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In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich and a hellhole for everyone else. Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already bad afternoon. A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG — exactly as wild as it sounds.

Brooke believed she understood the tug-of-war between entities seeking to end or save humanity. She believed in the Vanguard — heroes granted immense power via contracts with the eldritch. She believed she would have no part in any of it, and above all, she believed in a path back to some semblance of normality. She was wrong. Follow Brooke and Roosevelt's incomprehensible journey as they contend with forces beyond understanding. As she delves deeper into the abyss, she'll find new allies, horrifying phobias, and a healthy respect for anything with more than two mouths.

Burton was a good man — if gullible — until his superhero girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, also a superhero, and his entire family took her side. In a fit of suicidal rage, something changed: he became a Wisher, smarter and sharper than before, yet fundamentally still himself. Now he lives as a vigilante — not an official hero but a rogue man of the night who beats up bad guys and has a talking dog and cat for company. He is a cynic, a loner, and a sadistic hermit with no love to give. That is about to change, and so is his pain.

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.

Twenty years ago, the hero Glorybeam and the villain Blacktime fought. The aftermath leveled twenty city blocks, killed thousands, and orphaned hundreds. Neither has ever faced consequences. Isaac Hartson was one of those orphans. As a nominal-class metahuman — a dreg — he knows he'll never hold them accountable by force. But years as a janitor have taught him the value of simple plans and hard work. Once set in motion, events stay in motion. In Star City, there is always someone with an angle, and Isaac will need more than hard work to keep from being buried under the tide of consequences he has set in motion.

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.

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.

It is 2054 and unemployment is at an all-time high. In the era of the quantum computer, autonomous systems have taken over as the backbone of the workforce. Justin, twenty years old and unemployed, has nothing holding him back — so when his government stipend covers the cost, he signs up to play Imagitech's brand new full-immersion virtual reality game: A Time of Heroes. Justin plays Artisan, an alien AI trapped on Earth — inventor, hacker, and gadgeteer to a team of heroes navigating an alternate America where superheroes and villains are on the rise and forces of good and evil battle for the future.

Normal people awaken their superpowers in their teenage years. At thirty-two, an ordinary man gets his — along with a draft notice from the Department of Defense and ninety days before deployment to a dungeon. His class is [Trainer], with zero available familiars. But the System made a critical mistake: it allowed him to assign a familiar to himself. Now every cell in his body is a pet that can be trained. He can issue special commands to his own biology — fall asleep instantly, ignore pain limits, evolve faster than any young genius. He is his own trainer, and he will not stop until he turns this old body into the perfect weapon.

In a futuristic world of superheroes and supervillains, the ability to dream of another world doesn't seem particularly useful. But for Demund, who has recently sent his best friend off to the Preliminary Islands superhero training grounds, it turns out to be life-changing. A rejuvenating vacation to a world of magic is now only a good night's rest away. As Demund explores his new world, reality around him begins to change — and he must figure out how to balance the existence of both.

Greg Veder knows life's not a game — especially not in Brockton Bay. A city crawling with villains, capes, and certain death for idiots who play hero. But when he wakes up with a gamer system, complete with stats, quests, and skill trees, he figures: screw it. Maybe life IS a game. Leveling up is easy. Surviving Brockton Bay? That's the real endgame. (A Worm / The Gamer AU)

Becoming a magical girl should have been the happiest day of her life. Bleeding out alone on the pavement, she couldn't help but disagree. The contract saved her — but closure wasn't part of the deal. How could she rest easy after a hero abandoned her to die? She wants answers, and if that means playing for the villains, so be it.

The Earth met its end, bathed in holy fire. Rifts now spill monsters into the world, and the Kingdom of Cindrus is the last bastion of humanity, clinging to life deep underground. Erec, blessed by the goddess like all humans, comes from a line of disgraced nobility and seeks to reclaim his family's honor by joining the prestigious academy that trains the next generation of Knights. Armed with a power that drives him to uncontrollable Rage and aided by an old-world AI, Erec sets out to reconquer the world with the remnants of humankind.

Months after an extra-dimensional invasion ravaged Florida, the world is still reeling: the global economy is in crisis, political relations are strained, and both religious and scientific beliefs have taken hits. The greatest upheaval is the emergence of superpowers — originally seen only in survivors of the invasion, they are now appearing randomly with dangerous results. Maya Wennefer has spent months recovering from the horrors of the invasion and only wants to rebuild her life. Unfortunately, as one of the survivors with the strongest powers, she will have to get involved in the developing situation before others do it for her.

After hundreds of thousands of years cultivating, Zhao Gang has finally reached the penultimate threshold — ready to ascend to the level of True Immortal. To avoid drawing the attention of his enemies, he selects the most desolate plane he can find: Earth. Fast forward three thousand years. Zhao Gang discovers what his long absence has wrought — a cultivation-free culture that has independently unlocked the deep mysteries of creation. Now he can't help but wonder how this tiny, energy-barren planet could affect the course of all creation. There's only one problem. For that to happen, he first has to succeed in cultivating Earth.

After Earth's magical girls accidentally destroy the entire planet, they decide to fix their mistake with the power of love, friendship, and overwhelming firepower. This doesn't go as planned. A multi-isekai plot featuring ridiculously overpowered protagonists, cute girls terrorizing multi-dimensional godlike beings, and a hero who is occasionally badass — but usually on accident.

In a post-apocalyptic world of magic and machinery, Jack Knight is an orphan caught between a life-altering decision: join the military to fight demon hordes, or sell his soul to the corporations. Neither option appeals to a shut-in scraping by paycheck to paycheck to cover his sister's medical expenses. In a strange turn of events that nearly kills him, an Angel presents Jack with a third option: awaken, and become her instrument of revenge — and gain the ultimate power.

Gwen Stacy has had a terrible week. Her father murdered by the mafia, she's been bouncing between public spaces too afraid to go home — and then she wakes up in a public restroom with no idea why she passed out. She soon discovers she has been gifted incredible powers and decides to use them to track down the men responsible for her father's murder and keep the streets safe. There's just one problem: this isn't quite the city she expected.

Aiko considered herself a run-of-the-mill office worker: clock in, get yelled at by her boss, clock out, don't get eaten by the monstrous horrors spilling into the world from another dimension. But when a well-meaning friend drags her into that very dimension, Aiko must carve out a new life for herself as one of the monsters people fear. Now she fights back against the protectors she once admired, battling to hold onto her sense of self. Though to be fair, being a fallen magical girl is far more preferable to an office job.

A Worm/Pokemon crossover. A second-chance story about becoming the best there ever was — again — with all the chaos, cute companions, and unexpected consequences that entails.