Until Dawn

The year is 2117, and full-sensory virtual reality games have become wildly popular around the world. A company called DREAM has released the first sleep game, Until Dawn. Its selling points are its lifelike horror, brain-teasing challenges, and minimal impact on the time players spend in the real world. It has become the most famous game of the 32nd century, with roughly one in every ten people playing it.

Our protagonist, Zhang Jiahao, is an experienced writer who spends his spare time gaming with two friends. Of course, as the protagonist, he has no plot armor whatsoever and gets absolutely wrecked by the game. But he is pretty smart and has a great sense of humor. Even when the atmosphere gets terrifying, he often gets his teammates so sidetracked that they forget they are playing a horror puzzle game.