Novels like The Horror Realm: A Detective's Notebook
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- 151 Infinite: A Dreadful Escape, Driving the System Insane with My Acting Skills 无限：惊悚逃生，凭演技逼疯系统 [Infinite-flow + strong female lead + serious tone + mild horror and suspense + fast-paced + romance] [Career-focused in the early stages, more romance later] (The author's not well known, so take the rating with a grain of salt. I promise you won't regret giving this a chance.) The moment Ji Wanwan is dragged into an infinite-flow game, she has only one thought on her mind: Escape games are all about acting skills. Drive the System crazy and punch the NPCs! All kinds of clueless newbie 364Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 152 Infinite Flow: Whose Psycho Is This? Keep Them Leashed! 无限流之谁家的疯子？请栓好 Two male leads + sweet romance + two possessive yanderes + both are strong The second installment of Set Sail for the World For humanity and the world, Qi Wuning turned himself into an anomaly, deceiving everyone, even himself. He made himself the key to an anomaly site and spent a hundred years locked alone inside a pitch-black little box. Unable to forget the days he spent with his loved ones, he began to fear the dark. Once so upright that he would do anything for humanity, he finally fell in 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 72-Hour Countdown to Death! 死亡倒计时72小时！ 72 Hours Until Death! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 After Becoming a Bug in a Paranormal Livestream, I Ascended to Godhood 成为灵异直播BUG后，我封神了 [Light horror + supernatural + suspense + livestreaming + strong female and male leads + infinite flow] Female lead’s perspective: Zhong Feiwan inherits her grandfather’s incense shop for ghost-hunting and becomes a ghost hunter. To make money, she diligently works overtime ghost-hunting every day after her regular job. Then one day, she accidentally enters a game called [Supernatural Livestream]. The viewers watch as she, despite being a [new player], draws all kinds of talismans, then secr 170Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 155 Survival Game: I Defy Fate with My Imagination 生存游戏：我靠脑洞在游戏场逆天 [Absurd Comedy + Infinite Worlds + Rule-Based Battles + Internet Memes + Meticulous Plotting + Reverse Tropes + No Romance] When reaction images become primordial deities and terrible memes form the laws of the world, welcome to the “Meme Corridor,” a survival game that runs on imagination, not science. Here, every cringe-worthy meme you once laughed at will become a blade aimed at your life. While other players despair in the repulsion field of “Don’t you come any closer!” or sink into the “ 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 The 101st Dawn of the Silent Court 静默王庭的101次破晓 [Male Lead Focus · Western Fantasy Setting · Game Dungeons · 1v1 · Forced Love · Mutual Salvation · Size Difference · Skin Tone Difference] Leon x Ji He The amnesiac male lead infiltrates a player party and frantically solves puzzles, only to fall in love at first sight with the queen, wife of the dungeon's great villain. He gets wildly jealous over everything and wants nothing more than to rescue his beautiful wife from the "tyrant." Then his memories return, and the moment he picks up the roya 551Reads—Score100Shelves
- 157 I Slaughter My Way Through the Survival Game with an Evil Ghost on My Back 我背着恶鬼在生存游戏里大杀四方 [Infinite-flow + suspense + horror + ensemble cast + mysteries to solve + powerful male lead and strongest female lead couple] [Residents of Nameless City, greetings. The Cleaners Project is a mandatory undertaking for every citizen. Purifying the world is everyone’s responsibility. Please take part in the Cleaners Project. Your assessment results will determine your fate. Believe us, Eden is waiting for you.] Nan Yue came from Nameless City and was one of the lowest-ranked trash people. Like al 15.4kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 158 Hell Academy: Conquering the Myriad Worlds, Starting with the Mist 地狱高校：从迷雾开始纵横诸天 After Fang Xiu finally got into Tsinghua University, he managed to scrape together enough money for his mother’s surgery, only to transmigrate for no apparent reason. He transmigrated to a strange high school and became a “high school student.” To get home and treat his mother, he chose the unorthodox path of power-ups, looping through one damned world after another for that damned diploma. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 The May Day Calamity 五一劫 The May Day Calamity —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 I Run a Mental Health Clinic in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里开心理诊所 [No romance, comradeship] Wen Yanxin was a top-tier psychologist. She was forcibly dragged into a horror game. She immediately opened a mental health clinic in the beginner’s zone. Her specialty was treating all kinds of dungeon NPCs. Vengeful spirits weep, evil ghosts brood, rules kill people? Sit down, let’s talk through your troubles for five minutes. By healing NPCs, she rose to godhood in the horror game. Later, she gradually realized that this endless horror game had never been designed fo 47Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 161 After Entering the Horror World, the Ghosts Realized I Was Cheating 进入恐怖世界后鬼怪发现我开挂 [Infinite-world survival + terrifying horror games + momma’s boy heroine + strong female lead + unlimited revivals + expert at laying ghosts to rest by force + face-slapping and punishing scum + wish fulfillment + no romance + lone wolf] [If you enjoyed the story, please leave a five-star review. Thanks, everyone!] This world doesn’t seem as simple as it looks. Bai Qianwu can clearly sense that it has two sides: the surface world and the inner world. The gods of this world seem to have a twisted 694Reads9.1Score105Shelves
- 162 Infinite Flow: The Beloved NPC Is Back in the Arena of Love and Death 无限流：万人迷NPC又在修罗场 I want you. I want to possess you. I want to kill you. Gu Meng, whose body has the qualities of Tomie, is inexplicably dragged into a horror game. Worse still, she’s the only NPC who has awakened. Worse than that, her ability to attract obsessive fanatics and perverts hasn’t disappeared. It’s only grown stronger. Gu Meng looks at the useless skills on her System panel, then at the powerful attack coming her way. Just as she’s about to raise the white flag, she spots the player she’s killed off a 78Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 163 The Yandere Heroine Goes on a Killing Spree in a Horror Game 病娇女主在恐怖游戏里杀疯了 No romance + infinite-flow + horror games + unhinged powerhouse + invincible + comedy + face-slapping + Jin Bao is crazy and cool Jin Jiu seemed perfectly normal on the surface, but her mental state was a thing of beauty. While rescuing someone, she was pulled into a beginner's instance. Jin Jiu, facing a monster: “I've been so polite. What are you still unhappy about?” The beginner's instance ended. Everyone else cleared it, but Jin Jiu got trapped in instances that kept growing more difficult, 282Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 164 Dropped into a Player’s Body, I Slaughter My Way Through the Dungeons 落入玩家后，我杀穿副本 [Completed + Strong Female Lead + Infinite Flow + Cool Beauty + Fortune Teller + Female Lead Shows No Mercy; Everyone Is Self-Serving Villain] [The men around the female lead all have one-sided crushes on her] Li Jiu was one of the players in the game's earliest testing phase. She had cleared the entire instance and uncovered countless early bugs, but after an accident involving the System, she found herself back in the instance. Everyone thought she was a newcomer, an ordinary woman who couldn' 2.8kReads8.1Score545Shelves
- 165 My Harem of Escape-Room Boyfriends: I Can't Count Them on Two Hands 无限逃生男友团，两个巴掌数不完 [Infinite Dungeons + Folk-Horror Tales + Local Legends + Rule-Based Horror + A Little Goofy + Mild Horror + No Fixed Male Lead + Harem-Adjacent] Hong Kong City | Ryukyu | Western Hunan | Bagui | Haojiang | Eastern Guangdong | Min City | Capital City | Guandong | Dian City [Congratulations, you are now a player. The dungeon is loading. Enjoy your terrifying escape journey.] When players are dragged into an infinite world where each dungeon is based on local folk-horror legends, they encounter hau 2.5kReads8.8Score435Shelves
- 166 A Shadow in the Mirror, Murder Lurking Within 镜中之影，暗藏杀机 A Shadow in the Mirror, Hiding Deadly Intent 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Infinite Flow: Taking Apart History, Then Fairy Tales 无限流：拆完历史拆童话 [Infinite-Flow + Female-Centric Language + Strong Female Lead + Dark Fairy Tales + No National Luck System + Anti-Cliché + Yuri] [The historical instances in this work are fictionalized for artistic purposes and differ from actual history. The fairy-tale instances are adaptations and differ from the originals.] Qiu Yue opened her eyes to find herself dragged into an infinite-flow game, and all she could do was stare in confusion. A purple book could talk, goldfish had human tails, kings had the 800Reads8.2Score174Shelves
- 168 Infinite Horror: My Persona Mustn't Crack 无限惊悚：我的人设不能崩 [Infinite Flow + Horror Game + Mind Games and Puzzles + No Romance, Ensemble Cast] If my mom kills me at exactly six-thirty every morning, does that count as perfect attendance? I'm Si Yan, a surgeon and an inexperienced horror-game player. My daily routine: wake up, wash my face, and think about medicine before Mom's jaws split open in a bloody grin After all, the growth rate of those lumps on the back of her neck seriously violates the principles of pathology. When I finally smashed her contro 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 Infinite: She Plays the Fool, Then Slaughters Her Way into Players' Nightmares 无限：她扮猪吃老虎杀成玩家噩梦 Yu Shu was determined to look as obedient as possible while playing the best dungeons. When forbidden games descended upon the world, others were afraid. Yu Shu, on the other hand, went around making friends with a baseball bat in hand. She might knock on someone’s door in the middle of the night and say, “Hehe, it’s another beautiful day. Wanna be friends?” “Are you crazy?” If they turned her down, she’d say, “Then let’s fight.” The next second, the NPC who had rejected her would have its head —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Above the Ninth Floor, Starting with a Skinning Game! 九层之上，从剥皮游戏开始！ Infinite Flow + Gu Cultivation + Horror + Mind Games + Combat + Cool-Headedness + Unhinged Male Lead He thought he was a gaming expert. Only after dying did he realize this wasn't a game at all, but an ancient god's furnace for cultivating Gu. You call yourself a god, and we desperately climb the tower, hoping to use your power to bring our loved ones back to life. Little did we know you were the one who set a trap that destroyed my family, using my gaming talent to nourish your soul with Gu. I 33Reads—Score101Shelves
- 171 Infinite Flow: I'm the Only NPC Who Hasn't Given Up on Treatment 无限流：NPC里就我没放弃治疗 [Infinite Flow] [Mystery-solving instances] [1v1] [Female lead is an NPC, male lead's role varies] #How I Woke Up as an NPC in an Escape Game# Lu Yi died, but then she came back to life. First, she thinks she must be a normal person who accidentally ended up as an NPC. Second, maybe there's still hope for her. After all, her coworkers... Have heads separated from their bodies, eat people without blinking, are deranged psychopaths, and use cruel methods. [NPC mission: Lead the players into the ra 715Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 172 I Became a Teacher in a Horror Game and Went on a Rampage 我在惊悚游戏里当老师后嘎嘎乱杀 [No CP] [Infinite Flow] [Horror Game] [Strong Female Lead] [Live Streaming] [Funny, Satisfying Story] The horror game is about to descend upon the world. At first, it will select all kinds of people from small worlds to enter. Some are unlucky souls who get caught up in it for no apparent reason, while others enter willingly in hopes of making a fortune through livestreaming. Song Shuer was dragged into it, yet still thinks of herself as an “unlucky soul”! Song Shuer: Fine, fine, fine. You inexp 3.4kReads7.9Score501Shelves
- 173 Scheming Against a Villainous NPC in a Survival Game 在求生游戏和反派NPC互相算计 [A couple with 800 wits between them] [They scheme against each other] [The heroine is resilient, a master of changing faces, and a Black Lotus] [The hero is a scheming, deep-thinking bastard] After being killed by a bicycle, Jiang Qi'an entered a bizarre game. Completing each game earned her points that she could exchange for a chance to keep living in the real world. In every game, Jiang Qi'an encountered the same NPC. At first, she paid him little attention, using her in-game identity to clin 2.8kReads8.7Score350Shelves
- 174 The Girl Is Spoiled Rotten by Her Weird Boy Group in a Rules-Based Horror World 女孩在规则怪谈里被男团诡异狂宠 Completed [No CP + mystery and deduction + a wealthy young woman uses her incredible brain to solve puzzles] The Queen’s level is too high. The eerie beings are crying and trying to force-quit. When the eerie beings descended, a mysterious organization began buying up coins at exorbitant prices, making them almost impossible to find. A one-yuan coin could buy a three-million-yuan house, or be used to contract an eerie being to serve you for life. After a high-IQ girl transmigrates into a book ca 51Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 175 The Peter Pan Game 彼得潘游戏 Earth’s resources are gradually running out... Boring people will be replaced by digital replicas... So keep your soul interesting... or hold on to a powerful obsession... Welcome to the Peter Pan Game... Provide emotional value to earn a ticket back to the real world. Female protagonist | Ensemble cast | No romance | Infinite-flow | Instances | Rule-based horror Fifty people lie in a huge room... This batch is pretty good... Three people are slowly waking up... 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Infinite Games: I Played a Ghost and Got Disciplined by the Villainous Big Shot 无限流，我扮鬼被反派大佬制裁了 [Yandere + Infinite Flow + Strong Female and Male Leads + Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within] Tong Yi, a horror game streamer, accidentally entered the horror game she played all the time. " Welcome to “Scream World,” a world without violence. Complete the missions and survive in this world for ten days to earn more life points. " While everyone else was trying to figure out how to survive in Scream World, Tong Yi not only dressed up as a ghost to scare players, but bullied the ghosts too. She ma 183Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 177 Infinite Flow: Horror Flight 无限流之恐怖航班 [Infinite-flow + a team of the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant working together + no romance] Welcome aboard the "Send You Sky-High" flight. Please follow the captain's instructions and board or disembark in an orderly fashion. Anyone who refuses will be sent off to explode like fireworks by our beautiful, skeletal flight attendants! With her own strength, the heroine assembles a team that seems to have no chance of winning, yet they always manage to escape certain doom! [Anjia Hotel 7.2kReads7.9Score671Shelves
- 178 She’s a Dinosaur: No Talent Needed to Slay Her Way Through Rule-Based Horror 她是恐龙，杀穿规则怪谈无需天赋 (The rating has only just appeared and will go up later) [Rules-Based Horror + Strong Female Lead + No Male Lead, No CP + Infinite Flow + Invincible + No Feelings + Unhinged + National Destiny + Livestreaming + Power Fantasy + Comedy + Foodie] My name is Long Qi, and I’m a dinosaur. But humans don’t believe me. They insist I have delusions and diagnose me with a whole string of mental illnesses. Then a rules-based horror game picks me to represent the Dragon Kingdom. I fail to awaken a talent fr 718Reads8.6Score107Shelves
- 179 The Horror Game Is Trying to Make Me Stop Being Human 惊悚游戏逼我不做人啦 PS: The heroine isn’t the strongest at the start. She’ll also be at the mercy of some powerful big shots, but she can still crush most people, ghosts, and monsters, and she’ll keep growing stronger. Please don’t read if that bothers you. After an accident, Rong Nian finds herself back in this horror game world! While everyone else is consumed by terror and struggling to survive, Rong Nian relies on her past experience to effortlessly crush the little ghosts and pulls off one outrageous move afte 65Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 180 Infinite Flow: The Daily Grind of a Dungeon NPC 无限流：副本NPC的打工日常 Stars fell, and planets were destroyed. Guided by humanitarian principles, the Cosmic Council brought all the residents of Planet K666 into a horror game. Gu Yao had bathed in the light of too many stars just before she transmigrated, granting her an absurdly overpowered talent skill that changed her status directly from player to NPC. Workers have worker souls; working makes you a better person. To avoid being forcibly sent off to mine a year later, Gu Yao decided to work hard to earn points, m 346Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 181 Death Novel: Judgment 死亡小说:审判 Death Novel: Judgment 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 The Myriad Worlds Cultivation System 诸天游戏修仙系统 The Heavens and Worlds Game Cultivation System 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 After Clearing the Supernatural Horror, I Slack Off and Become a God in Infinite Flow 通关诡异后我在无限流摆烂成神 [Top; Dual Purity; No Reversal; 1v1; Infinite Flow; Power Fantasy] After finally clearing a bizarre slaughter dungeon, a top player returns to the real world, hoping to retire with plenty of money and free time. But when he fails to get his wish and is dragged back into the infinite-flow world, he decides to kick back and wait for retirement! He wants to slack off, but his opponents are just too weak. I thought I was only throwing out a basic attack, but you’re telling me you just took one of my 755Reads8.0Score104Shelves
- 184 EN You Slaughter Wraiths by the Dozen? But I'm a Save-Scumming Wraith! 你杀诡如麻？可我是回档诡异！ [Infinite flow + game + mild horror + no heroine + turn-based resets + instances + protagonist is a monster] Readers have left plenty of positive reviews. No undercover troublemakers, so give it a try. Beneath the veil of the “city,” Xu Kai stood amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. His enemies fell one after another, their eyes filled with confusion as they died. His opponents weren’t especially strong. They were more like machines. Every turn, every gesture, was perfectly timed to de 2.2kReads6.5Score255Shelves
- 185 Survival Game: My Luck Is MAX 生存游戏，她幸运值MAX [Infinite-flow + survival + natural disasters + human-made calamities + romance + a heroine who is a sucker for good looks!!!] What dangers lurk aboard a train bound for an unknown destination? Multiple carriages undergo strange changes, and suddenly attacking passengers erupt into violence. An island that can grant wishes hides secrets no one knows. A town like a cage is little more than a toy in God's hands. And whose heart is stirred by the red hem fluttering high on the branch? Here, try 1.8kReads7.2Score114Shelves
- 186 Dreamscape Ripper 梦境撕裂者 The arrival of a young girl brings the boy to a complete awakening!!! Only then does he realize that his world hasn't fallen into chaos. It's gone!! This is a journey of discovery, a journey of escape!!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Surviving in Hell? No, This Is My Backyard 地狱求生？不，这是我的后花园 [Unlimited-flow game for all humanity | Draw cards and evolve | High-martial-arts survival | Revenge power fantasy | Bonds with multiple women] Overnight, all of humanity is dragged into a strange and terrifying game. Countless ghosts from folklore roam its instances, and death follows at every turn. In his previous life, Jiang Xiaopang painstakingly saved up evolution points. He was just one step away from breaking through, but his lover betrayed him, and his breakthrough failed at the last m 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Horror Industrial Park 恐怖工业园 You're a seasoned wage slave. One day, you're dragged into a [Weird and Absurd + Comedic and Witty + Not Brain-Dead + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Exploring Human Nature + Enter at Your Own Risk] strange other world. You think that if you complete the System's tasks, you'll return to the real world. What you don't know is that this other world exists because of you... 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 White Orchids at Victoria Harbour 维多利亚港的白兰花 White Orchids in Victoria Harbour 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 After Our Whirlwind Marriage, My Billionaire Husband's Secret Is Exposed 闪婚后，千亿老公掉马了 After Our Flash Marriage, My Billionaire Husband's Cover Is Blown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 The Top-Ranked Streamer Is Exposing Himself Again 榜一他又在自爆了 Qiao Fei, who was obsessed with all kinds of puzzle and deduction games, woke up one day and found she'd accidentally landed in an infinite-loop horror world. After clearing the first instance, she excitedly thought she'd have to keep grinding through levels and ranking up like everyone else. But the GM quietly pulled her aside and pointed to a man seated high in the distance. “Your mission is to win him over.” She thought she was about to begin her journey to becoming a god in an infinite-loop 74Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 192 Infinite: Ouroboros 无限：衔尾蛇 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Patient of Ill Fate 厄命病人 Greed, deceit, sophistry, argument, a need to perform: I possess every weakness in the world. The self-serving man who crawled out of a heap of corpses is using a hundred people’s bodies to piece together a Mother Goddess of his own. | Ensemble cast | Infinite-flow | Performative villain protagonist | Dark and twisted instances | Some manipulative, heavy material | | The protagonist’s values!!! His values are messed up!! Proceed with caution! | “Hello, my name is Zhou Ni.” As green trees wither 458Reads8.2Score109Shelves
- 194 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Become the Murderer 规则怪谈：开局就成了凶手 Gu Yu runs a detective agency that's on the verge of going under. Just when she finally lands a client at the brink of bankruptcy, she and the client accidentally enter a rules-based horror game. The client dies right beside her, and she's mistaken for the murderer. To top it all off, the client hasn't paid. No one is more unlucky than Gu Yu. Worse still, the capitalist behind the horror game has taken a liking to her and keeps squeezing her for all she's worth. From then on, she's dragged into 849Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 195 Ghost Game 鬼游戏 [Infinite-Flow + Horror Mystery + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Strong Female Lead + Plot-Driven] The human heart is more terrifying than the paranormal. Grievances fill the human world, summoning the Grudge God. GQ2026.12.28. After a rain of blood, the Ghost Game appeared out of nowhere and began invading the human 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Reborn in the Apocalypse, Stocking My Space to the Brim 重生末日，囤满空间 Reborn at the End of the World, Stocking My Space to the Brim 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 Thriller Game: I Became Invincible After Throwing Away My Shame 惊悚游戏：我不要脸后无敌了 Horror game + no romance + comedy + growing heroine (The heroine is an ordinary person. She keeps her head down while she gets stronger at first, then eventually stands tall. Early on, she’s a source of laughs; later, she becomes someone who enjoys the fun.) [Player: Gu Panxi] [Talent: Box of Fear] [For every 100 points of Fear collected, you get one chance to draw a prize from the Box of Fear.] [Fart Sound: When you fart, the sound is automatically amplified 1,000 times.] [Chrysanthemum Enthusi 6.6kReads9.0Score1kShelves
- 198 The Savior Game 救世主游戏 [Infinite-flow, two yanderes, 1v1, devoted only to each other] A rookie mission with no survivors, a treacherous interstellar scenario, Japanese school horror, rules-based mysteries, apocalyptic powers, dreamscapes full of twists... Tao Yi: “My fiancé seems to have killed someone. How careless of him. I’d better help him cover up every last trace.” Yandere fiancé: “I won’t let you get away. You’re mine.” “I’m not jealous, because we met of our own free will.” Cold, standoffish younger brother: “ 338Reads9.0Score101Shelves
- 199 Infinite Flow: I Stole the NPC’s One True Love 无限流：我诱拐了NPC的白月光 Infinite-loop survival, one-on-one romance, outrageous antics, absurd comedy Unhinged, theatrical narcissist VS gentle, obsessive overthinker Also known as “What a coincidence! Turns out you're crazy too!” After a car accident, Mu Qiyou is forced into a high-level dimension: the True Sequence. From the start, she gets a bizarre talent: hatred turns into love. [When someone loathes or hates you to the extreme, they will instead do everything in their power to protect you. Note: This skill works o 423Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 200 The Perfect Nanny 完美月嫂 The Perfect Nanny 2Reads—Score—Shelves
