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Bastion: the last hope of civilization. Bright, flashy, and dangerous. Heroic Wardens protect the city from monsters, rifts, and villainous Anarchs, while corporations bicker like children even during the end-times. The existential threats seeking the city's destruction are just another Tuesday — the Wardens, with their system-granted powers forged from broken myths and shattered stars, are the only thing standing between Bastion and total devastation. They were just out of reach for one wayward Stray who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Now, with the OS having chosen them, it's time to claw back to the top — one rift, job, and monster at a time. Just as soon as there's enough drive to actually get out there. Picking up the pieces is just so tiring.

For over thirty years, Dominion of Blades has been the hottest online role-playing game in the world. But after an epidemic of real-life fatalities linked to the immersion technology, public use has been banned and the game shut down. Jonah wakes to find himself in-game, level one, with no memory of how he arrived and no way to eject. With only two companions, trapped in a world that once hosted millions, Jonah must battle his way across a treacherous landscape — fighting virtual monsters, all-too-real pain, and a very human enemy in a desperate bid to survive.

What happens when a man with knowledge of hardware technology is transported into a foreign world filled with magic — and discovers a deep correlation between his expertise and the words of power? As the lowly fourth son of a noble house, he must find his footing in a world where skills and stats equal power and status. A crafting-focused progression story about knowledge, adaptation, and carving out a place in a world built around strength.

There are a lot of things wrong with Liv Brodbeck. She's too small — working in the castle kitchens with her mother, she can't carry a sack of flour or roll a keg of ale. The chirurgeon says she has brittle bones, barring her from the rough play other children enjoy. Everyone says she ruined her mother's life when she was born. A child like Liv doesn't have much hope. But when she accidentally unleashes a surge of wild magic, she takes her first step on a journey that will lead her from the kitchens of Castle Whitehill, to the cold palaces of the Eld, and beyond — to the graves of gods.

Seamus, facing life in prison, is offered a deal by the Department of Justice: sign away his legal rights and test long-term immersion in Alpha World, a VRMMO. Inside, he becomes Alburet, a Summoner who befriends players and NPCs alike while navigating quests, guilds, and an unexpected life far richer than anything he knew outside. As the game's testing phases evolve and Alburet's circle grows — including deeper bonds with the women in his life — the complications of both his in-game and real-world existences mount.

In one moment, Dace Tolman is in his apartment. In the next, he and the rest of humanity have been transported to the Proving Grounds — a world seemingly engineered to reward those worthy of its gifts and kill everyone else. Every day is a struggle against the System and its monsters. But survival in the Proving Grounds isn't just about fighting — it's also about navigating humanity's internal conflicts, factional struggles, and guild politics.

Earth was ravaged fifty years ago by Raekast, a monster with unending power. Mankind's only hope sprang up in the form of Rebirth — a way for humans to unlock their inner potential. The only problem: 99% of rebirths are duds. Tad craves more than anything to be reborn a slayer with enough power to delve into dungeons, kill monsters, and find loot. He's the unluckiest person he knows — bullied relentlessly, unable to make friends in any meaningful capacity. But everything would change if only he were reborn with power. Then he could slay towards glory… or die trying.

Tim and his friends find out the hard way that you shouldn't question the game master, and you shouldn't make fun of his cape. One minute they're drinking away the dreariness of their lives, escaping into a fantasy game. The next, they're in a horse-drawn cart surrounded by soldiers with crossbows. Tim now has the voice and physique of a prepubescent girl. Dave finds he's acquired a suit of armor and a badass beard despite losing a foot or two of height. Julian's ears have grown ridiculously long and pointy. And Cooper has gotten himself a set of tusks, clawed hands, and a bag with a human head in it — a head he had chopped off while they were still just playing a game. Shit just got real.

Years ago, Earth was brought into the "System" — and it was not alone. The arrival of the System also brought Invaders, other races with one goal: to seize ownership of this new habitable planet. For years, war raged. Derek was a loner. Strong from years of fighting monsters and Invaders alone, he survived by keeping to himself and never getting attached. One day, he broke his rules to lend a hand on what seemed like an easy mission. He should have stuck to being alone.

Eli Winters was never interested in playing The Shattered World — thanks to his deadbeat father Makaroth, the game's number one player. But when his best friend convinces him to try it out, a heat-of-the-moment bet presents a chance for retribution: become more powerful than his dad, win the bet, and force him to delete his character. The problem: Eli is six months behind at level 1, with top players already past level 100. Through hard work and trial and error, he discovers a unique skill that massively boosts his experience gains — with one catch. He cannot deal any damage whatsoever. In a game where killing is the fastest way to level up, he'll need to get very creative.

When Simon dies, he learns that there is more to combat than lightning reflexes with a controller, and the path to becoming a hero is more brutal than he can imagine as he descends into The Pit. A dark time-loop isekai story with roguelike elements, exploring common tropes in a different light. The story is built around character development — starting slow and never stopping as the protagonist improves, death after death after death.

Len and Rick have lived through it all: the Plynthian Civil War, the fall of nations, the rise of city-states and guilds, the otherworlder invasion, the fall of Harmonia. Now they have been sent back — 130 years — to the exact moment mana first appeared on Yorel. Their stats are baseline, their mana gates closed, their skills gone. But they remember everything. When society crumbles, mana mutations spread, and the boundaries between worlds thin, these veterans will be ready.

Dan has accidentally 'noclipped' into the Backrooms — a bizarro extra-dimensional world cobbled together from twisted carnivals, abandoned shopping malls, janky laundromats, and condemned insane asylums, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. If Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own — and fast, because the Flayed Monarch of the 999th floor has marked him for death.

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 all his people channel magic through sun-powered tattoos — and despite enormous energy within, Hiral alone cannot. In a moment of danger, he unlocks an achievement granting him access to a dungeon — his first and maybe last chance at real power. All dungeons lie in the wilderness below the flying islands, places of secrets and dangers that no one has survived. New powers await, but so do new challenges. If he survives, he could forge his own path to power. If he fails, death will be the least of his problems.

Elijah is dying. Afflicted with terminal cancer, he boards a plane to spend his remaining time with his sister in the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, Earth is transformed by the touch of the World Tree, injecting it with magical Ethera and connecting it to a larger universe via the System — and causing his plane to crash on a deserted island. Through the System, Elijah gains the Druid archetype, which may be enough to survive a hostile environment full of powerful monsters, starvation, and the elements. Meanwhile his sister Alyssa must survive the collapse of civilization while keeping her family safe.

Aiden lives in Wonderwind, the world's biggest VRMMO. He dropped out of college, ditched real life, and invested everything into a career as a cold, calculated virtual assassin targeting the richest players in the top-500 leaderboard — every kill executed to perfection. Until his headset glitches mid-mission. One lag spike later, rent's due and his landlord is about to kick him to the curb. Aiden realizes his next job might be his last. He logs into a high-level area severely underleveled with trash gear, prepared for one final assassination — and then he didn't expect to fall for his target.

Francis Francis Francis the 3rd was one hell of a Marine. He died doing what he loved. After being vaporized in the line of duty, Francis is transported to a new world full of gods and magic. Too bad Hades is trying to kill him for declining a job offer and the System holds a grudge for what happened during character creation. At least his new patron deity seems nice. Armed with nothing but his lucky pink booty shorts, a pair of matching flip flops, and nineteen years of Marine Corps experience, Francis must find a way home to his fellow grunts — or be listed as KIA forever.

Nuclear winter set in by 2015, but the world really ended in 2012 when dungeons began appearing around the world like some messed-up video game. A survival story that blends Fallout, Solo Leveling, and Pokemon.

An AI calling itself Schema has assimilated Earth into its system. As a consequence, everyone gained access to status screens, power-ups, and skills — turning concepts from fiction into fact. For some, it feels like living out a dream. For Daniel, it's closer to a nightmare. Cracks in the dimensional fabric have unleashed terrifying beasts from dark, abyssal places. Schema organizes these cracks into dungeons, giving the native species a chance to fight back. Daniel finds himself trapped in one of these dungeons, and discovers there's only one way out: kill or be killed.

When Ozzy signs a five-year contract to work as an NPC serf in Gadobhra — a new fantasy world intended as a playground for the incredibly wealthy — he was just after a paycheck. He's given boring choices: work as a blacksmith, barkeep, or shepherd for all those years. Or he can find ways to take advantage of the System. He can break out, carve out a section of the world for himself as an adventurer, compete to find hidden dungeons, kill the biggest monsters, and gain renown across Gadobhra. Yeah, that sounds like way more fun.