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Joseph Sullivan is at an all-time low: lost his job, fiancée dumped him, moved back to his parents' basement. Then the System arrives and Earth becomes a playing field in a contest among the gods. Provided the ideal stat array for a physical combat class, the choice is obvious — until Joe fat-thumbs the selection screen and ends up with Spellcaster. His starting Intelligence stat: 1. With a useless class and only his raw strength to back him up, Joe decides class optimization is for dummies. He pumps every stat point into Strength and sets out to win the whole damned thing. A real wizard should be measured by how much he can bench.

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.

Thirteen years ago, the Lich Queen was merely Kai's quiet, awkward classmate at Lokora's Magic Academy. He should have defended her from her bullies. Luna's lich transformation killed thirteen people, burned the academy to disbandment, and left Kai in a coma — waking with an odd power: the ability to witness traumatic events through the eyes of the victim. When Luna returns to Lokora, Kai's power offers an unexpected opportunity: to return to the past, into the classroom where Luna is still a fourteen-year-old despised prodigy sitting alone at lunch. This time, Kai sets out to stop her transformation — until he learns that bullying alone may not have been what pushed her to darkness.

Divorced and working as a security guard in Portland, 73-year-old Carl is attacked by an unknown creature before managing to taser it to death. After being released from the hospital, he discovers by accident that he is unwittingly acquiring DNA samples from the people he touches — and a blue box appears in his right eye. The blue boxes reveal that his health is nowhere near what he assumed. Can he reverse the negative aspects using this strange system? And can he turn around his poor financial situation after his wife took half his pension just before retirement? A LitRPG slice-of-life following Carl as he discovers new ways of living life when he's nearing the end of his own.

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.

Trevor Anderson is just another normal, overworked retail worker. All he wants is his promised promotion, some vacation time, and space for his hobbies. A workplace accident changes everything — including the world he lives in. After bungles his way through a summoner's questionnaire and gains the Power of an extradimensional inventory, he lands in the peaceful town of Tosa. In a world where he can finally relax, he finds himself both unable and unwilling to sit still long enough to do it.

Renee 'Nay' Favreau wanted to be a respected chef with a renowned taco truck. After a deadly encounter with an interdimensional spider, she finds herself in a dangerous new world full of magic and mayhem. She discovers she has the rare power to become an Epicurist — one of the special chefs who can prepare magical meals that give the cultivators known as Marrow Eaters their powers. To survive the heat, she must navigate a world full of gods and monsters.

Faust aims for the Nascent Soul realm — satisfied if he can achieve a level that commands respect across the continent and pass on peacefully in old age. In preparation for his younger sister entering the sect, he pushes for his breakthrough and enters the Inner Sect of the Clear Mirror Sect. The new disciple intake, however, is unlike any before it: prodigies from prestigious clans and talents from across the continent, some even matching the great sects. Heaven's Gaze itself is fixated on the new disciples, signalling a heaven's favoured among them. Faust sweats as he worries whether his plan to live leisurely and raise his family into a fledgling Nascent Soul clan will survive the chaos that's coming.

Eunora Dawn is born a noble in the kingdom of Maeve. On her 8th birthday, when she unlocks the System, memories of her past life as a strong-willed, fulfilled woman flood her mind and all but overwrite her personality. Filled with existential dread and grief over losing her past loved ones, she must find something she cares about — anything — to get her out of bed. Sent across Maeve as an exile, Nora must rein in her anger at her family and the Gods, or risk losing herself again. Armed with a Rare Class and a depth of life experience, she faces cursed forests, her own body betraying her, and the slow work of growing into who she wants to be. A slow-paced, character-driven isekai following one woman's second chance at life in a world that keeps testing her.

You ever had one of those days where you wake up in a strange place, wearing strange clothes, trapped in the body of a young master in a cultivation universe? Our narrator wakes up in exactly that situation — inhabiting the body of Xian Qigang, a young master so awful he apparently kicked puppies for breakfast. If Xian Qigang's powerful family ever discovers what's happened, kicked puppies will be the least of his worries. Fortunately, he has an ally: Meng Yi, Manager and Head Servant of Xian Qigang's estate. With her on his side, he just might survive this madness in one piece.

Roth used to be a successful gamer with a short fuse and a nasty temper — until his rage cost him his friends, job, family, and freedom. After four years in prison, he leaves as a more peaceful man. But sins have a way of catching up. When Roth finds himself locked inside the new MMORPG AstroTerra with no way out, his refusal to hurt anyone or anything inside the game becomes both his greatest constraint and his defining principle. His journey through a sci-fi fantasy cyberpunk world becomes a story of how a man can achieve success on his own terms without compromising what he believes.

Lianthorn Belladonna could have been so many things — an artist, a mage, a gardener. Instead, his family sealed his future, trapping him in a life of scheming, poison, and murder. On the cusp of completing his poisonous masterpiece, he makes a choice that changes everything. He flees the gilded cage of their family manor and seeks refuge in a quiet frontier town, where the name Belladonna means nothing. With his family's infamous scarlet-bound recipe book hidden away, he attempts to forget the toxins and discover the simple joy of helping people. Out on the frontier — and in the company of a red-scaled Draconian carpenter with fire powers — 'helping people' will require all his skills, including the alchemy he worked so hard to escape.

Nero has been transported to a world built on fantasy instead of physics — a society focused on self-improvement and cooperation, with competent administration and opinions based on rational argument. He's not prepared for any of it. While the world is big and full of characters, Nero would mostly prefer to ignore what's going on around him and focus on learning magic. Allies will assist him and mentors will guide him, but the leveling system he keeps trying to avoid turns out to be far more complex than it first appears. A slow-burn story following an internet troll with a heart of fool's gold, forced to grow up by circumstance and the people around him.

A human dies, a demon wakes up. Strong, fast, immortal, naturally talented in magic, capable of picking up languages with ease — what's not to love? It's hard to enjoy life when nothing causes real enjoyment anymore, and your emotions are dim, distant, and foreign. This is a story about a man turned demon, trying to find a way to keep himself together and maybe, one day, reclaim the humanity he lost.

A new Dungeon comes into being beneath the ground of Nerian-Silex. Following its strange instincts and system, it expands, grows, and tests those who enter its domain. Yet something about this Dungeon is different — something it doesn't know itself, yet instantly noticeable to those beyond its border. That strangeness may be the key to breaking through the barrier of nine, or the spark that ignites a continent-spanning war. For now, though, it is busy carving out an underground castle and has little time to listen to the cacophony overhead.

The cycle is simple: a Dungeon Core is born, seeks power, accumulates wealth, descends into darkness, and is eventually quelled by adventurers. All cores desire power. This one seems to have it backwards. It has no desire to rule, enslave, or conquer — it wants to start a corporation. When money is power, what greater weapon is there than capitalism? Join a dungeon core on its journey to earn fat stacks while going to absurd lengths to avoid being evil.

When Joe is transported to an alternate Earth full of magic and light RPG elements, he just wants to build a comfortable life. He begins to put down roots and make friends in the port city of Lockwood. But can he make a home for himself when fire spirits scorch his bathroom, demon dogs trample his rose garden, and countless other magical mayhem threatens his peace?

It was just supposed to be a quick trip to the pet store, but the universe had other plans for Florence Valentine. After being killed by a delivery truck, she finds herself reborn not as an angel in heaven but as a dungeon core — whatever that is. Now people keep coming into her new home, wrecking stuff, and stealing from her. But Florence can decorate her home with a thought, and she can create the best things in the universe: kitty-cats. Should these hooligans keep insisting on coming in, Florence and her kitties are going to have something to say about that.

Mana exists, and its arrival triggered a cosmic event that burst through numerous realities, bringing upheaval and turmoil to all within its path. Transported from Earth under mysterious circumstances, Sloane and her daughter Gwyn arrived in the world of Eona only to find themselves separated from each other. Forced to venture on desperate quests to find one another, mother and daughter each embark on magical adventures across a continent rife with power struggles, where ancient kingdoms and guilds scramble to adapt to the sudden arrival of magic. A hardware engineer by trade, Sloane must use skills learned over a long career to craft any edge she can against beings who have thrived using weapons long since obsolete on Earth.

Mark Careed has dreamed of being a hero since he was eight years old — fighting monsters outside the city walls, going anywhere he wanted instead of only where it was safe, standing shoulder to shoulder with the real heroes against kaijus. Now almost 18, Mark is close to taking the real Tutorial and Awakening his Power. But his hopes collapse when the False Tutorial estimates his future Power as a brawny — simply a stronger human, the fate of 90% of humanity. Mark refuses to accept it. Determined to change his fate, he sets out to do something drastic: seek help from an archmage, a true Hero of Humanity. A story of exploration, slice of life, kaijus, magic, other worlds, trauma, and growth.