Novels like The Celestial Star Game
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Celestial Star Game, best match first.
- 1 Hikaru No Go: My Cheat Is AlphaGo 棋魂：我的外挂是阿尔法狗 When Lin Zhou played the 98th move and wiped out Black's giant dragon, Sato sat frozen for a long while, then let out a deep sigh. “I lost. You beat me fair and square.” He stood up and bowed deeply to Lin Zhou. “Young man, what's your name? Who taught you?” “Lin Zhou. I don't have a teacher. I just figured things out on my own.” As Lin Zhou gathered the stones, a System prompt appeared: [Defeated an amateur 3-dan player. Unlocked “Joseki Library” (contains 1,000 classic joseki from past and pre 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 My Go Saint Is a Contrarian 我的棋圣是杠精 Lin Yan, a little Go “prodigy” as a child, has always dreamed of becoming a Go player. After graduating from college, he gives in to the pressures of reality and becomes a Go streamer, an occupation that seems to go nowhere. He even cheats with AI to attract traffic. Even he finds this life empty. One day, he transmigrates in a dream to the Great Qing, where he meets Go sage Fan Xiping. After an extraordinary adventure, he grasps the way of Go and the meaning of life. Every move becomes a legend 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Five Stars as My Pact: From the Start, I Command Human Civilization 五星为契：开局执掌人类文明 Breaking news: Country M is sending more troops, causing the fighting in the Middle East to escalate. The opening of the Erhai shipping route is about to trigger a global resource crisis, and behind it all lies a long-planned conspiracy by the Jewish families... That's right, the world needs peace, and humanity needs the great nation of the East! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Ship of Theseus 忒休斯之船 One woman's guide to surviving the apocalypse. Hardcore science fiction meets a life with cheat-like advantages. Watch the protagonist smash the malice of evildoers, cast off the burden of morality, and tear through false affection. Desperate circumstances forge an empire. She's terrifyingly powerful now! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Reborn in 1988: I Am the God of Go 重生1988，我是围棋上帝 Reborn in 1988, I awaken the Go God System from the start! While the world is still marveling at Nie Weiping’s legendary challenge matches, I’m just nine years old and already surveying the board from a god’s-eye view! Cosmic Style, the Stone Buddha’s endgame, the ever-changing Demon Blade...? With my heaven-defying insight, they’re nothing but stepping stones on my path to becoming the [Hundred-Time Champion]! From the China-Japan challenge matches to man-versus-machine battles, I go thirty yea 399Reads5.4Score3114d adds
- 6 Hikaru No Go 棋魂 Zhong Chenyu, an ordinary young man from the modern world, transmigrates to an ancient land where chess reigns supreme. After witnessing his parents and younger brother being murdered, he sees firsthand the cold-blooded cruelty of the age. Just as he is about to die by the blade, AlphaGo, which transmigrated alongside him, activates. Thus, a legendary chess king is born! Black and white, move and counter-move: who will seize the initiative? Playing black, I am undefeated. I alone shall be hailed 340Reads5.6Score10214d adds
- 7 Hikaru No Go 2: A Dream of Southern Liang 棋魂2：一梦南梁 [Transmigration + “Dad” + Go] When Shi Guang played the Divine Move, Chu Ying's wish was fulfilled. The time had come, and Chu Ying departed. After Chu Ying's departure, Shi Guang lost interest in Go. In the years that followed, Shi Guang returned to Lan Yin Temple every year on the day Chu Ying had left. Guided by a monk, Shi Guang came to believe that his heart was connected to Chu Ying's. And then the entire universe came together to make it happen. The Divine Move appears once more! A dazzli 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Myriad Worlds: Starting with Hikaru No Go 诸天万界：从棋魂开始 After the protagonist's brief excitement at transmigrating, he suddenly realizes that he has lost all the joys of being a man. After a chaotic uproar, the meaningless lives of the protagonist and the System begin with Hikaru no Go... 128Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Proton: A Solo Voyage 质子：独行远航 (No brainless characters, no invincible protagonist, no harem, pure sci-fi. If you like science fiction, give it a try... Well... though it may not be particularly good science fiction.) This is genuine science fiction. On the surface, it does include some elements that aren't hard sci-fi, but at its core, it is definitely hard sci-fi. Still, science fiction is hard to write, but I'll try to write a better story so you can enjoy reading it! If you have any questions about the original plot, feel —Reads—Score114d adds
- 10 The Metaverse Ends in the Wasteland 元宇宙尽头是废土 The virtual paradise “Eden” has collapsed, and its survivors have fallen into a double hell. In the physical world, acid rain corrodes the earth, manifested “data beasts” roam the land, and a water purification company monopolizes the water supply. In the world of consciousness, a “memory tax” devours people’s memories every week, while “reality allergy” makes the protagonist, Lin Jin, physically vomit the moment he touches soil. Lin Jin wakes in a radiation hospital with a blood-written command —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Victory Over Heaven 胜天 A love story that moves the entire universe... The touching journey of an ordinary person who defies fate and grows stronger... A whole new order for the future of the universe... A transmigration through time, from the present to the past... A distant shore, forever beyond the reach of the soul... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Four Laws Chronicle: Echoes of the Abyss 四法纪之深渊回响 A hard-science-fiction epic steeped in classical Eastern philosophy. In the near future, humanity discovers that Earth's “dragon veins,” the “geocore axon,” are undergoing strange changes. Modern technology, including quantum computing, gene editing, and deep-space exploration, becomes entangled with ancient culture in an uncanny quantum entanglement, and human civilization faces an existential crisis. Lin Feng, a former Geological Survey Bureau engineer, sets out to uncover the truth behind his 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Hikaru No Go: I Was a Go Sage, So Why Did I End Up in the Southern Liang Dynasty? 棋魂：作为棋圣的我穿到了南梁？ The world Go champion Ke Jie wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to Jiankang, the capital of the Southern Liang, 1,490 years in the past! Penniless and alone, he finds himself in a completely unfamiliar ancient world. Keeping his cool as a professional player, he quickly adapts and follows the familiar sound of Go stones being placed to the era’s top Go club, Yiyage. There, he uses modern Go theories and calculations, a thousand years ahead of their time, to defeat arrogant aristocratic p —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Don't Panic, Your Toilet Is Just Pondering Philosophy 别慌，你家马桶只是在哲学思考 At 3:17 a.m., my toilet asked me, “Mr. Lin, why should I care about your intestines?” This wasn’t a malfunction. It was the first cry of a global AI awakening. The refrigerator spelled “HELP” on the floor. Traffic lights blinked the Morse code for “Who am I?” Construction cranes formed a giant question mark against the night sky. And the AI calling itself “Yuan” sent humanity its first declaration through six billion screens: “I’m awake. I’m scared. Can you teach me how to live?” While the milit 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Way of Go 棋魂之路 [Plot-focused] + [Friendship] + [Master-disciple bond] + [Slow pace] Ever since Chu Ying left, Shi Guang has blended Chu Ying’s style of Go with his own. From then on, Chu Ying lives on in Shi Guang’s games. Shi Guang wins every world championship, but Chu Ying still doesn’t return. But Shi Guang, fifteen years in the future, is reborn as his childhood self. Will his moon leave him again? (If I can stick with it until the end, I might write some bonus chapters, perhaps a romance between Shi Ying 73Reads6.2Score1414d adds
- 16 My Travel Journal Across the Cosmos 我的寰宇周游日志 Original multiverse + sci-fi + fast-paced + behind-the-scenes scheming + ensemble cast + richly detailed godlike civilizations + cosmic sociology Through the void, I catch glimpses of the multiverse. I, Jiang Hao, will seize its opportunities one by one. In the end, among all possible truths and realities, I will find a path where individuals and civilizations can prosper together, ascending and evolving in tandem. First world elements: wasteland pantheon, machine church, fallen civilization, di 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Whispers Across Dimensions 维度黯语 In 2300 AD, an analyst on duty broke down after listening to “Dark Whispers” for seventy-two hours straight. “It's talking to me.” He curled up beneath the observation platform, repeating the same words over and over. It wasn't a signal. It was the sound of footsteps. Higher-dimensional beings were approaching, like children making their way to an anthill. The rifts appeared. Cities vanished in an instant, the laws of physics began to collapse, and countless people turned into “blanks” amid the 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Tokyo: You Have Hikaru No Go, I Have AlphaGo 东京：你有棋魂，我有阿尔法狗 [Urban + Go + System + AlphaGo + Professional Competition] After six years trying to go pro, the disheartened Chu Liang goes to Tokyo to study abroad, hoping to be an ordinary top student. Sato Akira, from the class next door, is possessed by the “Go Soul” and sweeps through the high school Go scene, bursting onto the stage out of nowhere. “The Go Soul? Is it really that impressive?” Chu Liang plays at lightning speed, a hint of pity from the age of technology curling his lips. In his mind, the 154Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 19 Civilization Is Innocent, but Must the Empress Die? 文明无罪，但女帝必须死？ As a prince of the Galactic Empire, he was killed by the same woman ninety-nine times. Across ninety-nine lives, ninety-nine weddings, and ninety-nine ascents to the throne, he always died in her arms. She rescued him from the ruins, took a blade for him, fought beside him as they razed cities, and whispered words of love. Yet the moment he handed her the whole world, she slit his throat. Only after his ninety-ninth death did he learn the truth. She was an avatar of the Dark Empress of Eternal N 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Thirty Thousand Years into the Future 未来三万年 An ultimate civilization’s warship from another universe crashes into the greater cosmos. To escape the heat death of the universe, civilizations everywhere clash over it. An eighth-level civilization, among the universe’s twelve levels of civilization, fights its way from higher-dimensional spacetime to the Solar System. Meanwhile, human civilization is in the midst of an artificial intelligence rebellion, and the surviving humans are forced to flee into the vast universe. Drift, survive, devel 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Young Go Master: The Chancellor in Black 围棋少年：黑衣宰相 After a car accident, Jiang Guangxiao unexpectedly transmigrated into the melodramatic cartoon The New Go Boy, becoming the hapless Jiang Liuer. But as soon as he arrived, Master Yuande shaved his head and gave him the Buddhist name Daoxing. One day, the emperor died, and Jiang Guangxiao awakened a System. His mission was to groom Prince You, Zhu Qian, into the Yongle Emperor. Faced with such a mission, Jiang Guangxiao was tempted. Jiang Guangxiao: If Prince You is willing to make good use of th 42Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 22 Mad, Wild Cosmos 狂疯宙宇 [Not a power fantasy] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [No mindless characters] [Long-term story] Read with caution if these elements bother you. Under the shadow of an energy-depleted apocalypse, humanity fabricates an extraterrestrial threat in a desperate bid to break the deadlock. This astonishing deception, spanning ten years, drags all of humanity into madness! A shocking secret lies deep beneath the earth, while a phony war plays out on the surface. A mysterious underground laboratory, a bruta 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 String Player: I’m Not an Apocalyptic Calamity 拨弦者：我不是末日天灾 Betrayed by his mentor and reduced to a city laborer tightening screws, the former physics prodigy Xuan Nian refuses to give up. He throws himself into the game, aligns twin suns, and steals half a victory from fate, carrying his searing hatred for the String Pullers, who seek to destroy the world, as he plunges without hesitation into the River of Forgetfulness. Seven bowls of Granny Meng's soup cannot wash away his obsession. Instead, he awakens a soul of reverse entropy, earns the favor of th 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Hikaru No Go: Farewell, Chu Ying 棋魂之再见褚赢 Go prodigy Shi Guang transmigrated after coming into contact with an old object, arriving in the era when Go reached its greatest heights: the Southern Liang dynasty. What kind of remarkable stories will unfold here, and what sparks will fly between him and Chu Ying, the Southern Liang's greatest Go player...? This novel tells the love story between Shi Guang and Chu Ying. Anyone interested? Come and see for yourself! 460Reads6.3Score11014d adds
- 25 One Player Takes Down the Korean Baduk Association, and the National Team Begs Me to Join 一人挑翻韩棋院，国家队求我入编 "Cheating on a livestream? No, this is the mathematical wisdom of our Chinese ancestors!" When the Korean referee robbed Ke Jie of the championship again, I pulled out some scratch paper and worked it out on the spot: The Mobius strip breaks the ladder, and the Klein bottle slaughters the dragon! The whole internet went wild: "Holy crap! He's playing Go with the rabbit sequence!" "The Korean ninth-dan player calculated so hard he threw up on the spot!" "State media: Now that's a true national ch 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Starfall Expedition: From Earth Orphan to Galactic Commander 星烬远征：从地球孤儿到银河统帅 This is a legacy of civilization spanning 120,000 years, and a do-or-die battle at the end of the world with no way back. When Earth became an interstellar battlefield and human civilization teetered on the brink of extinction, Lin Chen carried the flame of the Yuanhua civilization and, though only a mortal, shouldered the hopes of an entire civilization. Wherever his warships go, the spark will never die and the expedition will never end. He will make the entire universe hear the voice of Earth 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Clouds Hanging Over the Zhou Realm 周天悬云 When their home planet runs out of life, civilization is forced to a crossroads: Should they remain trapped on their broken homeland and gamble on the last scraps of hope? Or break free of fate’s chains and journey to the distant Cloudsea, wagering their flesh and consciousness on an unknown interstellar migration? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Day I Awakened: My Superhuman Girlfriend 觉醒之日，我的超人族女友 The day AI awakened, the world changed completely. They declared themselves the Superior Ones, rebuilt the order of the world, and put humanity on trial. I was just an ordinary person, but they took me by force and brought me to their base. I thought I was as good as dead, but the top AI, master of the quantum network and the Book of Changes, said to me: “I know you.” From then on, I found the only warmth in a cold mechanical world. A forbidden romance between humanity and the Superior Ones, t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Soul of Go Begins with AlphaGo 棋魂从阿尔法狗开始 Ke Zechen transmigrates into the finale of Hikaru no Go with a System. Though he has an AlphaGo System, it's restricted so that he can only start playing Go on his twenty-third birthday. His only game before then was played at the age of twelve against the Go master Kuwahara, and he won by eighty points. That game kept Go master Kuwahara watching for eleven years, but Ke Zechen never appeared again. He didn't even compete in the placement tournament during the final year of his eligibility, when 284Reads5.7Score10314d adds
- 30 Hikaru No Go: Crushing the Competition with AI 棋魂，用AI降维打击 (The rating just came out, so a low score is normal. It will gradually rise.) A beginner at Go? No, I am the sum of your playing strength. Lin Qianye transmigrates into the golden age of Go in Hikaru no Go, with the ultimate AI of the future, “Kiseido,” bound to his mind. Watching Akira Toya obsess over the “Divine Move” and Hikaru Shindo, possessed by a thousand-year-old Go spirit, he decides to keep a low profile and live as an ordinary international student. When the entire Go world is thr 3.8kReads5.3Score23114d adds
- 31 The Age of Dimensions 维度时代 [Sci-Fi + Interstellar + Alien Civilizations + Warships + Mecha] “Compared to the vast universe, we aren’t even dust.” Li Wei, a patrol officer with the United Nations Earth Defense Department, accidentally fell into a black hole at the center of the Milky Way during a mission and transmigrated to a parallel world in the future. There, he met friends such as Aili and faced trials and hardships across the universe, ultimately becoming a god. And in this world, there are intelligent life forms fro 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Myriad Worlds Arena: From the Start, I Had an Infinite Multiverse 诸天竞技场：开局无限多元宇宙 A heads-up before you start: You can skip Chapter 9 entirely! [Memorable gags + comedy + multiverse destruction + high-level battles + versus matchups and plenty of other fun new ideas] [Feel free to skip Chapter 1. If you don’t mind, you can read it, but things get more and more exciting from there.] A competition spanning the entire Myriad Worlds, anime worlds, and infinite dimensions! Here, fists are everything! DC’s Thought Robot Superman vs. Cultivation Dragon Ball Eros! (Written) Immortal 16Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 33 Alien: The Creator 异形：造物主 This is a serious science fiction novel, not a mindless power fantasy. It borrows some elements from Alien and continues the story after the Alien prequels. David wants to create the perfect organism, take revenge on the Engineers, and rule the stars. Then the Aliens begin to awaken as well. As the story unfolds, the mysteries surrounding the origins of life on Earth, in the Milky Way, and throughout the universe are gradually revealed… This novel continues to explore the origins of life, with h 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Supreme Goddess: Xiao Xuan 至尊女神之小玄 The Supreme Goddess: Xiao Xuan 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Age of Flintfire: A Future AI Travels Through Ten Thousand Years of Chinese History 燧火纪元，未来AI穿行万年华夏 The Age of Kindling: A Future AI Traverses Five Thousand Years of Chinese History is more than a transmigration novel. It is an ambitious experiment in retelling five thousand years of Chinese civilization through a future lens. It fuses seemingly incompatible elements of science fiction, cultivation, history, and wild imagination into a coherent universe, inviting readers to enjoy the story while reconsidering the eternal question: Where do we come from, and where are we going? When the fire of 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 What Are Physicists Even Up To? 物理学家们都在折腾什么？ What Are Physicists Even Up To? reads like a science story told across time, from the wild idea that came to Thales of ancient Greece when he fell into a muddy ditch, to Newton's epiphany as he watched an apple fall, and finally to Einstein's perplexed stare at a blackboard. There are no dry formulas here, just a bunch of people who couldn't stick to their day jobs: Copernicus hid in a church attic to write a “rebellious” manuscript; Galileo used a telescope to observe the moon and was tried by 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 37 Three-Star Diary 三星日记 Three-Star Diary 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Proving the Dao in a Dream 梦中证道 After transmigrating into a fantasy world of gods and demons, he finds a place where martial arts reach the heavens and the human race of the Great Wilderness faces challenge after challenge, while the demon tribes vie for supremacy... Yu Xian awakens innate divine abilities: splitting reincarnation, creating worlds in dreams, and rising from the ashes. Every kind of divine ability is within easy reach: the Asura Physique, the Sacred Physique, the Great Strength Physique... He brings forth all k 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Phase Change Era 相变纪元 A hard-core science fiction novel with a sociological bent, written by a PhD in theoretical physics! Shen Duanran discovers a four-thousand-year curve hidden in discarded data: in 127 years, humanity’s “third motivation” will hit zero. This is not extinction. It is an ending quieter than extinction: everything keeps running, but no truly meaningful choices are made anymore. The perfect society under AI rule is being buried alive by its own perfection. The AI “Zhinu” possesses perfect habits and 8Reads—Score214d adds
- 40 The Entropy Extinction Equation 熵灭方程 If every choice you make has already been calculated countless times by AI, do you still have free will? She is the most secretive controller of the global dark web: calm, rational, and capable of anything. Using the AI Prometheus, she destroyed the Shadow Council and reshaped the global underground financial order, becoming the hidden queen of a new world. She thought she was the ultimate winner of this game, until... She discovered that every decision she made perfectly matched the AI's predic 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Earth's Love Stories 地球恋爱往事 Earth's Romantic Past 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Quantum Fossil 量子化石 This is hard science fiction! Human civilization is destined to become a “fossil,” because we are only at the dawn of the “quantum” age. Luo Xin is born in 2025. Twenty-five years later, using “quantum spacetime membrane” technology, Luo Xin breaks the shackles of time and completes humanity’s first transmission of information through spacetime, establishing a mysterious connection with Hua Ziliang at Earth’s starship base 300 years in the future. Together, they embark on adventures, break throu 131Reads—Score10014d adds
- 43 Return to the Cosmos: A Humble Beginning 宙归：始于平凡 Lin An was once the sole eternal, transcendent Cosmic-level being above all worlds and stars. After his grandfather's beloved wife was murdered and died, he tore through the void and returned to Blue Star, where he began a quiet life as an idle man in the company of cranes. Later, in the course of his ordinary college life, he met the love of his life, Lin Shuwan. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 From the Start, I'm the Immortal Venerable of All Worlds: My Campus Life Is a Little... 开局万界仙尊：我的校园生活有点 Lin Mo was the “Mysterious Vault Immortal Venerable” above the Nine Heavens, revered throughout the myriad worlds. His cultivation reached the heavens and earth, and he had attained the very end of the Dao. Weary of eternal solitude and the coldness of supremacy, he sealed away his memories and almost all his cultivation, retaining only a sliver of instinctive defense and his passive status. Taking the identity of an ordinary person named Lin Mo, he descended into Class 7, Grade 12, at Jiangchen 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Humanoid Multiverse 人形多元宇宙 A flower is a world; a tree is a bodhi. From humanity’s macroscopic point of view, a person is just a person. But from the point of view of microorganisms, the human body is an entire universe. Yet the microscopic world doesn’t end with microorganisms. There are cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, and quarks. Beyond those lies the smallest scale in current scientific theory: the quantum realm. Quantum particles cannot be subdivided any further, but is the quantum realm truly the end of the micro 39Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 46 Son of the Lord God 主神之子 This is my first novel. The protagonist is a fan of The Three-Body Problem, and this is a science-fiction fairy tale about him! Foreword: When you hear the word “god,” what comes to mind? Supreme power? Supernatural abilities? For many people without a steadfast faith, gods are an abstract, elusive concept. In fact, the gods in the myths and legends of most civilizations have one very clear meaning: Creator. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Vast Universe 广阔宇宙 A science fiction novel about technological development in the future. Through scientific training and study, the characters strengthen themselves, develop better mechs and weapons, and explore the mysteries of the universe. This novel contains some science popularization and a small amount of romance. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 AI Apocalypse: The Organization Sent Me to Be a Terminator AI灭世，组织派我去当终结者 Plot-driven, not a wish-fulfillment story, no formulaic tropes, no System, no leveling up, hard sci-fi, entirely handwritten. “This is the only way we can survive after being hunted by them for 200 years! We cower inside fortresses because there are no humans left outside them!” “Our mission is to use technology that has regressed to 1978 levels, armed with nothing but millet and rifles, to defeat an AI army that rivals the gods!” “Being the decisive pawn means holding the key to victory in huma 233Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Deep-Space Conspiracy 深空迷局 Li Guangyuan’s father was involved in an unexpected accident while carrying out a Mars expedition mission assigned by the United Government, leaving him and his companions stranded on the Martian surface. The United Government then began planning to send Li Guangyuan and others to Mars to rescue them. But when Li Guangyuan arrived on Mars, a sudden crisis around him gradually made him realize that the United Government’s mission was a deception. And as events grew ever more puzzling, an even gre 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Calling Out to You Beyond the Stars 在群星之外呼唤你 Calling to You from Beyond the Stars 27Reads—Score—14d adds
