Sunny Days Endless Hell [Progression, LitRPG, Sysapocalypse!]

Self-Published

Community Rating

Description

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

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2026
Author: Zarinthel

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 438
Views: 41,614

Chapters(36 total)

What readers say about Sunny Days Endless Hell [Progression, LitRPG, Sysapocalypse!]

“Every single character of yours is a new treat to dissect. I adore all of them. Trying to get into theirs heads and working backwards from what they say or the narration is so so rewarding. Excited for the prospects of more favourites and untangling specifi…”
SubjectiveRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Zarinthel writing some nice stories with interesting characters as usual. I'm glad they've decided to turn their sights onto an original story, especially one that tackles such a niche premise in a unusual manner with characters you wouldn't typically expec…”
JeffersonSighsRoyal Road5.0 / 5

Reviews

No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!

Community Reviews(10)

SubjectiveRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Every single character of yours is a new treat to dissect. I adore all of them. Trying to get into theirs heads and working backwards from what they say or the narration is so so rewarding. Excited for the prospects of more favourites and untangling specific backstories and traumas. I'm on my second read through now but this is one to reread over and over I think.
JeffersonSighsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Zarinthel writing some nice stories with interesting characters as usual. I'm glad they've decided to turn their sights onto an original story, especially one that tackles such a niche premise in a unusual manner with characters you wouldn't typically expect. Excited to see where the story goes, and how the protagonist is going to handle this strange world with her comrades (?).
MaliesasrtRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A great start by a wonderful author. Have recently been following the writers works and have not been disappointed so far. The characters in the story are the highlight by far. The protagonist has a certain callousness that somehow comes off like a type of charisma and the way she bounces off the other characters is great. The worldbuilding is shaping up to be nice as well never managing to be too on the nose or direct.
NordlendingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Zarinthel is someone I have a high trust in based on their previous work, and this story does not disappoint.
I adore the characters they have created, and their interactions and conversation feels real in a way I don't often see in fiction.
This is something I recommend people should read. It is something fresh and different from the usual fare of generic litrpg/fantasy often found on Royal Road.
drake_azathothRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I have to say, one thing that does annoy me about the typical apocalypse stories is that they tend to gravitate to either overpowered MCs 'working' for omnipotence but really crushing everything in front of them... Or worse, misery porn that's just not fun to read.This is some bleak stuff, but it never pushes the line into outright despair, and there's something really gratifying about a main character who is petty and stubborn and just kind of pushing through the horror because that's what she's been doing in customer service for years.The worldbuilding is also looking pretty good so far with the mutation thing.
AbdirahRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I went into Sunny Days: Endless Hell expecting another system apocalypse with the usual beats, and what I got instead was something that feels much more intimate and uncomfortable in a good way. This isn’t a story that rushes to make the end of the world feel epic. It makes it feel annoying, terrifying, and exhausting like the worst possible escalation of an already bad life.What really sold me was the protagonist’s mindset. Zan doesn’t feel like she was written to be impressive. She feels like someone who’s already burnt out before the apocalypse even starts, which makes her reactions hit harder. There’s no dramatic “this is my destiny” moment it’s more like, of course this would happen today. That constant undercurrent of irritation, sarcasm, and quiet panic gives the story a voice that feels honest rather than heroic.The system itself is where the story really takes a risk, and I appreciated that it commits. Forcing someone to engage with something as corporate, artificial, and absurd as game design while the world is collapsing is cruel in a very specific way. It turns survival into bureaucracy. Instead of empowerment, the system feels like another entity demanding productivity no matter how bad things get, and that irony adds a layer of commentary that a lot of LitRPG stories don’t even try to touch.The pacing is slower and more thoughtful than I expected. The story spends time sitting in moments — the fear, the confusion, the small decisions that don’t feel important until you realize they’re life-or-death. It’s not constantly chasing action, and because of that, when things do go wrong, they feel heavier. You get the sense that every step forward costs something, even if it’s just a little more of Zan’s emotional bandwidth.Tonally, the novel balances bleakness with dry humor really well. It never turns the apocalypse into a joke, but it lets the absurdity leak through naturally. That contrast mutated horrors on one side, system pop-ups and deadlines on the ot
DeathbunniesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Been following Zarinthel for years at this point, so far a great start to his first original story! Main character seems like they have an interesting back story from the bits we've seen so far, and the world that is being built is right up my alley. Can't wait for more of this to be out.
A. D. PrattRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Style: the style of the writing felt very personal to the character, which I liked a lot. It felt like the prose was actually a representation of Zan's personality--perfect for character development. I especially liked the part where she was convinced she was hallucinating; the prose there felt very clear, like it was coming from her.
Story: the concept of a video game was extremely interesting, and I liked the rules and consequences. That said, she seemed to accept her hallucination abnormally quickly. I think it would have been a bit more realistic to have some extra "am I crazy" moments in between. I did really like the apocalypse vibe at the beginning; that was super engaging.
Character: I liked the MC and her recruit, although there could have been more stuff weaved in to show what makes them unique. The thing about her ex was very engaging though, and I became invested in learning her backstory.
Grammar: Pretty much fine. No mistakes except for some tense inconsistencies--sometimes present, sometimes past, etc. The prose was almost always perfectly clean and crisp. No major issues 😎
overall, this was a really great story! I totally recommend giving this a read.
MbwakaliRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
When I was 23 a mate gave me a book to read. And it was amazing, best dam book I ever read. So I asked for more... I consumed book after book and reached the end of the second series.
And When I asked for the next book my mate told me Rodger Zelazny died before he wrote the third series, then he laughed.
Every thing Zarinthel writes makes me member the day I found out Rodger Zelazny was dead.
Kinda morbid, but ya gotta take the vibes when you find them.
Every thing this author writes is worth reading
WightmageRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I would say that this story started a little rough for me at first, but it smooths itself out relatively quickly at the time of reading it. The overall dynamic of the main group has been the appeal to me so far, and it's felt like the strongest part of this story.
Very excited to read some more!