Play Test: Stuck in Another World as a Reality TV Contestant

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Description

|R18+| Welcome to SkinDimensional's hottest new reality show! This season we've scattered a group of ordinary human role-playing game enthusiasts across a unique world of supernatural horror, filled martial arts, monsters, and sexy mayhem. If they ever want to get home, they'll have to play along with our naughty little game! Follow our hero, James Li, as he dives into the grim underworld to grow stronger and make a name for himself. Does he have what it takes to reunite with his friends?

This story is equal parts martial arts comedy harem romance and supernatural urban horror thriller, with plenty of erotica throughout. I promise it works. You can expect all of the many genres to be the tone/mood at some point in this story. Currently, the love scenes have all been very romantic and fairly vanilla, though things will get freakier as the story progresses.

You can expect:

- Male protagonist focus with occasional Interludes from other perspectives

- Genuine romance between the MC and the women in his life

- Slow corruption of moral standards, and a kind of gradual, creeping horror, like faces in the corner of the room at night that only grow more distinct as your eyes adjust to the light

- Comedy and hijinks!

There are character images and more on myPatreon.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Spessgot

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 1,862
Views: 639,383

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Community Reviews(10)

vilelittletrollRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've read this story from start to finish twice at this point. Where to start? This author is incredibly creative. There's just no other character like James Li out there. The blithe confidence, the stunning lack of angst despite an unconventional childhood and a harsh world... it's just so refreshing to read a character who is for the most part dumb, pretty, and happy, but also well written, with depth and layers. The setting is fantastic and has a lot of places it could go. The litrpg system is detailed and clever, a satisfying mix of novel mechanics and constant advancement in loot and exp. It's smut for sure, and you can tell that the author is just trying things out sometimes, but it adds up to a fun story in a fun setting. I don't think there is any other story anything like this one.
DCatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Its a DnD meets Isekai story.
The writing is excellent, the explanation for the dice system is all iclusive and not dnd exclusive so everybody can understand it regardless if they've encounteted something like it in the past or not.
The chapters are quite long making each chapter very satisfying. Introduced Characters are 3d with their own personalities; and the 2d characters seem to play their role well although they may develop more as the story grows.
Now the smut is just delicious and incorporated smoothly into the story itself.
Only downside is there have been no updates since the first successive posting. Hopefully there will be more in the future.
Ratings
Style - Not much to say about technique. Its a stunning display of show and tell. Now for litrpg; no blue boxes for the numbers. Its just pure, beautiful, writing. Altho we may need a list down the line for what each player has and what they do.
Story - Everything's been engaging so far. My only gripe would be the players not taking things more seriously while they were talking with the admin. Tho that delves more into their character than story flaw.
Grammar - 10/10.
Character - Already said this earlier, but the characters who are meant to stay around are three dimensional while those who seemed to only be there for a few lines or paragraphs played their role well, with a possibility of character growth on future chapters.
Overall Ten out of Ten
Daniel14541Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Such an amazing original story! I look forward to anything you care to grace us with in the future. Here or in other works. A well thought out game system that I would dearly love to have a bit more fleshed out so that others might be able to use it consider how well your using it to craft your story! The main characters can grow at whatever speed you need for the story.
BladeBriarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A really well written and well thought out romp. Both the smut and the action are well written, interesting to read, and have well done in universe explanations.
If you like neither sex scenes nor battle scenes, you should probably give this one a miss, but if you are at least ok with both, it is well worth a read. My only minor complaint is that it feels much better to binge than to follow chapter by chapter. Because there is a split between sex, action, and the life that goes on in between, reading just one chapter can feel like you are missing ingredients from a recipe. Much better to binge multiple chapters where you can get a good balance of everything.
DressedUpToPartyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Sometimes I read stories written on this site and I think to myself "Wow this person is a really good writer!" and then I immediately follow it up with "and the story they chose to write is *this*?"
Which is to say that I'm not sure anybody else has married straight up smut to a kung-fu/dicerpg/cultivation story quite in this manner. It's really quite good - the characters all have distinct voices, inner lives, personalities, the whole nine yards that you would want from a published story. On top of that, the grammar is excellent, the story moves pretty fluidly (though I think the first 5-6 chapters do take a little bit of elbow grease to get into), and the overarching plot exists which is already rarity for web serials.
I don't really have much bad to say here - I think this story is underappreciated, and a lot of that probably has to do with the explicit adult content. But beyond that, you could take out all of the smut and you'd still be left with a really really great kung fu/urban magic story. Not that I'd want that - this whole thing works because it's a harmonious whole, but it speaks to the type of quality this author has provided.
Anyway, unless you're really on the fence about explicit sex scenes and the like, you should really just read this because all of the rpg/action/cultivation/progression tropes and themes are about as good as you can find on this site, and if you put everything together, it's an excellent piece of fiction.
Duquette7Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story hits me right in the nostalgia, blending 90's era martial arts high wire action comedy with modern Litrpg progression, and it is glorious.
The characterization is superb, the Litrpg System is fun and engaging, and the setting is both delightfully touched with nostalgia, as well as being remarkably fresh and engaging.
EmpireofTrustRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I hesitate to write anything here but this is a well written, witty and titillating piece of smut.
It is not meant to be realistic or socially correct and the feats point how very taboo things are going to be, the MC is going to get himself into increasingly more risquè situations through a snowball of passive abilities.
Hopefully the MC can keep himself from being a slave owning murder hobo but that might be difficult with the producers and script writers making things interesting.
Gomilol06Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Style: Personally I'm not a native English speaker, so I've recurred to Google on several occasions to look up words, so you can expect a... High level of English? (Never a bad thing). The story is rich with culture (author knows his stuff) and backstory for mostly everything -even in the parts where most authors gloss over and deem nonimportant- to truly show how the character knows the city since young, contribute to the world building, and build the setting and ambience in your head. This might sound like it's "too" detailed, but it doesn't really feel like it, since these too are filled with twinges of the characters personality, which I'm sure you'll grow to love. (Peak comedy, peak character personality). There's also a... Dice fighting mechanic which ain't explained till later? It's cool, and the stats and abilities don't feel so... Ah... Repetitive? Meaningless? Tedious? I'm tires of those, haven't grown tired of these.
Story: For anyone disappointed with the usual lit-rpg tropes who don't seem to go anywhere, you'll find this to be a breath of fresh air. The direction of the story is stated from chapter 1 (or the sinopsis?) and yet, the events that unfold in the search for that goal are far from predictable, pretty original, and damn entertaining. It takes a huge focus on character interactions, getting to know the characters, and unlike usual harems- make them feel like human beings. This story will be filled with both action, and the other type of action (7u7), slice of life, aaaaand world building is REALLY well paced. Well, the second not that much for now, but honestly? I don't even care about that anymore. Came for the R-18, stayed for the story.
Grammar: Don't know what this should cover... No mistakes, perfectly understandable?
Character: I genuinely think this has come to be the story with most impressively written interactions I've ever come to read, involving a vast variety of emotions and bits, ranging from comedy (mostly comedy, let's goooo) to
Jamie BrewerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm not someone who loves sex scenes, but this book is good even if you skim them.
Pure power fantasy, but with a progression edge that goes 'what if you were an action movie protagonist, but as a reality TV show with an xp system'. Explicit, funny, and one of those works you can read to relax instead of having to think hard.
A well written, thought out action-movie type adventure playing with cultivation tropes, marital arts movie tropes, crime movie tropes, a litRPG setting - the mix feels both chaotic and it all works well together.
If the frantic pace and high quality writing can be held on through to the end, this will be an incredible novel.
ScarhandRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Clearly the best martial arts/anime/lovecraftian horror/cyberpunk/sex comedy I've read all week. I don't usually like spice in my fiction but the characters, world building and general insanity has cost me a lot of sleep as I've binged this the last couple of days. Well done, highly recommended. (Validation error, more words?)