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'A Rounding Error has Occurred. Please Choose Your Apocalypse as Compensation.' Alex Johnson — a home-based IT worker — is thrown into a brutal LitRPG apocalypse and handed the chance to design his own end-of-days. Like choosing wallpaper for his personal inferno. Enemies, skill tree, sidekicks — all semi-customizable. Of course, the universe is cruel and capricious. Hidden forces are at play, uninvited and unwelcome, seeking to control his fate. So Alex is going to be fighting uphill, against the odds — and probably some interdimensional middle managers — from the word "go."

Thomas Grimshaw was on a climbing trip in Yosemite when the gods reshaped the Earth and imposed the rules of the Great Game. In an instant the world changed — terraformed, filled with danger, and governed by a new system of power and class. Thomas was granted a rare class option: Spellfletcher, an arcane arrowsmith built for survival in a harsh world. Why Earth? Why do the gods compete? Do humans have free will, or are they merely pawns? Thomas will uncover these mysteries in time. For now, simply surviving is the priority — but surviving can become thriving, and Thomas might discover the Great Game is one he can actually win.

The 42nd Merging arrives, mass-transporting every human to a hostile new world with a System. Everyone must choose a Class, and Quest directives compel them to climb leaderboards — including one for most kills of other people. Jordan isn't anyone special before the Merging, but the new start equalizes the playing field. He must exploit his versatile class to overcome powerful monsters, opportunistic killers, and hostile alien species who share the same leaderboards and the same final prize. For Jordan, surviving isn't enough. He must establish dominion over the new world — defending and expanding his territory so that he alone reigns above all.

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.

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.

Launch day. That was what they called it — the day over four million people vanished from Manhattan, the day a one-hundred-and-one-kilometre tower rose from the wreckage, and the day every screen displayed a single message: The Great Emperor has issued his challenge. A hundred floors and a hundred challenges await the worthy. To the victor goes a Wish of Unlimited Power. Cayden Caros yearned to play that game, but the Terms and Conditions barred anyone under sixteen from entering. Forced to wait two years, Cayden researched, practiced, and prepared — because when it came to catching up to players with a massive head start, being a SpeedRunner was a very particular kind of advantage.

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.

In a modern Korea where fifteen percent of humanity has awakened as Manaborn, rifts tear open across the city and the strong rise as Rifters. Sam Jimin, a poor orphan scraping by on the outskirts of Seoul, pinned everything on his Awakening. He received Rank E-1 — no skills, a dead end. Hidden behind that humiliating result, however, is a Unique Skill no one has ever seen: Skillmaster, the ability to create and edit skills at a cost only he can pay. With nothing left to lose, he gambles everything on it — fighting his way up through academies, guild politics, and rising threats, skill by skill and battle by battle.

Eve Redding was seized in a dirty alley and injected with a virtual reality chip, a GPS tracker, and her first Seed — making her a Player. At first she loved the miraculous ability to level up any aspect of herself. Then she was yanked off her world and sent to fight for her life on a vicious alien planet, where other Players are just as dangerous as the monsters, and failure means death. Eve is the type to cling to life by the tips of her bloody fingernails — and she hates it when people try to control her.

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.

The Integration tore the Earthen Union apart — monsters, mayhem, and madness turned civilization into a battlefield. Yet while the world crumbled, David felt strangely at home. Forced into the Cleric class, David refused to yield. He adapted, turning unwanted gifts into tools of both healing and destruction, forging himself into a battle-hardened healer unlike any before.

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.

Eric Peters has been reborn — sent back in time to change humanity's fate. After experiencing a future where all of humanity's planets and colonies had been purged, Eric refused to fall, and an Entity chose him to be humanity's last hope. The Reborn are galactic boogiemen — myths used to terrify children and curb the aggression of advanced alien civilizations, usually granted powers able to destroy star systems. But in Eric's case, the Entity gave him abilities barely classed as special. With only his memories and a couple of minor boons, he must survive evil elements within humanity, circling alien races, and change history enough so that when the Traclaon Empire declares war, his species can fight back.

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?

Luke Quinn is twenty-six, broke, and a disappointment to everyone — himself most of all. A promising med student turned burger flipper, he carries guilt over the sister he couldn't cure. Everything changes when an impossible broadcast interrupts every screen on Earth, announcing a "System Integration" and inviting humanity to touch mysterious orbs appearing in every city. Monsters. Magic. Classes. Levels. Earth is no longer just a planet. With nothing left to lose, Luke becomes something vanishingly rare: a healer. But this isn't a game — healing takes nerve, precision, and pain. Luke must master his intricate Lifeweaver powers while navigating a volatile tutorial and a still-intact society scrambling to make sense of it all.

Pulled from the point of death and thrust into a horde-mode-style survival game, Benny White's odds aren't looking too great. To make matters worse, an eldritch entity named 'Dave' has tasked him with destroying the very System that now controls his fate. Benny's experience as a lab tech grants him a rare Splicer Class that lets him repurpose the genetic material of slain enemies into augments for himself — bone claws, blood-bullet turrets, and skeletal hydra heads. There's also his Flesh Golem summon, a six-foot mound of muscle called Meat. The entire galaxy is watching. Welcome to the Game of Souls, where the only prize is to survive.

Ten years ago, the world changed. The System brought dungeons and monsters to Earth, and billions were lost. While most survivors try to rebuild, Claire chooses to take revenge on the people who took advantage of orphans in the chaos — one hundred names, one hundred targets. In this often brutal story about a world in chaos, Claire will kill every target on her list. No matter what it takes.

Garath was a gamer who spent his time adventuring in magical worlds behind a keyboard — until the planet he actually inhabited became drastically more interesting. The ability to shapeshift into a house cat or summon a demon were things that only existed in video games, until they weren't. More akin now to the RPG games he loved than the 9-to-5 grind he'd woken up to, Earth has been fundamentally altered. He's a quick study, though, and learns fast that this new Earth isn't just fun and games. Garath and a motley crew of friends and neighbors must band together, using their new abilities to hold off increasingly deadly waves of monsters.

Sterling Monedero is not your typical necromancer. Even with the game system and mancer class forced onto him by the skyscraper-sized alien monoliths known as Godwalkers, he just wants to farm peppers in peace. He tried the revenge thing five years ago and failed miserably. But when the Godwalkers return for their own revenge — and Killbilly bandits show up to impose a pepper tax — the tough-as-bones loner decides enough is enough. It's time to reassemble the team and put an end to the alien threat once and for all. Set in a richly imagined post-apocalyptic New Mexico, this LitRPG western blends superpowered mancers, terrifying skeletal hybrids called amalgamations, and a heavy dose of Southwestern mysticism.