27+ Manga With A Game System (Recommendations)

Updated on: July 21, 2022
by Ernie

Just how fun would life be if we could be reincarnated in a game! Minus the death element, of course. We all dreamed of it, however, let’s get real, it will never happen. So, we just have to satisfy ourselves by watching our favorite characters live our dream in our stead.

Here is a list of the BEST Manga with a game system to ease your research, welcome!

Table of Contents

JAPANESE COMICS WITH A GAME SYSTEM

28. Villainess Level 99: I May be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
10/20	5/10	5/10	5/10	25/50

Best scenario ever for a hardcore gamer, she got reincarnated out of nowhere into one of the characters of an RPG Otome game.

She wants to keep a low profile but let’s get real, it’s impossible to stay still when you know you can level up. Having all the freedom in the world, by the time she had to enroll in school, she was already at level 99.

Ousted in a sec by the Hero, she was mistaken for the future Demon Lord and that’s where the fun begins.

She might be a hidden boss but the real threat is not her. Like someone is gonna believe a word she says. So why not play the part?

27. I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
11/20	5/10	6/10	5/10	27/50

During her first life, Azusa Aizawa was a corporate slave that died from exhaustion. Fortunately, she had the opportunity to live again in a game-like environment to make up for her pitiful days.

She got a farm and spent her days alone in a never-ending routine of cleaning up and killing like 25 slimes a day. This lasted for 300 years. I think her slave life was more fulfilling than that one. What a waste.

Thank god things got more interesting when she realized that she maxed out her level after killing so many slimes for all those years. The idiot wanted to keep her strength a secret, but word still got out.

Every day, peculiar characters came to find her. Some wanted a duel, others requested her help. She made friends, friends that soon became family. And she finally understood that there was more to life than peaceful times. Took her 300 years but better late than never I guess.

26. Danganronpa

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
11/20	6/10	6/10	6/10	29/50

Hope’s Peak Academy is a school for the Elite of the Elite. Only the most talented of individuals can get in. Guess luck can be considered a talent when an ungifted odd one manages to become a student.

However, I believe that they got the definition of luck wrong since that student who shouldn’t have been there in the first place just entered Hell with a smile on his face.

This School follows a Game System. The goal is to kill all the other students by participating in twisted and dangerous games. The last one standing wins the right to go back to his normal life.

25. I Was A Sword When I Was Reincarnated

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
12/20	6/10	6/10	6/10	30/50

In a flash, the MC found himself materializing in an RPG-like game. And guess what, he’s not a character, nor the Hero, he became a sword, a sword stabbed in the ground that apparently no one can release.

That was true until an adorable car girl came across him or it to be exact.

24. Redo of Healer

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
12/20	6/10	6/10	6/10	30/50

Composed just like a game, this Japanese Comic is all about the awakening of Heroes and their task to defeat the Demon Lord. However, it’s a twisted version of a fairy tale depicting twisted and cruel characters.

Keyaru awakened as the Hero of Healers. He was personally invited by the beautiful and kind princess to join her party. Upon trying his skill for the first time, all the pain and fear felt by the other party was transferred into his brain in condensed form making his skill worse than torture.

Yet, that was nothing compared to what was to come. The princess drugged him, turning him into a dependent addict. Beaten every day and harassed every night by knights, Keyaru just wanted to die.

Instead, he found a way to rewind time and acquire unbelievable power. His revenge plan is about to begin and it isn’t going to be pretty.

In this sick world, heroes are the root of all evil while demons and monsters are the ones possessing a heart and a conscience.

23. Btooom!

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
13/20	7/10	6/10	7/10	33/50

Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed pitiful loser who still squats at his mother. However, online, the loser disappears and leaves room for the undefeated player in the popular combat game, “Btooom!”.

Right after the introduction of this manga, the MC finds himself on an island. He has no idea how he got there. Confused, he suddenly hears a voice calling for help. He responded and in gratitude, the stranger threw a bomb at him.

It clicked in his head, he was in the real-life version of his favorite game and the battle royal had already started. He is a virtuoso with a console in his hand, but will he survive using his body as his character? Doubtful!

22. BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
14/20	7/10	7/10	6/10	34/50

If you max out your defense, even if you are in a super difficult VRMMO game, there is no way you’ll die or get hurt right. Feeling pain is out of the question so let’s forget attacking and make a fortress out of my body.

21. The New Gate

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
14/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	35/50

“The New Gate” RPG game dragged all of its players into real-life threatening battles, SAO style. Shin, the game’s veteran, was the one who saved all their butts by single-handedly defeating the final boss.

While all of the players were released, only the savior was sucked into a white light and transported 500 years into the future, oh and he is still in the game.

20. Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
15/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	36/50

Ichirou Suzuki is an overworked programmer who barely has any time to sleep. When he finally found the opportunity to get some shut-eye, the world decided to have some fun with him.

When he woke up, he was in the game he was putting together as an adventurer named Satou. Still astonished and confused, he is attacked by a squadron of lizard men and accidentally unleashes his most powerful spell.

He burns them all too crisp and maxes out his level. Now overpowered, he begins his journey to explore this beautiful new world. Guess he forgot about his old life already.

19. Yu Gi Oh!

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	37/50

The famous card game that we all have been playing since our childhood is still ongoing and kicking. Many versions of this legendary manga are now out and are having anime adaptations, each one better than the other.

What’s even better is that every timeline has its own unique stories and its own charismatic MC. The only thing that doesn’t change is the game element and the rules of course.

My personal favorite is Yu Gi Oh! 5D’s, what’s yours?

18. Darwin’s Game

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	37/50

High school student, Sudo Kaname, receives an invitation on his phone to download the “Darwin’s Game”. Looked interesting so he accepted.

He opened the app and a snake came out of his phone and bit his neck. He woke up in the infirmary believing it was all a very realistic dream.

The first round of the game begins, it’s a battle with a bear swinging a knife. However, instead of battling online, a real flesh and blood human wearing a bear costume is now pursuing him. He even possesses some weird abilities. But wait, Sudo as well.

17. Arifureta

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	37/50

Nagumo was summoned along with all his classmates to another world to become the Heroes that will save it. All of them got a class and special abilities. It’s just that Nagumo drew the short straw and turned out to be useless.

And yet, the useless kid managed to make the most beautiful girl in the class fall for him, igniting the jealousy of the boys. As they were training in a Dungeon, one of them betrayed him and dropped him alone in the abyss.

Desperate to survive, he fed on monsters and assimilated their power and ability turning into something between human and beast.

From zero to overpowered killing machine, he even got himself a girlfriend, a breathtaking immortal vampire. Now, wait to see what will be his ex-comrades reaction when he will make his grand comeback.

16. The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (Cautious Hero)

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	7/10	8/10	38/50

Seiya was summoned by the Goddess Rista in a world set up just like a video game. His stats are unbelievable. He didn’t even start to level up and he is already stronger than high-caliber demons.

However, his personality is a problem. Even if he’s up against weak slimes, he requires days of preparation and goes all out, even after they die, just to make sure they are really really really dead you know.

15. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	8/10	8/10	39/50

Rimuru was a normal salaryman until the day he was murdered and reincarnated in a game-like environment as an overpowered slime.

He took over a village, the village became a town, the town became a country and now he is a Demon Lord feared by all.

The weakest species on earth is now at the top of the food chain and is having a blast.

14. No Game No Life

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
17/20	7/10	8/10	8/10	40/50

Sora and Shiro are two genius siblings with remarkable intellect. They caught the eyes of the God of Games and were teleported to “Disboard”, a world ruled by simple games.

The God angrythat he already lost to them, gave them the task of uncovering the mysteries of this new world and winning the right to challenge him once more.

I think he is in denial, he’s the one who lost, shouldn’t he be begging for a rematch?

13. Re:Monster

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
17/20	8/10	8/10	8/10	41/50

Gob Akira reincarnated as a weak goblin in a world set up just like a video game. He might have started off pathetic but he had a special power. He could evolve through eating, which he did.

Now, he reigns as the King of Goblins. The only downside is that their skin are green, but he’ll get used to it soon.

12. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
17/20	8/10	8/10	8/10	41/50

Yuna became ultra-super rich playing the first VRMMO game ever released. She stopped going to school and dedicated her life to her gaming career.

One day, she received a bear costume that’s just extremely embracing and I’m being nice here. She found herself in the game the second she tried it on.

When the costume is on, she obtains unbelievable cheats and when it’s off, she’s normal again. And Yuna lashes off having the fun of her life and doing whatever the hell she wants.

11. Bakugan Battle Brawlers

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
17/20	8/10	8/10	8/10	41/50

Bakugan, maybe the only card game more famous than Yu Gi Oh! A grand tournament between the youth where they battle each other while summoning magnificent creatures.

Danma Kuusou is one of the contestants and is aiming for the title of World Ranking’s leader. However, there is much more to the game than simple fun. The balance of the word will shift depending on the results.

10. Pokemon

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
18/20	8/10	8/10	8/10	42/50

Let’s get real, we all wished to become Pokemon trainers at some point in our lives. We all dreamed of having a friendship like the one Satoshi (Ash in English) and Pikachu share. And training Pokemons just looks so dang fun.

On a fantastic adventure to get promoted Pokemon Master, Satoshi has been traveling through the land, capturing or more exactly, befriending those adorable creatures while never growing old even after 14 years.

Ain’t we all jealous and in more ways than just one.

9. .Hack // Series

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
18/20	8/10	8/10	8/10	42/50

Tsukasa is a Wavemaster that woke up in an MMORPG with amnesia and unable to log out. Confused and completely lost, things get even worse when he is labeled a hacker and starts being hunted by knights and other players.

He is now wandering the land in hope of finding some answers.

8. Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
18/20	8/10	8/10	9/10	43/50

The “Dungeon” is a huge Labyrinth hiding in its center everything that one could desire. Riches, prestige, power, and even Kawaii girls willing to become your girlfriend.

The Labyrinth is designed just like a game, an impossible game. Those who dare to venture inside are called adventurers.

In this specific manga, we will be following the tale of a wanna-be adventurer and a Goddess with no followers.

7. Accel World

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
18/20	8/10	9/10	9/10	44/50

No matter the time and age, bullying will never cease. And for the poor souls who are suffering from it, games might be one of the only ways to escape reality and that was true for Haruyuki.

Overweight and friendless, his world made a 180 degree turn when he learned about “Accel World”, a special program that enhances all human proficiencies, at a certain price of course.

However, who cares about the consequences when he can become the “Burst Linker“, the faithful knight of the astoundingly beautiful princess.

6. I'm Standing on a Million Lives

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
19/20	8/10	9/10	9/10	45/50

Yotsuya Yuusuke was teleported into a sort of a game and forced to participate knowing that if they die, they will die in real life as well.

Each of them were given roles by the Game Master. Knight, warrior, magician, and of course what did Yuusuke get? Nope not a Hero but a farmer.

Just how on earth is he supposed to defend himself while all he can do is cook!?

5. How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
19/20	9/10	9/10	9/10	46/50

A dweeb has really nothing better to do than create the most perfect overpowered character ever right? That’s the case of the undefeated Sakamoto Takuma who is in possession of Diablo, the unbeatable Demon Lord of the MMORPG, Cross Reverie.

He was suddenly summoned into the game as Diablo by two mesmerizing characters and due to a mistake in the incantation, both of them automatically became his slave.

Here we will follow a hilarious adventure of a guy who never even talked to a girl before trying to play the part of the cruel Demon Lord while searching for a way to undo their bond.

4. So I'm a Spider, So What

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
19/20	10/10	9/10	9/10	47/50

An entire class died in a mysterious explosion. However, all their souls were reincarnated in a fantasy game world.

Some of them became Heroes, other princes and princesses, or even prodigies. But not everyone was so lucky. The one who was at the bottom of the class also reincarnated at the bottom of the food chain and as a worthless spider.

However, that spider isn’t going to fall into despair that easily.

3. Log Horizon

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
20/20	10/10	9/10	9/10	48/50

30,000 players got stuck into an MMORPG called “Elder Tales” as the character they were using at the time.

Fortunately, dying doesn’t mean game over. They get to respawn as many times as they want but there is still a price to pay and that price is a piece of their memories.

Shiro, a genius strategist is on a quest to, first of all, create a world where they can live with rules and democracy and then find a way to log out with the help of all the adventures.

2. Overlord

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
20/20	10/10	10/10	9/10	49/50

Momonga is just your mundane human. Average job, average life, average everything except when he is playing the famous DMMO-RPG game, Yggdrasil.

He holds the title of number 1 player. Not only is his level and stats max out, but he also possesses all the legendary artifacts of the game.

However, Yggdrasil suddenly excessively declined in popularity and the game is shutting down forever. Momonga stayed logged in until the last second to bid his farewells.

The hour passed but why is he still in the game? Why does everything feel so real? He can’t believe it, he is now in the flesh of his character! How does he get out?

1. Sword Art Online

Game System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
20/20	10/10	10/10	10/10	50/50

As you all expected, the first place goes to the most badass manga with a game system of all times, SAO!

We all know Kirito’s story like the back of our hands and it’s awesome. Trapped in a death game, the only way to log out is the clear floors more difficult than the others. And it was a cowardly solo player who managed to do so.

Not just is the plot magnificent, the art and characters development as well. It didn’t get enough credit for how well thought it was, so I’m saying it now. It’s a masterpiece!

Which Manga Do You Think Is The Best?

Hope you agreed with me on the ranking and that you found at least six manga that piqued your interest and I’m still generous here, all of them are awesome. So tell me, if you had the chance to get into one of their worlds, which would you choose?