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Liam is a down-on-his-luck gambler whose life is falling apart. When loan sharks come to collect, things end badly. But he gets another chance — by joining the Traveler Initiative, which promises the freedom to explore planets across the universe, a new body, and a slew of other benefits. Even in this strange afterlife, his gambling addiction rears its head, and he somehow ends up reincarnated as a slug. What follows is a largely solitary journey of evolution and survival, as Liam slowly crawls his way up from the bottom of the food chain.

Logan was kicking back with a beer on his dock when the System Integration transformed his world. The planet became a sci-fi movie overnight — powers, levels, and impossible messages from an entity called the System that has deemed humanity a plague. Each day the dissolution of society gets worse, and in 365 days only the top-rated 1% will survive. Logan could accept his lot and go along with the flow, but he's worked out how to manipulate his new world: baseball bats with nails, cleavers, weed whackers — whatever it takes. He's good at killing things, and when the System threatens his sister and her kids, he'll show it what an idiot can really do. Features a bonded murderhobo octopus and a sentient weapon with murderous intentions toward the MC's friends.

Separated as a child from his family, Theo has always felt made for something bigger than the suburban life ahead of him. When stepping in to protect a friend earns him a beating, he wakes up to floating game text inviting him to become a dragon. No matter how often he rejects the prompt, it returns. Reluctantly accepting, he's finally exposed to the real world — filled with goblins, orcs, and dragons. Starting at Level 1 and in extreme danger, Theo must embark on an epic quest to level up and claim his rightful draconic heritage. Dragons are both jealous and territorial, and the only way to survive is to grow fast.

Chaos Online is heralded as the first "Hardcore" VRMMORPG. Pain conversion is set at a staggering 75%, and graphical fidelity has been pushed to the limits without any censorship whatsoever. "Who wants to feel their skin melt from dragon fire?" some asked as they dismissed it. Despite the popular belief that no one would play a game so close to reality, Chaos Online sold millions on the first day. Fight. Suffer. Win. Welcome to Chaos Online.

When she awoke to find Valerius, leader of the legendary Gilded Knights, towering over her, she thought she'd gone mad. She was the Fury — mistress of claw and flame, armies trembled at her name. Now she lay chained and broken, a prisoner in her own home. Only yesterday, she had a different life: a nephew struggling to beat the villain Zara the Fury in an arcade game, an uncle with a big booming laugh, and a gun that changed everything. Now she finds herself trapped inside the body of the game's most feared villain, in a world that is anything but virtual.

Still reeling from the death of his parents, Jake finds a doorway to an abandoned space station in his grandfather's basement — and when he walks through, he discovers he's trapped there with company. The station's AI enlists Jake to reclaim the systems needed to support life, but he has only eight hours to complete the task or he'll die alone in the cold vacuum of space. With only a wrecking bar, work boots, and basic survival equipment, he must defeat the horrific monsters infesting the station before his air runs out. Hidden somewhere in the station is also a message that could spell doom for Earth and the entire universe.

In a world ruled by giant bugs, colossal moths ravaged Sparrow's hometown, titanic waterbugs sank his refugee ship, and giant ants killed his parents. Ordered to stay behind and cover his army's retreat in humanity's losing war against the Swarm, he is rescued at the brink of death by a hidden village of powerful mages. To save his life they change his class to Worm — a class no one in the outside world knows anything about. Armed with a set of reality-warping mutations and abilities, Sparrow must gather knowledge, master the mages' techniques, and accumulate as much power as possible before returning to his army. First, he has to learn to control his wormhole abilities before he rips himself apart.

Nox is an alchemist by trade, but he dreams of magehood. Fate dealt him unfavorable cards, yet he has learned to compensate with scholarly pursuits, tenacity, and sheer grit — qualities that catch the attention of Woodson University's scouts. The Department of Dungeon Studies values the mind and its ability to overcome all limitations. After all, they stripped the divine of their titles, turning gods into Dungeon Lords and their domains into Dungeons. The department will give Nox the tools to achieve his ambitions, and his limitations will push him to the forefront of arcane discovery. More immediate challenges remain, though. Nox lacks the means to pay the university's ridiculous tuition. Only alchemy and smart business deals will earn him the hundreds of gold coins he needs.

Max is kidnapped from Earth and dumped into the world of Nava — a place of monsters, magic, swords, and gods, governed by an all-encompassing System that assigns classes and determines who prospers. His granted title of Lost Lord immediately makes him a target for assassins and terrorist organizations. Monster attacks are a daily occurrence in Nava, and the people who survive depend on fighters willing to put their own safety aside. Max will have to decide what kind of person he wants to be in this new world.

Charlie Mason — Mace — is a retired major crimes detective who gets offered an unusual second act: in-game constable for Immersion Online, the hottest virtual reality game around. He knows nothing about character creation, leveling up, or magical artifacts. He's a real noob. Spawned in the remote Wilderbrook villages to learn the ropes, Mace and his companions find themselves facing an ancient evil he's totally underleveled to handle. Fortunately, virtual world or not, he still has his wits and detective training.

A clock hangs over every mortal, counting down to the day the Goddess of Death claims them. The Gods were said to live forever, existing so far outside natural law that even their crimes go unpunished. But Knell Coba, at great cost, realizes this is nothing but a lie. The Gods can be tricked. They can be defeated. They can die. Together with his loyal crew, Knell will use his cunning and the power of the System to grow strong enough to get his revenge on the Goddess — no matter the cost.

King's League is more than a game — it's a way of life. For recently expelled college dropout Dirk Wilson, picking up and reselling other players' scraps from cleared dungeons and botched side quests is the only thing keeping him off the streets. Tired of ramen noodles and past-due notices, Dirk decides that if he's going to make something of himself, it'll be within the game — taking advantage of real-life payouts from selling in-game goods on King's League's River Market. But the game leaves little margin for error, and Dirk's virtual problems grow as large as his real-life ones when he uncovers a powerful conspiracy that impacts players from level one to level 99.

In a world where Elves and Goblins are real, where Wizards and Witches cast terrible magic, and where level-100 Heroes lead parties against great evils, Dungeons are essential — places where stories are written, loot acquired, and legends born. And the narrator of this story is a Dungeon. Known as the Playwright, this Dungeon Core invites adventurers to the "Stage of Forgotten Fables" for a dramatic dungeon delve unlike any they have experienced before. Told from the perspective of the Dungeon Core itself, the story shifts between multiple POVs to show the growth of its characters. The LitRPG elements of levels, skills, and classes are present, though the focus leans toward narrative over number-crunching.

In a world where monsters inflict violence and terror as a part of daily life, only those endowed with extraordinary powers can stand against them. For Charlene Devardem, the thought of becoming an essentia magician — one of those gifted few — was never something she expected. Now that the opportunity dangles in front of her, she finds that she wants it. Not for the heroism, the fame, or even to follow in the footsteps of her two prodigy brothers. Charlene wants it simply because magic makes people beautiful. She will find that these abilities are more than she knew, that people in this world are not kind or simple, and that she will have to change if she is to survive.

Li Hao is transmigrated into a Xianxia cultivation world and thrust into the life of a servant in the Azure Cloud Sect. He has the worst quality trash five-element spiritual roots — in any other's position, he'd be chopping wood and eating inferior pills for the rest of his life. However, he binds with a system that can upgrade everything. A burnt, poisonous pill? One upgrade away from a priceless Marrow Cleansing Elixir. An old cracked butter knife? A few upgrades from a blade that slices through Demonic Serpent Scales. With his upgrade ability, Li Hao climbs through a world of sects, clans, and royal dynasties in constant war — accumulating magic items, spirit stones, and wealth along the way.

The battle against the Kobar Empire was utterly lost, and as Luca lay dying a strange blue screen appeared: he had the aptitude to be a Player, and if he accepted, the game would reset. He accepted — and the reset went wrong, leaving him as only a partial player: Active Players: 0.4. Luca is neither clever nor strong. He will die. A lot. But with enough resets, he'll learn and grow. A slow-burning, character-driven story about an underdog using time-loop deaths to inch toward something better.

A struggling author transmigrates into the world of Solo Player, the massively popular novel she read to improve her craft. She doesn't become the protagonist or a villain. She becomes the protagonist's sister — the most worthless character in the story, a burden universally hated by readers, and someone fated to die no matter what path she takes. Armed with full knowledge of the story's events, she has one goal: not only to survive, but to surpass every limit and rewrite the terrible ending. Her ridiculously overprotective brother — the world's strongest solo player — is the main obstacle. The Constellations watching from above are another problem entirely, bombarding her with gifts and sponsorships as though she's a top-tier celebrity streamer.

Launch day. That was what they called it — the day over four million people vanished from Manhattan, the day a one-hundred-and-one-kilometre tower rose from the wreckage, and the day every screen displayed a single message: The Great Emperor has issued his challenge. A hundred floors and a hundred challenges await the worthy. To the victor goes a Wish of Unlimited Power. Cayden Caros yearned to play that game, but the Terms and Conditions barred anyone under sixteen from entering. Forced to wait two years, Cayden researched, practiced, and prepared — because when it came to catching up to players with a massive head start, being a SpeedRunner was a very particular kind of advantage.

'A Rounding Error has Occurred. Please Choose Your Apocalypse as Compensation.' Alex Johnson — a home-based IT worker — is thrown into a brutal LitRPG apocalypse and handed the chance to design his own end-of-days. Like choosing wallpaper for his personal inferno. Enemies, skill tree, sidekicks — all semi-customizable. Of course, the universe is cruel and capricious. Hidden forces are at play, uninvited and unwelcome, seeking to control his fate. So Alex is going to be fighting uphill, against the odds — and probably some interdimensional middle managers — from the word "go."

Eve Redding was seized in a dirty alley and injected with a virtual reality chip, a GPS tracker, and her first Seed — making her a Player. At first she loved the miraculous ability to level up any aspect of herself. Then she was yanked off her world and sent to fight for her life on a vicious alien planet, where other Players are just as dangerous as the monsters, and failure means death. Eve is the type to cling to life by the tips of her bloody fingernails — and she hates it when people try to control her.