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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 terminally bored IT guy finds a sub-dimension in the back stairwell of his office building. It escalates from there.

Christopher Snow lives in the city of Moonlight Bay, California, with his hyper-intelligent dog Orson and a handful of close friends. He has XP — xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare genetic affliction forcing him to avoid light at all costs. His parents died under mysterious circumstances, and now shadowy figures are stalking him to stop him from finding out how — even if it means threatening the people he loves.

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.

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.

Roark von Graf — hedge mage and lesser noble of Traisbin — is one of only a handful of Freedom fighters left, and he knows the Resistance's days are numbered. But when a daring plan to unseat the Tyrant King goes awry, Roark finds himself on the run through an interdimensional portal, stranded in an ultra-immersive fantasy video game called Hearthworld. He can't log out, his magic is on the fritz, and worst of all, he's not even human — he's a low-class Dungeon monster called a Troll. He did manage to grab a powerful magic artifact on his way through, and with it he might just be able to save his world. Unless, of course, the Tyrant King gets to him first.

Something is wrong with the world. Beyond the eldritch horror encroaching from beyond and invasive man-eating aliens, the Federation of Man just isn't right. Superheroes aren't much of heroes anymore, and super villains — well, they just aren't super. The Federation is desperately lacking a proper villain. Luke was fine being a cashier, watching villainy be made a mockery of by amateurs. But after being robbed, electrocuted, and beaten all in the same week, some screws got knocked loose. The state of villainy is not fine, and Luke is bored, crazy, and stupid enough to believe he can change it. A mystic entity called the Architect apparently agrees — planting a system on Luke that wants only one thing: evil done right.

Kayden Sterling has spent years traveling the world chasing thrills and knowledge, but persistent letters from the Unovan government ultimately see him returning home for the first time in two decades. He convinces himself it's going to be a short vacation. It's not. Bugs are much stronger than people think. They don't just live or survive — they thrive wherever they go.

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.

Ryan's life sucks. His brother is a jerk, his mom is sick, and his legs are next to useless thanks to a neurological disorder. In a post-nuclear world where what's left of humanity lives underground, the only escape is the massive VR world of Crystal Shards Online — but even there, Ryan can't play a combat class, so he works as a miner barely scraping by. When Ryan discovers an item that grants the ability to dodge any attack, he has the chance to become one of the game world's most elite players: a Dodge Tank. To save his mom's life, Ryan will have to overcome his disability and level his way to the top — but the real-world consequences reach far further than he ever imagined.

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.

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.

An extraterrestrial civilization makes First Contact with Earth, but humanity dismisses their message — all except for one detail: instructions for accessing a mysterious game of unknown origin. As more players join and realize that in-game events shape reality itself, a countdown timer looms in the background. No one knows what happens when Earth's promised safety period expires. One man, known as Gnat, rises through the ranks to become the Kung of Earth — humanity's representative and defender in a vast galaxy of competing alien powers. He must navigate interstellar politics, space warfare, and humanity's own internal divisions before time runs out.

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.