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The battle against the Kobar Empire was utterly lost, and as Luca lay dying a strange blue screen appeared: he had the aptitude to be a Player, and if he accepted, the game would reset. He accepted — and the reset went wrong, leaving him as only a partial player: Active Players: 0.4. Luca is neither clever nor strong. He will die. A lot. But with enough resets, he'll learn and grow. A slow-burning, character-driven story about an underdog using time-loop deaths to inch toward something better.

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.

Each year, the Nightlords choose a new Emperor to rule Yohuachanca — a life of delicious food, beautiful company, and priestly counsel. It is good, luxurious, and short. At the year's end, the emperor is sacrificed under the light of the Scarlet Moon. Iztac is the piss-poor orphan chosen to be this year's emperor. But the Nightlords have made a mistake: Iztac is a sorcerer, whose soul journeys into the underworld to plunder the spells of the dead. There, in the darkness, hides the power to drag the Nightlords off their throne. He has a year to find it — or perish for good.

The chronicles of one very exasperated Dungeon Core — formerly a human of Planet Earth — who just wants to build in peace. Unfortunately, even with a cheat, life isn't quite that charmed.

Li Hao is transmigrated into a Xianxia cultivation world and thrust into the life of a servant in the Azure Cloud Sect. He has the worst quality trash five-element spiritual roots — in any other's position, he'd be chopping wood and eating inferior pills for the rest of his life. However, he binds with a system that can upgrade everything. A burnt, poisonous pill? One upgrade away from a priceless Marrow Cleansing Elixir. An old cracked butter knife? A few upgrades from a blade that slices through Demonic Serpent Scales. With his upgrade ability, Li Hao climbs through a world of sects, clans, and royal dynasties in constant war — accumulating magic items, spirit stones, and wealth along the way.

A new mother who recently hit rock bottom is whisked to a new world of magic and monsters. Her prodigious intelligence earns her a free magical skill, and though she puts it to great use, she soon discovers that in this new land, magic is the highest taboo imaginable — and for a good reason. She learns quickly that she will have to be the bigger monster to protect the only thing in her life worth protecting: her child. With her particular set of skills, there's an unending tide of enemies waiting to take a piece of her.

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.

Lucas is a dick, but you would be too if you died in a meth lab explosion and found yourself in a fantasy world. Now, with only his ruthlessness and an ever-increasing body of alchemical knowledge, he has to make his way in this new world — because being poor sucks no matter where you are. He has no idea what's going to happen, but he isn't dying again, because he already knows the afterlife is pretty much bullshit.

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.

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 the dark caverns of a secluded dungeon, Click the spider is born with the impossibly rare gift of great Intelligence. Only the strongest of monsters can hope to survive in the savage dungeon, and Click must make the most of their unique abilities to come out on top — or at least alive. Click can best be described as Lawful-Neutral, finding merit in making and benefitting from allies rather than trampling everything underfoot. Not a hero, but definitely not a mindlessly evil villain.

In a world of myths, gods, and demons, only power counts — the weak are worse than cattle, and survival of the fittest is the only law. A lonely child is born with a strange power that places him between light and darkness, shunned by his own people for what he can do. This is not a story of a noble man doing good amid monsters. It is a story of a demon who was, perhaps, kinder than the rest.

It's Drop Night — the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. If you get a deck, you're a deckbearer capable of wondrous feats within the Great Game system: controlling powerful monsters and summoning mantles to fight alongside your beasts. Ethan Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked twice. When he finally gets a deck, there's no time to celebrate — the rival gang has six deckbearers and they're cutting in on the family's trade. And things might get worse when everyone figures out he received an ultra-rare card.

The Gods were believed to be immortal — so far beyond the natural laws of the universe that their crimes went unpunishable. A clock hung over every mortal, counting down to the day the Goddess of Death claimed them. Knell Coda was never born in the normal sense. He came into the world outside the reach of the gods, to a family that had committed the cardinal sin of defying them. Their meddling wound the hands on a new clock — one that hung above the heads of the gods themselves, because of one secret Knell uncovered: the Gods can be tricked, defeated, and killed. To most, seeking the head of a goddess would be madness. To Knell, it is an inevitability.

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.

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.

When Jake is sentenced to a virtual world for crimes he definitely did commit, he finds that one bad decision puts him on a path he never would have chosen. Virtual reality worlds have become the preferred way of disposing of excess people, and Jake lands in the swords-and-sorcery world of Tarinath — not as the warrior he would have preferred, but as a healer with little ability to deal the damage he so desperately wants to.

Built to be a killer. Learning to be something more. Better equipped for making people disappear than making small talk, cybernetic hitman Agent W faces a problem his shotgun-arm can't solve: the superhero Rockslide moves in next door. With his work for the elusive Boss creating friction with the League of Heroes, his once-simple life of completing kill contracts grows murky as an overly-friendly super's advances begin surfacing memories of his forgotten past.

A soldier wins an afterlife lottery and is given the chance to live again in another universe — the Star Wars galaxy — with access to lite-Gamer powers. Beginning almost four thousand years before the Prequels, the story follows an original character navigating a far-future iconic setting. The RPG system is present throughout but gradually pulls back as the character and world take center stage over the course of the long-running narrative.

October, 2042. In two weeks, a nine-mile-wide asteroid will end the world. Robert Osmark — billionaire tech genius — has been preparing for this moment since the asteroid first appeared, building digital salvation in the form of an ultra-immersive fantasy VRMMORPG called Viridian Gate Online. Robert intends to lead this new world himself. But even with every advantage in his favor, he faces powerful opposition. A rogue faction of global elites led by a US Senator is recruiting dangerous allies, undercutting Robert's efforts, and hiring VGO's most deadly assassins to seize power for themselves. To win, Osmark must viciously crush all opposition before his plans turn to ash.