Novels like Cultural Invasion: I Develop Games in My Dreams
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- 151 Doomsday: The Rampant Plant Catastrophe 末日：狂植天灾 [No Harem Protagonist + Ruthless, Cunning Protagonist + Somewhat Overpowered + Plant Apocalypse + No Goody-Two-Shoes] What is the apocalypse? There is no kindness in the apocalypse, and there are no protagonists. There are only people doing their best to survive and see the sun rise tomorrow. As long as you outlive everyone else, you’re the protagonist. He thought he’d only complained a little and asked for some time off. Before he could even figure out what was going on, disas 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Lord: I Build a Realistic Gaming Empire 领主：我打造真实游戏帝国 [Territory Lord Farming] + [The Fourth Calamity] + [Building an Empire Through Management Games] The world is shrouded in darkness and rife with war. Tens of thousands of territory lords battle over land and resources. But Chen Yu is different from them. While others are busy fighting, he’s busy building dungeons and luring adventurers from other worlds in to challenge them. [Happy Landlord] [Resident Evil] [Dungeon Fighter Online] [Audition] [PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds]… One dungeon after a 18kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 153 Wild Dog, Chasing Light in the Abyss 野狗，逐光于渊 [No System + One Heroine + Esports + Urban Comeback + Live-Stream Face-Slapping Power Fantasy] The whole internet is frantically searching for the mysterious player known as [Wild Dog], who used nothing but a basic gun to single-handedly wipe out an entire professional team. Nobody knows that this esports legend who has taken the internet by storm is just a poor young man who recently graduated and can’t even afford his rent. Others rely on a System to boost their combat power. He relies on tact 1.1kReads9.3Score—Shelves
- 154 Showbiz: I Risk My Life to Write, and the Whole Internet Begs Me to Stop Updating 娱乐：拿命写书，全网求我断更 Transmigrate to a parallel world, suffer from a terminal illness, and have only a short time left to live? Bind to the “Entertainment Redemption” System: one book and a million readers buys you ten more days of life? The book “Ghost Blows Out the Light” establishes the foundations of tomb-raiding adventures. The work “The Story of Wukong” sparks a wave of Chinese-inspired literature. The poem “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossoms” moves countless young women across the world. Bai Cang, a writer 363Reads8.8Score107Shelves
- 155 You Asked Me to Make a Web Series, and I Made Honkai: Star Rail? 让你拍网剧，你拍崩坏星穹铁道？ [Also known as: They Asked You to Make a Web Series, So You Made Honkai: Star Rail?] [Also known as: I Really Didn't Want to Get Famous, But Honkai Keeps Chasing Me] [System] + [No Harem] + [A Dash of Memes] + [miHoYo Universe] Su Chen transmigrates to Blue Star, where the film and television industry is extraordinarily advanced. He unexpectedly awakens a web-series production System. As long as one of his shows becomes a hit, he can earn all kinds of rewards. He immediately decides to turn Honk 3.4kReads9.2Score227Shelves
- 156 Giving Interstellar Players a Little Ghostly Shock 给星际玩家一点小小的女鬼震撼 [Interstellar gaming + comedy + no romance for the heroine] Ye Yuxi transmigrates into an interstellar age full of tough customers. From the start, she’s tossed into a shoddy version of Saw made by a rotten classmate, who mocks her for being a coward and says she could never make a horror game. Born on Earth in her previous life and raised on a steady diet of horror from all over the world, Ye Yuxi takes one look at the monotonous selection of shooter and combat games topping the interstellar ch 17.7kReads9.3Score3kShelves
- 157 Collector's Edition Heroes: Moving the Entire Internet, Starting with That Rabbit! 典藏英雄：从那兔开始感动全网！ A must-read hit for the Year of the Rabbit! Have tissues ready before you start! [Those Rabbits / honoring heroes / Chinese heritage / patriotism / reborn and transmigrated] Also known as: National Glory: Honoring Heroes, Starting with Those Rabbits! An Opening Song of Chasing Dreams and an Innocent Heart, Bringing the Entire Internet to Tears! “Behind us is our motherland. We have nowhere left to retreat!” “Don’t cry. Even your tears will freeze.” “I have no regrets about being born Chinese in 3.3kReads9.1Score363Shelves
- 158 My Girlfriend’s Whole Family Are Big Shots! What’s Wrong with Playing It Safe? 女友全家大佬！我苟亿点怎么了？ The Ancestral Star is a world where games and reality have merged. “Lifespan” is the only currency! With an endless supply of “Lifespan,” one can live forever. Once one's “Lifespan” runs out, one dies on the spot. Every expense in the world is paid for with “Lifespan.” There is only one way to obtain “Lifespan”: the surreal online game Universe OL! Lin Du, a top game designer, wakes up one day to find he has transmigrated into the body of a live-in son-in-law from a wealthy family, force 28kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 159 Making Sheep a Sheep from the Start, Breaking Players Worldwide 开局制作羊了个羊，全球玩家破防 [Strongly recommended by the editor + game design + livestreaming + everyday life] [Sheep a Sheep only earns the protagonist his first pot of gold; it has nothing to do with the later plot] Zhao Kai transmigrates to a parallel world and vows to build his own gaming empire. He obtains the “Rage-Inducing Game System.” As long as he frustrates players, he earns rewards. Zhao Kai says, “I just want to make good games. The System is the one forcing me to do this.” His first game is Sheep a Sheep. Pla 11.1kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
- 160 EN Honkai: Star Rail - I Developed the Star Rail Mobile Game at the Company 星穹铁道：我在公司开发星铁手游 [No Female Lead + No Romance + Game Development + Protagonist as a Behind-the-Scenes Errand Boy] Lin Guang transmigrates to the world of Honkai: Star Rail. He obtains a god-tier mobile game development System and successfully creates the Honkai: Star Rail mobile game! When Kafka, a Stellaron Hunter with a bounty of 10.899 billion, appears on the limited banner, everyone is stunned! "Whoa, guys, my wallet is spending money on its own!" "There's no way I'm skipping this one!" When Imbibitor Lunae 56.3kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
- 161 Game Development: I Founded Mihoyo 游戏制作：我创建了米忽悠 [Transmigration] + [One or no heroine] + [No System] + [Golden finger] + [Livestream] + [Lighthearted] Xu Shuo transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that games there are mainly played on PCs. There are no consoles, handhelds, or mobile games beyond a few puzzle and card games. As the major companies begin turning their attention to mobile gaming, Xu Shuo immediately decides to found MiHoYo! While everyone else is feeling their way across the river, Xu Shuo is already swimming frees 18.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 162 The Game of Grace 恩赐的游戏 [Fourth Calamity + Player Summoning + Ensemble Cast + Comedy + Wild Imagination + Another World] A legion that worships violence and slaughter refuses to start a war. An empire founded by a slave uprising continues to uphold slavery. A tribe that worships and relies on its gods refuses to speak of them. A nation founded by androids obsesses over human rights. By that logic, then, it seems perfectly reasonable that an omnipotent god has no powers at all, doesn't it? Shen Ming looked at the ea 27.9kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
- 163 Spending Money Doesn't Work? I'll Get Them Through the Long March With My Life 氪金没用？我用命带他们走完长征 “Guys, whatever you do, don’t trust that designer named Luo An! He’s a fraud!” Kuang Ge, a top streamer with tens of millions of followers, is bawling in his livestream like a three-hundred-pound toddler, clutching his VR headset and refusing to let go. “He said it was a relaxing travel game, but from the start he dumped me on a snowy mountain in forty-below temperatures!” “He said there’d be no pay-to-win or in-app purchases, but I had to risk my life just to get a cold, hard black bun!” “He sa 120.1kReads9.5Score15.4kShelves
- 164 Tokusatsu King: I Inherited an Anime Studio 特摄天王：我继承了一家动漫公司 Ning Yi transmigrates to a world starved of entertainment, and starts out a classic orphan! What he never expected was to have a second granduncle, who left him an animation studio. If he can save the studio from bankruptcy, he’ll inherit three hundred billion! In a world without tokusatsu, Ning Yi goes against the grain, bringing one tokusatsu series after another into the spotlight! Armor Hero: For the dream in our hearts, we fight through blood and sweat like a fierce gale! Ultraman: That day 9.7kReads9.0Score880Shelves
- 165 Game Development: My Online Dating Partner Is Actually a Hit Movie Star 游戏制作：网恋对象竟是当红影后 [Game Development] [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] [Showbiz] Chi Wen: “Our game this time does have some horror elements, but…” Players: “Not buying it! We’re never touching one of your horror games again!” Chi Wen: “Oh? But you can farm and build things in it.” Players: “Okay, sold.” With a System, Chi Wen unexpectedly becomes the project manager of a hollowed-out game company. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he uses the System to rise to the throne of the King of Chinese Gaming. Along t 30.8kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
- 166 Evil God Expulsion Plan 邪神驱逐计划 [Female-audience novel, two male leads + apocalyptic MMORPG + ensemble cast + BL!! No female lead + strong leads + innocent-looking schemer + cunning lord + another world + farming and development + magic world + Call of Cthulhu-inspired elements, including original additions + mystery-solving dungeons + plenty of logical foreshadowing + a touch of mistaken deification + lots of worldbuilding early on, slow start, please be patient~ Not your typical mastermind-player story] A lighthearted, cheer 11kReads9.5Score1.5kShelves
- 167 The System Just Activated, and the Goddess Called for Help 系统刚激活，女神打来求救电话 [Satisfying Power Fantasy + Transmigration + System + No Cultivation + One Female Lead + Dad Hero + Business Wars] Zhou Yuchen used to be a programmer at a gaming company. After being laid off, he started a successful business. Then he was diagnosed with liver cancer and transmigrated to a parallel world, bringing along the game he had developed. All Zhou Yuchen had to do was study diligently and improve his proficiency to gain the corresponding skills from the game. It took him four years to fi 30.7kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 168 You’re a Game Designer, So Why Are You Filing Reports at the Police Station Every Day? 你个游戏设计师，天天警局备案？ [Extremely Illegal] [Come Get Me] [Not Human] [Livestream Meme Mayhem] [Hilarious] PS: This is a lighthearted, funny story full of livestream antics and memes. After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Sheng awakens a god-tier game designer System. He gets streamers and viewers worked up, earns emotional points, and unlocks more games. But Chu Sheng discovers that every game he unlocks is way too illegal! He unlocks Thief Simulator and makes Dai Xiaomei cry. But the robbery is so realistic t 25.7kReads9.2Score3.5kShelves
- 169 Archaeology Comes True: Are You Crazy? You Still Say It Was Made Up for a Game 考古成真：疯了吧，还说游戏编的 Chen Pingan transmigrated to a world with a gap in its historical record. He returned to his old line of work and started developing games. Then an archaeological team exposed the truth: the game’s settings had become real! The whole country was stunned, and Chen Pingan shot straight to the top of the trending searches! “Unbelievable! The famous game director is actually a tomb raider?!” “So Tomb Raider’s Diary is really Tomb Raider’s Autobiography. The whole thing is based on his real-life expe 14.8kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 170 EN Global Dungeons: Giving the World a Little Taste of the P5's Might 全球副本：给世界亿点点五常震撼 Lin Ye transmigrates to a world covered by a sky screen, an era in which anyone can create battlefield instances. To his amazement, the people here still understand war as it was in Blue Star's S1 era... So he decides to give this world a tiny taste of the Five Permanent Members' shock and awe! In the first instance, “Raging Seas,” Lin Ye introduces them to nuclear-powered submarine fleets and nuclear bombing, advancing humanity's understanding of war by a full fifty years! In the second instanc 8.6kReads8.3Score814Shelves
- 171 Chinese Showbiz: A Carefree Life 华娱：潇洒人生 I joined the entertainment industry to experience life! I’ll act in whatever I want, and I won’t act in anything I don’t want to! I’m not short on money! I’m a billionaire, so who am I supposed to be afraid of? The life I want is one of freedom and carefree living! 52.5kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
- 172 Great Wall Watch: Leading a Global Counterattack in Another World 长城守望：带领全球反攻异界 [The counterattack has begun + perfect ending with no loose ends + Fourth Calamity + fight back against player invasions + lighthearted power fantasy + no heroine + no suffering for the protagonist + invincible + national destiny] The Fourth Calamity descends, and the era of the Phantom Realms begins for everyone. Players from other worlds invade, and the national destiny Phantom Realms of one great power after another are defeated. Panic spreads across the globe. Everything changes the day Fang 55.4kReads9.3Score7.8kShelves
- 173 The Fourth Calamity: You Say Humanity Is Weak in the Interstellar Age? 第四天灾：在星际你说人族势弱？ In the era of the Interstellar Alliance, countless races have united to fight off the invasion of the insectoid race. Among all the races, humanity is the weakest. As the only human to enter the Lord's Academy, he is assigned a remote, desolate planet. Danger lurks everywhere, and the insectoids could discover and devour him at any moment. Unless he can develop his own people and planet, Wei Yuan will not only fail to graduate, he may not survive. Luckily, transmigration comes with a System. Wei 30.2kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
- 174 I Became the Global Administrator of Hell's Games 我成了全球地狱游戏管理员 “From the moment the game begins, inferior, weak humans will be stripped of the right to breathe.” This world has no nations. It is ruled by five top conglomerates, and the gap between rich and poor is enormous. The wealthy feast behind their red gates while the poor freeze to death in the streets. The rich districts blaze with light and bustle with people, while the slums are shrouded in darkness and rife with violence and crime. This is an age of capitalist revelry, an age of splendor built up 1.2kReads9.2Score196Shelves
- 175 The Age of Global Esports: I'm the Only Cheater 全球电竞时代，我是唯一作弊玩家 [Gaming metropolis + choose-your-own cheat + invincible + goofy and irreverent + shameless protagonist, worse than the villains + no goody-two-shoes] Cartridge worlds, runaway data, phantom gaming realms, esports players… Lin Tian transmigrates to a gaming metropolis where games have become the focus of competition across the globe. The universal currency is game cards, and status and power are determined by rank. Supernatural abilities, rare treasures, extraordinary pets and beasts, mercenaries 49.2kReads9.2Score4.4kShelves
- 176 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 434kReads9.4Score40.6kShelves
- 177 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 6.1kReads—Score360Shelves
