<寂寞的遊戲>是袁哲生的第二本作品集，透過數個短篇小說，揭示現代人共同面臨的生存閻境一疏離。爬梳文本後可以發現，作者常常設計一個遊戲，卻屢屢有人破壞遊戲規則，在遊戲的最後，各人都走向更疏遠的局面。本文先從 「遊戲」的原始涵義進行討論，以利理解作者如何運用「遊戲」的隱喻。在這部 小說中，遊戲不只是具有娛樂的功能，透過一個個「玩不成的遊戲」，作者更深 刻地展現出現代人心理的兩面性，一方面需要自己的空間，另一方面卻又渴望和 別人產生連結。這兩者的失衡，往往是人走向寂寞的關鍵，這樣一個個難以突破的困局充斥在這部小說裡，最後竟形成了絕望的死亡之景。

"Lonely Game" is Yuen,Zhe-Sheng's second portfolio,through several short stories, revealing the plight of modern man facing life-alienation.After combing through the text can be found, authors often design a game but often it was sabotage rules of the game, in the end of the game,everyone become more and more distant. This article first discuss the original meaning of the game, to facilitate understanding of how the author used the "game" metaphor. In this novel, the game is not just with entertainment features， through a "a failure game", the authors show more deeply the two sides of modern modern psychology, on the one hand need their own space, yet is eager to communicate with others. This imbalance between the two is often the key that promote person to be lonely. Many deadlock difficult to break in the novel, become death situation of despair finally.