Kono Sekai ga Game da to, Ore dake ga Shitte Iru (LN)

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One day, a “loner” gamer, Souma Sagara, enters the world of an infamous game filled with bugs. In the world of this game with a nickname that seems to exemplify “unreasonableness” and “the ill will of the producers”, Nekomimineko, Souma begins his adventure, exploiting bugs and using the game’s tricks against itself.

Associated Names
One entry per line
Kono Sekai ga Game da to, Ore dake ga Shitteiru
This World Is a Game, but Only I Know It
この世界がゲームだと俺だけが知っている
只有我知道这个世界是个游戏
Related Series
Kono Sekai ga Game da to, Ore dake ga Shitte Iru (WN) (Web Novel)
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Latest Release

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05/20/21 Clown World Translations v3c4 part6
05/20/21 Clown World Translations v3c4 part5
05/20/21 Clown World Translations v3c4 part4
01/06/21 Clown World Translations v3c4 part3
01/06/21 Clown World Translations v3c4 part2
01/05/21 Clown World Translations v3c4 part1
05/28/20 Clown World Translations v3c3 part2
04/10/20 Clown World Translations v3c3 part1
03/24/20 Clown World Translations v3c2 part3
03/24/20 Clown World Translations v3c2 part2
03/24/20 Clown World Translations v3c2 part1
03/24/20 Clown World Translations v3c1 part5
03/23/20 Clown World Translations v3c1 part4
03/23/20 Clown World Translations v3c1 part3
08/08/19 Clown World Translations v3c1 part2
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GilliamYaeger
GilliamYaeger rated it
February 15, 2016
Status: --
This is not a story about a guy trapped in a game world.

Well, it is I suppose it is. But thats not the point.

What it’s really about is New Communicate Online, the buggiest, most sadistic singleplayer VRMMO known to man. Come, marvel at the legend of the Master Torch and its Underground Dojo. Learn why repeatedly slamming your head into a wall at breakneck speeds is the true path to power. Weep at the tragic fate of the Armor Knights of the Cave of Trials. And fall in love with... more>> the greatest, most lovingly modelled cat ears in all of gaming.

Basically, its a glitch speedrun in novel form. And its amazing.

The non-glitch related parts are quite good, too, which doesn’t hurt. <<less
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ninthlite
ninthlite rated it
June 20, 2016
Status: --
A comedic spin on transported to game world fad. The novel satirizes the illogical nature of games, and the fact a game would never work as a real world due to the limitations of games. The main character is brought into a fantasy world that highly resembles a game that he is addicted to. The game was created by heavily flawed developers that loved to abuse their customers, and focused heavily on their fetishes while ignoring glaring bugs in the game. Its funny.

I don't reccomend picking it up, its... more>> being translated far too slowly. I hope the translator would drop the novel so someone else could actually pick it up and give it a decent job. Its taken three years to not even translate two volumes, at this rate we are looking to spend fifteen years to wait for the whole thing to be fully translated. <<less
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spotmarkedx
spotmarkedx rated it
January 26, 2016
Status: --
Things I like about the series:

While the setting overall is fairly standard (MC transported into a game world), the execution on this concept is great. The MC is in some ways OP, since he has a complete understanding of the world mechanics while those living in the world do not. However, the author does a spectacular job keeping the tension of the world high by making the setting a place filled with a multitude of ludicrous bugs, odd quests, and exploits. My summary of the setting doesn’t do it justice.... more>> Each new situation is made interesting, especially as the MC’s actions are pretty silly to a common person, since he is abusing bugs and exploits. The contrast between the MC’s thoughts, the game-world character’s thoughts, and the background information on the prior game world really does make for an interesting read.

The NPC (s) (which is so far mostly the first heroine) also so far well written. They have distinctive traits left over from the game world to start, but as time goes on, the character is getting fleshed out more and more as the story progresses.

Things I don’t like about this series:

So far, I haven’t run into any complaints (at the time of the writing of this review, up to V1c5 was released).

Overall Evaluation:

Read this. Especially if you have interest in reincarnation / gameworld stories, or just interest in humorous stories overall. <<less
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Zyst
Zyst rated it
May 3, 2017
Status: v2c3 extra
The description made me skeptical as hell. Oh, a buggy game and our main character is there. You're just trying to say this guy is a cheat aren't you?!

I was wrong, I am glad I was wrong. It's hard to explain the charm of the novel, but it's straight up a sh*t game. The main character gets transported, and you go through this super veteran attempt to play through in a completely unreasonable game.

The side characters are well developed and cute as f*ck, the main character is interesting, the broken-as-f*ck... more>> setting is lovingly crafted. Even if you don't normally like VRMMO/Transmigrated to video game world settings

I would still recommend this.

Seriously, give it a shot. <<less
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cheongzewei
cheongzewei rated it
January 5, 2019
Status: v2
I really like this novel as it's very realistic to how players would play a game.

It's very rare to find a concept of a broken game where bugs are abused, and Nekomimineko is a game with a community around it that despairs, laughs, and celebrates the good and bad in the MMORPG world.

Filled with gags and with some nice improvements over characterization, Kono Sekai Ga game is worth reading
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Aho555
Aho555 rated it
May 21, 2017
Status: c120
This is really good, really enjoyable read.

Pros:

-Unique setting of MC exploiting the game (now real) world's bugs and knowledge of future events, in order to become powerful

... more>> -However, he still has to work hard to win his fights (most of them, lol)

-Lots of humor; after all the game world was created by a crappy developer that furthermore likes to make life difficult for its players

-Very well fleshed out world, especially describing the changes when game world and NPCs become real people

-Supported by well developed relationships with side characters/heroines

Cons:

-Can't think of much; maybe lack of introspective moments for the MC as the plot doesn't stop moving? This is more of a nitpick though considering this is a comedic story. Anyway, there's enough serious bits to make the characters feel real. <<less
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slay_mithos
slay_mithos rated it
September 18, 2016
Status: v1c1
I really didn't manage to get into this story at all.

It's not that the story is terrible, or that the writing or translation would make it unreadable, it's fine on those points.

It's just that the flow, the descriptions and explanations, everything is just "this world is a game I already know".

... more>> The premise might sound interesting, but sadly the author forgot to make the NPCs into proper living beings, so the whole world feels dead from the very start, and we are left a story that's not really that catching.

It might have worked if the author had made us discover the quests and bugs along with the story, but we are introduced with quite a lot of the "bugs" and "quests" right from the start, without the character actually encountering most of it, making all of it even more artificial.

That said, as the writing isn't that bad, and the translation correct, it's ok to give it a go. Just remember, each "chapter" is really long, so don't think "meh, parts for each chapter, lazy translator". <<less
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DaDeDiDoDu
DaDeDiDoDu rated it
July 14, 2018
Status: v2c2
This novel is good. And considering the great majority of Japanese webnovels, that puts this novel on the 99th percentile.

There's nothing complicated to say here. It's simply entertaining to read. That's it. You want a decent Japanese novel for a quick read, something that's.... I don't know, not s*upid?

Well here you are. Start reading.
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MelReinH
MelReinH rated it
May 20, 2018
Status: c200
It's real good. Funny too.

I couldn't wait for the Light novel translations and read a really crummy Google Translate of the original web novel. Regardless of the gross quality, I still managed to pull out the gist of the events that happen. I'm nothing more than hyped for the reveal of, and return of, various characters. Anyways, onto the review!

It's a rather unique spin on the typical "isekai/game-world" trope, since the game-world our unfortunate protagonist, Souma, gets stuck in just so happens to be the world's buggiest VR game created,... more>> New Communication Online, which so happens to be a single player game... because the development team found creating a VRMMO to be too much of a hassle.

On the bright side, our protagonist knows basically everything there is to know about the game. The reason he got sent to this game-like-world in the first place was because of his addiction to it. While Souma provides various explanations of how skills work, and why some bugs exist, I found it incredibly entertaining to read. Rather, I was always thirsting to find out more about the world known as Nekomimineko, and the characters and "features" that inhabit it.

If it wasn't obvious enough. This is a comedy. The author will subvert what appeals to be "dramatic" into something comedic, basically making everything feel rather anticlimactic. I will say, this process is repeated quite a few times, even in the web novel. Despite this "rinse and repeat, " I still find much entertainment from it, even if I started thinking to myself, "what kind of bug will he exploit now?" There will be some genuinely "dramatic" moments without subversion, but those rarely appear. I think this has only occurred probably twice in the course of the web novel.

In conclusion, I find this to be a "Konosuba" of the Trapped-in-a-Game genre. The world is incredibly strange, and character interactions within that world make it funny. <<less
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thenewattacker
thenewattacker rated it
September 12, 2017
Status: v2c2 part1
The synopsis and initial setting are generic. However, the skills of the author allowed for a fun adventure. By reading the story, I believe that the author has had experience with RPGs before. The author describes in detail: the effects/bugs of skills, the consequences of said skills, the bad end of events, the player-abused exploits, and, most importantly, the perspective/reaction/actions of the general NekomimiNeko populous. The author stays true to the rules/boundaries that he set out even though he has used the fact that 'the world is no longer a... more>> game' to squirm his way around certain limitations like pre-programmed lines and invisible walls. He's also an adept user of the concept known as Chekhov's gun.

The audience that would best enjoy this story would be RPG players (Divinity: Original Sin 2) that enjoy the hilarity of watching videos of people messing around with bugs. This novel is similar in that the audience is reading about the hijinks that occur to our MC within this buggy world.

One doubt that I've had in my mind is about the shitty events. It has been described that there are many unsuspecting events in which if completed, the story becomes insane if not completely impossible to complete. However, while such broken events have been described in high detail, such GG events have not happened to the MC yet (though he has encountered his share of headache-inducing events). However, if I think about it from a narrative standpoint, once such an event occurs, then this story will basically end right there. Thus, I've come to rationalize that once the MC detects the possibility of such an event in the horizon, he'll do everything in his power to skirt around the event instead of overcoming it (which is fine by me). He's used such a principle when dealing with psychotic, narcissistic, or just crazy NPCs.

All in all, what I've read is great and I have faith in the author that the story will continue to be great.

P.S. I had a great time when I imagine this game as a trolly D&D campaign. <<less
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Tenome
Tenome rated it
March 4, 2023
Status: v2c4
This series is a decent, funny idea held back by poor execution due to the writer's amateur ability. The concept and humorous moments itself hit pretty well, but the problem with this novel is that the author insists on long, drawn-out, repetitive explanations of the titular game's buggy mechanics. The Golden Zlime chapter is a good example of this, because he explains how the Extermination Fest works multiple times in a row, repeating the exact same sentence but worded differently, for almost an entire page. This is fine the first... more>> few times, but eventually it becomes overbearing to the point where 70% of each chapter is explaining a bug, and how he's going to exploit it. I don't know if this is the author trying to pad out the novel, or just his lack of experience, but the novel really suffers for it. I had to drop it. Whoever the editor was that got hired for this LN needs to be fired, because they're supposed to trim the this kind of fat off the WNs during their LN publication.

There's a manga that's being scanlated (albeit with a mediocre translation, possibly machine translated, don't remember) that I recommend reading instead if the idea here interests you. It has a much better pacing, and the comedy hits better due to it. <<less
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