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The gods have gotten bored, and humanity is the answer. One morning Charles wakes up to find the world has been redesigned — the gods of old decided to remake how it worked, and half the world's population is already dead. Everyone else received a message in their vision when it happened. Only Charles got cursed by the gods, and only Charles got a personal visit from one. The Game of the Gods has begun, and the monsters of old are returning to our world.

A hundred years ago, thirteen towers arrived on Earth. Each year at noon on the summer solstice, the tower gates open, admitting any who wish to climb. Those who survive return with incredible powers and riches. Over the decades, the worlds inside the towers have leaked free, changing Earth and her inhabitants. Except for the Thirteenth Tower — the Unconquered Tower. Nobody has ever left it. Every year it leeches more life out of the world, turning the American Southwest into a growing graveyard. If it isn't cleared, it will consume the planet. Roan doesn't care about that. The tower has long been the gravestone for his family, as generations have tried to best it and save their ancestral homes. All he wants is to put one burning question to rest: are they dead? He only needs to clear the tower to find out.

updated book at: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73967/somebody-stop-her-superheroes-apocalypse [This is a placeholder archive backup of an old book, kept here only to fight copyright trolls in the future]

When the power grid fails and a mysterious virus runs rampant, society collapses almost overnight. Among the survivors: a family scrambling for shelter, two orphan girls trying to last the winter, a drunk plotting revenge against the raiders who killed his parents, and a televangelist fleeing a rumored nuclear strike. Slowly their paths converge. A new world will be born from the ruins—but not all of them will make it.

Still reeling from the death of his parents, Jake finds a doorway to an abandoned space station in his grandfather's basement — and when he walks through, he discovers he's trapped there with company. The station's AI enlists Jake to reclaim the systems needed to support life, but he has only eight hours to complete the task or he'll die alone in the cold vacuum of space. With only a wrecking bar, work boots, and basic survival equipment, he must defeat the horrific monsters infesting the station before his air runs out. Hidden somewhere in the station is also a message that could spell doom for Earth and the entire universe.

Logan was kicking back with a beer on his dock when the System Integration transformed his world. The planet became a sci-fi movie overnight — powers, levels, and impossible messages from an entity called the System that has deemed humanity a plague. Each day the dissolution of society gets worse, and in 365 days only the top-rated 1% will survive. Logan could accept his lot and go along with the flow, but he's worked out how to manipulate his new world: baseball bats with nails, cleavers, weed whackers — whatever it takes. He's good at killing things, and when the System threatens his sister and her kids, he'll show it what an idiot can really do. Features a bonded murderhobo octopus and a sentient weapon with murderous intentions toward the MC's friends.

A struggling author transmigrates into the world of Solo Player, the massively popular novel she read to improve her craft. She doesn't become the protagonist or a villain. She becomes the protagonist's sister — the most worthless character in the story, a burden universally hated by readers, and someone fated to die no matter what path she takes. Armed with full knowledge of the story's events, she has one goal: not only to survive, but to surpass every limit and rewrite the terrible ending. Her ridiculously overprotective brother — the world's strongest solo player — is the main obstacle. The Constellations watching from above are another problem entirely, bombarding her with gifts and sponsorships as though she's a top-tier celebrity streamer.

Gage came home to the Ozarks to mend fences with old friends. Then a solar storm reconnects Earth to the Fae Nexus, engulfing the world in magical energy. Fuel, ammunition, and electronics explode, plunging everything into a dark apocalypse. As the fires die down, demons pour through the Nexus and enslave the survivors of Gage's hometown. To fight back, Gage and his reunited friends harness Fae powers, taking on the classes they have always played in their favorite tabletop RPG — Wizard, Ranger, and Fighter. With a pair of moonshiners turned Alchemists and the ghost of a long-dead gunslinger at their side, they must level up fast to free their families and defend their home from the demonic horde.

The world didn't end with a bang. Instead it suffocated slowly — a long fight for survival against monsters and others like them. Isaac experienced it all from the beginning. While humanity scrambled to understand the Contamination Zones overtaking the Earth, he fought for his life and tried to embrace the Virus that had become part of him. Origins, Legacies, attributes — familiar terms that meant little at first, but that quickly changed. Humanity adapted, monsters died, and Isaac? For the first time in his life, he was searching. Searching for a purpose, a goal. And if that journey began with hundreds of monsters lying dead at his feet — so be it.

Astrid, a mischievous noble teen, has trained her whole life to become a magic swordswoman and explore the ancient cities preserved beneath the waves — remnants of an age before the ocean swallowed the world. When an ancient monster assaults humanity's last bastion, a floating ship-city, she awakens her System early. She isn't the warrior she expected to become. She is a Psychokinetic Mage. With Spawn-infested oceans, pirates, and monsters lurking in the submerged cities below, Astrid will have to master psychic powers all the way to the apex — and discover that her world is far larger than anyone imagined.

Wynne might have been human once — it's hard to say. Now he's a bunker core, a nanomachine controller responsible for an entire complex. The place is a bit wrecked. The world outside is ruins. Whoever put him there is probably coming to look for him. And then there are the raiders. Dungeon core meets post-apocalyptic survival. Come for the mutants, stay for the dystopian adventure.

In a cosmos fractured into human subspecies — shaped by extreme worlds and locked into brutal caste and race-purity hierarchies — an RPG-based System reigns supreme. Its second law forbids all automation: every machine, every spell, every tool must be guided by a living hand. Hope is a street-raised orphan from a dead-rock wasteland. Hurled onto an Earth-like planet full of grass, clouds, and color he has never seen, he must heed the ping of system messages, hunt and be hunted, and level up in a place built to test him. The planet-side survival arc gives way, in time, to the spacefaring world of feudal space pirates that defines his fate.

What's worse than Australian wildlife? Mutated Australian wildlife. The System Apocalypse has come to Australia, altering native organisms and importing even more menacing creatures to the world's most dangerous continent. For Kira Kent, plant biologist, the System arrives while she's pulling an all-nighter at work with her two kids in tow. Now, instead of worrying about childcare and bills, she must figure out how to survive a world where already-deadly flora and fauna have grown even more perilous — all while navigating the System's blue screens, leveling up, and building a community of survivors to shelter her son and daughter.

Constructing a portal is a monumental undertaking, yet the Forerunners have guided dozens of civilizations to that end and know exactly what is needed: thousands of laborers, hundreds of brilliant artisans, dozens of powerful mages. As the culmination of years of work, they tear a hole in the fabric between realities and travel between worlds. There is simply no reasonable way for only five people — prepared for a standard Isekai scenario yet now stranded on a hostile and alien world where mere survival is a challenge — to ever build a portal. But reasonable people don't become Forerunners.

There is one thing Lucius values above all else: beauty. As the humble owner of a flower boutique — one with a bloody secret hiding underneath — he is surrounded by all the beauty he could ever want. Flowers, art, people — everything in no short supply. When he is suddenly whisked away into the sky along with the rest of humanity and forced to participate in a series of games, trials, and adventures into foreign dimensions, Lucius discovers a new frontier. A wide universe, unique lands brimming with beautiful, blossoming souls. With style, grace, and gentlemanly candor, he seeks to draw out the inner beauty in all — and will not rest until they bloom as their truest selves.

When magic returned to Earth, it woke things that ought to have stayed sleeping — like the cadavers Selena Serrano's med-school class was supposed to be dissecting. With the electric grid down and gunpowder no longer exploding, goblins, undead, and dragons roam a changed world. To survive the Magipocalypse, Selena will need to understand magic, harness it, and in the process become something more than she was. Welcome to the Accidental Necromancer.

Wheelchair-bound and terminally ill, Clover wanted nothing more than a normal life. Then the System violently appeared, scrambling Earth's geography and unleashing hordes of monsters. Amidst the chaos, Clover has one goal: raise his level high enough to cure everything his failing body is plagued with. The only problem — how is a skinny guy in a wheelchair supposed to slay dragons and win sword fights?

In New London, year 2493, Nicolai is a centuries-old killer whose brain was implanted into the body of Zero-Twelve, a militarized killbot. Numb and apathetic, he is a cog in the machine — until Heaven arrives and the Great Game begins, and he is reborn as a human, his old body recreated along with the madness and blood rage that characterized his past. Given one direction — find the Lizard — Nicolai is thrown into Nightmare, a world of cultivation, undead, demons, spirit beasts, sects, and clans. He finds himself in a decaying castle constructed by a mysterious people, now filled with purposeless undead caught in an ancient war entering its final stages. For Nicolai, this new world is a dream come true. After a century trapped in metal, he is free — and he can resume his endless goal: to become the greatest fighter alive.

In a galaxy forsaken, infernal gateways tear the world asunder, unleashing Hell's legions to crush all in their grasp. From the ashes, Theosis — the Divine System and God's voice in the temporal realm — ascends, forging a grand Empire and waging four millennia of merciless Holy War against the Underworld's evil. Far from the Empire's light, on a savage world, Angar is forged in fury as a gateway to the abyss tears his homeland apart. His maul thunders with unyielding hate, offering crimson tithes to the Lord as he carves a blood-soaked path to glory — or damnation. A new Crusader rises.

In the sleepy town of Saint Mary, the Kilborne superhero family's new neighbors are more than just odd — they're supervillains. School would be a breeze for Martin Kilborne if it weren't for Alexa Terranova, his raygun-toting classmate who recruited him as her minion. Martin becomes quickly tangled in Alexa's supervillain plots: stealing an ice cream van, destroying the Superstate, and bewildering time-travel escapades leaping between his Earth and a dead world 400 years in the future. His life transforms from mundane to madcap — an ever-accelerating train ride with no brakes, packed with adventure, dark comedy, and post-apocalyptic cosmic horror.