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Finn Harris is a brilliant retired engineer still mourning the death of his wife Rachael — a loss tied to the company he helped build. With little left to live for, his daughter pushes him into Awaken Online, a new virtual reality game developed by his former employer. Inside, Finn discovers a school for mages where students duel to the death and faculty maim novices without hesitation. Guided — and manipulated — by a fire deity, Finn must learn to fight, reclaim his purpose, and find a path to redemption before his time runs out.

Summoned after an unfortunate accident in hopes they could protect the world from a coming threat, Ben and his classmates are given another chance at life. With fame and fortune promised to whoever is willing to fight, the deal seems reasonable — except Ben wasn't blessed with magic or combat skills. Only crafting and enchanting. His skills are not useless, but they are not seen as necessary to the coming war. Cast aside and alone, Ben tries to find his place in the world while meeting some of its colorful characters along the way.

The year is 2032, and AI slop has won. Far from creating utopia, society has fractured into bots and culture wars. Enter Lana Zacanissian, corporate superstar and prophet of profits — creator of the largest IP aggregate marketplace in the world. After fleecing billions out of their life savings, she is judged by her coworkers and victims and tossed into Santa Monica Bay. When Lana opens her eyes again, she is in the body of a girl-child she does not recognize. A system message tells her she has unjustly ended another's Karmic Causality and usurped countless others through her boundless greed. She must live again to atone for her sins — or sink into eternal oblivion.

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in near-future South Africa, realizes something is terribly wrong on the network. Children — including her own brother Stephen — have logged into the net and cannot escape. Every clue points toward a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but every investigator who gets close ends up dead.

Barliona is a virtual world packed with monsters, battles, and millions of players seeking things they cannot find in real life — magic, dragons, and unforgettable combat. Players now choose to spend months inside without going home. The only rule was that no player could feel actual pain. But there is an exception: criminals are sent to Barliona to serve their sentences, locked in virtual mines, experiencing the game not as entertainment but as survival.

The game under the tree looked like a hundred others Peters and Judy had at home. But they were bored and looking for something interesting to do, so they gave Jumanji a try. Little did they know when they unfolded its ordinary-looking playing board that they were about to be plunged into the most exciting and bizarre adventure of their lives. Chris Van Allsburg's classic picture book explores the ever-shifting line between fantasy and reality, as a quiet house is taken over by an exotic jungle.

Martin Zheng has always held dying hands and listened for the hush that comes after the final heartbeat. It's his gift, his burden — until the night he gives his own life to shove a child away from speeding headlights and awakens in Death's embrace. She is Thanara: silver-haired, star-eyed, lonelier than the long darkness she guides. For one stolen moment, two caretakers share a tenderness deeper than fear. Then the cosmos declares his death "an error" and hurls him back to existence. Reborn as Mingxuan in the Elemental Realm — where sword-saints carve mountains and power is measured in the lives you can end — Martin remembers only fragments: a scent of rain-drenched lilacs, a pulse in his chest, a promise to meet Death again. While rival sects chase immortality, he walks the forbidden Dao of Death, mastering the grace of endings so he can stand beside the woman no one dares to love.

In a world of sky islands orbiting around a core of mist, humanity is besieged by countless threats. When a young girl from the slums unwittingly becomes one of those threats, she finds herself capable of horrific things that she cannot help but learn to love. Vigor Mortis is a lighthearted story about existential terror. Come for the horror, stay for the hope.

Miles "Shrug" Lindstrom received a quest years ago — he was the only person who could see the window, and in addition to the quest, he could also see a countdown to the end of the world. Part of him hoped he was just insane. Then the countdown stops, and what happens is nothing like he could have imagined. Miles prepared for almost any scenario, but a world full of monsters wasn't one of them. Will finishing his strange quest help him survive the chaos?

Lives are a currency, and Noah Vines is rich. After standing around in the afterlife for thousands of years, Noah is all out of patience. When the opportunity to steal a second chance at life arises, he doesn't hesitate. Reincarnated into the body of a dying magic school professor, Noah finds he got more than just a second chance — he got infinite. Every time he dies, his body reforms. With countless variations of runic magic to discover and with death serving as only a painful soul-wound rather than a final end, Noah finally has a chance to wander the lands of the living once more. This time around, he plans to get strong enough to make sure he never has to wait around in the afterlife again.

Ten years ago, the planet Jupiter vanished from the night sky. That same day, the Jovians announced their presence on Earth by gifting magical powers to teenage girls. Now they're more selective, choosing only adult women to join their war as magical girls and witches. Rachel has always been obsessed with magical girls, and that obsession became all-consuming when she learned her own roommate Sophia is secretly Strix Striga, one of the most powerful magical girls in North America. Sophia's double life leaves no time for Rachel — and the witches she fights get all the attention Rachel desperately craves. Now Rachel is a witch herself, with the Jovians taking a special interest in her. With their guidance and her own burning drive, she'll grow her power until she's ready to challenge the invincible Striga — and then Sophia will finally be hers.

When cultivators came to Earth they destroyed human civilization in a matter of hours. Armies fell, cities burned, and the moon turned red and filled the world with monsters. Now, over a decade later, what is left of humanity slaves under the heels of Qi-infused masters. One man wants none of it. Sick of serving and determined to make the cultivators pay, he is found by a fearsome goddess who shows him a different path — one that does not rely on Qi. Through blood, sweat, and pain, he will fight to take back the planet and free humanity, or die trying. That is the Path of a Berserker.

Lives are a currency, and Noah Vines is rich. Reincarnated into the body of a poisoned magic school professor, Noah is given more than just a second chance at life — every time he dies, his body reforms. With infinite variations of runic magic to discover and with death as a painful soul wound rather than a final end, Noah finally has a chance to wander the lands of the living once again. And this time, he plans to get strong enough to make sure he never has to wait around in the afterlife again.

Running a restaurant was hard, but it filled Clive's life with meaning — running through a portal was easy, but it filled his life with demons. Weak in a world full of strength, Clive and his friends rely on grit and determination as they navigate a brutal, war-torn land of magic in search of a way home. There is a problem, though: Clive's been cursed. A demonic knife wound catapults them into a race against time to find a cure, fighting their way across Falritas in need of friends and levels like there's no tomorrow. Set in a chaotic land ruled by ruthless gods, complete with game mechanics, a progression system, and empire-building, where demons, werewolves, dwarves, and elves roam.

If he had to be reborn in a fictional world, he would have preferred it to not be violent. Instead, he was reborn in Azeroth. If he had to be reborn in Azeroth, he would have preferred a society where he could live in peace. Instead, he was reborn in a kingdom fated to be destroyed by an evil necromancer building an undead army. And if he had to be reborn in such a kingdom, he would at least have preferred to be a human in Lordaeron. Instead, he was reborn as a nerubian in Azjol-Nerub. Join an unfortunate nerubian on his journey as he tries to live in a world that would very much prefer him to die.

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who makes an abnormal discovery: reality is nothing more than a computer program, and he can manipulate it. When his little 'tweaks' attract unwanted attention, he time-travels to Medieval England to pose as a wizard rather than face prosecution. An American hacker in King Arthur's court, Martin must train to become a full-fledged master of his powers, discover the truth behind the ancient wizard Merlin — and not, you know, die or anything.

A monster is born in the depths of the wilds, but she isn't like her siblings. Curiosity colors her every thought, and a hunger for understanding grows within this little creature. The world is full of wonders just waiting to be discovered — she's not just hunting for her next meal; her prey is something far greater: knowledge. But discovery alone is missing half the point. What joy is there in finding the next amazing thing when there's no one to share it with?

Marcus and his friends escape a stagnant society by diving into a revolutionary virtual reality game — but from the moment he logs in, Marcus finds himself separated from his group and thrown into a remote village under attack by goblins. Forced into battle, he rallies the beleaguered villagers and drives off the invaders. With the village in ruins, the survivors turn to Marcus for help rebuilding. Quickly realizing this game is unlike anything he has played before, he is swept up into a whirlwind of adventure as he struggles to defend his new home — and discovers that marauding goblins are the least of his problems.

The aliens didn't conquer Earth — they negotiated exclusive streaming rights instead. The powerful Voltaxians, whose empire is fueled by a monopoly on mana, offered humanity a deal: allow dungeons controlled by intelligent dungeon cores to be set up on Earth to generate mana, and they'd share the wealth. Now dungeon exploration is the world's hottest career, broadcast around the world and across the galaxy via Dungeon Core TV. Luther Miller, a finance guy who had no interest in dungeon diving, is about to discover that family honor and intergalactic revenge can intertwine in the dark depths of the dungeon.

In the Celestial Empire — a land ruled by Immortals and stalked by Spirits and Beasts — a young girl from the slums of an unimportant city is found to have the Talent. In the great Sect of Argent Peak, she will take her first unsteady steps upon the way. Can she learn not only to survive, but to thrive on her journey?