Novels like Death Game: Citizens of the City of the Dying
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- 51 The Muggle Esper Squad 麻瓜御能团 Noble heirs with brains and looks, gifted elites locked in a battle of wits. Alongside the thrilling competitions, there are plenty of funny everyday moments. Beneath the twists and turns of the plot lie reflections on life. At times it's gripping, at others laugh-out-loud funny. A knowing smile will leave you with something to ponder. Ensemble cast + youthful passion + coming of age Lighthearted + no angst + a touch of romance Four main characters: two men and two women Wild imagination + no S 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 A Detective's Story: The Fishing King Solves the Mystery of the Sunken Body 刑警故事，钓鱼王破解沉尸之谜 A Criminal Police Story: The Fishing King Solves the Mystery of the Sunken Corpse 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Logical Trap: Extending My Life in a Game of Human Nature 逻辑陷阱：我在人性游戏中续命 Also known as: Logic Trap: I Keep Myself Alive in a Game of Human Nature [No humanity + original game scenarios + mind-bending games + survival through non-horror psychological battles] Human nature? Sorry, I don’t have any! I just want to survive! Yu Tu, who has terminal cancer, unexpectedly enters the mysterious Divine Cage: a ball-splitting game, the prisoner’s dilemma, Mafia… Clear the games, and you can extend your life! To stay alive, to hell with human nature! Gradually, even Yu Tu can’t 433Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 54 The City Lost in the Eerie Fog: Divine Punishment Game 诡雾迷城：神罚游戏 Tags: Survival Game + Mind-Bending Mystery + Challenge Dungeons + Wits and Deduction + Alternate Dimension + Monster Invasion When Ling Wen thought this was just an ordinary exam, he was forcibly dragged into the "Death Game." When he thought that clearing the "Death Game" would let him leave and return to the real world, he discovered that he had been in the real world all along. But now, gods from an alternate dimension are invading the real world. The fog descends without warning, and a dimen 2.9kReads—Score39114d adds
- 55 Recreating Iconic Scenes in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里复刻名场面 [No female lead + iconic scenes + absurd laugh-out-loud comedy + national destiny + vengeful ghosts. If you don’t laugh in 30 minutes, come beat me up] A horror game appeared, and Qin Ming was ordered to take part at a time when the fate of the Dragon Nation hung in the balance. The System directly altered his talent, granting him an SSS...-rank ability: Meme Reenactment, which let him recreate iconic scenes inside the horror game. When Qin Ming unlocked Crazy Donkey, he said, “Vengeful ghosts, 3.9kReads8.9Score39914d adds
- 56 This Cultivator Is Rather Cunning 这个修士有点心计 This story focuses on schemes, suspense, and plot twists. If you enjoy this style, dive right in with confidence. Her family is wiped out, a bounty is placed on her head, and she is hunted down. She moves among the great clans, repeatedly teetering between life and death. When talent falls short, cunning makes up the difference. So what if I’m only at the Qi Refining stage? I can still scheme a Golden Core cultivator to death. So what if I have a crippled spiritual root? I can still join a major 105Reads6.9Score914d adds
- 57 She’s on a Killing Spree! Clearing the Horror Game and Becoming a Legend 杀疯了！她在惊悚游戏里通关封神 Tang Tang stepped out of her bedroom and straight into a horror game. And the game wouldn't even let her pay to win! What a trash game! Tang Tang immediately filed a complaint. But she still had to beat the game. And this game was terrifying beyond belief. A single mother went bald overnight, screams rang out again and again in the girls' dormitory, and no one dared take the thousand-year-old castle... Behind it all, was it a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality? Let's invite tho 939Reads9.1Score15214d adds
- 58 Traces Among the Stars: Lu Bu Fights Aliens to Protect Me 飘渺星踪：吕布护我战外星 Beneath the dome, at the birthplace of creation, within the span of a light-year, gods may not tread! Not a power fantasy. If that's not for you, don't click. The early chapters lay a lot of groundwork and foreshadowing, and the plot unfolds gradually! Urban martial arts, sci-fi mecha, space battleships, ensemble casts and team combat, elemental powers, mental force, ancient martial arts, and superpower battles. Battles span many settings, races, and systems. Famous generals from the Three Kingd 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Great! It's a System, Now I'm Definitely Dead 太棒了！是系统，这下我死定了 [Infinite Flow] [No heroine] [No CP] [Original instances] [The System is useless] [Rules] [Deduction] [Wits and strategy] [Survival missions] Borrowing a setting from a great author: ghosts cannot be killed... You must discern their patterns... The Haunted Spirit Tower has descended. Please make sure to complete your survival mission! Little-girl System and all that: “Host, clear each instance in one life, one every seven days! Bring the Haunted Tower era to an end!” Chen Zichu: “Damn it... Othe 2.6kReads7.6Score22014d adds
- 60 Global Game: I'm an Elegant Riddler 全球游戏：我是优雅的谜语人 [Riddle Master + Highbrow + Light Novel + Roleplay + No Heroine] After an accident, Mu Qing transmigrates twenty years into the past, to a time before the Game of the Gods descended upon the world and before the true gods made their appearance. The SSS-tier supreme talent known as “Prophet” comes back with him! He can see anyone’s future and the outcome of every game. From then on, Mu Qing sets out to turn himself into an elegant “riddle master.” What’s a riddle master? Someone who could speak p 3.5kReads9.3Score36714d adds
- 61 The Haunted House: The Midnight Wind Chime Murders 凶宅之午夜风铃杀人事件 The Haunted House: The Midnight Wind Chime Murders 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 62 I Told You, That Villain Isn't Me 我都说了，那个反派不是我 [No Female Lead + Sequences + Mild Horror + Slow Burn] Jiang Yan is a high school student. One day, he suddenly noticed that everything around him had started to get strange. “I don’t know what’s going on. Everyone who sees me is terrified, saying I brutally slaughter my own kind and that I’m a deranged lunatic. But I’ve always treated everyone politely and kindly. I respect my teachers at school, take good care of my elders at home, and I’ve never even met these people... Doctor, do you know wh 10.5kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 63 The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏 The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no 76.8kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 64 Nine Days to the Ruins 九日归墟 Mind-bending suspense, imaginative mysteries, apocalyptic survival, Infinite Flow, battles of life and death waged through wits, restrictive rules, clever characters who stay smart, no cheap melodrama, shocking twists, multiple settings and a large cast. A group of ordinary people wake up in a bizarre space. Waiting for them are mind-bending games of life and death, along with all kinds of unknown hardships. They struggle to survive and search for the truth, only to find that when they peel away 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Thriller Game: A Journey of Escape Begins in an Ancient Castle 惊悚游戏：从古堡开始的逃生之旅 [Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + No Female Lead + Escape + Not Wish Fulfillment + No System + Smart Characters + Original Worldbuilding] [This story has plenty of twists and focuses on an ensemble cast. Please read patiently: the characters may not be as simple as they seem, and although this is an infinite-worlds story, each instance is connected in some way.] Yan Changqing has been bedridden and paralyzed for twelve years. Throughout those twelve years, he has repeatedly had the same dream. In 12.1kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 66 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 313.2kReads8.8Score34.3k14d adds
- 67 Cowards, Keep Out: A Courier Battles Sadako 胆小鬼勿进：快递员大战女鬼贞子 Cowards Keep Out: The Courier vs. Sadako, the Ghost 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Living Sacrifice 1.8kReads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Apocalypse Heavenly Soldiers 末世天兵团 [Available for licensing as a comedy animation!] Ensemble cast + adventure + the unknown + zombies + apocalypse + pure thrills + fiery action + supernatural powers + wandering + monster-slaying and leveling up After the college entrance exams ended, my classmates and I were transported to an apocalyptic world in another dimension! Zombies are everywhere, and they respawn after you kill them! This world worships the strong. The weak don't even have time to cry! We just want to survive. We don't e 208Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Food I Deliver Has a Recipient Who's Been Dead for Three Years 我送的外卖，收货人死了三年 The person who received the food I delivered died three years ago. 1.1kReads—Score3614d adds
- 71 The Eighteenth Level of Hell: No Lying Allowed 地狱十八层：这里禁止说谎 [No System, no power fantasy, no harem, no saintly protagonist. Mind games + wits and strategy + locked-room mysteries + deduction.] Chen Ran is a good person. He went to hell. This is the Tongue-Ripping Hell, where lying is forbidden, so everyone lies about their lies. Differences in how people believe lies should be handled gave rise to two major alliances. The Lie-Slayer Alliance: Lie, and you're killed instantly. The Strange-Tongue Alliance: Turn lies into the truth. A beginner's tutorial wi 70.8kReads9.1Score10.7k14d adds
- 72 EN No Hope of Survival 生还无期 [No CP, No Female Lead] + [Infinite Deaths and Resurrections] + [Superpower Awakening] + [Mind Games and Strategy] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Life in Review] The keywords of this book are “human nature,” “death games,” and “setting traps.” The thirteen characters who appear from the start all play important roles! Each has a distinct personality, and every one of them will have a major part to play later in the story. This book also features endless deaths, so if that’s not your thing, please read wit 8.2kReads9.3Score84314d adds
- 73 Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生 [Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t 309Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 The Three-Faced Sovereign: The Ultimate Secret Plot of the Infinite Realm 三面主宰：无限流的终极秘局 Also known as The Infinite-Flow Civil Servant Chronicles. Male lead, no female lead, infinite flow, mind-bending mysteries, horror games, rules-based horror, ensemble cast. Nobody is normal; everyone is “sick.” If I revealed how many male leads there are, I’d be giving away the mystery, so you’ll have to read it yourself. Anyone who makes it through the whole book will be left speechless! (*^▽^*) It’s an infinite-flow story, and the setup defies common sense! Just focus on the mystery. Suggestio 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 The Wish of the Eighth Day 第八天的愿望 [Ensemble Cast | Supernatural Powers | Instances | Game | Infinite Flow | One Female Lead] (No intricate battles of wits! Not a ruthless, action-packed power fantasy! Readers with “sensitive skin” should proceed with caution!) The ones most in need of salvation have never been those suffering in the real world, but the kind thoughts we nearly drowned in despair... At first, A shooting star fell into their eyes, and despairing souls were dragged onto a strange island. “They” said that any wis 37.1kReads9.2Score4.5k14d adds
- 76 Rule Horror: This Dorm Is a Little Bit Terrifying 规则怪谈：这个寝室有亿点点恐怖 The supernatural rises, and rule-based horror descends. Each country will randomly select a Chosen One to enter the world of urban legends. If you clear the rule-based horror game, your country receives rewards that help it resist the urban legends. The first urban legend takes place in a dormitory. [You've finished another fulfilling day of studying. Welcome back to your dorm to rest. Please read the dormitory rules in advance.] [1: This apartment is designed for six people.] [2: The lower bunk 3.2kReads8.9Score24514d adds
- 77 Rigid Justice 刻板正义 If you were born to be humanity’s savior, destined to sacrifice yourself, would you accept your mission? [Great Calamities] are extinction-level natural disasters that occur every few years: tsunamis, meteorites, swarms of insects, collapsing stars. Only the most powerful superhuman, known as [Justice], can end them by offering up their life. Against this backdrop, humanity has developed all kinds of unique social systems, and the world’s balance of power and relations between nations have bec 630Reads8.6Score10614d adds
- 78 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 43.3kReads8.7Score4.8k14d adds
- 79 Tales of a Paper Effigy Maker 纸人扎匠诡事录 Tales of the Paper Effigy Artisan's Strange Cases 4.7kReads—Score12114d adds
- 80 Infinite Game: Don't Rush, I'll Fool You After I Fool Them 无限游戏：别急，骗完你的骗你的 (Please read the content warnings below before starting.) [No CP] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Game] [Lone Wolf in the Early Stages] [Welcome to the Infinite Fun Game. Fail three times, and you will die.] While other players slaughtered their way through the game with all kinds of attack skills, Yun Cen, a newcomer from Blue Star, stared at her innate skill and fell into deep thought: [Huh? You can hear me?] What was this lousy skill even good for, besides listening to toilets complain about const 66.3kReads9.0Score12.2k14d adds
- 81 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 3.3kReads—Score33414d adds
- 82 The Ten Great Mysteries of the Song Dynasty 大宋十大奇案 No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincible protagonist, no System, no golden finger, and no transmigration. This is not a power fantasy, so read at your own discretion! A pure historical mystery set in the jianghu, offering an immersive experience of everyday life in an ancient town and the suspenseful twists and turns as officials use their wits to solve cases… 7.3kReads8.6Score63814d adds
- 83 I Smell a Ghost! 我嗅到了鬼味！ [Infinite Flow]+ [Mild Horror]+ [No Romance]+ [Despairing Tone] One night, Gu Quan walks out of the funeral home carrying two memorial portraits, having just attended a funeral. His father calls to tell him that his mother has been in a car accident and is at death's door. In a panic, Gu Quan heads to the underground garage, hoping to drive over and see his mother one last time. On the way, he unexpectedly catches the scent of his natural enemy! Terrified, he gets into a car without thinking, un 196.3kReads8.6Score14.2k14d adds
- 84 Chronicles of the Misty Apocalypse 飘渺末世录 Sci-fi action with team battles, multiple female leads, and a clash between Earth's ancient civilization and aliens. An ancient civilization has been protecting Earth for hundreds of millions of years! Battles across time and space! The laws of the galaxies! Just then, the phantom image of a blue-haired woman gradually appeared in the sky, standing around a hundred meters tall. The blue-haired woman was stunningly beautiful, even more so than Yan Shiyu and the other women. Her blue hair fell ove 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Feathered Deep 羽化深渊 The story takes place in the modern East Asian coastal city of Linyuan. Linyuan is a port city plagued by year-round rain, industrial decline, and a mix of religions. It is home to: * Abandoned Taoist temples * An underground black market * A seaside altar * A sealed-off mountainous region * Folk villages * An old, quarantined psychiatric hospital * A secret religious sect left over from the Republican era Ordinary people believe the world is normal. But in truth, the world has been infiltrated 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 I Sell Secondhand Mirrors Online, and the Buyer Says Someone in the Mirror Is Watching Her 我在闲鱼卖二手镜子，买家说镜子里有人在看她 I sell secondhand mirrors on Xianyu. The buyer says someone is watching her from inside the mirror. 2kReads—Score2114d adds
- 87 First Day of School: The Teacher Dies Before My Eyes 开学：老师死在面前 [Supernatural + Horror + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Infinite Flow + Decisive and Ruthless + Teamwork] On the first day of school, the moment Class 4's homeroom teacher, Mr. Bai, mysteriously committed suicide in the classroom, everyone's worldview was completely overturned by what they saw. A bleeding blackboard, blood-red words appearing out of nowhere: it was as if a novel had become reality. Everyone in the class would be forced to take on all kinds of deadly missions. They could neit 28.5kReads8.9Score2.7k14d adds
- 88 Infinite Livestream: The Max-Level Expert Goes Viral for Clapping Back 无限直播：满级大佬靠怼人爆火 [Infinite-Flow Livestream + Max-Level Expert + Roasting Her Way to Fame + One-on-One, Both Leads Pure] Xia Shasha was once a top streamer, so she never imagined she’d get a fresh start one day, only to have her livestream audience immediately call her a green-tea schemer. Her response? “Sure, I’m a green tea, a goofy weirdo, and a master of sarcastic comebacks~” The viewers who used to look down on green-tea Xia Shasha now say, “Another day of wanting to lick Tea’s shoes! Shasha, fly fearlessly, 697Reads9.3Score11314d adds
- 89 Demon Game: I Can Command Unmatched Luck! 恶魔游戏，我能驾御无双运势！ [Mind Games and Deception + No Dumbed-Down Characters + No Saintly Hero + Infinite Worlds + Horror Game + Mastermind of Fate] Su Yi, a mystery novelist, was chosen for a demonic game that stakes players' lives. From the start, he drew the unpopular class of Deceiver and was cursed with only sixty days left to live. Demonic Game: “Do you want supernatural power? Do you want astonishing wealth?” “Then win the Demonic Game and stay alive...” Su Yi: “I'll gamble sixty years of my lifespan for t 27.1kReads9.1Score3.9k14d adds
- 90 Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子 (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m 38.5kReads9.4Score5.6k14d adds
- 91 The Ghost King’s Self-Cultivation 鬼王的自我修养 “I'm Li Jiong. I'm still alive.” “I have no memories. I know nothing about this world.” “Something seems wrong here. How strange.” “I remember a little now. This world really is wrong.” “It's me. How could the world be wrong?” “I'm the one who's wrong.” Li Jiong sways his head and hums an unknown tune as he tears through layers of unfamiliar fog in the game. He witnesses the strange things around him and records them in his diary. As he investigates, his memories slowly begin to unfold, and he s 5.2kReads8.3Score56614d adds
- 92 I Cleared the Game Ages Ago, and You’re Only Now Pulling Me into the Horror Game 早通关了，你才拉我进怪谈 [Invincible] [No Female Lead] After practicing for two and a half years, Jiang Zhe cleared a game called Rule-Based Horror. After clearing it, he transmigrated into the world of Rule-Based Horror. Every country in the world selects one chosen player. Winners bring their nation prosperity. Losers have a monster randomly descend upon one of their cities, where it wreaks havoc for 48 hours. Jiang Zhe is selected and awakens an SSS-rank talent: “Unscientific Summoning,” which lets him summon p 10.6kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 93 I'm the Only Living Person in This Apartment Building 我住的这栋公寓，只有我是活人 I'm the only living person in the apartment building where I live. 4.3kReads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Real-Life Escape Club 真实逃杀俱乐部 This world is dead. But I want to live. This is an age where the supernatural is paradise, and humanity is in hell. I saw the club as the only [Beacon of Hope], blind to the schemes and betrayal behind it. Resurrected supernatural creatures, blood-soaked death zones, slaughter experiments that defy human understanding. The boundary between life and death began to blur, until people and the supernatural could no longer be told apart. Standing atop a mountain of corpses, I faced the weeping, despa 18.9kReads9.0Score2.1k14d adds
- 95 The Escape Begins After School 放学后开始逃跑 On the night the high school entrance exam results were announced, Bai Meng had just received his acceptance letter from a prestigious city high school and was riding a wave of excitement. Then, without warning, the excitement made him so dizzy that before he could even settle down on the sofa, everything went black. When he came to, he was at Tianwang High School. It was a strange place. Once the school day ended, it was time to run for your life! 5.2kReads9.1Score85414d adds
- 96 Starting at the Cheater's Tavern, I Deceive the Gods! 从骗子酒馆开始，欺诈诸神！ [A satisfying power fantasy + mind-bending twists + reversals + slow burn + battles of wits + nonstop thrills] When people all over the world were “kidnapped” and locked in a prison, they were forced to take part in a game of death. In this game, only the winners had the right to survive. Su Yang received the talent “Call Your Enemy Dad” from the start. [Call Your Enemy Dad: After activation, if you make another “player” call Su Yang “Dad,” you can control their actions.] But when the talent fai 46.7kReads8.6Score4k14d adds
- 97 The Gods Devour Earth 神噬地球 [Ensemble Cast] [Anti-Cheat-Fantasy] [Political Intrigue] [Slow Burn, Not a Power Fantasy] [No Stock Characters] [Wits and Strategy] [A Blend of Classical and Vernacular Chinese, Not for Everyone] (Revised through Chapter 40 of Volume Two; later chapters will be updated gradually.) Thermodynamics applies in this book. You cannot regenerate mana forever. Any method of gaining power will gradually be discovered by others over time, diminishing its returns until they reach zero. The protagonist has 48.9kReads9.5Score8.6k14d adds
- 98 Deadly Haunted Grounds: The Death Countdown Begins! 致命诡地：现在开始死亡倒计时！ [Infinite-flow + horror instances + survival + mild scares + no romance] The curse of the Bronze Ghost Mask descends. Those chosen must embark on one deadly journey after another. Time is running out, and death is drawing near. Who will make it out alive this time? [The B&B Butcher] In a creepy old house, ghostly figures appear whenever night falls. Anyone who enc 27.9kReads8.5Score2.8k14d adds
- 99 EN You Mistook Me for a Villain? Then I'll Take the Job 怎么误会我是反派？那我真上岗了 [Coming-of-age] [Warning: triple-identity spy ⚠️] [The three identities come after four instances] [Lone Wolf, no male-gaze content] [The protagonist is pursued early on, extreme protagonist stans, back off!] [Fictional setting with a realistic feel] The “Carnival Paradise” arrives and gradually devours the real world in the form of a game. Zhu Yan unexpectedly awakens the talent “Impersonation” and becomes one of the first closed-beta players. He thought he could safely build up his strength, 96.8kReads9.4Score12.6k14d adds
- 100 Rule Horror: You Call Me Brutal, Yet You Love Me with All Your Heart 规则怪谈：说我残暴又爱我如命 [No Female Lead + No Romance + Comedy + Supernatural Horror + Invincible + Live Streaming] + [Not a Lone Wolf, with Supporting Characters Who Grow] On an ordinary afternoon, a roar shook the sky, and a strange scene appeared before everyone. [The once-in-a-million-years resurgence of paranormal tales is about to begin!] [The only way to stop them from descending is to defeat them!] [Humans who survive and clear the trials, along with their countries, will receive rewards. Those who die or fail t 7.7kReads9.3Score77814d adds
