Novels like Death Game: Starting with Class Red Envelopes
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- 1 The Deadly Game Chat Group 致命游戏群 A mysterious gaming group posts missions with cash rewards every day to lure people in. But Chen Xun soon discovers that money is easy to get, while losing your life is even easier. Figuring out how to survive becomes the most difficult challenge of all, let alone protecting the people around him... 286Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Global Ghost School 全球鬼校 After Liu Bowen severed the dragon veins, dragon qi vanished from the world. With dragon qi no longer holding it in check, the six paths of the underworld collapsed, and ghosts roamed the night. Faced with a living hell on earth, the Daoists emerged from seclusion, while the Buddhists came to save the world. Liu Yi also acquired ghost qi in a deadly game at a haunted school, and used it to suppress the underworld and reshape reincarnation. (Note: This story takes place in a parallel world unrela 281Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Deadly Classroom 致命教室 During morning study hall, a stranger with the username Punisher added the entire class to a WeChat group. From then on, all kinds of bizarre things began happening... 621Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Welcome to the University of Strange Rules 欢迎来到诡异规则大学 The University of Eerie Rules: Welcome to the Examination Hall of Life and Death On the day he fails the college entrance exam, Su Zhe’s life is completely ruined. The school bully’s malicious ambush makes him miss one of his exams, destroying his future. Then a mysterious admission letter falls from the sky: the prestigious Imperial University is offering him a special place, with all tuition waived and a monthly allowance of one hundred thousand. The terms are so generous they seem downright e 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Deadly Feast 绝命盛宴 A mysterious figure appears on the classroom television. Anyone who volunteers to join the feast and completes a simple task will receive the latest model of phone, along with various cash rewards. The moment we joined the feast, we were plunged into utter panic. People around us began dying in bizarre ways. Who is he? The truth keeps taking unexpected turns, and astonishing secrets gradually come to light. 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Rules 101: The School Survival Guide 规则必修课：校园生存守则 (The rating has just come in and is rather low, but it will rise later.) [Rule-based horror, deduction, suspense, terror] Upon opening her eyes, Lu Wanxing finds a set of weekend dormitory rules popping up on her phone. She and her two roommates proceed with utmost caution, searching for the rules’ limits on the brink of death. Human nature, resources, ghosts and monsters… After barely making it through two days of life teetering on the edge of death, Lu Wanxing finally lets out a sigh of relief 1kReads8.2Score124Shelves
- 7 Deadly Assignment 致命作业 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 311Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 8 Demon Ghost School: I Can See Through the Ghosts' Eyes 恶魔鬼校：我看见了鬼的视角 [A fresh new concept: wild imagination on campus + mild horror + demon games + paranormal exploration + a rich, well-developed system + an actual plot] Welcome to Demon Ghost School. Our curriculum is simple... death, gamesmanship, and slaughter! Here you’ll find all kinds of “fun” demon classes, thrilling demon games, brutal school competitions, chandeliers that guard the dormitories, and talking wardrobes... My name is Su Yun. One day, I received an admission letter. When I w 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Class of Death 死亡班级 Their class used to get along just fine, but money and self-interest ruined everything. Now they even come to blows over a single meal, turning on their own classmates. 2.1kReads5.9Score114Shelves
- 10 The Most Terrifying Class on Campus 高校里最恐怖的班级 A classmate who had been dead for two years suddenly spoke in the group chat. At first, everyone thought it was someone's prank, until the first classmate died unexpectedly. Only then did they realize this was no prank... 794Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Class's Nightmare Game: I Rule the Whole School! 班级噩梦游戏，我主宰全校！ [Death Game] [Light Ensemble Cast] [No Saintly Hero] [Closed Beta Turns Open Beta] [Overpowered Wish Fulfillment] [Multiple Female Leads] The first-year finance class at a university becomes the testing ground for a nightmare game's closed beta. Classes, tests, monthly exams: one nightmare game after another drives the entire class to the brink! Jiang Xing awakens an SSS-tier talent, [Sleep God]: invincible while asleep! On top of that, he develops the outrageous abilities to control other peopl 624.9kReads8.8Score130.5kShelves
- 12 Falling Homework 坠落作业 [Campus horror + coming-of-age + no saintly heroine + one heroine + combat + heartbreaking] One day, a mysterious assignment appeared on the blackboard. As a high school student, I felt a terror unlike anything I’d ever known. All kinds of ghosts appeared in the world, coming to take human lives. From that day on, my life changed completely. I was forced to fight for my life through the assignments, but that was far from all. A slew of conspiracies began to close in around me. Worse still, a mas 1.8kReads8.2Score140Shelves
- 13 Campus Mysteries: The Dark Invasion 高校异闻录之暗黑侵袭 Ever since Gao Sifan inexplicably chose this medical university after having a strange dream, everything has seemed increasingly unusual. Terrifying supernatural rumors have circulated about the university ever since it opened, and after Gao Sifan enrolls, paranormal incidents become more and more frequent. The Japanese people and pro-Japanese groups hiding nearby gradually come to light, along with bizarre sacrificial rituals, onmyoji, possessed faculty members, and extreme militarist educati 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 One day, a classmate who had been dead for a long time dragged everyone in our class into a bizarre QQ group and forced us to take part in a death vote. After I managed to escape the Desperate Classroom, one massive conspiracy after another unfolded. To survive, I sold my soul… 143Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 15 Death’s Homework 死亡作业 After our homeroom teacher left us a bizarre assignment, news of her death came the very next day... That was when we remembered the terror of being ruled by homework... Once school starts, there will be two updates every day. A jade pendant gift earns one extra chapter, and every 300 gold diamonds earns another! 4.1kReads9.0Score293Shelves
- 16 Horror Academy, 恐怖高校， A country boy somehow winds up in a dim, terrifying classroom. Some say this place is hell; others call it a land of nothingness. You have to endure countless trials before you can graduate, leave, and return to the real world. Here, there are enhanced bloodlines that can alter the body’s genetic makeup, as well as supernatural abilities beyond anything people in the real world could ever dream of. Everything here is utterly extraordinary, with all kinds of factions and power struggles. Countles 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了 Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h 307Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Fatal Impulse 致命冲动 Never grab a WeChat red envelope from a stranger! After I accidentally took one from a stranger, strange things started happening one after another, and my classmates began dying, one by one. Maybe I'll be next... 5.9kReads8.0Score617Shelves
- 19 The Classroom of Death 死亡教室 When you receive a strange letter of admission, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! At this university of death, the moment your name appears in bloody letters on the classroom blackboard, class has begun. And once class begins, you will enter an unknown world of terror, where you must face bizarre and horrifying ghosts. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive that deadly class and return to the classroom, you will stil 1.9kReads7.1Score111Shelves
- 20 Death Photo 死亡照片 [Suspense + Mystery + Mind Games + Puzzle-Solving + Imagination + Superpowers] Lin Yi goes to attend his high school reunion. At first, everything seems normal. His long-unseen classmates chat away happily. Then someone finds a photograph on the floor! At first, no one pays it any attention. But soon, the classmate in the photograph dies unexpectedly. Then one classmate after another dies in a series of bizarre accidents! Everyone is terrified. What's really going on? Will anyone else die? Who's 12.8kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 21 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die… 671Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 22 The Spooky, Hilarious Legend 恐怖幽默搞笑传 Synopsis of The Spooky, Humorous, Hilarious Tale Other streamers are scared out of their wits when they encounter ghosts on camera. When he runs into evil spirits, his go-to move is “cuddle up”! In a gloomy old mansion, instead of heartrending sobs, the streamer blasts his absurdly catchy “Good Luck Is Coming” theme music. A ghost in white lifts her long hair to scare him, only for him to whip out a pair of Tony's scissors and ask, “Want a makeover?” Even the supernatural crowd rushes to post co 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Nationwide School Survival: Every School Has Become Hell 全民学校求生：所有学校沦为地狱 [School Survival] [Apocalypse] [Light Ensemble Cast] [No Brain-Dead Decisions] [No Saintly Heroine] [Semi-Infinite Worlds] [S-Rank Invisibility and Intangibility Talent] [Many] Universities today are drowning in red tape. Gu Pingsheng was only trying to help his academic advisor get Teacher Huang from Administration to stamp a document, but Teacher Huang stalled him with one excuse after another and even mocked him. Then, during evening study hall, every school around the world entered a biza 202kReads8.2Score21.8kShelves
- 24 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档：洞察所有厉鬼规律 [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 916Reads—Score104Shelves
- 25 Horror Revival: He’s Just Too Cautious 恐怖复苏：他实在太稳健了 Five years ago, terror returned to the world, and evil spirits swept across the land. Li Changye was lucky enough to survive. From then on, he stayed cautious as a stray dog, making sure every killer he faced was reduced to dust and bone. He planned carefully before acting and never stepped into danger lightly. Five years later, terror came sweeping back. Amid endless darkness and despair, Li Changye advanced one careful step at a time, carving out a bloody path to survival. 3kReads6.7Score220Shelves
- 26 EN The Terrifying Classroom 恐怖教室 There's an abandoned school building behind the school where people often go missing. But everyone who comes back out becomes rich overnight. I went in, and now I can't get out... 4.2kReads7.8Score348Shelves
- 27 Hell Academy: From the Start, the Human Elimination Plan 地狱高校：开局人类清除计划 Su Can, who had just gotten into college, unexpectedly dies and arrives at a place called Mingbei High School. In this cruel world, he chooses the path of cultivator enhancement and completes one impossible task after another, all for the sake of obtaining that damn college admission letter. 25.6kReads7.7Score1.9kShelves
- 28 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score182Shelves
- 29 We Spend Our Lives Flying Toward That Blue Planet 我们用一生向那颗蓝色星球飞行 We spend our whole lives flying toward that blue planet. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Deadly Game 致命游戏 A rich guy in the WeChat group is sending out red envelopes, and he wants the luckiest person to play a game with him. It turns out he wants the class beauty to... 2.2kReads9.0Score230Shelves
- 31 Chronicles of the Misty Apocalypse 飘渺末世录 Sci-fi action with team battles, multiple female leads, and a clash between Earth's ancient civilization and aliens. An ancient civilization has been protecting Earth for hundreds of millions of years! Battles across time and space! The laws of the galaxies! Just then, the phantom image of a blue-haired woman gradually appeared in the sky, standing around a hundred meters tall. The blue-haired woman was stunningly beautiful, even more so than Yan Shiyu and the other women. Her blue hair fell ove 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 First Day of School: The Teacher Dies Before My Eyes 开学：老师死在面前 [Supernatural + Horror + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Infinite Flow + Decisive and Ruthless + Teamwork] On the first day of school, the moment Class 4's homeroom teacher, Mr. Bai, mysteriously committed suicide in the classroom, everyone's worldview was completely overturned by what they saw. A bleeding blackboard, blood-red words appearing out of nowhere: it was as if a novel had become reality. Everyone in the class would be forced to take on all kinds of deadly missions. They could neit 28.2kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
- 33 Nine Days to the Ruins 九日归墟 Mind-bending suspense, imaginative mysteries, apocalyptic survival, Infinite Flow, battles of life and death waged through wits, restrictive rules, clever characters who stay smart, no cheap melodrama, shocking twists, multiple settings and a large cast. A group of ordinary people wake up in a bizarre space. Waiting for them are mind-bending games of life and death, along with all kinds of unknown hardships. They struggle to survive and search for the truth, only to find that when they peel away 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Apocalypse Heavenly Soldiers 末世天兵团 [Available for licensing as a comedy animation!] Ensemble cast + adventure + the unknown + zombies + apocalypse + pure thrills + fiery action + supernatural powers + wandering + monster-slaying and leveling up After the college entrance exams ended, my classmates and I were transported to an apocalyptic world in another dimension! Zombies are everywhere, and they respawn after you kill them! This world worships the strong. The weak don't even have time to cry! We just want to survive. We don't e 178Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏 The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no 75.8kReads8.3Score6.9kShelves
- 36 Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生 [Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Rule Horror: The Haunted School 规则怪谈：诡异学校 [System + Mystery + Deduction] I grew up in an ordinary family. To broaden my horizons in another city, I deliberately applied to a university far from home. But then strange things began happening one after another: bizarre campus rules, a mysterious countdown, and the secrets hidden behind the school slowly coming to light... 40.8kReads9.3Score4.1kShelves
- 38 EN Dread Night: Getting Rich in a Horror Game 骇夜：我在恐怖游戏里暴富 (The rating just came out and will rise later. Infinite flow + mild horror + original instances + no female lead) A tower stands in the eternal night, with a group of players trapped inside. They have to keep taking part in bizarre games to earn the food and supplies they need to survive. A killer in red embroidered shoes, a child with no eyes, a haunted mountain where an entire expedition team died... One deadly trap after another, with death around every corner. Players: “We're going to die, w 2.8MReads9.5Score590.8kShelves
- 39 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 107.1kReads8.9Score8.7kShelves
- 40 EN Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ [Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you 535.6kReads9.3Score87.5kShelves
- 41 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 335.3kReads9.5Score66.6kShelves
- 42 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 [Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa 390.6kReads9.3Score43.5kShelves
- 43 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 44 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 5.8kReads—Score334Shelves
- 45 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 112.4kReads9.5Score12.2kShelves
- 46 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 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 47 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
