best economic collapse fiction

Gu Mian is the most unlucky person in the whole world. He is involved in many accidents everyday, each of which aims to kill him. One day, the Global Evolution Game starts, allowing everyone to enhance themselves by clearing instances. Even in this game launched by the planet Earth itself, Gu finds himself still being targeted, with less game functions available than other players. However, he is able to do things that others cannot, such as punching NPCs in instances... [Warning! Warning! Red-level warning!] [The Resentful Spirit High School Instance is undergoing catastrophic collapse! Instance characters are almost entirely lost! The instance map has suffered Epic-level destruction!] [Data analysis failed!] [Instance structure abnormal!] [All players within this instance will be forcibly ejected in ten seconds. Please prepare!] [10, 9, 8...]

Qin Tianyu, who had been reborn due to luck, came to a place called Collapse Space. Under the guidance of the system, he crossed over to various worlds of the second dimension … ================= Disclaimer: I do not own the novel or anything about it. They all belong to Bie Jiao Wo Mo Wang so please do support the original work. =================

In a world still healing from the Transparency Revolution that exposed global corruption, violence begins rising again across Mumbai—quietly, strangely, without warning. Ordinary people display inhuman reflexes, unpredictable instincts, and terrifying bursts of clarity in fights. Officials blame stress. The media blames unrest. No one knows the truth. Arjun is the kind of boy who should never be caught in this chaos—quiet, overlooked, bullied, living each day in survival mode. He’s not fast, not skilled, and not brave. Yet whenever danger closes in, something inside him reacts before he can think. A glance he shouldn't notice. A footstep he shouldn't hear. A punch he shouldn't avoid. Everyone around him is changing in violent, unpredictable ways. But Arjun… stays calm. When he survives an attack that should have killed him, he begins to notice the truth: the world is shifting, people are breaking, and whatever is happening to them… isn't happening to him. As more strange incidents spread across the city, Arjun finds himself caught between students who fight like cornered animals, strangers whose instincts feel manufactured, and forces far bigger than any schoolyard conflict. He isn’t trying to become a hero. He isn’t trying to understand the world. He just wants to stay alive. But survival comes with a cost—because once the wrong people notice someone who doesn’t break, they don’t let go. And Arjun is about to find out that the most dangerous thing in this changing world… is a mind that refuses to fall apart.

Seven years before the world collapsed, Ethan Cole failed—and lost everything. Now, reborn into his younger self with memories of the apocalypse, he has a single goal: survive, dominate, and rewrite history. At school, he manipulates friends, rivals, and alliances with surgical precision. A brilliant girl catches his attention—a potential partner, a rival, or something more—and even his perfect plans tremble in the face of unexpected emotions. With every decision, every secret, every investment, Ethan moves closer to building an empire invisible to those who underestimate him. But the clock is ticking, enemies are rising, and even foresight can’t predict every betrayal. Strategy. Romance. Power. The game has only just begun.

Waking up in the same world hundreds of years after the "collapse" is not easy for the randomly selected citizen Marcus. Especially when the only information he has doesn't match what's actually going on. Right now, he has to survive in the wild and unlock skills with the help of a holographic system. Memories come in brief flashes so his previous identity is unknown. He's gonna need to learn fast to progress. The search for other survivors will take time. Starting under the shade of a common oak tree. Can Marcus find other survivors or his he the last man on Earth? Giving up hope now isn't his thing so let's hope for the future! ;)

Synopsis "I was the woman he chose to love. Now, I am the weapon he didn't see coming." Maya Vega was the brilliant shadow behind Andrew O’Connell’s tech empire, until billionaire Michael Sterling decided to take it all. In one night, Maya lost her fiancé to a stroke, her home to a fraud, and her dignity to a glass of champagne poured over her head by Mike’s sister, Sasha. Discarded and forgotten, the world thinks Maya Vega is dead. They are wrong. A year later, Vivienne Saint-Claire arrives in London. She has a new face, a bottomless bank account, and a 70-chapter plan for total annihilation. Through the "Silas Doctrine," she will infiltrate the Sterling inner circle, dismantle their wealth, and execute the Medusa Protocol. Mike Sterling thinks he’s playing a game of power. He doesn’t realize he’s already lost

When CERN's collider collapsed into an 11D obsidian sanctum, I became the city's last glitching data stream. Vampires etch reverse-thermodynamic laws into neon with entropy algorithms, werewolf howls rip gauge field fissures—and my DNA helix encodes Yang-Mills steady-state solutions, each activation carving three years from my quantum-chronometer heart. 72 hours to either blood-recompile the cosmic code or watch humanity forged into Observer Civilization's dimensional anchors.

A poor grad student wakes up to see an Economic System in his head! What will he do next?

In a world where extraordinary abilities are part of some people's everyday life, peace has long held sway. Crime exists, but the city thrives under order...until masked figure emerges. His quest for recognition and power leaves chaos and blood in his wake, threatening to shatter everything. Among the chaos, a young girl, affected by the carnage is pushed to her limits, determined to stop him. And yet, in the shadows, another mind manipulates events, revealing secrets that could change the world forever. Loyalties would be tested, secrets unraveled, and the line between justice and vengeance blurred. Can peace survive, or will the world plunge deeper into the new chaos? Who will control the fate of all?

It is all coming back to him, the collapsed world around him. Forgetting was its own crime, but a forgivable one. Edward resides in a dream, as a mysterious stranger talks to him about his experiences. Trying his best to recollect the tragedies that befell him, courteously of the Entities.