Recommendations Brutal, unforgiving, disgusting hellscapes

Looking for novels with unforgiving worlds where you feel despair in every sentence describing them. Those kinds of gritty works with disgusting humans and soul-draining landscapes.
Mostly the hellscapes. If forests, they must be dark and scary and gloomy, if towns, they must be dead, dying or decadent collections of messy stone and iron boxes, if deserts... Well, deserts are depressing as are

 

Well that’s a mood

 

Kuro no Maou
I remember there is lot of death death and death while mc is kinda dumb fully believing the (yandere) half fairy

 

Look up stories with downer endings they sometimes handle those things

 

Seirei Gensouki. I got the novel in rl. But ended up tearing it apart halfway through because of the way the nobles acted in it.

 

Real Life


But if you are fine with manga, try:

Yakushoku Distpiari - Gesellshaft Blue

 

The summary didn't make it seem like a barren sad place. More like an average run-of-the-mill isekai world though

I'd laugh but it's true

 

Maybe Soul of Negary? And i think dark souls game series is more fitting your description.

Edit: Apocalypse novels also fit description.

 

I actually had fallout in mind, but dark souls also do fit.
I'm searching for novels though.
And soul of negari's plot is between different worlds, isn't it?

 

God and Devil World, then.... If you want dark scapes, try King of the Battlefield.

 

Try My Iyashikei Game, the game the mc played is just like that.

 

I think Second Coming of Gluttony could the bill to some degree?

 

I can only think Reverend Insanity, I stop reading it because of how cruel the world that is for the weak or mortals.

 

Warhammer 40k


Hahahaha

 

The Dark King
Death Sutra

 

Pursuit of the Truth

 

you need a hostile landscape or depressive world?

if hostile landscape only, well: “stop… friendly fire” is a comedy novel that fit the criteria.

Depression… i don’t know any.

 

Worm
The Dark King
Main Character Hides His Strength
Girl Who Ate a Death God

 

Just play Dark Souls. It has more despair than Fallout. I'd know. Don't have any recommendations other than the ones stated above. Youjo Senki is alright.