MC wakes up inside a horror game with another 5 teammates, and they all need to clear the game mission to go back to the real world. It has a few things, like the players being able to come back to life if at least one of the teammates finishes the game (they cannot die more than three times, though). First arc is a zombie apocalypse and mostly introducing the characters. I have a lot of fun with the team dynamics, as they are... Truly, just a mess. ML is a retired soldier working as a mercenary and oh, he is so soft to MC! There's a scene where they, *cough* papapa for 14 whole days for... reasons.

In the second arc, he encounters a village full of overly nice and helpful people. In what he knows is a horror game. If that doesn't put you on guard, what will? Surely he should have known it wasn't the time to be relaxing and trusting those obviously suspicious people?!

The author seemed to like to portray MC as smart and reliable protagonist, however, he came out as naive and useless character. The first zombie arc was OK. It was just OK. MC noticed things but he just kept them inside his mind. So, what was the point of noticing them, then? And when ML appeared, MC stopped using his brain and waited for ML to help him every time they met danger and felt sad when the other party didn't. Hello? Is that something a smart protagonist would do? But still, the author kept insisting that he was smart. And whenever ML pointed out something, he was like "no wonder",

"Aww, that's why". Why didn't he notice it first when author want him to be smart. Even I, reader, can see them. What was more frustrating was that there were so many clues about potential danger and those group of players totally disregard those clues, eating and strolling happily as if they were on vacation. No, it is not the indifference of the strong, it is the ignorance of the naive. And teammates were not so likable. They included s*upid to the point of no return idiot, two a-holes and one little girl who was a little creepy. And N0, teammates didn't change each arc and MC had to stuck with those unlikable teammates.

MC is not a player in the end. He's the system, kinda like the mastermind behind it all.

MC is actually the main system, who went through a data-cleanse every 50 years to evaluate the difficulty of the instance (+ adjust it to balance the system). He's considered an 'NPC' for the last arc, while the ML is a 'player' who became a GM (a class of people in the system, who lives there permanently as internal staff) - the system isn't evil, but exists as a scientific discovery made to help those who died prematurely (between the age of 16-40) be given another chance at living. The horror/fears are the price, those who have potential will get to be GM - all the participants in this system are technically 'dead' or 'NPC'.