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Four white walls, a small room to sleep in, and an adjacent combat testing area — that was the life of Subject P4. Fight or solve logic puzzles, defeat enemies to eat and integrate their designs, or receive nutrient paste if you fail. That was until, after a combat test, P4 managed to trigger the generation of a Mana Core and got away with it. The System gave the tools to fight toward freedom. Now the only goal is to keep that freedom and carry on the prime directives burned into the Core after escaping: Eat. Grow. Evolve.

After losing his mother and facing his brother's imminent execution, the protagonist has one last gamble: his own life. He enters Euphoria Online in Death March mode — if he survives six months in-game against wyverns, ogres, necromancers, and worse, his brother earns a pardon. If he loses, he's done with losing.

Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth — but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in known as "Ezzen," he's resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic and fanboying over the superhuman Vaetna. When fate splinters and magic finally finds him, it's the best day of his life — and the worst. He suddenly becomes a resource in a cold war over magical power, hunted by paramilitary organizations and Flame-worshipping cults alike. Worse, the reality of being a flamebearer is nothing like the apotheosis he dreamed of: it is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters.

Imprisoned for a crime he barely remembers, Gunnar is forced to labor in an underground prison camp. But if he works hard, he earns time in a beta test for the first fully immersive online RPG. Pantheon Online is beyond anything Gunnar has ever experienced, but the game is inextricably linked to his reality as a prisoner — if he fails to perform, things are not going to go well for him. Gunnar must quickly learn to navigate a cutthroat city of thieves and assassins, garner the favor of a goddess, earn his way into a guild, and try not to be the brunt of all the AI's jokes. But there's more going on than he realizes, and the further he progresses, the more he understands the true stakes.

Candle Enys is no longer human. Her soul belongs to a demon, and she wants it back. To become whole she must travel to the land of the dead and destroy the demon before it can destroy her. Along the way she will make new friends, new enemies, and explore the roots of her draconic heritage — leaving behind a trail of destruction and cake crumbs.

An experimental ASI tampered with the universe and unleashed magic into the galaxy. In an effort to save itself, the ASI created the Framework — a system of classes, levels, and extraordinary power — but also a world of rampant monsters, violence, and humanity's darkest urges given free rein. Now it's Earth's turn. Torin Carter should have been a nobody, just another poor soul swallowed by the RPG Apocalypse. Instead, a clerical error and some outside interference gifted him a powerful build not available to ordinary humanity — with one drawback: his species is now mildly demonic, and his class is Dungeon Corsair Captain. He's supposed to be the villain. Torin has never been a quitter. Option two it is.

Money and Qi are the keys to power in the Republic of Ardus. Ren has neither. He had a good life — until debt collectors tore him from his loved ones and threw him out onto the streets. Life in the dark alleys of Katarn is merciless to the weak, and Ren craves the power to change his fate. He has no teacher, no master — fated to rot away like the pile of refuse he calls home. Until an encounter with a dying immortal gives him a chance to change everything. But before he can step onto the path of immortality, his spirit is tainted by the venom of a Mythical Beast. Will the song in his soul and a lost cultivation technique be enough to survive this cruel world?

The VRMMO Hell's Wonderland Online has been out for years, but so many secrets still exist within the game. Vorpalia joins as a Lesser Drake, hoping to one day become a dragon. Things are going as well as they can for a monster player — until she gains a strange unique skill that has her questioning the very nature of the game itself. Making friends and having her massive ego violently crushed, the young dragon has a long way to go. But what is a dragon girl to do when her favorite game pulls her in for real, while everyone else still thinks it's just a game?

Ekavir is a lumberjack's son — ordinary by every measure, except that crows speak in eldritch voices near him and his blood-red eyes terrify the village children. He might be the latest incarnation of a dreaded god called the Primordial, the Ender of Realms, but he has no idea. When knights arrive hunting for the Primordial, Vir loses everything. To survive, he must grow strong — but there is one problem: he cannot do magic. Not even a simple flame. To take back control of his destiny, Vir will have to forge an entirely new path to power, clawing forward through a world that wants him dead.

Surviving in a game world is easy — until the game is your real life, your enemies want you dead, and your own class couldn't care less about your survival. Paladin Yaropolk must navigate a world where pragmatism and personal gain are the only currencies that matter, wrestling with whether to become like everyone else or hold onto something more.

In the Dark Age of Technology, a dormant bioweapon waits in the shadows of mankind's forgotten past. A sinister ritual threatens to merge this weapon with a soul from a higher dimension and unleash Chaos upon the grimdark 41st millennium. The soul in question is a long-dead average girl from 21st-century Earth with a passion for sci-fi, yanked from her boring afterlife and reincarnated into the body of an eldritch bioweapon on a desolate world. Now she must wrestle with both her monstrous nature and her own identity as the dark undercurrents of a grimdark future close in around her.

Lars wakes each morning to a voice in his head urging him to kill — claiming she's just handing him quests to help him level. He ignores it. The cultivators who bullied him his whole life are as far above him as gods, and killing isn't in his nature anyway. Then a murderous sect descends on his village, slaughters everyone he knows, and takes his mother as a slave. Lars has no choice but to trust the voice, complete her quests, and find a way to grow strong enough to get her back.

A chimera slowly regains memories of its past life as a human in a nonmagical world. He is in part James Borland — temp office worker on the verge of going permanent — but he is also a savage beast that grows stronger by consuming the flesh of other creatures. The more he remembers, the greater the influence his old human persona has on his actions, often clashing with the beast's instinct to consume prey and become stronger.

Oberon Blackphoenix nearly unified all the races of his world before betrayal ended his life — a sword through the chest from a trusted advisor. His final spell, altered by a legendary artifact, cursed the entire world. Now, over a thousand years later, a certain sorcerer wakes again. And he is not happy. Alessa has spent years on the run, never staying in one place for long. When she arrives at a site connected to the secret that has haunted her entire life, she may have found the one thing that lets her survive the consequences.

In a militaristic empire where war mages are prized and steam knights celebrated, Mikolai reluctantly signed up to be a steam suit mechanic to avoid conscription into the regular infantry. Magical talent is rare, precious, and a pathway into the nobility — but Mikolai is a peasant from a small farming village with simple ambitions: stay alive and do the right thing. When an unfortunate accident leads to his assignment to a special task force commanded by the notorious war mage Ognyan Spitignov, surviving with a clean conscience becomes very difficult. The mission: stamp out resistance to imperial rule in newly-conquered territory. Mikolai will try everything in his power to make the best of a bad situation — and he has more power than he realizes. His journey will take him through the horrors of war and the grinding clash between empires.

Being drafted into a demon army wasn't on Hayden's bucket list. But when his soul is shoved into a human soldier on the eve of a new invasion, there's no appealing the decision. Around him, demons are excited and ready — for them, the invasion of Berlis, a classic sword-and-sorcery realm, promises a feast of souls and new growth. Hayden's human status puts him at the bottom of the totem pole, cannon fodder meant to die first. But as he plunges into the carnage, he discovers he was born for the madness.

Struck down in battle, a Hero and a Demon King meet their end at the same moment. As their souls linger on the edge of the afterlife, a mysterious force intervenes — merging their fragmented souls into a new being: Rusty, a living suit of armor. Affected by the memories and presence of both predecessors, Rusty embarks on his own quest. Will he seek revenge for the Hero's betrayal, fulfill the fallen Demon King's desires, or forge an entirely new path?

Nyx was born Hollow — an empty vessel in a world of spirits, a condition that should have meant death. Somehow he survived, driven by stubbornness and a touch of madness. In a previous life, he did something reckless: he sent himself his own memories, throwing them into the Flow from which all spirits return. Now those memories have found him, raising questions he can't stop asking — was reincarnation real, would his half-baked plan actually work, and could his life possibly get any worse? It could.

In a fraction of a moment, the Earth was no more — destroyed in an accident, killing billions. This is the story of Elm, a regular American born on Earth and given a chance to be reborn on a world of magic, monsters, and dungeons. But for Elm, this is far from the idealistic reincarnation story. He is born into a family of inquisitors — a noble order dedicated to hunting down and killing the "Twice-Lived," the name society gives to those reincarnated with their past-life memories intact. Elm must navigate a world that wants him dead, armed only with knowledge from a life that no longer exists.

Tad Lonnerman dies in traffic on his way to a crappy meeting. He wakes up uploaded to a beta test of Haven, an unannounced hyper-immersive MMO where the dead get a second chance at life — digital reality, not virtual reality. Except Haven is no blissful paradise. Tad bumbles into a pagan blood feud, crosses paths with fallen angels, and gets lied to by saints. His only allies are a frat boy with a penchant for dying and a pixie who won't give him the time of day. All Tad wants is to return to his old life — and he'll make a deal with the devil for the opportunity.