Novels like The Game of the Guilty
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Game of the Guilty, best match first.
- 1 The Weird Ate My Left Hand 诡异吃掉了我的左手 [Dark and oppressive, cold-blooded and sinister, horror and suspense. Do not read if you are a bleeding-heart do-gooder.] [Survival in the apocalypse • Rules-based horror • Containment of anomalous objects • Chinese-style horror] “Brother, I’ve been reborn on another layer.” His father, who had been dead for seven years, suddenly called him: “You have to go contain a CGT rule-bound anomaly…” “Otherwise, you won’t survive the month…” “The rule is: you must not see its face…” “The way to contain i 1Votes7.7kRecs14.1kFans
- 2 The Great Sculptor 大雕刻家 Sculpt a god for a world without faith Carve me beneath the god, singing Sculpt a demon for the prosperous city Then sculpt an altar Sculpt a minion to keep me company Then sculpt a crown to place upon my head Sculpt glory and treasure surrounding me From this moment on, I am the king of the world Sculpt the flames of war and those who have passed away Life withers and dies amid disaster Sculpt the myriad things of the universe and the firmament Sculpt the undying starry sky Sculpt sacrifice and 0Votes4.4kRecs17.2kFans
- 3 Dark Firmament 黑暗苍穹 In 2046, humanity established a manned base on Mercury. At the edge of the base, Chen Feng and Wang Shuo made an astonishing discovery: a giant footprint one meter long... Strange things began happening around the base: mysterious shadows, bizarre solar storms, and eerie whispers... Everything pointed to one thing: humanity was not alone on Mercury... As events unfolded, the protagonist gradually uncovered a shocking secret hidden on Mercury, one powerful enough to overturn everything people bel 4Votes3.7kRecs7.2kFans
- 4 Naruto: The Mad Uchiha 忍界：疯狂的宇智波 New book: After Swapping Bodies, I Stole Someone Else's Chat Group. After transmigrating, Chihara Naoto inexplicably swaps bodies with Kasumigaoka Utaha, then joins the Goddess Chat Group... After swapping bodies with Zenin Maki, he becomes the Heavenly Restriction Tyrant... After swapping bodies with Yukinoshita Yukino, he becomes Sukuna's Host... Transmigrated into an Uchiha on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre, he gives Orochimaru spoilers to get revenge, wreaking havoc on the world. 0Votes8.1kRecs29.8kFans
- 5 The Weather Is Sunny 天气很晴朗 The weather is lovely. Whatever it is, we'll get through it. 0Votes15.3kRecs15.7kFans
- 6 The Haunted Corridor 诡怨回廊 [Supernatural + Suspense + Folklore + Infinite Worlds] Have you ever been so desperate for something that it gnawed at you day and night, leaving you unable to eat or sleep, willing to trade everything just to get it? Have you ever prayed to every god you could think of, lost your senses with desperation, yet still found yourself unable to do certain things? She gave you everything you ever wanted, only to vanish from your life all the same. Have you ever felt that kind of pain? Birth, aging, si 3Votes11.9kRecs70.9kFans
- 7 The Deception Game 欺世游戏 When the cost of changing history is astonishingly low, and every deceiver can make a wish and alter the past... what will this world become in the end? What if your friend hadn't gone out the day of the car accident... What if your parents' terminal illness had been discovered sooner... What if I'd known as a child what was going to happen in the future... What if the internet had been invented a hundred years earlier... What if World War III had already begun... What if it were possible to ret 255Votes77.4kRecs165.4kFans
- 8 Mystic Hero 玄侠 I've slept amid a hundred thousand troops and cursed in the imperial palace; I've gotten drunk before the founding master and killed beneath a Buddha statue. The chivalrous spirit of wandering the world is free and easy, while kingdoms and dynasties pass like dreams. Whether in the jianghu or the court, whether seeking freedom or power, in the end, one's fate is not one's own. When spring dawns and the rain lets up, he is still the same young man as before. 0Votes12.6kRecs74.4kFans
- 9 The Corpse-Driving Craftsman 赶尸匠 [A new novel by Luo Xiaoyang, author of The Three Corpse’s Words] The Chen River runs cold as corpse drivers travel by night. The dead demand passage, the living must keep away! A little ghost carries the coffin, with the living as its attendants. The dead open their eyes; the coffin falls, and people die! Guide the souls across the river, use the Seven Stars to subdue the corpse. Nine lions bow to the elephant, trick the heavens and cross the sea! This is a world you’ve never encountered before 181Votes64.1kRecs230.7kFans
- 10 What Should I Do Now That I've Become a Vengeful Ghost? 变成了厉鬼怎么办？ The world changed overnight. White light rained down from the sky, dividing Blue Star into more than 6,000 zones. Every month, 50 zones see new paranormal incidents. “This time’s paranormal incident is... finding Chen Xiao’s corpse?” Chen Xiao looked down. He was completely hollow. “Am I dead?” “Have I become a ghost?” “Then do I still need to look for... myself?” (The protagonist will be resurrected near the end of Volume One. For now, the story is told mainly from a human perspective. The outl 39Votes27.9kRecs248.6kFans
- 11 EN Are You My Future Girlfriend Too? 你也是我的未来女友吗？ “Future Diary” + “Hearing Each Other’s Thoughts” + “Soul Swap” [October 27, 2036, overcast] [They got divorced.] [That idiot Song Yunshen didn’t even think to hide those albums and photos properly. Of course they got discovered.] [But now that things have come to this, can I really get back together with him?] [Or maybe he’d rather choose her?] In the height of summer in 2025, Song Yunshen stared at a strange passage that had appeared in his diary and wondered which idiot was playing a prank on 2.8kVotes64.6kRecs161.4kFans
- 12 EN Infinite Horror Game 无限诡异游戏 Rules feed on gods, and gods offer all living beings as sacrifices. The eerie game is a trap, and the resurgence of the occult is its medium. Beneath the austere veneer lies an indescribable terror. Unwilling to be shackled by fate, Si Qi leaps beyond his restraints. He shreds morality and dances alone on the boundary between black and white; he breaks free of the rules and builds his own 7Votes55.7kRecs233.6kFans
- 13 Void Beacon 虚空灯塔 Synopsis: Bai Xiao signs a contract with the Lighthouse, becoming a cold-blooded observer who travels through different worlds. And so, the legend of the “Ashen Calamity” spreads among the contractors. “Holy crap, I saw this guy’s health bar with my own eyes! It stretched right off the screen, and he had two bars with damage reflection!” “One guy taking on two world bosses at once. Is he even human?” “Am I seeing things? Fifty-nine debuff auras? My stats have been reduced below zero!” “The Blood 35Votes38.3kRecs123.5kFans
- 14 EN Master of Fangcun 方寸道主 In this world, there is an emperor whose every word becomes the law of the land, a peerless general whose sword alone can face a million soldiers, a Confucian sage whose single volume of Spring and Autumn establishes the moral order, a Daoist Venerable whose finger can bring forth life and shape creation, and strategists whose schemes can turn the tides of the world… Li Shun transmigrated here with nothing but a mysterious pocket dimension. No matter how astonishing your talent, once you are cap 201Votes156.4kRecs606.1kFans
- 15 1997: Crime Chasers 1997：罪案追凶 Summer 1997. Torrential rain! A dismembered body! A murderer! Yang Jinwen is reborn in 1997. Faced with the torrential rain and the dismembered body of a woman in the reed marshes from more than twenty years ago, he is determined to catch the killer! 2kVotes202.5kRecs550.8kFans
- 16 Ascending to the Jade Palace 上玉阙 “Your fate is yours to decide, not Heaven's? And you want to go to Hexi? Nice ambition. Then head to the bottom of the river and practice holding your breath. Come back up in three days.” “Feeding yourself to demonic beasts on the Western Sea front is a contribution to the Immortal Alliance. Serving as an officer in the Alliance is also a contribution. There’s no difference in status.” “Locking down the rules of cultivation is good for everyone. The low-level cultivators just can't see reason. W 33Votes170.5kRecs598.8kFans
- 17 EN Where There Are Immortals, There Is Fame 有仙则名 Lately, I don't know what's gotten into things. First I started seeing spiritual energy in the air. Then a glowing tree mysteriously sprouted in the courtyard of the Taoist temple. A beautiful fox spirit even came by in the middle of the night, and the cat I keep has started talking like a person. But I searched online and couldn't find anything about it. Has spiritual energy really revived? Wait! Why is it all starting around me? 14.7kVotes167.8kRecs633.4kFans
- 18 EN Player of the Uncanny 怪谈玩家 They reshape logic with rules and use reason to describe things beyond reason. This is a bizarre and uncanny game, as well as a continuation of the real world. Until the normal becomes abnormal, and the abnormal becomes the norm. 4Votes87.1kRecs342.3kFans
- 19 EN Who Hid My Corpse?! 谁把我的尸体藏起来了！ “You know, I used to be the most powerful person in the world. Even the gods couldn’t do anything to me. If I can get my body back, I can come back to life.” “So?” “So... who hid my corpse!” 1Votes182.8kRecs672.8kFans
- 20 Nightmare Apostle 噩梦使徒 “A violent incident has occurred at a hospital in our city. A patient has taken medical staff hostage and is currently in a standoff with the police...” Yang Xiao switched off the TV. The next second, a call came through. “Son, let the doctor go! The police are all outside. You can’t escape!” As if to prove the woman’s words, the sirens outside grew louder and louder, and there was movement in the corridor, too. “It’s fake. It’s all fake. This is a nightmare world. Otherwise, why would you be ab 1.1kVotes444.6kRecs1.1MFans
- 21 High Martial: I Inherited the Evil Organization from the Game 高武：我继承了游戏里的邪恶组织 People don’t have to pay for the sins they commit in games, right~ So, In reality, I’m timid and submissive, but in games, I strike with all my might. In reality, I obey the law and love peace; in games, I leave not a blade of grass standing and rivers of blood in my wake. Originally, There shouldn’t have been any problem, Until the timelines of the game and reality overlapped, and I actually inherited the extremely evil organization I had created in the game… 14Votes106.5kRecs596.1kFans
- 22 EN No Heavenly Tribulations During the College Entrance Exam, Please! 请勿高考时渡劫 Demons, spirits, and cultivators hide in modern society, enjoying the conveniences technology has to offer. A thousand-year-old tree spirit passes itself off as a prized ancient tree and collects government subsidies every month; An eight-hundred-year-old fox spirit livestreams herself posing seductively, sucking the life force from her viewers; A five-hundred-year-old Confucian cultivator shuts himself away for a century to study the Eight-Legged Essay, only to discover upon emerging that the i 19.4kVotes492.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 23 EN Absurd Deduction Game 荒诞推演游戏 An eerie mansion is steeped in the unknowable and uncanny, and criminals skilled at hiding lurk within. Yu Xing clutches a dagger, looking like a lamb ready for slaughter in front of the big shots. A scraping, rustling sound comes from the attic, as if something is crawling. His temporary teammates say, “Go investigate the attic.” Yu Xing: “All right...” A monster blocks their only escape route. His temporary teammates say, “Go draw it away. Hurry, or we'll make sure you don' 11Votes310kRecs489.8kFans
- 24 EN Nightmare Assault 噩梦惊袭 Horror, supernatural, infinite-worlds. Focused on the plot, no romance. That's pretty much it. 47Votes163.2kRecs970.1kFans
- 25 EN Ask the Heavens for Eternal Life 阵问长生 Illusion arrays, killing arrays, sword arrays, replication arrays, absolute arrays, grand arrays, immortal arrays: together, they form the myriad paths of arraycraft. Yin and yang, the Three Powers, the Four Symbols, the Five Elements, the Six Lines, the Seven Stars, the Eight Trigrams: from them flow the arrays of the heavens. Prove the Dao through divine sense, comprehend arrays, and ascend to immortality. With a single thought, save all under heaven; seek the Dao and ask for eternal life. 1.4kVotes874.9kRecs1.1MFans
- 26 The Strange-Tales Author's Diary of Delays 怪谈作者拖更日记 [One Female Lead or No Female Lead. Don't Read If That Bothers You] [Infinite-Flow Mind Games] + [Wildly Imaginative Urban Legends] + [Wordplay] + [Troublemaker Literature] Core of the power system: combining words ↓ Combine a "stone" and a "hide" to form the character for "break," capable of breaking all kinds of things. [Example Scene]: When confronted by zombies, just carry rice with you and scatter it. Combine "corpse" and "rice" to create a huge mass of mosaic, making the enemy vanish in an 4Votes69.5kRecs368.5kFans
- 27 EN The God Mimic 神的模仿犯 Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them. 2.1kVotes523.9kRecs1.4MFans
- 28 EN The Splendor of Netheril 耐瑟瑞尔的辉煌 The protagonist is a pure mage: cold-blooded, cautious, dark, and ruthless. There is no heroine from beginning to end, no playing the pig to eat the tiger, and no sudden power-up at the brink of death. He only advances steadily, faces no powerful enemies everywhere he goes, and is always the formidable enemy of others. His whole heart is set on advancing the glory of Netheril. 1Votes69.6kRecs118.8kFans
- 29 Struggling to Survive in the Cracks of the Pokémon World 精灵世界夹缝求生 The story of a transmigrator reborn, set in a real and wondrous Pokémon World, where Pokémon are raised and trained. Ariados, Drapion, Gengar, Chandelure... (Join the group: 693721996.) The glories and humiliations of his past life are over. In this life, he must take the long and arduous road from the beginning. The path to strength is inevitably a lonely one. If coldness, ruthlessness, disguises, and patience are shortcuts to power, he won't hesitate to take them. 0Votes92.2kRecs107.9kFans
- 30 My Girlfriend Is from the Future! 我的女友来自未来！ One day in September, a beautiful girl fell from the sky and appeared in He Tianran's life. She said she was reborn, and that she wanted to change the boy's future. A butterfly flaps its wings, and a breeze stirs in the heart. And so, a series of stories began to unfold, their encounters seeming at once like first meetings and reunions. Also known as: “So I'm the One Living the Dream?” and “This Isn't the Romance I Wanted” 381Votes460.3kRecs766kFans
- 31 EN Are We Destroying the World Today? 今天毁灭世界了吗？ “So you're saying the world is about to end, and that's why you want to steal a rocket?” “This is a first. I've arrested people for robbing jewelry stores and banks. I've even arrested someone for hijacking a train, but never anyone trying to steal a rocket.” “What were you thinking? Even if you actually managed to steal it, could you fly it?” Lin Xu slowly nodded from across the table. “I can.” “Really. I've flown it countless times already.” “Also, you really need to hurry. I'm out of time.” “ 64Votes261.1kRecs951.9kFans
- 32 EN Green Mountains 青山 In this age, fame and fortune have stripped the world of nine-tenths of its chivalry. Everyone, this is the story of the last remaining tenth. 9.4kVotes3.5MRecs5.4MFans
- 33 EN The Immortal Craftsman's Creation 仙工开物 Deep inside a volcano, an immortal palace of mechanisms left behind by ancient sages awaits its successor. His mother risked her life to obtain its immortal seal, entrusting it to Ning Zhuo with her dying breath. The Buddha’s Heart-Demon Seal! Save yourself and become a Buddha; save others and turn them into demons. With the seal in hand, one can lightly imprint the heart and command mechanisms as easily as feathers. Others grow weary and burdened when controlling them, but Ning Zhuo can command 550Votes3.6MRecs4.4MFans
- 34 EN Glitch Utopia 故障乌托邦 Metal prosthetics, AI girlfriends, neural networks inside your head, cyberspace. This is a world of ultra-advanced technology, where all kinds of tech can change your life like magic. The terminal cancers that once plagued people are nothing in the face of nanomedical robots. But new levels of technology bring new problems and new troubles, including a new kind of… cyberpsychosis. “What is capitalism, anyway?” Sun Jieke said, hands on his hips, leaning back. 75Votes632kRecs1.6MFans
- 35 EN Night Without End 夜无疆 That day, the sun set and never rose again… 25.2kVotes12.7MRecs8.1MFans
- 36 EN This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms 这个地下城长蘑菇了 “A wondrous soul stolen away, a hero’s power, and a classic tragic start as the catalyst!” “And with that, a savior is born... Holy crap, why did a mushroom fall in there!?” Lin Jun somehow transmigrated into a mushroom and found herself trapped from the start in the depths of a dungeon, surrounded by all kinds of monsters. With no hands, feet, or eyes, she survives only thanks to a cheat that lets her break down corpses and steal their skills. She even carved out a mushroom garden in the dunge 397Votes668.8kRecs1.7MFans
- 37 EN Cultivation? Ain't Got No Money For That! 没钱修什么仙？ The old man asked, “You want revenge?” The boy replied, “I’ve been humiliated again and again by the powerful, and my master considers me trash. How could I not want revenge?” The old man patted the boy’s head and sighed. “Good boy, let me pass my cultivation power on to you.” The boy exclaimed, “Senior! How could I accept that?” The old man held out his hand. “Give me your phone.” Watching the changes on his phone, the boy cried out in shock, “Senior! Where did all this hundred-year cultivation 17.7kVotes4MRecs7.2MFans
- 38 EN Soul of Negary 奈格里之魂 Listen to my summons! Dragon of Eternal Sin, Calamity of Progress, Forerunner, Land of Eternal Peace, Flame That Scorches Souls, Dweller in the Soul's Deep, Voice of the Origin, First Cause of All Things, Law of the Circle... Great Negris, your servant summons you! In the darkness, someone murmured an incantation. He smiled, knowing that one day he would become one with God. And it all began with a remnant soul that was tricked into another world and lost its protagonist aura. My new book, Mirro 2Votes162.8kRecs287.1kFans
- 39 The Mirror Legacy 玄鉴仙族 Lu Jiangxian stayed up all night and died suddenly, but his lingering soul attached itself to a blue-gray bronze mirror covered in cracks. The mirror drifted into a vast, boundless world of immortal cultivation. In the perilous and unpredictable Dali Mountains, beside the Mei Chi River, a small village sat in the shadow of a minor clan. When the clan came across the mirror, it began passing down the path of immortality and teaching its arts, ushering in a magnificent new era. (A family’s cultiva 22.9kVotes7.2MRecs21.2MFans
- 40 Peddling Sin 贩罪 A genius. Withdrawn, lonely, obsessive, mad. Whenever the times change, he raises the banner of the Inverted Cross. Success makes him a prince or minister; failure leaves him among maggots and filth. In times of chaos, people of exceptional talent flock to his side from every corner. In the hidden corners of the city, he looks down upon the world. In this life, there is only one person he cares about. 28Votes187kRecs547.5kFans
- 41 EN Reincarnation Paradise 轮回乐园 Su Xiao signs a reincarnation contract and enters various worlds to carry out missions. He has witnessed a world collapse into dust, and fought with blade in hand against a forgotten king. Dark ravens whisper, while colossal beasts roar beneath the Black Abyss. Welcome to the Reincarnation Paradise… 1.4kVotes15MRecs7.7MFans
