Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing

"Level up even while offline?! That's not a game on 'easy mode'—that's just an AFK game!" The online game Kenichi Yamada had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend thousands of hours on it—just isn't around anymore. "What's this? 'You are invited to a game that will never end.'" Kenic...

Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru began as a web novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou on November 17, 2019. The first official volume was published on July 15, 2020 by Earth Star Entertainment under the Earth Star Novel label. The series has been published digitally in ...