“Veteran death-game player Yuuki aims for 99 wins while protecting rookie maids in a murder-filled manor.”
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
死亡遊戯で飯を食う。
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Synopsis
Veteran death-game player Yuuki aims for 99 wins while protecting rookie maids in a murder-filled manor.
When Yuuki wakes up in an unfamiliar manor wearing a maid uniform, she recognizes this as the start of a new death game. After assessing the situation, Yuuki begins to wander before discovering a room with five other maids. Each one is visibly anxious, and she learns from them that they are all new players who joined this lethal game for the prize money. But Yuuki is different: she is a death game veteran whose only goal is to achieve 99 consecutive wins. Tasked with navigating a manor filled with countless instruments of murder, Yuuki takes point as the only experienced player in an environment that is designed to actively work against her. Despite this, she is determined to reach the end of the game with as many people as possible—if it coincides with her final goal.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
What 4 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 3.34 · split reception
7.7 pts
Recommenders 9.7 · others 2.0
↑ 5.75
Running avg · Apr 2025 → Dec 2025
- 9 “It's a thrilling series with lots of action. The world setting may be weird, but the games themselves are quite interesting. The way they deal with battle royales, like each one of them, is just a...”
- 10 “This might unironically be one of the best light novels of its genre. This deserves a 10/10. It's thrilling and unique in multiple different ways. Most death games kill characters for shock. This...”
- 10 “Shiboyugi has a very unorthodox premise: its protagonist, Yuki, wishes to beat 99 death games. The core appeal of the series lies in how fast it mills through the games and its characters, with...”
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Nov 2022 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M69899 catalog