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It's not always the Asians who get isekaied. Very rarely does an American get chosen — though the lords of isekai have reasons for that. It's time for John to remind them of those reasons.

The System integrated Earth into a multiverse of gods, monsters, and dungeons. Half of humanity answered the call. Some return stronger. Others never return. Thirteen years ago, Luke's mother entered the Tutorial and vanished. Now Luke faces the same trial — not for glory, but for answers. What should be a beginner's test becomes a death sentence when he falls into a forgotten dungeon floor where monsters are scarce, supplies are limited, and the only way out is a temple hanging over an abyss, guarded by a sleeping demon. Every puzzle kills. Every step risks his life. No buffs, no tricks — just a knife and the raw will to survive. When the light fades and the body breaks, Luke has only one choice: embrace the darkness and be reborn.

Han is a 30-year-old gamer who has finally beaten World: Mountain, Sea and Sky — a brutally difficult soulslike RPG that kills your character on every game over. He has written guides, found every secret dungeon, and tried every trick in the book. But he has never started the game as a Slave. At least, not while inside the game.

Four hundred years after demon hordes were unleashed on the world of Elaria, humanity survives in a single valley — the Valley of Auld, its last bastion. Elian is markless, unable to activate skills, one of the poorest workers in the salt mines outside the city walls. The wagon that carries the miners is locked not to keep them in, but to keep the demons out. When the wagon is attacked and every marked guard is slain, Elian discovers he is not markless at all — he is full-marked, with access to all four classes: Infuser, Invoker, Necromancer, and Summoner. Summoners brought the demon hordes in the first place, and their bloodline has been purged. If anyone learns what Elian truly is, he will be killed on sight the moment he reaches the city.

On Ludus, life is often cheap. With nowhere to go after losing her family, Nora joined an old friend in a street gang and found an unlikely home there. But tragedy is about to befall her — grudges from the distant past and shadowy organizations are about to take away everything she holds dear, possibly even her life. Survival may require escaping her old life and embarking on a desperate journey. Along the way, she might stumble into both an incredible opportunity and an incredible burden. Her enemies should be warned: Nora was no pushover before discovering her powers.

Successful gamer Samantha Jade Jacobs, formerly known as Titania, was feeling the bitter sting of betrayal — kicked from the team she founded and made great — when the gaming world was turned upside down. A new type of game was going into Beta, and Samantha would be one of the few testers. Little did anyone know that the road would be longer than anybody thought. Follow Samantha's journey into the world of Mundus and beyond on a trip nobody could have foreseen, not even the gods themselves.

In post-System Toronto, Alex doesn't slay monsters to get by — he delivers pizza. Broke and rejected by both the Adventurer's Guild and the Courier Guild, with nothing but a crumbly resume, he takes the only job left in town: delivery boy for Nino's Pizza, a Lich Pizzeria run by a married couple literally bound to the building. He must deliver enchanted pizza to Dungeon Bosses in sixty minutes or less, or suffer the wrath of both the Bosses and the old couple. With nothing but a seemingly useless ability, Alex must stay alive, deal with psychotic exes, and pray for loot in place of tips.

To enter Five Peaks Magical Academy you must have a familiar. Abigail hoped for a bird, maybe an owl like her best friend's, or a cuddly cat or loyal hound. She would have been happy with a particularly smart toad, even. Instead she got you.

Kay's life takes an unexpected turn when he is transported to a mysterious world brimming with unfamiliar Skills, Classes, and a System. There he discovers a unique Class never seen before — a powerful new form of blood magic that allows him to shape and manipulate the life force coursing through his veins. But the powers that be view Kay as a threat and are more than happy to eliminate him to maintain the status quo. Outnumbered and underpowered, he'll need to level up his Skills, harness his unique Class, and decipher the ever-shifting schemes of his enemies — all while keeping his true potential under wraps.

Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful aspects of his responsibilities — but most important of all, he must find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions. In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters that hunger to climb into the world of man, it's difficult to be a noble and dangerous to be a warrior. Lucan must navigate a maze of mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive and, perhaps someday, thrive. An action-adventure kingdom-building LitRPG focused on individual-level progression — no territory status sheets, and the RPG elements stay grounded rather than overwhelming the story.

After a short-sighted endeavor to quietly make some money, Maxis Troy finds himself a target of the Brotherhood of Cain — a violent gang led by a man renowned worldwide as the Grim Reaper. Luck appears to be on his side when a girl with her own agenda comes to his aid. Armed with the superpower to alter and improve any technology with just a touch, the two enter a three-way stalemate between the embodiment of death itself, a worldwide organization of religious zealots, and a woman who fancies herself a Goddess. In a world rampant with superpowers, criminal organizations, and questionable authorities, Maxis will quickly learn that a cruel world only breeds crueler people.

A serpent at the top of the food chain, master at threading through the rifts of distorted space, rules its territory — until something beyond comprehension destroys everything it has claimed. With sapience now forced into its mind, the serpent faces problems it was never equipped to handle. With no territory left and the distorted caverns collapsing around it, the only option is to search for an escape. A progression fantasy xenofiction following an actual monster gaining sapience — not a human reincarnating — exploring what it truly means to grow when you are, by all definitions, monstrous.

Indigo woke up in a body she didn't recognize, in a world she didn't know, without memories or even a name to define herself. Follow her life as she discovers that not everything happens for a reason, not all bad guys are out to conquer the world, and being powerful doesn't automatically make life easy. Follow her adventures as she gets drunk with orcs, raids ruins for lost treasure, and chops the heads off hordes of zombies — doing her best not to kill everyone around her.

Emmet Laghaz loved puzzles — all day, all night, puzzles. Ever since he was a child, Emmet could turn anything into a puzzle.

Ioan Starfall, a Nordstaii teen on the cusp of adulthood, drowned as his village was set ablaze by a dragon. A biochemist from our world woke up in his body — and refused to become a hero seeking revenge when offered incredible power by a witch. There are far more important things on the to-do list. Reborn in a land of Nordic cultivators and giant monsters, there is a whole new world of science to explore, witchy powers to experiment with, and magical creatures just waiting to be dissected.

Do not kill. That's the first rule of being a superhero — and it's the first one she broke. Vivian gained a superpower that allows her to telekinetically apply ten pounds of force. Weak. Useless, some said, but she's determined to make it work. On her first night out, she found out how wrong everyone was as she reduced a man's brain to mush. Now, pitted against villains, shady corporations, college debt, and the government's brutal hero program, she has to find a way to become the hero she has always wished she could be — a hero who could have saved her.

Samuel Greyson wants to be a Ghost Type specialist, but living on the small Dewford Island makes that difficult — his mother doesn't want him to leave on his Pokémon Journey, and there are no Ghost Types nearby to catch. His ticket out comes from a discovery made while preparing for an impromptu challenge. Armed with impossible knowledge, Sam sets out to head into the world and take his dreams into his own hands. Set in the Pokémon anime and game world with a more grounded approach, the story follows a classic journey across Johto and Kanto just before Ash Ketchum's own start. No growth is immediately handed to Sam — any development he must work for.

A necromancer prince lies down in his crypt to rest for a few decades and wakes to find that centuries have passed. His castle is in ruins, his clan is gone, and necromancers are dismissed as children's fairy tales. The world mistakes him for a healer. That suits him fine — the world is sick, and he intends to administer strong medicine.

Miles had spent a hundred years locked in the Dungeon, and he was tired of it. What had begun as a simple delve ended with him dying and being selected as a Custodian to a Dungeon that spanned entire worlds. Now that he had finished his initiation and was finally allowed to leave without losing the amazing Skill it provided, he was going to take a long, relaxing break. He wanted to plant some fruits, bake some pastries, and brew some tasty coffee — maybe share it with a few visitors here and there. And when he got bored, he'd swing by the Dungeon. Hopefully, the rest of the world would let him enjoy it.

Isekaid into another world, the protagonist arrives armed with genre savviness and a determination to twist every cliché to his benefit. Cockroach villains? Dealt with before they become a problem. Trash young masters? Avoided and handled quietly. Damsels in distress? Not his responsibility. A power fantasy built around a hardcore internet citizen who knows every trope in the book — and uses that knowledge to carve a path from weak to unstoppably strong.