Dystopian Stories
Explore our collection of 109 amazing stories tagged with dystopian. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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BaneHunt: The Glitchwraith's Debt
Author:Aster Glitch
Five stars. That's all Kae wanted. A perfect rating on the BaneHunt app to prove she was a competent monster hunter and, more importantly, to pay her rent. But when a simple 'Gremlin cleanup' gig unleashes a cataclysmic digital phantom, her rating plummets to zero and she's saddled with an apocalyptic debt. Now, hunted by the very system she works for, Kae must forge an unholy alliance with the 'monster' she freed. To survive, she'll have to trade her gig-worker ethics for forbidden power and become the glitch that crashes the whole damn system.

Archmage of Anarchy: The Sun King's Gambit
Author:Avery Hunter
He's the Supreme Archmage of Earth, a supervillain by trade and a hero by accident. His name is Kaelen Vorn, but the world knows him as Merciless, the Tyrant of Shadows™. When a clandestine council of 'heroes' hires him to assassinate the god-like ruler of a utopian island, Kaelen knows it's a setup. But with a personal vendetta against the Sun King and the fate of magic itself on the line, he'll assemble a team of misfits to take on the impossible. After all, if you want a god killed, you don't hire a hero—you hire the best villain money can buy.

Void-Touched: My Power is Fear
Author:Dustin Davis
One night, a comet gifts Kaelen a strange System that turns his deepest fears into unimaginable power. Abducted into Aethelgard, a hidden city and brutal death academy, he must learn to master his unique terror—the fear of oblivion itself. In a world where failure means being erased and cosmic horrors lurk in the shadows, Kaelen's chaotic ability to unmake reality is both his only hope for survival and a threat to everyone around him. Can he control the void within before it consumes him whole?

The Asphalt Ocean
Author:Steve Freeman
For years, Leo's dream of an endless bridge was a harmless, recurring nightmare. But when the dream bleeds into reality, leaving him with wet floors and a cryptic toll receipt, he discovers he's not just dreaming—he's been drafted. The bridge is a real place, a purgatory for lost souls, and the toll is more than money. Now, hunted by a twisted version of himself and armed with a strange app on his phone, Leo must navigate the rules of the Asphalt Ocean, where every passenger is a debt and every destination has a horrifying price.

The Soul-Alchemist of Aethelgard
Author:Isaiah Steeves
Caelen McDowell, last heir to a disgraced line of alchemists, is a gilded prisoner of a fanatical religious empire. To escape execution, he must embrace his forbidden heritage and orchestrate a public murder. But his plan is overseen by the one man he can't fool: a beautiful, ruthless Inquisitor whose own faith is beginning to crack. Hunted and desperate, they are forced into an unholy alliance, discovering a conspiracy that could either liberate the city or drown it in blood and fire. Survival is no longer enough; now, they crave revolution.

Nexus Noir: The Necrotic Bloom
Author:Silas Thorne
In a city run by magic and strangled by bureaucracy, disgraced investigator Kaelen 'Ran' Voranov is dragged back into the shadows. Hired for a simple missing persons case, his unique ability to see magical residue reveals a dark truth: a necromantic plague is spreading through the city's arcane infrastructure, and the dead are starting to walk. With no badge and the ghosts of his past haunting him, Ran is the only one who sees the rot in the system is becoming horrifyingly literal. He must race against his former colleagues and a fanatical cult to stop the 'Necrotic Bloom' before Nexus City drowns in its own corrupted magic.

The Marionette's Lament
Author:Silas Grimwood
In a town silenced overnight, the only sound is the screaming of those dragged into the sky by unseen strings. Alex and Matt are trapped, hunted by grotesque human puppets controlled by an unknown puppeteer. Their only hope is to escape the city, but the Marionettes are everywhere, their limbs contorting, their voices mimicking the dead, desperate to add new puppets to their collection. Every shadow could be a predator, and every cry for help could be a lure.

The Solstice Child of Glass Harbor
Author:Silas Thorne
Every year, the town of Glass Harbor sends a child into the whispering pines to be 'perfected' by an ancient entity. They return whole and healthy, but with vacant eyes. This year, Ethan is the Selected. But unlike the others, he doesn't believe the lies. Armed with forbidden secrets and fueled by his sister's mysterious death, he walks into the darkness not as a sacrifice, but as a hunter. He will uncover the town's rotten core, even if it means being consumed by the truth that waits in the deep.

The Alchemist's Heart of Dunhill
Author:Jacob Clark
In the gaslit city of Dunhill, Cole McDowell, the last heir of a disgraced alchemical line, lives in the shadow of the fanatical Order that executed his parents. On his 21st birthday, he inherits a forbidden legacy: a sentient, alchemical Heart that bonds with his soul, granting him immense power and an instant death sentence. Now hunted by the Order's most ruthless Inquisitor, Cole must dive into the city’s criminal underworld, mastering the very arts that destroyed his family. To survive, he must become the heretic they fear he is.

The Charlie Whiskey Contagion
Author:Silas Thorne
Trapped miles beneath the Idaho mountains, four college students stumble into an abandoned Cold War bunker. But they are not alone. A decades-old experiment, a parasitic entity known as "Charlie Whiskey," lies dormant, waiting. When one of them is contaminated, a gruesome transformation begins. Now, hunted by their former friend and stalked by the whispers of another they thought lost, they must unravel the facility's horrifying secrets. In this concrete tomb, infection isn't just a sickness—it's an evolution. And the hive-mind is hungry.

Flight to Nwe York
Author:Willard Lynch
To escape his small town, Marin boards a flight to New York. But a single typo on the departure screen is the first sign that his destination is not on any known map. Onboard, the passengers are silent, unblinking mannequins, and a set of bizarre, deadly rules are the only thing keeping him alive. Every mistake erases a passenger from existence. Now, having landed in a twisted mimicry of his destination, Marin must navigate a world where one wrong move, one flicker of genuine emotion, could be his last. He's not just a visitor; he's the system's next target for assimilation.

Carnival of Echoes
Author:Jeremy Simmmons
In 1986, Leo Vance lost his family to the twisted wonders of Mister Fulcrum's Funhouse. Now, he's back for revenge. But the carnival's horrors are no longer contained. Monsters bleed from a dimension called the Void, and Leo, marked by its power, is the only one who can see them. Armed with a cursed relic and a killer's resolve, he must hunt down Fulcrum as reality itself crumbles into a waking nightmare. But in a world consumed by madness, his greatest enemy might be the darkness growing within him.