Novels like The Single-Player Game Maniac
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Single-Player Game Maniac, best match first.
- 1 My God and the Church 我的神明与教廷 SongForTheLord (Praise my Lord) IwillputdedicatedtomyLord (I will devote myself completely to my Lord) IamthePope! (I am the Pope!) IwillletmyLordIgloryshineallovertheworld. (I will make my Lord's glory shine across the whole world!) A pope starts from nothing, wages a bloody campaign in another world, and builds the ultimate divine church! Million Arthur, China server. Here's my invite code: 66228 (sigh, I’ve completely lost my dignity) 0Votes21.2kRecs47.5kFans
- 2 The Strange Tales Research Society 怪谈研究会 What would you do if one day you discovered the dark truth about the world? What if the bizarre stories and horror legends you thought were fictional, along with the terrifying creatures from those tales, turned out to be real? “Awesome!” Zhang Luo flashed a V sign for “victory.” To this fanatical lover of the uncanny, the whole world had become one magnificent, gigantic amusement park. When horror legends become real, this monster-power-stealing oddity enthusiast sets off on wild adventures wi 0Votes36.2kRecs59.9kFans
- 3 I Am a Sage 在下圣人 On a mountain cliff, a towering luminous tree with an enormous canopy drew nourishment from the world, sustaining a golden fetus curled within its heart. A massive bear, like a shadow, lay snoring beside its roots. A black cat with three eyes and a white face swung from a branch by its tail. A scholarly young man wiped his sweat as he tinkered with a giant steam-belching machine. Luo Wen lounged lazily beneath the tree, squinting up at the night sky. His six-year-old incarnation was a little bal 0Votes68.2kRecs38.7kFans
- 4 I Draw Manga in Japan 我在东瀛画漫画 Reborn in a parallel Japan, he becomes a manga artist who has been blacklisted. Fortunately, this world’s anime and manga entertainment industry is very backward, and he has a System with him. To enjoy a happy life of collecting royalties and living off them, he has no choice but to start by drawing doujinshi. 0Votes76.4kRecs44.4kFans
- 5 Earth’s Game Zone 地球游戏场 December 21, 2112! The world is divided into countless battlefields. Zhang Feng, an unremarkable student, gains a unique talent: his chance of getting high-level gear from monster drops increases by thirty percent! For the sake of survival and his parents, he fights bio-monsters, slays dragons, and marches step by step toward the battlefields of the universe. 0Votes128kRecs148.1kFans
- 6 War Paradise 战争天堂 To all you hardcore virtual game players: Tired of the same old linear storylines? Want to try a truly open-world game? Had enough of RPGs where you can only play as one character? Want to lead your subordinates in virtual reality and experience the thrill of commanding an army? Welcome to the large-scale open combat game, “War Paradise.” … After seeing the rules of the game, a professional player who had focused on PVP for twenty years and was also fascinated by AI broke into a radiant smile. 0Votes181.6kRecs173.9kFans
- 7 The Bug That Evolves Like Crazy 疯狂进化的虫子 This is the story of a butterfly larva growing into the ruler of the insect race. A knight who was level 420 in life enters the Heavenly Domain once more after death, only to discover that he has become a butterfly larva. And so the story begins… 0Votes100.8kRecs161.3kFans
- 8 The Unspeakable Diary 不可名状的日记簿 "The Unknowable Diary" is a fully immersive game released worldwide at the same time. Centered on tabletop role-playing adventures, it lets every player feel as if they are truly there. Yu Yi, a veteran COC troublemaker, was successfully lured into the game. The moment he put on the game watch, launched the game, and opened the diary, unknowable, stirring, urgent tones echoed in his mind. One advertisement a 0Votes93kRecs167.5kFans
- 9 Heartbeat Domain 心跳领域 I’m Feng Yan. I live at Yunhai City Psychiatric Hospital, and I like replacing the academic videos on the director’s USB drive with adult films. When he attends city-level meetings, I make sure he takes off and carries the team. I’ve used a piezoelectric igniter to shock someone in the butt, and once, while the director was swimming at the beach, I dived underwater, pulled off his swim trunks, and used them as a swimming cap. In the end, I let the director get away safely. I hate puns. I hate al 0Votes64.6kRecs73.4kFans
- 10 My Girlfriend Is a Voice Actress 我的女友是声优 His soul transmigrates to an island nation. Though he has a System panel, he gets caught up in the minutiae of everyday life. “It’s getting cold.” A tender smile unlike any she had ever shown blossomed on the girl’s face. “No, it’s already spring, Murakami-kun.” 18Votes467.6kRecs366.5kFans
- 11 The Absolute Death Game 绝对死亡游戏 [A game of life and death, a game hiding countless secrets. Victory grants supreme power, and everything in the game can be brought back to reality. But everything comes at a price. If you die in the game, you die in reality as well. When the boundary between game and reality becomes illusory, you can win everything or lose everything. Would you dare to play?] My new book, "The Book of Another World", is now being serialized, with its first release on Qidian. This is a brand-new work born from m 0Votes208.9kRecs150.3kFans
- 12 The Mastermind Behind the People’s Schemes 全民策划之幕后黑手 When the people of the Water-Blue World first failed at a virtual version of Contra with three lives and a difficulty multiplier of several times over, the victory-screen CG made everyone aware of the “mastermind” behind the game. When everyone fell into the huge pit of a virtual, homegrown browser game, the “mastermind” smiled smugly. And when the pit grew so deep that no one could climb back out, another infuriating game appeared. As everyone gritted their teeth in frustration, the “mastermind 0Votes31.9kRecs36.4kFans
- 13 Manga Artist System 漫画家系统 A shut-in protagonist transmigrates into the body of the cute girl Izumi Sagiri and discovers that the manga scene is dominated by Marvel and hot-blooded battle manga. It’s either Marvel or battle manga. There’s no Eromanga Sensei, A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Fate, Food Wars!, or other hugely popular anime from his previous life. Just as the protagonist cries out that this world has no moe manga, the System appears, granting him perfect drawing skills and access to a d 0Votes45.2kRecs52.7kFans
- 14 The Prodigy Scholar 妖孽学霸 Synopsis: There are three kinds of top students. The first are elite scholars, the very best in their respective fields. The second are legendary scholars, whose influence extends far beyond their own disciplines and shapes an entire era. The third are god-tier scholars, who influence the development of all human civilization, like Einstein and Newton. Beyond these is another kind of extraordinary genius: people who excel not only in scientific research but also accomplish things in other fields 0Votes198kRecs192.4kFans
- 15 League of Legends: Arrow of the Champion 英雄联盟：冠军之箭 He woke up reborn in a parallel world that was both familiar and strange. His dad was familiar, his stepmother was a stranger, and his pretty stepsister, who shared no blood ties with him, was livestreaming. There was the familiar League of Legends, a more developed professional scene, and female players he could hardly have imagined back when he was a pro in his previous life. P.S. If you think the protagonist of a gaming novel should care about nothing but 0Votes294.9kRecs255.9kFans
- 16 The Age of Staying Home 宅时代 Have you ever wondered what would happen if you pooled the resources of countless worlds to strengthen a single one? Have you ever wondered what kind of civilization could be created by recruiting the finest minds from countless worlds? Have you ever wondered what miracles humanity could build once transmigration became a profession? I can’t promise to cover everything, but perhaps this book can give you a glimp 0Votes60.1kRecs65.3kFans
- 17 Meow Creed 喵客信条 I remember someone saying that if you could have a completely new life, you should naturally take an entirely new path, wipe away every past disappointment, and make up for every regret. The little cat pursed her lips and gave a soft scoff. People like that have never had a limp, so of course they don't know the hardships of a lame cat, much less understand how much bitterness and pain a limping kitten endures just to climb upward. P.S. The protagonist is neither a thief nor an assassin. If you 0Votes361.7kRecs103.3kFans
- 18 Faith Explosion 信仰大爆炸 Liu Bei, a web novelist whose work always flops, transmigrates to a parallel world much like Earth. This world is little different from the one he came from, except that it has no web-novel classics like Battle Through the Heavens or Swallowed Star... Just as he thinks he is about to become the web-novel king of another world, he suddenly discovers that his adventures there have automatically been turned into a novel and published back in his original world. Whether readers support him or tear i 0Votes88.1kRecs121kFans
- 19 The Realm of Two Dimensions 二次元国度 When Xia You woke up, he discovered that he had transmigrated into a wondrous world. He had thought he could take it easy and start a new life, but he never expected one cute anime girl after another to come rushing at him… Ayase Aragaki: “If you don't want to be my brother, you might as well die!” Utaha Kasumigaoka: “My work is definitely going to be more interesting than yours!” Megumi Kato: “I knew it. Even though you're my desk mate, you still can't remember me.” Kurisu Makise: “I don't acce 0Votes105.8kRecs100kFans
- 20 My Little Sister Luo Tianyi 我的妹妹洛天依 Luo Chen, a third-rate video creator, thinks he's transmigrated to a strange world. What? This world doesn't have AcFun or All-Star? What? This world doesn't have Yilishabai Shu, Chunhei, Lao Fancai, and all those other big-name creators? What? My little sister is Luo Tianyi, and my childhood friend is Yan He? What kind of nonsense is this? Luo Chen declares that he's going to spread love and justice i 0Votes121.4kRecs139.1kFans
- 21 Dark Lord 幽暗主宰 After an accident, Jain came to another world and was reborn as the Demon Lord’s son. In these vast, gloomy depths, he became the master of a dungeon and the heir to the Demon Lord. But danger lurked beyond the darkness. There were demons with their eyes on the throne, just like him, as well as monsters lying in wait deep underground. Adventurers roamed everywhere in search of treasure and legends, while knights came from the surface to fight for justice. Beneath ancient oaths and banners, Jain 0Votes255kRecs239.6kFans
- 22 The Throne of the Two-Dimensional World 二次元王座 Ji Kong wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into a world of his own making. It is a world made entirely of anime and manga. There are no online forums here, no Huaji Jun, and none of the many famous works from his former life. Here, Muse has yet to hold their First Live, Shiwaka Kasumigaoka has only just started planning her novel, Amagi Brilliant Park has no visitors, Ako Tamaki is a complete newbie playing an online game for the first time, Shiro hasn't transmigrated, and Kanade hasn't 0Votes209.4kRecs122.3kFans
- 23 The Reclusive Life in the Three Kingdoms 三国之宅行天下 “If I had known I was going to transmigrate, I would definitely have looked up how to make things like gunpowder and glass...” Jiang Zhe gazed at the large tree in front of the door and sighed. “Glass, hmm, that should be made by firing sand, right? But what about gunpowder? Saltpeter, charcoal, and what else was it? Sulfuric acid or sulfur?” “Husband...” Xiu Er walked over to Jiang Zhe and asked curiously, “Aren’t you going to work yet?” “I’m going, I’m going...” Jiang Zhe shook his head and 5Votes383.3kRecs624.9kFans
- 24 Grandmaster of All Professions in Another World 异界全职业大师 A storage alt from an online game accidentally ended up in another world. Not only did he bring countless top-grade materials with him, he was also skilled in almost every crafting profession. Most terrifying of all, this guy was an unparalleled magical genius! 4Votes1.1MRecs577.6kFans
- 25 League of Legends: Starting as a Minion 英雄联盟之从小兵开始 Starting out as a mere foot soldier, he grows little by little into a true hero: a daring escape; Irelia’s awakening and legacy; the legendary hunters of the southern jungles; the founding of the Shadow Sect; the conflicts of Bilgewater; the icy brawls of Freljord; Noxus’s elite in blood-red armor; civil strife in the land of angels; the return of the Shuriman Empire; the Blessed Isles’ descent into the Shadow Isles... He leaves countless legends across Runeterra, until he officially joins the L 0Votes125.9kRecs140.7kFans
- 26 The Ultimate Modeler 超神建模师 Source energy descends, ferocious beasts run rampant, and superpowers emerge everywhere. Su Hao is merely an ordinary third-year high school student who has mastered the low-level source-energy ability “Model Analysis.” However, when he creates a character model in his mind and analyzes the other person’s abilities, a feverish thought begins to echo in his mind. What would happen if he created a model of the entire world? Would that mean he could... control! The! World! P.S. The new book Super G 0Votes268kRecs435.5kFans
- 27 The Eighties-Era Shaolin Abbot 八零后少林方丈 Heaven must be blind! It sent a fine young man in his prime, born in the 1980s, back to ancient times, and not only that, he had to become a monk. Becoming a monk would have been bad enough, but he had to be an abbot! And as if being an abbot weren't enough, he got saddled with an Abbot System to keep him in line! Master the boy's training? Make Shaolin the greatest sect under heaven? Become the martial arts world's leader? The System's demands are outrageous. I'm just an ordinary guy from the 1 0Votes390.9kRecs397.8kFans
- 28 The Mad Lich's Experiment Log 疯巫妖的实验日志 This is the story of a deranged lich with a game System who wreaks havoc across the world. “Let’s check today’s dailies... Another stupid either-or. Destroy any town with a population over thirty thousand, and get 10,000 Evil Points. Steal three kids’ lollipops, and get one point. If I do neither, I lose two points.” “Pah! Do you think I’m an idiot? If I really destroy a town, some epic-level paladin order will inevitably spawn to hunt me down. I’d be in for more trouble than it’s worth. I’d bet 3Votes519.3kRecs609.1kFans
- 29 EN The Real Cthulhu TRPG 真实的克苏鲁跑团游戏 TRPG stands for tabletop role-playing game. Its appeal lies in being able to immerse yourself in a character and, within the rules, shape an open-ended story through your actions and reach different endings. Call of Cthulhu is one major TRPG genre. Players take on the roles of investigators who are just ordinary people, yet must explore mysterious events and face unknown mythos creatures and unknown terrors. There is only one piece of advice here: the less you know, the longer you live. Liu Xing 1Votes214.3kRecs350.7kFans
- 30 The Dawnwatch 守望黎明号 The protagonist is Lu Yuan: Lu as in the mainland, and Yuan as in distant. This is the story of how, relying on the Main God, he transmigrates through different dimensions and ultimately saves the immigrant spaceship Dawn, which is on the verge of destruction. The magnificent fantasy of Baldur's Gate, naval battles for supremacy in the Caribbean, the extraordinarily everyday world of Gensokyo, 0Votes738.5kRecs282.2kFans
- 31 Prison of Heroes 英雄监狱 Some people are destined to meet, even if one is in heaven and the other in hell. Rose Prison, the world’s number-one prison in reality! It holds the most notorious criminals on the planet. What would happen if you led a group like that into a virtual world? Hero Prison, the number-one prison in the virtual world! It holds legendary heroes and monsters: the Harbinger of Doom, the Ancient Demon Emperor, the Troll Chieftain, bounty hunters, and even mighty gods! How powerful would you be with a pr 3Votes487.9kRecs358.3kFans
- 32 Searching for the Lost Ship Girls 寻找走丢的舰娘 Have you ever wondered what happened to your girls after you quit the game for a long time? The port fell apart after its commander left; Hood left with Renown for a distant city, Tirpitz draws doujinshi to make a living, Fletcher works several jobs to support her younger sisters, while the mighty Lord Sukhbaatar, holding a black cat named Oscar in one arm and a ferocious tiger in the other, is at a loss; The little Tirpitz from Children's Day, the young homebody who is still just a child hersel 19Votes1.6MRecs320.2kFans
- 33 EN I Am the Mastermind Behind the Scenes 我是幕后大佬 Lu Wu, who inherited the legacy of an ancient ancestor from another world, has been feeling troubled lately. Aside from the empty title of Prefect, his ancestor left him nothing. Even his former subordinates betrayed him and divided up the territory that should have been his. In this situation, Lu Wu uses an artifact developed by his ancestor to build a game server, bring players from the mortal world into his realm, and create main quests, dungeons, storylines, NPCs, and more. With the players’ 0Votes448.9kRecs658.2kFans
- 34 EN Chronicles of the Old Days 旧日篇章 I exist in darkness, vanish beneath the light, and will one day devour the sun, becoming the shadow of all things... The being known as the indescribable terror of the black; the Lord of Shadows; the Dark Sun; the Shadow of the World is, for now, merely an ordinary person with a few unusual traits, facing a strange game... Naimus transmigrates t 0Votes120.1kRecs212.9kFans
- 35 The Book of Another World 异界之书 Many people believe our universe and world are unique, but that is not the case. On a cosmic scale, the world is made up of many different dimensions. Beyond our reality, countless other dimensional worlds exist. Each world has its own distinct laws and structure. Walls of space and time divide one world from another, keeping worlds governed by different laws from intersecting. Yet through a wondrous form of magic known as summoning, people can bring creatures from other dimensions into the real 0Votes187.8kRecs138.9kFans
- 36 I Am the President of a Virtual Reality Game Company 我是虚拟现实游戏公司总裁 During an interview with reporters from around the world, Li Ang spoke freely: “When I’m out of money, of course I have to make something. If I don’t, I won’t have any money to spend.” “Getting financing? No way. I’ll never do that in this lifetime.” “I don’t know how to go public and cash out, so I can only make this stuff (games) to scrape by. That’s how it is.” “Today’s players are all talented, and they’re so nice to talk to. I love making games for them.” “Going to the game forums feels jus 0Votes274.3kRecs184.3kFans
- 37 The Rise of a Homebody 宅之崛起 New book: I Leveled Up I've dropped too many books. If I drop another, I might never get anything off the ground again. I'll stick with this one to the end, so please give it your support. 0Votes236.4kRecs128.9kFans
- 38 EN A Certain Scientific Naruto 某科学的火影忍者 A certain shut-in received three lottery draws and one chance to transmigrate from a certain shut-in god. With incredible luck, he drew an E-rank skin, an A-rank skill, and an S-rank talent. So, according to the conservation law of “ability and danger level,” he was sent to the Hokage world. Assume that a cell can extract one joule of energy per unit of time, a ninja has 130 trillion cells, and the average mental strength is 100. Assume that each C-rank ninjutsu consumes chakra that can be conve 1Votes273.2kRecs293.5kFans
- 39 Demon-Binding 执魔 My obsession is the light of the world. It will cross the boundary between life and death, shine through the eternal night, and protect you through the dream of reincarnation... 83Votes4.8MRecs568kFans
- 40 EN The Empire of Shilin 希灵帝国 This isn't about imperial conquest, adventures in another world, or leveling up and cultivating. In fact, this is a very serious, proper, and earnest hard science-fiction story about saving the world. Just take it seriously. All right, actually, it's just the hilarious, shameless daily life of a bunch of screwball leaders and a deadbeat head of state saving the world. A slacker shut-in suddenly becomes the head of an empire, while a middle-aged man with a super-dad aura adopts countless little g 40Votes1.1MRecs988.7kFans
- 41 EN Naruto: Card Emperor 火影之卡皇 Li Tong, a world-class magician, was playing a mobile game called Card Emperor when his phone overheated and exploded, killing him by accident. He transmigrated into the world of Hokage, only to discover… Why can I see everyone's name, identity, and reputation? Do enemy ninja drop cards when defeated? Ninjutsu cards! Taijutsu cards! Forbidden technique cards! Secret technique cards! Can you eat the cards? Does eating one grant the corresponding ability? And what are equipment cards? Can defeatin 0Votes279.5kRecs262.5kFans
- 42 The Chronicles of Xu Xian 许仙志 A modern-day good-for-nothing transmigrates as Xu Xian and becomes known as “the greatest talent under heaven” for plagiarizing famous works. While on a diplomatic mission to Japan, he crushes its eight million gods! Beneath the Three Lives Stone, he erases the divide between his past and present lives, uniting the wisdom, memories, and feelings of all three incarnations, along with their harems, and ascends to become a Great Golden Immortal! Xu Xian: “I can’t keep being a pretty boy who holds m 8Votes840.7kRecs570.6kFans
- 43 Rebirth of the Super Battleship 重生之超级战舰 Realizing that Earth was about to be destroyed, Xiao Yu merged his consciousness with the central computer of a spacecraft and escaped before it was too late. After merging with the computer, Xiao Yu gained immense computing power. Alone, he could command a vast fleet in interstellar warfare, control billions of robots to develop a planet, travel the universe by himself, and drive the development of an entire technological civilization. In this boundless universe, among endless seas of stars, Xi 16Votes324.4kRecs502kFans
- 44 Why Did You Summon Me? 你为何召唤我 The souls of 33 top experts are imprisoned in an endless void. The key to their escape, however, lies in the hands of an innocent young girl. To secure their freedom, Bai Yi uses the knowledge and experience of these top experts to give the girl a thorough education. And so begins a delightful, carefree adventure. Verification answer: The Sixteenth Basket of Steamed Buns 0Votes187.9kRecs282.3kFans
- 45 You Can't Afford to Mess with My Guests 我家客人你惹不起 0Votes222.5kRecs259kFans
- 46 A Literary Life 文艺生活 There are two great pitfalls in life: living for others to see, and watching how others live. To avoid falling into them, you have to live as your true self. This is the story of an artsy young man running wild in a parallel world. 0Votes539.2kRecs307.6kFans
- 47 Live-Streaming Wilderness Challenges 直播之荒野挑战 I have walked across the roof of the world, along the frigid ridges of Mount Everest; I have also crossed the dead desert, through the uninhabited regions of the Sahara; I have skydived from an altitude of ten thousand meters, making an extreme precision jump into Swallow Cave; I have even dived into the hundred-meter-deep waters of the Bermuda Triangle and fought sharks on the seafloor! My name is Chen Xu. I am Chinese, the world's most badass wilderness streamer. You can call me Lord Xu. Right 0Votes407.1kRecs597.1kFans
- 48 EN Wizard World 巫师世界 New book: Black Night of Despair. The Strange World: I Alone Am an Immortal. Search for it and give it a read if you’re interested. After transmigrating to another world and becoming an ordinary member of a small clan, he begins his journey to power with a biological chip capable of analysis… 5Votes516.2kRecs486.7kFans
- 49 EN Cultural Invasion of Another World 文化入侵异世界 A group of dragons sat on little stools, staying up day and night to watch Game of Thrones. The elven archdruids were moved to tears by Hachiko: A Dog's Story. Humans and dwarves brawled in the Hearthstone tavern over a legendary card. Even the gods came down to the mortal realm to demand the next installment of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In the end, the archdruids started a business called “One-Click Druid Beatdown,” while goblins and gnomes joined forces to build online stores. A cultu 5Votes1.5MRecs1MFans
- 50 EN Infinite Death 直死无限 “From today onward, you will become an emissary of the Main God in the Main God’s Space, traveling back and forth between world after world in an endless cycle. In return, you will gain things others could never obtain in an entire lifetime.” From the instant those words rang out in Fang Li’s mind, his life was destined to become anything but ordinary... (P.S. I’ve completed two long novels of over five million words each, A Girl’s Great Summoning and All-Round Fantasy. I update reliably, so rea 14Votes1.4MRecs549.4kFans
