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Qube was designed to die. As the cheerful childhood NPC companion who helps the Player learn the world at the start of the game, it was only natural that the big bad would kill her at the end of the tutorial, kicking off the Player's quest for vengeance. The only problem: no one told her that. And this particular Player doesn't like to play by the rules. Being a chaos-loving gremlin, he glitches her out of her programming and drags her along on various adventures — grappling with friendly sharktopuses, Evil Emperors, and the question of what it means to be a person. As Qube breaks the world in increasingly strange ways while seeking to be the very best Companion ever, she slowly realizes that her reality is not quite what it seems. A loving parody of old-school games and every player who has ever thought "what happens if I do this."

When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for its Centennial Celebration, they walk into what turns out to be an inescapable horror-movie set. Each of them is assigned an archetype—Scholar, Athlete, Eye Candy, Final Girl—and the curtain rises. Assigned the Film Buff archetype, Riley learns he can exploit the Oblivious Bystander trope to survive attacks. To escape Carousel, the group must leverage their assigned tropes and uncover what is trapping them—before the rounds run out and escape slips further out of reach.

Lucas used to delve dungeons. Now, he has to run one. After Lucas dies during a freak explosion, divine intervention brings him back to life with the power to control a new dungeon — but his old body remains bound to it. When he sees rookie adventurers entering his domain, he decides to help them survive and complete their quests. After all, adventuring is a process, and someone needs to guide the rookies.

Struggling actress Cara O'Sullivan is walking down the streets of Galway one moment, and the next she's in an ancient tomb in a faraway world. Alone in the dark, with her cellphone as her last tenuous connection to home, Cara sings her favorite song — and to her astonishment, the song casts a spell of light, and from the depths, something hears her. Challenged by a ghostly knight, a tragic necromancer, and hordes of undead, can a young woman who doesn't believe in heroes become one herself?

A rough draft of a dark secondary-world fantasy. The revised version contains major expansions and outright changes to multiple plot elements; this version is preserved for posterity only.

Runner is trapped in a VRMMO with nearly half a million military personnel whose minds were fully uploaded — meaning death in-game means real death. As the only IT administrator inside the game, he is the only one with any hope of finding the password to log everyone out. Navigating a world that grows increasingly sentient and aware, Runner must outmaneuver threats from inside the game, outside the ship, and from the gods themselves — all while deciding what he is willing to sacrifice for the future he wants.

A young girl is thrust into leadership as her competence, talent, charisma, and nature prove to be the foundation her people need — even if her own country disagrees. As far back as she can remember, there was another girl in her dreams. When she slept, she saw someone else's life. When she woke, that girl's skills were there in her menus. By nine she could read a language no one else knew. By twelve, she knew numbers no one had taught her. When she was sixteen, she watched her die. A progression story of crafting, kingdom building, political maneuvering, and war — following a charismatic MC's rise from peasant to ruler.

A cultivation world destined for destruction. A man fated to destroy it. There is a prophecy to ignore. Jim was thrust back in time to the moment he started cultivating — a second chance he is determined not to waste. He already knows the mistakes that doomed him in his first life, and he knows how to right them. But he must reach the top of the cultivation world without drawing the attention of those who would seize his knowledge of the future. He has seen how the world ended, and he is determined to fight through the world's hidden foes and defeat his destiny. Luckily for the world, Jim thinks fate is stupid. He doesn't care what it wants.

Shoved into a world where death can come in the blink of an eye, shoved into a body that wasn't mine, and shoved into a situation I really would have liked a heads-up on before being shoved into it. Nothing to do but tough it out and go with the flow while navigating a world that shouldn't exist — and figuring out just which version of it this actually is.

While waiting on a train platform, rude and cranky musician Seiji found himself snatched up alongside a high schooler named Yoshi and transported to Ephemera, a world of magic and adventure. The good goddess Sanora chose Yoshi as her Hero. Her wicked sister Virya chose Seiji as her Dark Lord. Seiji has no interest in playing along — but Virya promises to make him beg for death if he refuses. Forced to make just enough progress toward world domination to keep his sadistic patron off his back, while avoiding going so far that he can't strike a deal with the forces of Good, Seiji walks a razor's edge. His true enemy was never the naive Hero from his own world. It was always the goddesses.

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.

Sandra had been a merchant, but what she always wanted was to be a crafter — master of every trade. When she dies and is reborn as a Dungeon Core, she finally gets her wish in the most unexpected way: a dungeon built entirely around crafting. With a Gnome apprentice enchanter as her ally and the ruins of a world that desperately needs what only she can provide, Sandra must defend her dungeon from orcs, rival cores, dangerous elves, and her own rapidly expanding influence — all while trying to get back to what she loves most: making things.

Hiral is the Everfail — the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than any warrior and studies longer than any scholar, but while all his people channel solar magic through tattoos on their bodies, Hiral cannot. Despite enormous energy within him, his hard work counts for nothing. Until it isn't. In a moment of danger, Hiral unlocks an achievement with a single instruction: access a Dungeon to receive a class-specific reward. It is his first — and maybe last — chance at real power. The only problem is that all dungeons lie in the wilderness below the flying islands, in a place no one has survived.

Getting carved off a soul is traumatic. Getting snared by an extradimensional entity for unknown reasons is worse. Waking up in a new world suspiciously familiar to your favorite reading material as a kid is downright crazy — but there have been some big changes to canon. Soul-Shard Vier wakes up in a Marvel Universe with no idea of what to do in the grand scheme. But it's a superhero universe, friendly to everything you might try. Time to stop buying into comic book power stasis and start climbing the scales — and if you get to exploit some still-relevant canon along the way, all the better.

Nic has been Selected — chosen to leave his own body behind, become a monster, and serve as a footsoldier for the System's integration of new worlds. His mission: help break the native inhabitants of a planet called Earth into submission. But Nic has never loved the System, and his home planet is a depleted husk the System long since forgot. Arriving under blue skies and green forests, he might just fall in love with this strange world — leaving him with few friends and a thousand enemies.

In the Antorxian Empire, magical talent can be a curse. Dorian hoped he'd never set eyes on a Reeve — one of Antorx's sorcerer-knights — but as mage scouts they were ruthless, thorough, and impossible to hide from. On the day they arrived in his small village, his quiet life as a scribe's apprentice was over. He would be taken to Windshriek Academy, where harsh conditions and cruel punishments would either turn him into a loyal sorcerer for the Empire, or destroy him. There were no other outcomes, and no magical talent was permitted to foster outside of Antorxian control.

Alexa is a woman in her early twenties shaped by a brutal upbringing into the ultimate thief — precise, fearless, adaptable, and passionate about art as a form of truth. When her reality shatters and an immortal being capable of unraveling matter begins hunting her, that same passion awakens a dominion over Artistic Creation. With newfound magic and a hidden parallel world lurking beyond the veil — a twisted reflection of our own — Alexa must adapt quickly to survive. For her, it's simply another challenge. She has always loved those. The story follows her progression from daredevil thief to reality-bending archmage, including an eventual ability to split her consciousness across multiple bodies.

For millennia, two galactic empires have been locked in an interstellar cold war. Dissent is considered treason, and neutrality is incomprehensible. As each empire has expanded, newly discovered sentient species have always joined one side or the other — whether they want to or not. In the year 2028, Earth is the latest planet in the path of expansion. It has barely any space capability, no system defenses, and no allies. The nations of Earth must volunteer to be subjugated, or become the latest battleground in a war that began before the construction of the pyramids. No species has ever succeeded in resisting. Except humans have a saying: the best defense is a good offense.

The Archean Empire devours all in its path — toppling kings, razing cities, massacring opposition. Sweeping into the brutal north, a land of cold, ragged mountains, and dark myths, they expect their infamous discipline to crush the white-hot rage of its sea reavers and dreaded berserkers. At first, they are right. But their invasion dislodges a pebble destined to become an avalanche. Forced into exile, Skadi Styrbjörnsdóttir begins a journey that brings her to the attention of the gods, arms her with legendary weapons, and sets her against immortal foes. Wielding her ever-growing wyrd, she seeks to avenge her people — and one day destroy the Archean Empire.

A failed seer and a struggling brawler find their paths inextricably linked in the city of Dragonmaw. Darcent of Stitch Alley earned a full ride to the premier magic academy for Soul Seekers — powerful mages who cast spells by bonding with the Deck of Wills — until he flunked out, bonding only with cards the academy deemed too unsavory for sensible mages. Annalisa of Dunnemarsh is a devilborn touched by the planes, obsessed with becoming the strongest fighter in the city, if only she could focus long enough to channel her strength. Both outcasts drawn together by fate and mishap, the pair turn loose on the mean streets of Dragonmaw. In each other, they find more than mere kinship — they find a path to power that can only be tread together.