Zhou You originally thought his life would be utterly ordinary.

An ordinary birth, an ordinary upbringing, ordinary studies… and then an utterly ordinary death from a terminal illness.

Until he came across an equally plain-looking black book.

From then on, “ordinary” stepped into the realm of the “extraordinary.”

The inescapable Building No. 4, the eerie old street, the Flesh Abomination singing the Ascension Opera, indescribable resurrected beings…

Each script is a profound nightmare, yet every nightmare is also a chance at survival…

The candlelight flares, illuminating a tiny temple. The grotesque descends, and the curtain of the story rises once more.

—So then, welcome to the Grotesque Game!

[Romantic Daily Life] [Harem] [System Panel] [Power Fantasy] [Suspense Elements]

This is Tokyo, an international metropolis. Behind its bustling facade, as countless people drift off to sleep each night, human fears intertwine, coalescing in the city’s dark underside into a catastrophic alternate world.

This world is called Yūmei, where skeletons pile like mountains, bones form endless forests, and a sea of blood roils eternally.

...

“Kurusu Akira, male, 2nd year, Class A, Tsuki no Shima High School.”

“A top-performing ordinary high school student.”

The hunters glare at the boy standing calmly in the middle of the battlefield, effortlessly tearing demons to shreds, and curse aloud:

“Are you seriously calling that ordinary?!”

This is a Tokyo Strange Tale of “attending school, working part-time, and dating during the day, while turning into a demon hunter at night, slipping through shadows and wading through blood.”

Every night at midnight, Kurusu Akira descends into Yūmei, joining all of Tokyo’s demon hunters in sweeping away the frenzied demons of hell.

He believes that the demons of Tokyo will never shed tears.

And so—

He begins to ravage Yūmei.

This is an era of infinite possibilities, steam and steel, gears and clockwork. Steam power and differential engines symbolize the infinite future of human civilization. However, no one noticed that under the haze of steam and in the shadow of steel, the dark, mysterious mystery has never left. And a traveler from a foreign land will unveil the mysterious veil in this turbulent, free and dreamy world, and write his own history and legend

Lin Lan traveled to another world and became an insignificant little lord.

At first, he just wanted to make a living by picking up garbage with the help of his golden finger, until a strange natural disaster struck the earth, revealing the unknown secrets of history to him.

The starry sky is a lie and the sea is an illusion.

The pioneers sleep in the darkness, and the end of the world has already sounded the horn to swallow everything.

In this last train of civilization leading to extinction, history always spirals downward uncontrollably, and people who are addicted to beautiful dreams are reluctant to open their eyes.

Lin Lan helplessly realized that she could no longer continue to be a slacker.

So from that year on, an immortal mad lord emerged in the prosperous Age of Exploration.

He is mysterious, powerful, crazy, and rebellious. The truth of artillery he grasps makes everyone...

[Talent][Survival at Sea][Special Ships][Sequence][Cthulhu] On this treacherous and terrifying boundless sea, a lucky few possess special ships. For example, there's the Devourer, capable of absorbing the abilities of other ships. Then there's the Adventurer, with its keen sense of treasure, its giant compass exploring the secrets of the ocean. And there's the Alliance of research ships that firmly believe in the fragility of flesh and the ascension of machinery. But Shen Bai, arriving on this ocean, is almost in despair. The good news is, he's lucky; his ship is special. The bad news is, the ship is broken! Fortunately, Shen Bai finds his second talent in a treasure chest—a talent that allows him to extract tags from his body and resynthesize them based on different characteristics! Shen Bai's imagination runs wild with different characteristics and talents! [Characteristics...]

[Werewolf-like + Text Adventure + All-People + Apocalypse] A mysterious text adventure game – "Embers" – is quietly circulating among players. They discover that the items and abilities obtained in the game can actually materialize in reality. People rush into it like sparks, unaware that in the end, only embers remain. ----------------- [Current Version: Ver_0.37.] [Detailed rules for the current version "Embers Rekindled" are as follows:] [1. This is a beta version; the passage to the Radiant Continent has not yet been opened.] [2. The guiding lighthouse has not yet been built; players cannot be resurrected after death.] [3. This version offers beta players benefits, increasing the number of fixed identities to 3. Players are encouraged to fix their identities as soon as possible.] [4. Version update information will be announced the first time the game is opened each day...]

(The rating has just been released and will increase later.)

[Dark Wizard + Genius + Undead Side + Decisive and Ruthless + Dimensional Warfare + Slow Start]

Lynn, who is terminally ill, does not understand why she was thrown into this cruel alien world.

Mother Earth generously granted him the ability to record and analyze (Xiao Kai doesn't count as Kai).

But facing a disastrous start—falling into the clutches of the mafia and about to be sold into the "Nightingale Pavilion"—[the situation is dire].

Lynn decisively chose "If you can't beat them, join them!"

From then on, the "Bloody Hands Gang" gained another notorious member, "Abacus Snake".

He originally thought he could accumulate start-up capital by leveraging the convenience provided by the gang.

But an unexpected turn of events disrupted his plans.

What? A wizard? Recruiting apprentices?

Great news! We can become noble mages too?

What the heck? A dark wizard?

...

The whispers of the old gods enveloped the entire continent, potions flowed quietly in dark alleys, and the shadow of a dragon passed over the steam-filled city dome. A stranger was reborn as the most humble being in this world—a gray mouse. However, he started from the dark sewers, step by step farming, infrastructure construction, alliances with foreign races, and deciphering lost runes. The roar of steam resonated with the whispers of magic, the gears turned, and the dragon flapped its wings. He transformed into the "Sherlock Holmes" detective who had never appeared before, weaving an underground network that spanned races and classes, vowing to break the oppression of theocracy and use the power of machinery, magic, and faith to create a new era of civilization for all intelligent creatures, sharing, and co-governance. ——When he first stepped into this world, Lu Ran had only one self-deprecating sentence: "I, Mouse, am going to die this time..."

[Giant Turtle Lord] [Ocean Survival] [Farming and Development] [Stockpiling Supplies] Start with a turtle, and all supplies must be scavenged! Waking up, everyone finds themselves adrift in an endless sea, beset by endless days, torrential rains, hailstorms, hurricanes, and all sorts of disasters. In this perilous world, Chen Yu unexpectedly obtains a divination turtle shell, casting a daily divination to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune! Scavenging, stockpiling supplies, expanding his turtle island, and fighting natural disasters—watch as he transforms a bare turtle shell into a mobile war fortress that conquers the ocean!