Hellmode ~A Hardcore Gamer Becomes Peerless in Another World with Retro Game Settings~

Kenichi Yamada is your typical 35-year-old office worker — and a hardcore gamer at heart. While everyone around him is playing easy, casual games, he can't help but feel like something's been lost. Where's the challenge? Where's the struggle?

So when he stumbles across a website that promises an experience "for people who like to do things the hard way," he doesn't think twice.
Next thing he knows, he's been reincarnated into another world as Allen — and the difficulty is set to Hell Mode.

No cheat skills. No head start. He's reborn as a serf, at the very bottom of society, with nothing to his name and zero knowledge of how this world even works. It's exactly like those brutal games he grinded through 10, 20 years ago — figure it out as you go, or don't make it at all.

This is the story of Allen, a summoner who starts from absolute zero and works his way up — the hard way, just like he always wanted.