3.95 avg rating — 61,067 ratings

"The defining story!"

3.89 avg rating — 164,534 ratings

"Ben has to run for his life from hunters on a game show to earn money for his family."

4.35 avg rating — 9,841,004 ratings

"A corrupt government keeps the populace placated by taking "only" two children from each district and pitting them against each other, with the last one alive winning a cushy life."

4.26 avg rating — 85,226 ratings

"A cruel authoritarian program pits junior high students against each other so only one is allowed to live."

3.79 avg rating — 280 ratings

"Twelve families with Zodiac themes send their representative fighter to an event once every twelve years, where they fight to the last one standing while gamblers bet on who will win. The survivor gets any wish granted."

4.02 avg rating — 83 ratings

"Evade killers on live television to win fabulous prizes!"

3.81 avg rating — 2,685 ratings

"Thirteen (suicidal) contestants are chosen to take part in battle to determine who will become God."

4.09 avg rating — 2,337 ratings

"Hope's Peak Academy allegedly enrolls only the elite, but it turns out the students in fact have only one way out: to murder another student and get away with it in a trial by convincing the other surviving students that you're innocent (or someone else is guilty)."

4.02 avg rating — 270,370 ratings

"Walk for your life! A national tournament where 100 boys must keep a steady walking pace, where slowing down receives a penalty, until only one boy is remaining alive."

3.84 avg rating — 110 ratings

"Ultraviolent football with martial arts and armed combat."

4.20 avg rating — 104 ratings

"Contestants in the reality show Try Not to Die evade killers in the irradiated ruins of America."

3.89 avg rating — 514 ratings

"Contestants are recruited through a dubious app that appears on their phones, and they receive abilities unique to each person and are pitted against each other."

3.96 avg rating — 98 ratings

"Players are kidnapped and taken to a mysterious facility, where they receive abilities to help them fight each other. "

4.15 avg rating — 850 ratings

"Twenty people find themselves on a reality show called Zombie Survival where they have to fight zombies and each other for the single spot on the helicopter in the pick-up zone."

3.31 avg rating — 43,451 ratings

"Fourteen contestants must stay hidden in an amusement park for a week without getting caught to win a life-changing amount of money. Except the penalty for getting caught is...?"

3.77 avg rating — 1,133 ratings

"Fourteen contestants must stay hidden in an amusement park for a week without getting caught to win a life-changing amount of money. Except the penalty for getting caught is...?"

3.74 avg rating — 171 ratings

"Weekly televised war, where the lucky losers are only maimed, the unluckiest die."

4.28 avg rating — 928 ratings

"The worst criminals must outrun literal monsters on a reality show. Jenna allegedly shot a Senator, but it turns out there's more to her story than that."

3.60 avg rating — 1,371 ratings

"Melanie ends up taking part in a contest that ends up deadly for the losers. Even worse, the game's mastermind isn't even around to enjoy it."

4.37 avg rating — 8,824 ratings

"People randomly see fireworks at night, then suddenly find themselves in a post-apocalyptic setting where civilization appears to have collapsed in an instant. Meanwhile, the "players" discover they must win deadly games to renew their visas to the place called Borderland. At the stroke of midnight on the day their visas expire, players will be killed with a laser from the sky."

3.72 avg rating — 788 ratings

"15 children take part in battle with a giant robot that drains the life force from its current pilot after every battle. The losing robot's universe is destroyed. This "game" continues until all the pilots are killed. In the manga, this is a natural phenomenon; in the anime, this was changed to a game observed by the Creators who had made too many universes and wanted a way to determine which ones survived."

4.58 avg rating — 14,983 ratings

"The volume with the start of the Culling Game, where the "players" must fight each other to reduce their numbers (hence the name)."

4.27 avg rating — 1,602,327 ratings

"Murderer plans to systematically kill ten people (including himself) and leave an unsolveable mystery, just for the fun of it."

3.86 avg rating — 2,873 ratings

"David goes into work one morning as normal, only to find his boss aiming a gun at him, to kill. He is trapped in the building for 24 hours and in this time must find out why he is being targeted."

4.05 avg rating — 1,674,332 ratings

"Teens given amnesia are put into a maze with killer monsters that will hunt them if they go into the maze at night, and they must find a way to escape the maze... as an experiment."

3.62 avg rating — 7,835 ratings

"War profiteering."

3.92 avg rating — 5,585 ratings

"A prospective political assassin is foiled and is hunted like an animal as he tries to escape."

4.41 avg rating — 77,953 ratings

"Children are raised for food—the smarter the child, the tastier the meat."