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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.

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.

Recent college grad Sam King expected a backpacking trip across Europe as a graduation present. Instead he gets a three-month stint in an ultimate immersive gaming experience. As a lifelong geek and outsider, it sounds like a dream — until he discovers the Mage's College has a very different definition of fun, one involving blisteringly strict regulations, aristocratic hierarchy, and a pay-to-play attitude. After crossing the College, Sam finds himself on the run with a back-talking book that is far more than it seems, wielding a class no one has ever heard of. Navigating deadly college politics and a looming war with the barbaric Wolfmen, he just might find the adventure he was looking for.

In a future where noncitizens can only find work inside the virtual world of Disgardium, fifteen-year-old Alex dreams of becoming a space guide. With his family's circumstances forcing his hand, the game is now his only path to that goal. But after a Sleeping God bestows its power on Alex's in-game character Scyth, he is classified as a Class-A Threat — the system's designation for players with an unfair advantage. Now every major clan in the world has reason to hunt him, his patron gods are tearing him apart from the inside, and the Destroying Plague wants its Emissary to infect all of humanity. That Emissary is him.

Devon Walker has one chance to turn her life around, and Relic Online is it. Hired as a salaried player to push the game's creator AI to its limits, she logs in expecting an adventure — and instead spawns in a ruined jungle city wearing nothing but a cloth tunic, with no skills and pocket lint in her inventory. Devon's task: drive the AI to its creative limits while building a settlement in a hostile game world. What begins as a job becomes a fight for survival — and something more — as the game's competing AIs wage a war with stakes that extend far beyond the virtual world.

Arwyn has just bought Fantasia, the first fantasy-based VRMMORPG with 99% realism that you can play while you sleep. In the game, she becomes Fey, a moon elf starting in the magical Elvenwood. Join her — and her snarky narrator who likes to interject sarcastic comments in parentheses — on her exciting, often hilarious adventures inside a magical world full of every fantasy creature you've ever encountered, and a few you haven't. Oh, and there's something strange about the NPCs in this game. See if you can figure it out before Fey does.

With war on the horizon, the government must accelerate their super soldier program. They have developed a new Virtual Reality system — the perfect tool to find and train recruits outside the military. Against all odds, Lucius, a semipro gamer raised by an AI companion named Destiny, is selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a VRMMO with one key feature the developers neglect to mention: 100% pain, no dampeners. Thrown into the game with barely any time to orient themselves, Lucius and the other participants find their entire player city under attack. With the world watching live, Lucius faces an opportunity to build a following and impress sponsors — if he can survive long enough. This is far from just another game.

A new update arrives to the ultra-popular online game, Realm of Arkon. With Patch 17, the level of immersion in gaming capsules has made virtual reality indistinguishable from the real world. But every gamer's dream becomes a nightmare for Roman Kozhevnikov after he gets confined to Arkon against his will — locked in its deadliest zone: Demon Grounds. Living as his character Krian, survival isn't Roman's only goal. He longs to exact revenge for his banishment to a virtual world where the sensation of pain has reached one hundred percent.

Damien thought his exams would be bad enough. Then his mother collapsed with a failing heart. In a desperate move, he throws himself into the Streamer Contest of Saga Online, the latest fantasy VR-MMORPG — winning would provide the funds for her surgery. But early betrayal and a close run-in with a vampire nearly ruin his attempt before it begins. Stuck at the bottom of a dungeon with no gear and no allies, Damien must embrace the undiscovered Occultist class, master control of his new demonic minions, and take the contest by storm. His plan: topple the most famous player in Saga Online.

In the future, the class divide has only grown worse. Freya O'Malley grew up on Earth — the worst of the war-torn planets — and wants nothing more than to leave. With few options, she joins the Federation Marines, where every week brings a new war and enlistment points must be earned just to stay in. With a citizenship on a paradise world as the ultimate prize, competition is fierce. Can a girl from the wrong planet modify her body and mind fast enough to stay competitive against those born with every advantage?

At the District One Invitational, a rookie eSports team defied all odds and reached the finals, earning worldwide acclaim. Dubbed the Paragons, they never celebrated that victory — they lost a friend in the match, who never appeared online again. Ten years later, only Helena remains of the original team. Abidden, once the most exclusive VR game ever made, has been reduced to a shadow of its former glory — yet remains the most-streamed game in the world. James Sylvester, finally out of hospital and crippled with medical debt, his gaming licence revoked, has been competing in illegal slum arcades to make repayments. When a high-profile job grants him temporary backdoor access to his blacklisted account, he receives an invitation that could change his life forever.

Sam went for a walk to get baked goods and ended up in the past of another world, with a set of memories that did not quite belong to him. Making use of those memories and his gaming knowledge, he joined the newest VRMMO — Magic Unbound — a game that had been only a dream in his original world. Follow Sam's journey through the game and life as he transforms from a lone gamer into someone surrounded by friends, dealing with annoying villains, scheming edgelord gamers, and secretive assassins along the way. A VRMMO story that keeps the real world and the game world separate, with an emphasis on staying true to how MMOs actually work.

A VRMMORPG that offered escape, adventure, and a second chance. When Brent Roth suffered a workplace accident that left him immobile, he discovered The Dragon's Wrath — a virtual reality game offering everything he lacked in real life. Inside, as Sigurd, he builds more than just a character. Across three volumes, he carves out a kingdom in the North, wages war, and finds himself mired in a conflict far beyond his control — one man attempting to change the fate of thousands.

Born with a rare, terminal disease that took away everything she ever had, Melia made the most of her limited time playing Fantasy Online — a virtual reality MMO where she could run, jump, explore dungeons, craft equipment, and build a living world alongside other players. A year after she passed away, the servers shut down. Something, somewhere, wasn't satisfied with that ending. A hundred years later, Melia wakes up in the body of her character: Meliastraza Obsidianheart, an Archdragon with the ominous class [Destroyer of Worlds] and a level of 3700 — the strongest creature on the planet. Destruction isn't on the menu. Melia would much rather roam around, make friends, fill her belly, and craft ridiculous items. But if someone tries to make her into the next dark lord, they're going to have a problem.

In the future, androids have taken over most jobs, leaving humans with little to do. Enter World Tree Online, a fully immersive virtual reality experience. Join Byron in his first thirty days of non-stop fantasy adventure in the cursed province of Hurlig Ridge — a land filled with monsters, mysteries, murderers, and treasure. The people of the province have been tormented for centuries by a pack of voracious wolves. Now, with the arrival of adventurers, dark forces have begun to stir, accelerating their dark plans. Can Byron unravel the mystery of this curse before it's too late?

Tinea had an ugly childhood full of pain and abuse. It taught her how to fight and survive, how to run and hide and cut ties — but not much else. She ran, crossed an ocean, grew up, and discovered the world. Soul-deep pain notwithstanding, she fought to be happy. Then the aliens invaded her neighborhood. Smoking rifle in hand and still coming up short, she made a life-ending choice — and was rewarded beyond her wildest dreams through DNA-changing Vanguard science. Reborn, a whole new journey awaits the warrior looking for connection and togetherness, set in the universe of Stray Cat Strut.

Ilia is a gamer who has spent years chasing escapism. She discovers a game talked about in online forums as the most immersive game ever, made for a cutting-edge VR console: MEAT — a perfectly strange world of living flesh, full of strange details and biohorrific sensibilities. At first it's exactly what was promised. But after she starts seeing things she shouldn't and experiencing the game's systems in far more detail than should be possible, she begins to wonder. When she starts looking for answers, she discovers just how deep the rabbit hole goes — and just how many others may be out there, touched by a place she cannot comprehend. What are the sides to this conflict she can't yet see? What will she become as she digs deeper into what is — and what might be?

A long-time player of a sci-fi VRMMO was eagerly awaiting the big update that would add countless new systems and rumored game elements. When the update arrived, disaster struck. After crash-landing on a new world, the setting is completely wrong — this is supposed to be a sci-fi game, not fantasy. And why can't they log out?

As a programmer, Ike knows all about Virtual Dive Experiences — but when he suddenly wakes up in a virtual game he has never heard of, he is too busy struggling to survive to worry about how he got there. Luckily, he has a trick up his sleeve: the ability to program custom enchantments for his gear. He will need that and more to figure out what is going on, since there is no tutorial and True Calling plays by its own rules: your class and race are chosen for you, the NPCs are indistinguishable from the players, every quest is unique, and the GMs keep leaving Ike's prayers unanswered.