Novels like Dawn of the Apocalypse: The Road to Rebuilding Civilization
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- 1 Lucky to Find Clover in the Apocalypse 末世幸逢三叶草 [Post-apocalyptic survival + high-octane action + firefights + combat vehicles + no supernatural powers + no System + one heroine] The real zombie apocalypse is here. Don’t you want to learn how to make useful survival tools? They’re all in this book! 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The National Rejuvenation Defense Line 国家复兴防线 [Warning! This novel is entirely fictional. Do not confuse it with reality!] "Your country is dead. All you are guarding is a corpse that still draws breath." A financial bomb crushed Americal. The government was paralyzed, the currency became worthless, and order collapsed. Manhattan became a hunting ground for gangs, cultists, and deserters. The once-proud city slowly rotted in the bitter cold. Julian Cross is a frontline agent for the National Revival Defense (NRD). He believes order can b 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Apocalypse Exorcist Streams Monster Hunts, Goddess Shows Up With a Kid 末世天师直播杀怪，女神带娃堵门 Apocalypse + celestial master + livestreaming + fortune-telling + monster slaying + goddess romance + one heroine + doting dad + transmigration! Zhang Haotian transmigrated into a world of ghost-themed games, only to die immediately. After becoming the supreme celestial master, he transmigrated again, this time into the original host's body. He sent the original host to the afterlife from the start! He'd only wanted to work nine to five, get married, have kids, and live an ordinary life! But who 11.2kReads8.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 4 Infinite Evolution 无限进化 Hundreds of years ago, a biological virus codenamed “T” opened the door to the destruction of human civilization and sounded the apocalypse’s opening trumpet. The gates of the apocalypse swung open, and countless powerful, cunning creatures began ravaging the Earth. Humanity’s survival hung by a thread! From then on, Earth officially bid farewell to the Fifth Era, the “Era of Human Civilization,” and entered the Sixth Era, the “Era of Chaos.” And this is a story that takes place in the Era of Ch 3.3kReads8.2Score26514d adds
- 5 Apocalypse Journey: The Search for My Family 末世征途，从寻亲开始 (The main battles involve superpowers and modern military forces. If you don’t like fantasy elements, feel free to skip this.) (Not reborn + character growth + no System + powerful protagonist team + ensemble cast + decisive and ruthless + expanding base) Global disaster strikes. Zombies run rampant, and order collapses. Li Ang wakes up with a hangover to find that the world has become a living hell. No System, just the gun in his hand and ruthlessness in his heart. “You stockpile food, I stockp 7.3kReads8.6Score47214d adds
- 6 Apocalypse: Whose Shadow Troops Are This Realistic? 末世：谁家影子部队这么真啊 [Apocalypse + no heroine + relatively hard-core + savior + no supernatural powers + tactical squad + no mindless decisions] “What? You’re putting me in the Eagle Sauce faction? Do you expect me to get attacked by zombies and my own people at the same time?” “An initial identity has been assigned to the Host: Second Lieutenant of the 102nd Brigade Combat Team, Eastern Theater Command of Dongda.” “Oh, then that’s fine.” “What, the zombies can climb walls?” “What, there are mutant zombies t 6.2kReads9.0Score37314d adds
- 7 The Angler's 8th Book 喜欢摸鱼的的第8本书 A meteor shower from beyond the skies brought a bio-virus that swept across the globe and crippled electronic devices. Modern civilization collapsed overnight. The apocalypse arrived. The land was overrun by the walking dead, and anguished cries rang through the skies. As everyone sank into despair and chaos, Qin Zheng, a deputy county magistrate assigned to a remote county, became the only leader there capable of taking charge. The trials of his career and the wisdom he had gained over two life 1.8kReads8.3Score9914d adds
- 8 Doomsday Shelter 末世庇护所 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 2kReads7.9Score20814d adds
- 9 Tomorrow After: The Weak Are Reborn 明日之后：弱者重生 Lin Yun, a gaming nerd, unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel universe hit by a sudden zombie outbreak. Worse still, he ended up in the body of a frail, delicate girl. How will he survive the apocalypse and rise step by step to become the lord of a refuge city? 174Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Land of the Radiant Dead: Earth's Trial Ground 灿烂尸生之地球试炼场 No transmigration, no rebirth: he turns into a zombie from the start. No revenge, no betrayal: he only wants to survive. Go abroad, hold nothing back: kill humans and zombies alike. Superpowers that level up, with no class restrictions. No System, no favoritism toward the protagonist, and keep yourself in check. The apocalypse arrives, and Earth becomes a trial ground for a higher civilization. Wei Xinwu turns into a zombie from the start. Under the human army's purge, ordinary zombies have no h 1.1kReads8.9Score10014d adds
- 11 Another World: That's Too Much! Starting from Scratch to Earn Contribution Points 异世：过分了，从零开始搞贡献值 [The opening can be read as an NPC being reborn + growing from weak to strong + stockpiling goods in various otherworlds + one-of-a-kind adventures in different worlds + romance + cozy vibes?] An Jiu was reborn in someone else's body. A barren wasteland, a strictly ranked beehive, sixth-class citizens scrambling to get their three meals a day, and a monthly trip to an altered world to gather supplies. Clenching her fists, she knew that if she wanted enough to eat, she had to... Fight! Like! Mad! 7.8kReads9.1Score85014d adds
- 12 Enlisting in the Apocalypse, I Become an SSS-Rank War God 末世参军，我成了SSS级战神 [Apocalypse + System + Enlistment + God of War + Passion + No Harem, No Saintly Hero] Li Jie transmigrated to a parallel world where resources were scarce and the population had fallen to less than a tenth of its former size. The struggle for resources had turned battlefields into meat grinders for humanity. To keep his younger sister alive, he enlisted in the army. Luckily, he awakened a daily lottery System. “Congratulations, Host! You’ve won: Infinite Space.” “Congratulations, Host! You’ve wo 2.5kReads8.5Score26714d adds
- 13 Doomsday: I Can Summon an Iron Tide 末世之我能召唤钢铁洪流 [Apocalypse + survival + zombies + System + army-building + savior + no female lead + ruthless action + government official + modern military + hard-core military] In 2025, a mysterious virus swept across the globe, turning vast numbers of infected people into zombies. Lu Cheng, an armed forces minister in a county, obtained a war System modeled on the game "World in Conflict". In Lanzhou, Gansu Province, he summoned a modern army, fought off wave after wave of zombies, built up a northwestern f 1.7kReads9.2Score11214d adds
- 14 Red Alert: Commander of the Apocalypse 红警之末世指挥官 The apocalypse is full of danger, but Su Chen isn’t worried. With the Red Alert System, he has every reason to be confident. You say you have lots of weapons? Sorry, I have more weapons than I can use. Ever heard of a weather control device? You say mutant beasts are powerful? Good timing: my super-soldiers have just been born, and they haven’t had a taste of battle yet. Su Chen looks up at the sky. “Earth was never my goal. My goal is the sea of stars!” 3.2kReads8.6Score49214d adds
- 15 Doomsday Game: I Get Stronger Just by Staying Home! 末日游戏：我宅在家里就变强！ [Shelter] [Management and Construction] [Rotating Apocalypses] [Cautious Male Lead] An apocalyptic game descends, and people across the globe are randomly assigned shelters. The disasters rotate every month! Extreme heat! Absolute cold! Falling meteorites! Plant mutations! Monsters on the rampage! Extreme disasters sweep the globe. People have to keep venturing out to explore and gather resources, frantically upgrading their shelters just to cling to life amid countless catastrophes. Su Yi is ju 28.6kReads7.9Score2k14d adds
- 16 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 13.8kReads8.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 17 War System in the Apocalypse 战争系统在末世 I Became the Commander-in-Chief in the Apocalypse Apocalypse + raising a massive army + hard-core stats + characters with brains Just as the apocalypse arrives, Gu Chengyuan obtains the War System and starts raising a massive army, sweeping through the apocalypse with an unstoppable tide of steel! The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story. 66kReads9.0Score4.1k14d adds
- 18 Stockpiling Supplies in the Apocalypse: I Just Want to Be a Lazy Fish with Billions of Resources 末世囤货：携亿万物资只想当咸鱼 [Apocalypse + rebirth + spatial storage + multiple pets + stockpiling + everyday life + a different kind of spatial System!] Acid rain, blizzards, extreme cold and heat, insect plagues, mutations… After struggling alone in the apocalypse for ten years, she is framed and left to bleed to death. Reborn, she takes revenge, stockpiles supplies, and raises an army of mutated military dogs! Fried chicken, luosifen, cola, potato chips: she buys it all! But… the way her space upgrades seems a little str 14.7kReads9.0Score1.6k14d adds
- 19 Doomsday: I Take the Campus Beauties on a World Tour 末日：我带着女神校花环游世界 [Apocalyptic power fantasy + Self-interest + Decisive and ruthless + Game-like stats, don't read if that's not your thing] Early-game growth, invincible by the mid-to-late game! (Important characters, monsters, and settings are illustrated. The stats were recorded and calculated using software.) He transmigrated to Blue Star just as the apocalypse broke out, and gained an auxiliary shopping-mall System. Egged on by the System, Su Yu exchanged points for a high-tech RV and embarked on a journ —Reads—Score23.9k14d adds
- 20 One Arrow Pierces the Clouds, Calling Matched Souls Together 一支穿云箭，匹配者们来相见 [Apocalypse + alien species + supernatural powers + spatial realm + transformation + transmigration + partly sci-fi + multiple match partners + expansive worldbuilding + strong female lead (growing combat power, etc.) + strong male leads (intelligence, emotional intelligence, laziness, optimism, straightforwardness, etc.)] Alien species invade, Earth's continents fracture and fuse together, and humanity mutates across the globe. Chen Qian spends three years killing countless monsters after tra 21.4kReads9.2Score2.6k14d adds
- 21 From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世 The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li 66.3kReads8.7Score5.3k14d adds
- 22 The Apocalypse Is Here, So Why Bother Competing? Stockpile Supplies! 都末日了还内卷啥呢？囤物资啊 [Apocalypse + space + reborn + frantically stockpiling supplies + no romance] (No male lead, so feel free to ship anyone you like.) Qin Sheng survived for three years in the Apocalypse, finally outlasting the boss and taking over as second-in-command. But before she could enjoy her new life, she woke up to find herself reborn two months before the Apocalypse! She had worked so hard to claw her way up to become the big boss! Before she could even throw her weight around, the heavens sent her back 40.5kReads9.2Score3.7k14d adds
- 23 Apocalypse: I Can Hear Other People's Thoughts 末世：我能听到别人心声 [Apocalypse + Reborn + Superpowers] Xiao Jun, who had survived six years of the Apocalypse, was reborn before it began. Can he stockpile supplies, kill zombies, and even hear other people's thoughts? The school belle's top-tier opportunity? Sorry, I'm taking it all! Xiao Jun: One day, I'll figure out the origins of this Apocalypse. 36.2kReads9.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 24 EN Survival for All, Obtaining the D-Class Personnel Simulator 全民求生，获得D级人员模拟器 Everyone transmigrates into an apocalyptic world, where each person starts with a shelter and a unique talent. Lin Ye gains the D-rank Personnel Simulator ability, which lets him enter other worlds and simulate being D-rank personnel. Lin Ye: ??? 148.4kReads8.9Score11.3k14d adds
- 25 The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏 10.3kReads7.6Score69314d adds
- 26 Dawn Tower 黎明塔 They're here! They're here! A shocking conspiracy is looming over the entire world! Natural and man-made disasters, with zombies everywhere! Please don't lose yourself in the darkness! May the dawn's light shine forever! 55.8kReads9.3Score4.3k14d adds
- 27 Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世 [Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a 142.7kReads9.0Score12.3k14d adds
- 28 Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾，我靠囤百亿物资躺赢 [Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r 59.5kReads9.3Score5.3k14d adds
- 29 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 359.7kReads8.7Score17.9k14d adds
- 30 EN Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕！小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬 [Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a 76kReads9.5Score10.4k14d adds
- 31 EN Stockpiling a Hundred Billion in Supplies: An Assassin Squad Clears the Apocalypse 囤百亿物资，杀手小队通关末世 (Female-led story, zombies, team-based, decisive and ruthless, not a bleeding heart) Bai Yaoyao, ranked number one on the assassin leaderboard, awakened a spatial ability after the apocalypse began. She led her brothers from the organization to carve out a path through the carnage and reach the top of the apocalypse's Ten Strongest list. Yet, in the end, she still died in the apocalypse's tenth year, cut to pieces by an Emperor-rank spatial zombie. She thought her life was over. But when she ope 114.3kReads9.5Score11k14d adds
- 32 EN Apocalypse Game: Killing My Girlfriend on Day One 末日游戏：开局手刃校花女友 [Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab 131.3kReads9.4Score10.8k14d adds
- 33 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 26.8kReads8.9Score2.4k14d adds
- 34 EN Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世：开局先囤十亿物资 [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left 117.9kReads9.3Score9.4k14d adds
- 35 Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生：大佬从百万囤货开始 [Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot 97.4kReads9.4Score8.6k14d adds
- 36 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.2kReads9.6Score22.4k14d adds
- 37 EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.3kReads9.7Score17.4k14d adds
- 38 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 479.8kReads9.7Score65.9k14d adds
- 39 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 520.5kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 40 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score177.1k14d adds
- 41 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
