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When Jack's girlfriend breaks up with him and his father demands he start paying rent, his world seems to crumble. Bored at every job he's ever held, Jack stumbles upon New Earth, an MMORPG where players — craftsmen especially — can earn real money. He throws himself into the game, hoping to win back his girlfriend and prove himself. But New Earth will put Jack to work like never before. What starts as a get-rich scheme becomes a journey from immature brat to hardworking man.

Rainer, an amateur arcanist and college student, attempted to create a spell far surpassing the magic he inherited from his grandfather. The interference of an unknown event during casting hurled him through space and time — into a world where status screens are accepted as normal and class distinctions are matters of life and death. Leveling beyond farmer or peddler requires years of brutal training. Goblins are no fodder, orcs fill children's nightmares, and a dragon? You might as well move countries. Rainer, however, arrives with the rare and powerful class of Arcanist — and an insatiable hunger for greater heights.

Princess Lillia Ashvalin was supposed to inherit a throne, not fight a giant bug for the right to wear its skin as a dress. After five years under her murderous aunt's rule, the worst part was supposed to be politics. Sadly, her aunt had her thrown into the bowels of an SSS-Class Dungeon. Now our princess has fallen into a world — and a genre — she was never meant for. Armed with a dead knight's sword she cannot equip and a class nobody has ever heard of, Lillia must fight her way through spooky monsters, elite bosses, deadly traps, and other deeply unaristocratic problems. Down here, all the knights are dead. Down here, nobody saves the princess.

Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end minimum wage job, an estranged sister, and friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality—but Alex's life still did not change. After fifteen long years surviving the Integration, his life came to an end against an enemy he could never hope to beat. When fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.

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.

Eight internet friends meet in person for the first time at a mountain cabin — and instead of a long weekend get-together, they're caught up in the end of the world. Strange messages float in the air announcing a "System Start." Now magic works and technology doesn't. Cell phones won't work, cars won't start, and it's ten miles to the nearest town. Some of them have families to worry about. Some don't even believe this is real. All of them have secrets they'll have to overcome if they're going to work together and make it back to town alive. Ten miles doesn't seem that far — but by the end of it, they'll have faced some of the worst the System can throw at them. And then things really get interesting.

Max is a regular guy who only enjoys games when they're a genuine challenge — he always plays on the hardest difficulty. When the first-ever full-dive VRRPG launched, he scraped together his savings to play it, and spent four years grinding on the hardest setting with the crappiest capsule available. Now the sequel is out — and it's multiplayer. Gifted a new capsule by his uncle and sister, Max is finally ready to see how his skills fare against other players.

A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world that seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The most terrifying answer might be that this world is an expression of the person he was back on Earth.

When the world comes to a sudden and horrifying end, med student Shari and coder Mace are among the few survivors. Hyper-aggressive undead creatures hunt anything living on the surface, where even the grass and trees can kill. Their only escape is a virtual world where Shari can use her healing skills and Mace can focus on something other than his fears. But Shari is a light elf and Mace a drow — ancient enemies whose people would never welcome the other. Still they strive to come together in the game while scavenging for food and fighting to stay alive in the real world. With their food eventually running out, their best hope for survival may be finding a way to upload themselves to the game permanently.

Recent college grad Sam King expected a backpacking trip across Europe as a graduation present. Instead he gets a three-month stint in an ultimate immersive gaming experience. As a lifelong geek and outsider, it sounds like a dream — until he discovers the Mage's College has a very different definition of fun, one involving blisteringly strict regulations, aristocratic hierarchy, and a pay-to-play attitude. After crossing the College, Sam finds himself on the run with a back-talking book that is far more than it seems, wielding a class no one has ever heard of. Navigating deadly college politics and a looming war with the barbaric Wolfmen, he just might find the adventure he was looking for.

All life on Earth has been stolen away by The System, transported to another world at the behest of a distant galactic empire that lived in terror of humanity's potential. Ben was a normal, slightly above-average man on the verge of his first real vacation. Now he must contend with danger and mystery in a world of monsters, magic, and treasure — armed with nothing but his wits and the special item granted to him by The System.

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.

Devon Walker has one chance to turn her life around, and Relic Online is it. Hired as a salaried player to push the game's creator AI to its limits, she logs in expecting an adventure — and instead spawns in a ruined jungle city wearing nothing but a cloth tunic, with no skills and pocket lint in her inventory. Devon's task: drive the AI to its creative limits while building a settlement in a hostile game world. What begins as a job becomes a fight for survival — and something more — as the game's competing AIs wage a war with stakes that extend far beyond the virtual world.

Arwyn has just bought Fantasia, the first fantasy-based VRMMORPG with 99% realism that you can play while you sleep. In the game, she becomes Fey, a moon elf starting in the magical Elvenwood. Join her — and her snarky narrator who likes to interject sarcastic comments in parentheses — on her exciting, often hilarious adventures inside a magical world full of every fantasy creature you've ever encountered, and a few you haven't. Oh, and there's something strange about the NPCs in this game. See if you can figure it out before Fey does.

Alexandra Rousseau, an engineer from the European Federation Star Navy, is launched into hyperspace when an FTL jump goes wrong. She wakes in a world of magic and monsters — and when a mysterious Order makes a catastrophic mistake, she is transformed into a dungeon core. The transformation grants her the power to bring back long-lost technology and take revenge on those who wronged her. But first she must survive those who would steal her core, all while keeping her true identity secret from the adventurers delving her dungeon.

When mana arrives on Earth, Coop finds himself isolated on a tropical island with one real option to survive: claim a civilization shard and level up. By carefully selecting a class and committing to progression, he grinds thousands of monsters to compete on the system's leaderboards while upgrading his settlement to represent the factionless.

When forensic accountant SJ is crushed by a rogue tree on her way home from the pub, her death is as absurd as it is abrupt. But fate has a twisted sense of humor — instead of oblivion, SJ is reborn in Amathera, a vibrant fantasy landscape full of magic, monsters, and a game-like System whose fine print she never agreed to. Armed with a sassy AI companion named Dave and the questionable skills of a fae assassin, SJ is the one person operating completely free of the System's rules — drawing the attention of local gods, dragons, and everything in between. Finding her footing in a world where reputation matters will be no easy task.

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.

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.

The world has devolved into chaos as a game-like system has reduced the population to statistics and screens. Everyone struggles to survive — everyone except Anthony Franklin. He has lived through this exact series of events ninety-nine times in a row, and this is his last chance. Win or lose, his 100th run is his final one. Armed with every shortcut, strategy, and hard-won advantage from his past lives, Anthony must contend with vicious boss monsters, the oppressive surveillance of system administrators, and scheming players who want the game to go their way. In a world where every person has their own goals and fears, shepherding them toward survival won't be easy.