The Half-Dead Game: A Battle Royale LitRPG

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Description

39-year-old Manny Okoro is fulfilled.

He’s a family man, an undefeated boxing champion, and has a small yet tight circle of friends.Fame, riches and prestige… He has them all.

Until he doesn’t.

After falling into a coma, he learns the only way he can wake up is by winning the “Half-Dead”, a death game which forces him to reincarnate in a new RPG-like world from scratch.The objective of the game is simple: be the last one standing among 1000 contestants.

The chances of survival are slim and Manny isn’t even familiar with RPGs.However, the boxer is no stranger to competition and is obsessed with winning.

He is prepared to do whatever it takes to get back home...But is that even a good thing?

Release schedule:Monday,Wednesday and Friday.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Olubean

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 549
Views: 102,503

Chapters(35 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

NightslxyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Wouldn't say this has the best plot I've ever read but it is goddamn enjoyable. The fight scenes are fun and interactions realistic, this is such a fun novel with a ending actually in sight instead of this just going on forever. The goals of the mc is obvious right from when he reincarnated into the new world. Overall I would say if you like battle royals and action novels then read this.
RoberthSliRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An isekai story, genre that I usually refuse to read, but I'm glad I gave it a try, the protagonist really wants to return to his original world and has the skill and character needed to do what it takes.
Blood and Bones is what this story has, really the rhythm of the story is fluid, chaguei in the current chapters quickly, with an unparable style, all scenes connect. The fundamentals (bones) are solid, a world in a classic RPG style and a simple and realistic system.
Grammar really isn't me, no, it's me but only in my native language, out she's still learning, I didn't see any mistakes and the reading was nice, 5/5.
The Protagonist really acts like an adult, which is great, has good motivations and everything, cheering for him. His lack of focus on his new family is well received, it shows his determination to come home.
The secondary characters are not so well worked, although this can be solved over time, even so we can distinguish their personalities and modes, since the villains were well done with a realistic motivation, boredom is destructive
TheAbyssStaresBackRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Disclaimer: I am a Beta Reader for this fiction.
What I like most about The Half Dead Game is the main character. Manny Okoro is not the typical goody two-shoes isekai MC. He has a goal, and he's not afraid to get his hands dirty to acheive that goal.
The other aspects of The Half Dead Game are also very good: there are no major grammar issues, the pacing is good, and I'm excited to see where the story goes next.
John Doe 123Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Written at chapter 21, I was a beta-reader for this story.
I am a Dane, and as such being a beta-reader for this story was a wonderful experience because Danes love to complain and I got to read a story and complain a lot directly to the author. Unfortunately, he listened to most of my complaints and improved a lot of things, so I am now left with very little to complain about. I will give it a try anyway to avoid my review being too biased by my very limited involvement with the creation of this story.
The Half-Dead Game is a story about how Manny Okoro enters a coma and gets a chance to recover by winning a benevolent isekai version of the Hunger Games, without the political drama. Benevolent in the sense that the contestants get a chance to win back a life they had lost - the game is still made by powerful entities to watch people murder each other for entertainment. Manny is reborn as Caution Hunt and in order to win The Half-Dead Game (THDG) he has to be resolute in his new life where the goal will justify the means. This balancing act between his two personalities, Manny and Caution, will be challenging for him and I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
Since the chapters of THDG are fairly short, I have only read about 120 pages so far, and because of the short length there are two things that I have yet to be satisfied with.
The first thing is the characters: I am looking forward to seeing the characters be fleshed out further in the future chapters and I deduct half a star just because I don’t think there has been enough yet to warrant the full 5 stars. A good amount of time is spent on introducing the main character, but I want to know more about the five supporting characters that have been introduced by now.
The second thing is the system: THDG is a LitRPG and for me it is important that stories of that genre have well thought out and interesting systems. As is fairly common in LitRPGs, the system has not been fully explored yet, and I deduct half a
DarkCoffeeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Disclaimer: I was asked by the author to read the first 21 chapters of the beta version. This review is based on what I’ve read so far. This is a spoiler free review.
The way the author articulates every fight scene, the universe, the characters, while sprinkling in the odd bit of humour makes The Half Dead Game one of the most interesting novels I've read this month.
You follow the story of Manny Okoro, a 39 year old undefeated boxing champion with a lot of titles to his name and just as much arrogance to his demeanour.
Cocky and full of himself, he’s a polarising character which you will either love or completely despise.
His hunger and laser focus on his sport (professional boxing) is a common attribute seen in real life top performing athletes and combined with the implications this has on his family life contribute in making the overall premise more believable.
Once Manny is part of the new world, the transition and pacing is done extremely well with new laws, magic and monsters introduced.
The only qualm I have so far is the slight lack of world building although I expect this to be added more and more as the chapters progress and we get deeper into the plot.
I’m looking forward to reading more and am very thankful I was selected to be a beta reader.
Brimming with potential!
Wolfie TaylorRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As of this review there are 8 solid, hard hitting chapters. Each chapter is a thread that weaves together a consistent story with strong writing and a strong main character (both physically and mentally). Manny is a well written MC that is easy to root for inside and outside the ring. I'm exicted to keep rooting for him as he continues to fight his way back to his family.
Overall this story seems to beg the question: Does one fight to live or live to fight?
The well written action scenes and the thought of what is going to happen next keeps me clicking for more.
bambacheRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
(I had the opportunity to be a beta reader for the first draft, which currently consists of the prologue and twenty-one chapters.)
As of writing this review, the most recent chapter, Chapter 8 - Challenger, has laid the foundation for everything covered by the synopsis.
Protagonist Manny Okoro, an undefeated tank of a boxing champ, has been forcibly volunteered for an extended battle royale in a LitRPG world, where the last participant standing may recover from being comatose, "half-dead." (Make sure to take care of yourselves! Manny's state snuck up on him shortly after celebrating his retirement match with the people he cared about.) One of the more notable aspects of the contest has the competitors recruited as they were when they feel into their separate comas, but, barring their personalities and knowledge, they will mostly all be starting from scratch once they are delivered into the destination world.
Both Manny and the story are nicely straightforward. The combination of sold narrative, grammar and style nicely establish Manny as a character, with his favorite approach to problems being to face them directly, on his own when he can manage it, thanks to years of being a boxer. Aside from not going to for a full examination at a hospital prior to his recruitment for the titular game, Manny is not "dumb," but he will be challenged by his lack of RPG experience. For Manny's fortune and misfortune, his approach to things will impact some of the choices he has made in the current chapters (especially Chapter 8), as well as his development in the "brave new world" that he ends up in.
I am looking forward to seeing how Manny continues to develop, some of his choices in his second life surprised me in a satisfying way, which helps to give Manny the feeling of being a realistic person, not necessarily stuck to sterotypical tropes. Likewise, some of the people he will find himself spending time with add to the "solid" quality of the story, with various personalities, s
lixaxilRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
It's a nice casual read, MC is slightly brain damaged but that's to be expected from a boxer, right? There is not much worldbuilding or character progression since there are only like 20 chapters but it's still OK. Will come back and update this review when we get to a hundred or so chapters.
KorstRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The author has made a number of edits that vastly improve the story, and keep true to the initial premise. Previously I was fiarly harsh and gave this two stars, but now I can't give it less than four and a half. The only reason I can't give it five stars is because it's still an ongoing series and therefore I can't attest to whether or not the story will be a good one down the line; also the previous version of the story is still rather fresh in my mind. But for where we're at now? Five stars.
We'll have to see if this quality of writing continues into the future.
Below in the spoilered section is my old review; It's mostly irrlevant now.
The story opens with this champion fighter taking on fight against the odd with nothing but grit and his fists. Takes several chapters building on this and then unceremoniously discards it, begins dunking on everything the protagonist has ever believed or fought for and shoves a sword in his hand.
The story set up for a gauntlet fighting badass, and then took that away from the reader. When the protagonist picks a class? Rogue. When the protagonist gets spoken down to about not using a weapon other than his fists? He discards his every belief, picks up a weapon and stops using his fists to fight. It's at that moment the story loses vision, meaning, purpose and for me, interest.
Why set the protagonist up as some dedicated boxing champion who just never gives up, if he's going to give up on something because someone who was stronger than him told him punching people was useless? Especially when the protagonist had been finding a great deal of success fighting people on their level with his fists? It's pointless, there's no internal conflict, just someone giving up.
Then there was the initial tournament where the protagonist earned all this 'dark energy' stuff. Spoilers, he can't use it and it's worse than worthless. When he learns how to use it, it makes mosnter he's fighting stronger and he can't even stop using it without getting
MaladyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
What to say that's not a spoiler. Manny is a very focused protagonist. But still has morals and stuff.
He's so focused, that it's not really Exciting, but it is interesting to get into his mindset. I just like my players to be more energetic.
Although, I guess it makes sense. If he got too much excitement right now, he'd probably lose.
Also, the makers of the game aren't perfect. There's still a few kinks to be worked out. They're a long way off from being revealed. Most of the kinks being due to how Manny's the only one that's gotten past Round 3 of the Minigame. But the reveal of what the kinks are, are a long way out, as I said.