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by Zarinthel
In the midst of the apocalypse, the most dangerous thing is still her corporate deadline. Blood still splattered everywhere from killing her first mutant zombie, Zan Xinyi becomes the unwilling host to her very own system: The #1 Gacha Game System. It doesn’t care that the world has ended. It doesn’t care that the potential playerbase has largely begun to thirst for blood and flesh above shiny new character banners. There’s no stat boosts. No easy points. The system is a game development system, and it’s bent on its own goal without a single care for the current circumstances-- Zan Xinyi must develop the number 1 gacha game in the world, or die as she misses her deadlines. And there’s one more thing it didn’t tell her...her own, gacha gifted powers are based on the first character she ever created for the game, the Witch. While everyone else hunts zombie cores, she relies on a broom running on sparkle power! With the amount of instruction she's given, she spends more time hitting things with the broom than ever casting spells. Still, it's not enough. Because it’s not enough for Zan Xinyi to fight her way through the zombie horde. It’s not enough to scavenge the ruins of a newly bygone era. In a crumbling world, she’s got to recruit, reconnect, and keep enough of civilization alive so that they can do the one thing she needs above all else: They need to play her game. The reviews are in. "Darkly hilarious." "A fun, gritty apocalypse." "A mix of whimsy and dry humour!" Updates Wed/Sat What to Expect -No Romance (The female lead will slowly recruit members of her game studio over time. Think One Piece, except she's looking for game studio members instead of pirates.) -Base-building and Faction-building -Slice of Life elements, a tightly knit cast of characters -Gacha Game Design! -A System without Stats
Current
7/4/2026
Peak #47
0d
#8
6/8/2026
Peak #29
0d
#7
3/9/2026
Peak #43
2d
#6
3/4/2026
Peak #46
1d
#5
3/4/2026
Peak #50
0d
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#4389 of 13,558 · 4339 below #50
By genre
beats 47% of similar stories
beats 77% of similar stories
beats 84% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
At this conversion, the Psychological Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 616 views/day — the story currently gets ~564.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.