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Premise labels used: ghost hunting, underworld quest, escape from oppression, post-apocalyptic mystery, memory recovery, dead-world exploration, bargain with a ghost, girl versus power structure, truth-seeking
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic world, desolate wasteland, underworld, dead world, ruined society, small village, rural town, post-technological world, mythic setting, ancient-feeling world
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A young girl returns to a dark underground world, uncovering buried truths, rising threats, and more questions than answers.
Why this is here
Premise labels: secret world · hidden world · truth quest · survival quest · mystery solving · journey to another side · post-collapse mystery
Setting labels: dark world · underground · other side · mountain setting · dystopian setting · fictional world · post-collapse world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1462
A memory-frayed investigator enters a salt-blighted post-apocalyptic peninsula to solve a murder and find a feared weapon.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-apocalypse · memory loss · mutated survivors · investigation · search quest · power struggle · return home · artifact quest · world catastrophe · occupied homeland
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic peninsula · desert world · isolated dome · alternate Crimea · Krym / Kimmerik / Desht · ruins and steppe · mutant landscape · futurist wasteland · alternate history · mythic world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1542
![Cover of ファイアパンチ 6 [Fire Punch 6] by Tatsuki Fujimoto](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1501612757i/35226562.jpg)
In a frozen, ruined world, a suffering immortal is pushed into a radical new identity as the story veers into chaos.
Why this is here
Premise labels: revenge quest · survival horror · post-apocalyptic struggle · identity crisis · body curse · memory loss · moral breakdown
Setting labels: ice age · post-apocalyptic world · blizzard world · dystopian future · supernatural world · world-ending catastrophe
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1591
A weary Roland moves through flashbacks and ruins as he closes the gap between his past and the road to the Dark Tower.
Why this is here
Premise labels: quest · post-apocalyptic journey · search for missing person · revenge quest · survival · manhunt · journey to the tower · bridge volume · continuity bridge · character backstory
Setting labels: desert · ruined world · post-collapse world · fallen city · wasteland · fantasy frontier · alternate world · desolate landscape · ruins · end-times setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1627
![Cover of 少女終末旅行 6 [Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou 6] by Tsukumizu](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519926090i/36153789.jpg)
Two girls keep climbing through the ruins of civilization, finding meaning in survival, memory, and each other.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-apocalyptic journey · last survivors · upward journey · survival travel · ruined world exploration · search for civilization
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · ruined city · layered city · industrial wasteland · dead civilization · near-empty world · war-damaged world · multi-level ruins
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1637
A teen wakes to a ruined future world, then follows a mystery diary and a fugitive companion to uncover what happened.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · lost world · mystery diary · memory gap · future shock · journey for answers · experimental humans · energy-dependent body · guided quest
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · future Earth · single day time jump · ruined city · small-town setting · North America · war aftermath · technological future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1654
A hunted teen and his companions flee toward a promised refuge, only to uncover a disturbing human society and new truths.
Why this is here
Premise labels: survival chase · hidden humans · promised land · safe haven trap · escape quest · mystery refuge · post-apocalyptic hunt
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · mountain refuge · river journey · isolated village · hidden human settlement · desert wilderness · dystopian society · future setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1656
A Bible-quoting gunslinger crosses a ruined future Earth, hunting Jerusalem and battling human and supernatural evil.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · lone gunslinger · lost city search · good vs evil · evil cult · biblical quest · demon war · redemption journey
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · future wasteland · dystopian future · flooded world · geological upheaval · reversed oceans · ruined civilization · old world remnants · alternate-history feel
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1666
In a poisoned future Earth, three survivors leave an underground refuge on a surface mission that exposes buried sins.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · surface expedition · underground refuge · poisoned atmosphere · mysterious phenomenon · buried secrets · survival ethics · morally compromised survival · revenge · guilt
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground enclave · surface wasteland · Sweden · Scandinavia · alternate history · dystopian future · institutional interior · liminal spaces · ruins and ash · dead world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1667
In a water-starved desert city, a relic dealer and a warder race to uncover ancient secrets before a cult triggers catastrophe.
Why this is here
Premise labels: relic hunt · ancient technology · post-apocalyptic survival · desert city · resource scarcity · political intrigue · save-the-world stakes · heist · mystery · quest fantasy
Setting labels: desert world · post-apocalyptic world · tiered city · city-state · ruins · fringe cities · waste · secondary world · ancient civilization aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1679
A silent wanderer crosses a colossal cyberpunk megastructure, fighting machines and uncovering a hidden human future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mysterious quest · artifact search · survival journey · megastructure exploration · silent protagonist · post-apocalyptic survival
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · cyberpunk · megacity · labyrinthine structure · industrial ruins · dystopian future · vertical city · biomechanical world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1688
A long-awaited finale sends Elspeth into the Red Land to stop catastrophe and decide what freedom will cost.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · world-saving mission · final confrontation · hidden community · captivity escape · stop catastrophic weapon · seeker heroine · loyalty to world
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · imaginary places · lost community · red land · habitat · beforetime future · dystopian landscape · walled community
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1693
