System’s cold notification, [Error: Abnormal player memories remain], sounded like a veng 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The God-Sealing Prison 封神狱 Wu Jie mysteriously vanishes from a murder scene. When he wakes, he finds himself frozen inside a mysterious prison called the Fengshen Prison. From then on, as a member of a prison guard squad, he must survive dangerous inmates, probing fellow guards, and a steady stream of eerie missions, all while searching for a way back to Earth. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Through Life and Death, Reincarnation After Reincarnation, All to Return Home 生死轮回，只为归家 Handcrafted, no AI. After failing an exam and being caught in a sudden car accident, Zhang Jian, a boy who had failed the entrance exams, fell into the brutal Main God Reincarnation Space. A city besieged by zombies, demon hunting in the Wild West, a blood-soaked crucible, a cyberpunk neon metropolis, a nuclear wasteland, a chaotic age of supernatural powers, and vast worlds of martial arts and immortal cultivation: unfamiliar teammates and deadly crises came one after another. His one unwaverin 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Infinite Nightmare Game Machine 无限噩梦游戏机 This isn’t a wish-fulfillment novel. It has infinite-flow, but the protagonist isn’t invincible, brainless, saintly, or surrounded by a harem. Since game characters are assigned at random, there will be transformation scenes. Read with caution if that bothers you. Chen Xi bought a game console in a livestream room and accidentally got pulled into a game called Infinite Nightmare Survival. Players are assigned random characters when they enter the game, and failing a mission can cause them to die 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Funeral Hall [Death Game] 灵堂【死亡游戏】 [Infinite Flow + horror game + survival + supernatural invasion + no System + intelligent protagonist] Twelve coffins are laid out in a funeral hall. Inside them lie the cursed people chosen by demons. If they want to escape, there is only one perilous path they can take: enter one of the blood-red coffins. Inside those coffins, unknown and terrifying missions await them, along with countless spine-chilling, thrilling games. Come on! Play a death game with the ghosts. Win and live, lose and 127Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 48 Thriller Game: I'm a Summoner 惊悚游戏：我是召唤师 [System + Summoner + Infinite Flow + Horror + Pets + Decisive and ruthless] Ling Fan, a transmigrator, was forced to take part in a horror game. The horror game chose me? You sure you won't regret it? With a System at my side, I summon the void and adopt evil gods as daughters. I know you're in a hurry, but take a breath. This place will be mine to manage soon! Ling Fan treated the terrifying, mysterious world as his own backyard, messing with the game's characters to gain energy. He summoned al —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Bizarre News Agency 诡报社 Open this door, and the human world becomes hell. Faith crumbles in an instant; hope vanishes in the blink of an eye. The living struggle, scream, and fight desperately to stay alive; the souls of the dead tremble, loathe, and repent. A game, a survivor, and a mysterious newspaper office known to no one. [Updates have never stopped. I keep my word.] 47Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 50 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow Haunted Campus. Don't Trust Any Rule (2) 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则（2） Rule Horror: The Infinite-Flow Haunted School. Don’t Trust Any of the Rules (2) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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