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- 1 Duo Sailing Survival: An Ender Dragon Hatchling from the Start 双人航海求生：开局获得末影幼龙 [Single Heroine + Raft + MC + Sailing + Lighthearted + Everyone Transmigrates + Disasters + Not a Goody-Two-Shoes + Building + Daily Life] Everyone transmigrates to a tiny raft. With two people, a single tattered fishing net, and no help coming, survival is up to you. But Xie Fan has an MC sign-in System that lets him craft items from Minecraft, as well as weapons and equipment from this world. While others trade one log for two planks, Xie Fan can use the System to break one down into four plan 5Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 2 Lost in the Eerie Fog: Until the Ends of the Haunted Sea 诡雾迷航：直到诡海尽头 [Apocalyptic survival + seafaring adventure + Cthulhu + sci-fi civilizations + awakened superpowers + mystery solving + strategy and intrigue]. A hard-core survival tale combining awakened superpowers and mystery solving, set in a strange world where the laws of physics have collapsed and the ocean is swallowing the land. It follows a group of survivors as they sail through a sea of fog, where despair and hope intertwine, seeking the truth behind the destruction and the future of civilization. 2.3kReads—Score20214d adds
- 3 Global Survival: Conquering the Misty World from Scratch 全民求生：从零开始征服迷雾世界 [Everyone's Survival + No System + Not Overpowered + Farming + Disasters + No Saintly Protagonist + One or No Female Leads + No Harem] (Updated promptly every morning at 7:00) Orphaned, disabled, weak, and with the dean who cared for him passing away from illness, these are the labels attached to Mo Ming. His life was nothing but gray until he woke up one day and somehow fo 5.3kReads7.7Score25214d adds
- 4 Doomsday Survival: From the Start, I Have a Sleeper Berth on a Train 末日求生：开局一张火车卧铺 [Apocalypse, infinite flow, natural disasters, stockpiling, adventure, survival, infrastructure building] Office worker Rong Hui can only get a hard-sleeper ticket for the train home during the Spring Festival travel rush. But after she falls fast asleep in her bunk, she wakes to find everything has changed: the monsters clawing at the air outside the window, the winding railway stretching endlessly ahead, and the night that seems like it will never end all prove that she’s stumbled into a world 3kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 5 Highway Survival: Sign In for the King of Fortune from the Start 公路求生：开局签到气运之王 Everyone transmigrates into a road-survival game. Each person starts with a tricycle and speeds along an endless road. Along the way are supply crates, treasures, and unexpected encounters, as well as countless dangers. Disasters shift without warning, strange beasts swarm, people’s hearts are impossible to read, and killing never ends! The players seem trapped in a hopeless situation… Fortunately, the game gives everyone a chance to draw a talent skill. On her very first day, Ji Xinghan gets a 7.7kReads8.0Score90914d adds
- 6 Metro Survival for All: I'm Seriously Lucky! 全民地铁求生：我真的超幸运的！ [Survival] [Stockpiling Supplies] [Building a Subway] [Entities] [Eerie] [Single Female Lead] [Infinite Flow] [Every station and every leg of the journey has its own unique style] An endless tunnel, tracks stretching into infinity, a subway world where daylight never reaches. Everyone must embark on their own journey through the apocalypse... Fortunately, Zhao Kuo can see his own luck stat. No one can be lucky forever, but he can. When his luck stat is maxed out, wealth comes rol 17.7kReads7.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 7 Global Cataclysm: My Tower Defense Survival Log 全球灾变：我的塔防生存日志 [Day 1 of the Cataclysm, Autumn] I awakened a talent, though it came at a steep price. I survived. [Day 18 of the Cataclysm, Autumn] An ally from the Flowing Rocklands sent us a catch of fish. I planted even stranger crops. [Day 45 of the Cataclysm, Winter] The ice and snow brought an energy vacuum. Howling winds and snow monsters rampage outside, but if we hold this cave, we can survive. [Day 77 of the Cataclysm, Winter] Kyle set out to return to his family, while Zhang Wenbin and Murphy headed 7.8kReads7.0Score68414d adds
- 8 Clash of the Myriad Races: I Have the Kraken, So I'm Invincible 万族争霸：拥有北海巨妖的我无敌 [Ship Evolution] + [Infinite Plunder] + [Kraken Pet] + [Ghost Ship] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [A Contest Among All Races] Ten billion people around the world transmigrated overnight. This was a fantastical ocean world where sea beasts roared, demons ran rampant, and countless races vied for supremacy. Everyone began with nothing but a crude little wooden boat as their means of survival. Some awakened powerful talents, while others commanded specialized ships, each displaying their own abilitie 9.1kReads8.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 9 Survival: Starting from a Thatched Hut to Fight the Flood 求生：从茅草屋开始对抗洪水 [Disaster Survival] [Shelter] [Farming and Development] [Golden Finger] [Stockpiling Supplies] [No Saintly Hero] Everyone transmigrates to a world shrouded in mist. Zhang Chi wakes up to find himself in a thatched hut leaking from all sides, and learns that a flood will strike soon. The rain outside keeps falling, growing heavier and heavier. Everyone can only struggle to survive amid the threats of torrential rain, floods, wild beasts, and monsters... 22kReads8.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 10 Reborn as a Tiger: What's Wrong with a Little Self-Discipline? 重生成虎，我自律点怎么了？ [Mythical Beasts + Wilderness from the Start + Growth Story + No Female Lead] Cang Nian is reborn as a newborn tiger cub deep in the snowy mountains of Northeast China. But from the moment he is born, he is far smaller than his littermates and on the verge of dying. Fortunately, the System’s golden finger, a standard perk of rebirth, may be late, but it always arrives! [Ding~! Crawled 1 meter. Crawling skill proficiency +1! (1/100)] [Ding~! Drank 100 ml of milk. Milk-drinking skill proficiency + 13.4kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 11 Critical Hit Loot Boxes! Critical Hit Fishing! Critical Hit Survival! 暴击开箱！暴击垂钓！暴击求生！ [Disaster survival] + [farming and development] + [supernatural elements] + [no harem] + [stat-focused] + [not a saint] Everyone transmigrated to an island world. Some landed on deserted islands from the start, while others were forced to flee across the sea. They had to fish for all their resources and food with a single resource rod. Under a dark sky, white mist descended. People could only huddle inside wooden huts on their islands. As terrifying natural disasters and endless monsters came, e 38.3kReads8.3Score2.9k14d adds
- 12 Train Survival: Activating the Foresight Module from the Start! 列车求生：开局激活预知模块！ Qi Xiao wakes up in a world where people must survive aboard trains. Every day at eight, the train stops at a random station. You can get off and explore, or stay aboard and wait for it to depart. There are endless treasures here, along with unknown dangers. Explore stations, gather supplies, upgrade your train, and do your best to survive. Qi Xiao's newcomer gift isn't food like everyone else's. Instead, he gets a module card that activates a special module: Station Forecast. Whenever the train 66.2kReads8.3Score4.9k14d adds
- 13 EN Elevator Survival, I Can Foresee Floor Information! 电梯求生，我能预知楼层信息！ [System, Survival, Unconventional Infinite-World Novel, Power Fantasy] [No do-gooder heroine!] When Lin Feng woke up, humanity had entered a world where people had to survive in elevators. Each day, an elevator randomly arrived at a floor. People could choose to explore it or stay inside the elevator and wait for the next day. Lin Feng unexpectedly awakened a precognition System that could warn him about the dangers and treasures on each floor. [The floor you are about to enter contains 20 ordin 37.9kReads8.9Score3.3k14d adds
- 14 The Ice-Cold Giant Fish 冰冰巨鱼 [No System + no heroine + a touch of golden finger + farming + raising and developing + slow-burn survival + not a saint, but still compassionate] All of humanity transmigrates to a strange ocean world, where they must survive inside the stomach of a giant fish called the Illusory Leviathan. Humans must help the Illusory Leviathan clear harmful creatures from its stomach. In return, the Illusory Leviathan finds supply crates for them and helps them develop. The creatures in this ocean world are 44.7kReads8.9Score3.6k14d adds
- 15 EN Surviving the Misty Apocalypse, I Build a Home with Eldritch Flesh 全民迷雾求生，我用邪神血肉建家 [Flesh and Bone + Apocalypse + Lovecraftian Survival + Civilization Graveyard + Mass Transmigration + No Romance] When mist shrouded the world and monsters howled outside their windows, all the players huddled and trembled inside their dilapidated shelters. But Bai Yi was teleported onto the face of the Great Being known as the “Lord of Flesh,” where he witnessed a horrific feast as an even more terrifying being devoured a planet of flesh. The fragments of flesh and bone that splattered from th 137.8kReads9.1Score11.8k14d adds
- 16 Surviving at Sea: My Raft Leads to Peach Blossom Spring 海上求生：我的木筏通桃源 When she woke up, the world had turned upside down. Countless people had entered a game called Survival at Sea. From the start, all they had was a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Every supply had to be caught on a line. Sharks, giant beasts, bitter cold, hurricanes, and merciless hunting between people. Survival became incredibly difficult, and supplies were scarce and precious. Lu Xingchen entered the game and obtained a god-tier pocket dimension on her very first day: the Peach Blossom Sanctuar 61.7kReads9.1Score6.7k14d adds
- 17 Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群 [Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's 107.3kReads8.9Score8.6k14d adds
- 18 EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 The print edition of The Voyage of the Dread Sea is now available on major platforms. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu Mythos] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a global seafaring survival game. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves and is almost impossible to spot. Like the Ironhead, with its massive ram and a charge that n 271.4kReads9.4Score27.8k14d adds
- 19 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
