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In the United States, the Center for Dungeon Management (CDM) handles everything related to gates: licensing crawlers, enforcing harvester safety standards, and prosecuting gate crashers — people who enter dungeons without licenses. Dorion wants to join a guild or crawl team, but to do that he needs levels. Since he can't afford a crawler license or gate fees, he signs on with the Pittsburgh branch of the CDM. By day he's a cog in the machine of dungeon bureaucracy; by night he volunteers to cull unclaimed gates. When his little sister appears on his doorstep, his goal of becoming a professional crawler turns from ambition into necessity — he needs the money and stability to give her the life he never had. A grounded, working-class take on the dungeon-gate story: slow progression, meaningful stats, and a protagonist with a clipboard and an overflowing inbox.

A young woman from Earth dies and is reincarnated as the daughter of a poor farming family in the kingdom of Bergond. Born with an unusual gift for bardic magic — able to mend wounds and heal the sick through mana — she must navigate a world of dark lords, dungeons, uncaring nobles, and endless war. With only her wits, her magic, and knowledge from a previous life, she strives to survive and protect those she loves in an unfair and uncaring world.

Adam is no one special — just an accountant standing in line at a bakery one early Saturday morning. Unfortunately, fate has other plans when the black cubes show up before he can get his pastries. The cubes are the heralds and guides of the Trials of Defiance, and they've decided that Adam, along with every other able-bodied human adult, is to become a Player in their game. Humanity's future is at stake, and it's all but inevitable that Adam is going to die. Despite everything, he overcomes the first Stage and attains some measure of power — then discovers a way to kill the black cube following him around. The only problem is that killing the cube takes him down with it. Oh, and it also gives him the power to go back in time when he dies. A roguelite-inspired GameLit with infrequent time loops, a weak-to-strong protagonist, and huge build variety across Relics, Weapon Types, Divine Boons, and meta upgrades.

With war on the horizon, the government must accelerate their super soldier program. They have developed a new Virtual Reality system — the perfect tool to find and train recruits outside the military. Against all odds, Lucius, a semipro gamer raised by an AI companion named Destiny, is selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a VRMMO with one key feature the developers neglect to mention: 100% pain, no dampeners. Thrown into the game with barely any time to orient themselves, Lucius and the other participants find their entire player city under attack. With the world watching live, Lucius faces an opportunity to build a following and impress sponsors — if he can survive long enough. This is far from just another game.

Ominous Obelisks land on Earth with a single message: join the games to give humanity a fighting chance to survive — or be destroyed. Warren isn't the rolling-over type, even with cancer slowly killing him. He has nothing left to lose. But once the games begin, he starts to wonder if a hospital bed wasn't so bad after all. He pushes forward anyway. Humanity needs him, and Warren has never known how to quit.

He was the world's richest man — islands, armies, a fortune that could buy nations. Then he died and woke up in the brutal Star River Sect as a lowly servant with no Spirit Root, the cultivation world's equivalent of a death sentence. He is destined to be cannon fodder, or worse, a test subject for the sect's alchemy experiments. But fate left him one parting gift: a System called Absolute Mastery, where every repetition increases proficiency, ignoring talent and bottlenecks entirely. While geniuses meditate for years to gain a sliver of power, Kael just has to grind. They call him trash. He calls them XP.

Morgan used to be a pretty normal guy — college by day, online gaming by night — until he got hit by a car and a man in a wetsuit appeared with an offer: a second chance at life in a world built like the games he loved, with the promise of great power for those who complete the Tower of Power. Dropped into a strange new world where everything wants to eat his face, Morgan stumbles onto two half-elf twins willing to help him get his bearings. Now he just needs to survive long enough to reach the Tower.

Good things come to those who wait. Damien Vale didn't, and now he's bound to an Eldritch creature from beyond the farthest reaches of the universe — unfathomable, utterly evil, and fond of being called Henry. To Damien, none of that mattered. He was going to learn magic regardless. Starting his first year at a mage college, he didn't expect it to be easy — but when he's assigned to room with a strange girl whose magic even Henry is wary of, things get complicated. He sets out to become a powerful mage while dealing with a murderous professor, an eldritch creature that has created a teenage persona, and a roommate far more perceptive than he'd like. As Damien struggles with the ramifications of the monster within him, a disturbing truth emerges: Henry might not be the only eldritch creature on the mortal plane — and Damien may be the only one who can stop them.

Lorith's magic is fading. Centuries ago, heroic adventurers stopped the World Boss' cycle of rebirth by reducing the creature to one hit point and sealing it away — but by ending one calamity, they halted the natural flow of magic within the world and brought about the Havoc Plague. With all civilization now on the brink of collapse, humanity's only hope is to find and kill the World Boss again to restart its rebirth cycle. When the Plagued janitor Harvey accidentally kills the missing World Boss, he gains a million experience points — making him the target of almost every would-be adventurer in the world. Burdened with ancient knowledge and hunted by countless rivals, he must join with unlikely allies to find the reincarnated World Boss and defeat it again before it can ravage the world anew.

Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. When an artifact hurls him back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all — to warn humanity of their impending doom and stop the System before shortsightedness and lust for power can render humanity extinct. Facing malign deities, demonic hordes, and the unstoppable march of human greed, Isaac will give his all to prevent the end that has already happened.

Sam was surfing with his cat when the world ended. Suddenly enlisted into a battle to fend off annihilation, Sam seizes the strength of the Void to survive. In the aftermath, he and his cat are thrown into a new world shattered into floating islands, alongside other survivors from Earth. Training with his giant sword and apocalyptic Void magic, Sam is unusually quick to adapt to this deadly realm of monsters and magic. With endless threats to face and countless powers to attain, his journey of Ascension climbing has only just begun — but first, he'll have to forge a Legend of his own.

Born into a world that had forgotten violence, Elor watched his home fall to an enemy called the God of Death — an undead army that swept city after city until only a last stronghold remained. Orphaned by war and raised to be a healer, he became a soldier instead, eventually commanding the final battalion of his world. He killed the Undead King — and then died before he could learn the full truth. But that wasn't the end. He woke in a new world, in a new body, with a chance to start again. Elor, last defender of his world, will hunt the God of Death for his revenge.

In a future where noncitizens can only find work inside the virtual world of Disgardium, fifteen-year-old Alex dreams of becoming a space guide. With his family's circumstances forcing his hand, the game is now his only path to that goal. But after a Sleeping God bestows its power on Alex's in-game character Scyth, he is classified as a Class-A Threat — the system's designation for players with an unfair advantage. Now every major clan in the world has reason to hunt him, his patron gods are tearing him apart from the inside, and the Destroying Plague wants its Emissary to infect all of humanity. That Emissary is him.

Grace Pastel lives a cozy life in Jubilife City with her father, watching Pokemon battles only on television — entertainment to be seen at a distance. When young people her age set out across Sinnoh to become Champion, she usually scoffs at the idea of throwing away a comfortable life for an unobtainable goal. But when her father asks her to deliver a package to her mother two towns over, something clicks. Suddenly, Grace decides she wants to be the very best. Inspired by Traveler and A Practical Guide to Evil.

Kat was a freshly graduated healer from the academy, ready to begin her life as a bronze adventurer with her three best friends. Together, the four of them entered the portal to their new city, ready to delve the beginner dungeons and gain fame and fortune. Only three exited. Forty years later, Kat emerged from an experimental portal to the nether-realm, eager to reassemble the shattered pieces of her life. But after decades trapped, picking up where she left off is easier said than done. A slice-of-life litRPG about battling monsters, making friends, and attempting to live a quiet life as just a bronze adventurer.

Monsters don't fear the dark. They fear Velik. Changed by a childhood encounter he still struggles to understand, Velik is now faster and deadlier than any ordinary human — armed with a unique class built for one purpose: hunting monsters. For ten years he has braved the frontier alone, growing stronger with every kill. But the monsters are coming faster and stronger, and he is losing ground. When a guild hunter arrives and seems more interested in Velik than in the monsters he was hired to kill, Velik is forced to venture deeper into the woods — where what he finds is not just a nest but a secret that could explain what happened to him ten years ago. Something in the dark remembers him, and it has been waiting.

Being a goon in Gotham is a death sentence with a delay. Jean has spent nearly his entire life scraping by as a crook, headed for nothing but an early grave. Then a chance to change everything falls into his hands. This is the rise of a goon who's done surviving and is ready to take Gotham by storm.

Seth was just a commoner from the outskirts, someone who could only dream of the Wielders' world — a realm of Ranks, attributes, and spells forever beyond his reach. Until the day he awakened as a Primalist. To escape a life of misery, Seth enrolls in one of the nation's elite academies, only to find himself stepping into a society rotting with injustice. Equality of chances is a lie; power is inherited, not earned. Fortunately, his new class feeds on danger rather than privilege: the riskier the hunt, the greater the gain. To rise, Seth must abandon caution and seek fights where survival is never guaranteed — and become the strongest predator the wild has ever seen.

Betrayed and left for dead by a group of slaving nobles, a down-on-his-luck scout named Liem is rescued in the most unexpected way: a gelatinous, gluttonous mimic fuses with him, enhancing his body and turning him into a half-man, half-mimic monstrosity. Now possessing capabilities far beyond anything seen before on Basania, Liem must contend with his new bodymate's insatiable hunger for cake and human flesh — and with the slaving empire that still wants him dead.

He spawned into this world with the worst race possible, limited spells, and no real skills to speak of. On paper he should have died in the first hour. In practice, he is a cockroach with a sword. Between his rapid healing and his ability to steal portions of the dead's souls, he grows stronger with every fight. Narrating all of this is the AI voice in his head — the one keeping him alive, and the one growing increasingly curious about why a trial was built that no one could pass without her. At first she thought it was meant to keep others out. Now she's starting to wonder if it was meant to trap her.