Novels like Infinite Horror Instances
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- 101 The Twilight Line of the Haunted Realm: Conquering It with My Wits 诡界晨昏线：靠脑子制霸诡界 [Mild horror] [No System] [Character growth] [One heroine] Countless “Haunted Realms” suddenly appeared around the world. Like black holes, they devoured ordinary people's mental energy and the real world, pushing reality to the brink of madness. In response to the crisis, all kinds of organizations sprang up. They ventured into the Haunted Realms to explore, seized haunted objects to protect themselves, and sought the truth on the edge of life and death. As their investigations deepened, they d 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 A Taoist Priest in an Infinite-Loop Story? That's Right Up My Alley 道士进无限流吗？那很专业对口了 [Infinite flow + ensemble cast + the supernatural] [Slow burn] [Mild horror + cyber ghost hunting + livestreaming + evil gods] In 2171, the neural-link horror game Random burst onto the scene, touting freedom, realism, and randomness. Homebody Taoist He Xiao opens the game, ready to let loose. Lightning magic from the start, teaching ghosts how to be ghosts. But not only does the tutorial target him, his first scenario after getting nerfed is an [S-rank scenario]? And so begins He Xiao’s livest 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 The Miserable Good Life of a Born Unlucky Saint 先天倒霉圣体的霉好生活 When the world ran short of spiritual energy and the gods one by one lost their jobs, only the God of Misfortune survived, using her immense bad luck to save the world. Her unlucky nature was so potent that everyone else kept their distance. As haunted death zones plagued by ghosts and curses appeared one after another, a single misstep could mean eternal doom. But Yu Yingfan, the woman who became a god through bad luck, could not only stride through them with ease, but also save the world along 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Tales of a Hundred Things from the Otherworldly Abyss 异渊百物语 [Strong female lead + supernatural + survival + urban legends + apocalypse + not a saint + no romance] No one in this world doesn’t love money. If money could buy your life, how much would you say yours is worth? To pay for her treatment, Tang Miaomiao works three jobs a day, all to scrape together enough for the medical bills and stay alive. Promotional flyers for a trial run of a murder mystery game drift down from the sky. Lured by the promise of a huge reward, six strangers gather together. 266Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 105 The Chosen Game: I Only Wanted to Be a Doctor 神选游戏：我本来想当个医生 The gods initiate a selection, and Luo Yan, a second-year medical student, is trapped in a classroom surrounded by a gray barrier. Along with 180 classmates, he is thrown into a deadly solo survival trial. Monsters keep coming, and the rules are cruel and cold: the longer you survive, the later you return to the classroom. When Luo Yan opens the classroom door as the last person in his class to return, only 43 of the 180 students are still alive. On the surface, he is gentle and modest, a relia 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Darkest Personality 极暗人格 [Mind Games / Dark] [No Saintly Heroine / No Romance] [Similar to Identity V / Dead by Daylight] In 2024, in a parallel world, a game called Darkest Persona appears out of nowhere. Its cutting-edge technology and immersive experience sweep across the globe, but within moments, a coalition of countries bans it. The game survives only underground. Determined to find out what happened to his older brother, who disappeared after joining the game's beta test, Gu Wen throws himself into the game, step 4Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 107 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 108 Nightmare of the Strange Realm 诡界噩梦 [Infinite Flow + Horror + Mystery + Survival] A strange ticket dragged Yan Yu onto a bus bound for the abyss. Only after stepping into the world of ghosts did he realize he had been drawn into one brutal survival game after another. Night falls, monsters roam, and every step is a choice between life and death. Yan Yu thought it was all a random twist of fate, never knowing that the destiny set in motion from the moment he was born had been quietly unfolding all along... 41Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 109 Why Does a Map Company Have to Deal with the Uncanny, Too? 一个地图公司也要让我处理诡异？ The abandoned old district has long since become a breeding ground for the uncanny. An occurrence known as a “contaminated zone” appears from time to time in the old district, centered around individual buildings. Rumor has it that a contaminated zone is another world, filled with the absurd and the uncanny. As the number of missing people increased, the authorities had no choice but to close the routes between the old and new districts. By a stroke of luck, people discovered that the cores of c 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Horror and Oppression: You Bring the Terror, I Bring the Oppression 恐怖压抑怪谈，你恐怖，我压抑 [Absurd comedy + a cast of utter lunatics + infinite progression + mild horror + dual storylines] He woke up, and the sky was falling. Wu Yu, a notorious forum darling, had spoken a prophecy into existence: he transmigrated into a world of ghosts and monsters. Everyone in the world, except him, was a demon or ghost craving human flesh. All he could rely on was a tiny room in a shabby apartment, a desktop computer that never lost power, and an unusual job that dragged people into terrifying u 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 The Living Burial Mound 活人坟 Never let an unfamiliar woman into your car! Especially at night! Because the person you meet... might not be alive! 64Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 112 Eerie: Trapped in a Horror Game 诡异：我被困在恐怖游戏中 (Survival + no System + mild horror + mystery and deduction + no goody-two-shoes protagonist + no invincibility) There has always been a rumor circulating online: in the eerie mobile game Candle, the characters drawn by players aren’t just AI data. They’re real, living people. Xu Hanshan, one of the world’s top-ranked players, doesn’t believe it. But... While streaming the game, a bizarre bug sends him plunging into Candle’s eerie world as a one-star starting character. Xu Hanshan doesn’t kn 56Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 113 In the Underworld from the Start, and It Only Gets Darker! 开局在阴间，之后也阴间！ Dual Personalities + Infinite-Flow Horror + Cold Protagonist + No Saintly Savior + Poker Face + No Female Lead When he opened his eyes, Murong Yinghou found himself in a bizarre place. He had to enter one world after another, each filled with vengeful ghosts and curses. Relying on his absolute rationality, he cleared mission after mission and even became a hunter of evil spirits! Others admired and liked him for his intelligence. But they also feared him for his cold-bloodedness… 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Ten Dreams Across the Calamity 十梦渡厄 (The Strange Knocking at the Door / Welcome Back to the Starting Point of the Nightmare, Book Two) Have you ever received a letter like that? Its material feels like human skin, its handwriting looks like blood. Once you open it... You find yourself standing before a door. Push it open, and you step into another world. A place with rules you must obey, nights when dawn never comes, and ghosts who have waited ten or a hundred years for release. Every door you make it through buys you one more day 4.3kReads7.1Score414Shelves
- 115 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7 Huaiyin Lane 规则怪谈：槐荫里7号进食记录 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7, Huaiyin Lane —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 After Sacrificing Our Teammates, We All Became Gods 献祭队友后，我们全员成神 A driverless Route 13 bus carries seven losers cast aside by reality into the Myriad Worlds. An unemployed planner, a teacher on the verge of a breakdown, a spineless doctor, a cowardly programmer, a boastful salesman, a taciturn stunt double, and a laid-off machinist. This is the worst starting team in history. But every “sacrifice” triggers a wild evolution. 🔹 Vehicle upgrade path: Rusty old bus → Mobile luxury apartment → Matte black-and-gold war chariot, the Xihe (with a red-gold Golden Crow 520Reads6.5Score106Shelves
- 117 Rule Horror: I Report This! The School's Teaching Aids Are All Made from Students 规则怪谈：我举报！这学校的教具都是拿学生做的 Rule Horror: I’m reporting this! The school’s teaching aids are all made from students 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Infinite Nightmares: Where's My Golden Finger in This Paranormal World? 无限噩梦：我在诡异里的金手指呢 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Plot-Driven + Mild Horror + Mystery] Lin Jiu is a struggling paranormal livestreamer. That is, until he enters an old apartment building where an elderly woman is laid out for her wake. The person in the coffin counts heads. The mandarin ducks on the red wedding dress have no eyes. In every mirror, another you is standing there. This is a Chinese-style infinite-flow horror scenario. There is only one way to survive: Don't break any taboos. Not even one. 30Reads—Score101Shelves
- 119 Arrival in the Infinite Rules 降临在无限规则 A powerful female lead with bipolar disorder, and a male lead who’s an emotional desert. An enchanting, eerie, dreamlike style, with a suspenseful romance and a vast, mysterious world pieced together like a puzzle. You could believe it’s all just the uncontrolled fantasy of a female lead whose bipolar disorder has progressed to schizophrenia, brought on when her mind went blank after a round of electroconvulsive therapy. But perhaps Earth really is just a prison for souls, keeping us from ascen 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? 你家天花板有没有藏人？ Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Nightmare Realm 噩梦诡境 [Infinite-flow + horror + survival + one female lead] Liu Xiao woke up in a long-abandoned hospital, with several others beside him who had arrived there just like he had. He thought he had been kidnapped, but never imagined it was the start of an endless nightmare! Once you are chosen by a haunted realm, death is your only possible ending! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Deadly Survival Game 致命生存游戏 (Infinite-loop game, suspense, mystery, survival, no supernatural elements, no urban legends, original games, no independent System, no golden finger) ‘Selecting a game...’ ‘Player level detected: L1. Available game difficulty range: 1–2 stars.’ ‘First game detected. A one-star game is guaranteed.’ ‘Game selection successful!’ A black screen with white text immediately appeared. [Game Name: The Devil Beside You] [Game Type: Multiplayer] [Difficulty: One Star] [Clear Condition: Find the disguised 1.2kReads7.8Score102Shelves
- 123 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Overtime Is Miserable Enough, and Now I've Been Thrown into a Reincarnation Dungeon! 加班够惨了，还被丢进轮回副本！ I accidentally entered a dungeon. One wrong move, and I could be facing the risk of instant death, but the rewards are incredibly generous. Whatever, this has to be better than going to work! 124Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 A Bizarre Instance? She’s the Final Boss! 诡异副本？她才是最终boss！ [No CP + strong heroine + villainess + eerie instances + horror and suspense + infinite flow + beautiful and powerful (whether she suffers depends on the role she gives herself)] (The heroine really is strong, the invincible kind.) P.S. How can love between the eerie beings not count as a suspense romance? The heroine isn't an evil woman who does bad things for no reason. Everything she does is part of her own plan. (She isn't a good person, anyway.) A treasure is locked away in Qingshan Mental 104Reads—Score112Shelves
- 126 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 154Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 127 Surviving in a Haunted Mountain Village 在恐怖山村里活下去 Gu Xi enters a real-game scenario called “Horror Mountain Village,” where she's cast as a young bride sold into a remote mountain village to bring good luck to her sick husband. In just a few days in the village, the System's missions have her beating up her brother-in-law, smashing a family heirloom, and even catching her husband in bed with her maid... She's managed to offend every member of the family. She thought this was the limit of reckless behavior, but the missions that follow only get 729Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 128 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人，惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 I Keep Being Reborn in an Infinite-Loop World 我在无限流里不断重生 [Infinite-flow horror, ensemble cast | No System, no golden finger | No mindless power fantasy] After clearing my twelfth instance, I didn't get to go home. Everyone had been deceived. Clearing an instance didn't let us leave at all. It turned out that clearing an instance didn't mean escaping. We were trapped in an endless cycle of worlds, each layer harder to tell from reality than the last. The boundary between the instances and reality had blurred completely. Was anything before our eyes 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Silent Screams: True Records of 101 Major Cases, Season One 无声尖叫：101宗大案要案记实录（第一季） 42Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 131 The Black Dog of Misty Mountain 雾山黑犬 Black Dog of Mist Mountain 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Twelve Ghosts 十二鬼魂 Twelve Ghosts 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Global Reincarnation: I Know the Whole Plot, So I Slaughter My Way Through the World 全球轮回：剧情全知的我杀穿世界 [Infinite flow + decisive and ruthless + growth in the Paradise + foreknowledge of the plot + hunting instance protagonists] “Breaking news: Pain is the mastermind behind the Naruto world!” “Shocking: Buggy the Clown is actually as powerful as Whitebeard!” “Exclusive reveal: Everyone below S-rank in the Hero Association is trash!” Fifty years ago, the Reincarnation Space descended upon Blue Star, and every adult was forcibly recruited into countless instance worlds. Everyone complained bitterly. 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 134 The Nightmare Staircase 噩梦阶梯 It all began with a staircase leading down into darkness. Lu Yu climbed the steps and entered the world of his nightmares. And so the bizarre tale began. Twisted human figures crawled beneath the moon, while rows of dark shadows drifted through the black fog... There are no ghosts in this world... but there are in dreams! [Supernatural Horror Infinite Flow × Suspense and Mystery] 1.9kReads8.3Score167Shelves
- 135 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2kShelves
- 136 Rule Horror: The Three Gates School Rules Forbid Telling the Truth 规则怪谈：三重门校规禁止说真话 Dungeon difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare, Hell. Lin Han is in a different parallel universe in each dungeon, and the plots are unrelated, so feel free to read them out of order. Lin Han is clever and resourceful, bold in thought and action, and seriously badass. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10.1kReads8.0Score852Shelves
- 138 The Horrifying High School 恐怖的高中学校 [Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + No System + Survival + Ensemble Cast + Not Overpowered + Mystery-Solving + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Passion] Jiang Xuan was accidentally swept into a terrifying, uncanny dimension. To survive, he had to keep completing missions in the temporal rifts. To stay alive, he had to investigate the many mysteries hidden within each mission. As Jiang Xuan searched for ways to clear each one, he also sought to unravel the mysteries of the world. Thus began his struggle 1.4kReads—Score172Shelves
- 139 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score101Shelves
- 140 In This Horror Infinite Flow, This Woman Is Not to Be Messed With 恐怖无限流这个女人不好对付 [Infinite Worlds & No Romance] In the modern world, the Taoist clan has faded into obscurity. Li Baibai, its last heir, scrapes by day to day drawing talismans. One day, she is pulled into another bizarre world as a player. She will face: Tutorial dungeon: A Ghost Knocks at Midnight. Scenario: [Your father has died, but his body has gone missing. You and your mother depend on each other, and she is your only family. While sorting through your belongings, you find a few words carved into the back 37Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 141 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Heimu Creek: Bloodstained Human-Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night 黑木溪：深夜吐出的带血人皮纸 Blackwood Creek: Bloodstained Human Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Learning to Slay Gods in an Infinite Game 我在无限游戏里学弑神 [Infinite Flow]➕ [No Female Lead]➕ [No Sanctimonious Protagonist]➕ [Plot Twists]. “A ten-day experiment in human nature. Remember, do not break the rules.” In an unattended shopping mall, six people who had volunteered to work sit in a circle. Chen Qige, the only one who was tricked into coming, sticks out like a sore thumb. A bizarre couple asks them one final question: “You all volunteered for this job, correct?” The six people, whose backgrounds are shrouded in mystery, all nod. Chen Qige: “I —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 145 Close Your Eyes, and the Nightmare Begins 闭眼即梦魇 [Infinite-flow + no romance + mild horror + mystery-solving] A bizarre murder case dragged Yan Wei, a psychiatric patient, into a bloody game. As layer after layer of fog lifted, he discovered a grand conspiracy lurking behind it all... A mysteriously vanished psychiatric hospital, otherworldly powers worshipped by the masses, a boy whose face he could never remember from his dreams... Behind ideals that seemed so grand lay a tangled web of human and divine self-interest. 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Thriller: There's a Ghost in My Phone 惊悚：我的手机里有鬼 A month ago, my younger sister mysteriously disappeared in a subway station. A day ago, the police pulled a headless female corpse from the river. A DNA test confirmed it was my sister, Xu Yuan. A minute ago, my dead sister walked in carrying a cake decorated with a human head. A white ghost candle was stuck into the crown of the skull, and the longevity noodles were made from human organs. She had come to celebrate my birthday. A minute later, I was chosen by a supernatural app's blood contract 3.2kReads—Score450Shelves
- 147 You Were Supposed to Handle Rule Contamination, So Why Are You Going, “For Real?” 让你处理规则污染，你搁这“尊嘟假嘟”？ You were supposed to handle the rule contamination, so why are you over here going, “For real, though?” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Eerie Revival: Obstetrician to an S-Rank Haunted Hospital 诡异复苏：给S级鬼楼当产科医生 Eerie Revival: Obstetrician to an S-Rank Haunted Building 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 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
- 150 Who Dragged Him In Here? He's Fiercer Than a Ghost! 谁把他拉进来的，他比鬼还凶啊！ Three years ago, darkness engulfed the entire world. All electrical facilities stopped working, phones lost their signal, and not a speck of light remained anywhere on Blue Star. Many people thought the end of the world had arrived! The darkness lasted for three full days before it receded. After that, everyone over the age of sixteen around the globe was randomly selected and forced to enter another world. A world of terrifying instances! Those selected were called Travelers by the world of ter 10.7kReads7.2Score939Shelves
