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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.

At 79, Adom is an old mage who has known nothing but illness and regret. When the world finally burns and all hope turns to ash, a mysterious being appears at the last beat of his fading heart with a simple question: "If you could try again, would you?" A handshake seals the deal, and Adom wakes up on his old school grounds, sixty-seven years in the past — with all his knowledge intact, his memories preserved, and his youth restored. This time, Adom wants it all: food he's never tasted, a world still full of wonder, the life he dreamed of. There's just one small catch — he needs to prevent the end of the world first. And as he will soon discover, changing history may demand sacrifices even greater than watching it burn.

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.

A classic story. A young man dies, but a karmic debt is owed, and he is given an option: pass into the afterlife or restart in a new world. The idiot asks for catgirls. Do not ask the Fae for catgirls — you will get your wish.

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.

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.

Marrow was old — older than anyone he knew. He had been sitting in a closet for many, many years, doing nothing but stare. But eating a spider opened up another world to him: a voice, speaking to him directly. Marrow didn't understand what the voice was saying, but that was secondary. Something stirred inside him — something like restlessness. This is a LitRPG story of a skeleton's coming of sapience, with skills, levels, heroes, and monsters.

Emotions are fuel. Happiness is ammo. Sam just wants to be a good person — which is why she uses her ability to see the unseen world of werewolves and vampires for good. Mainly, she hugs ghosts to death. But when shapeshifting aliens kill her cat, all the hugs and pleasantries in the world won't get her back. Becoming a magical girl will. Nobody said it was going to be easy. Even equipped with magic, guns, and extra limbs, she is woefully unprepared when an entire alien invasion descends on her hometown.

As a reincarnator who read countless novels in the genre, Willow thought she had it all figured out. Become a White Mage, get pampered by the party, and rake in the gold — the perfect plan. Too bad she proved too good at her job. Conscripted into the Support Corps where the Guild chooses her party members, Willow must break her back evading every death flag known to man while keeping alive the dumbest bands of screw-ups to walk the Nine Kingdoms. Sometimes she wonders if it's not too late to reincarnate elsewhere.

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.

When a universe was born, seven primordial Concepts acquired an ego. Omniscient and omnipotent, they have since plundered other universes, capturing young civilizations to enrich their own. Many monsters, gods, and races compete for the eighth throne — and now it is Earth's turn. Humanity begins its integration through a deadly Tutorial. Priam has the luck and misfortune to finish it first: his reward is a form of pseudo-immortality, but as his civilization's champion he is transported to Elysium, the most dangerous world the Concepts have created. Nine out of ten champions die there on their first day. Fortunately for Priam, he has many lives.

Dylan is your average nerd — architect by day, games-and-media enthusiast by night. When an indie company releases a virtual reality MMO where players choose to be heroes or villains, Dylan immediately signs up to play his favorite archetype: the Saturday-morning cartoon villain. Inept, bungling, yet highly dangerous. But to grab a playerbase, the company has announced that players with high enough reputation can become paid permanent raid bosses. Serious players are rushing to purchase copies of World of Supers. What will happen when Dylan — someone playing purely for fun — clashes with these overly serious players?

Ownership of the last functioning piece of orbital infrastructure puts you in a position of responsibility. The fact that there's a lack of thumbs in the process makes it a challenge. But challenge is, as far as anyone can prove, my middle name.

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.

Twelve souls were chosen to expand into the void surrounding the multiverse, given a grace period to grow their domains in relative safety. Once that period ends, the created universes will be able to interact with each other — and be at the mercy of the Void. One of those souls finds the work of a deity far from easy. Between raising up gods to defend the realm, guiding mortals, accidentally creating a xianxia world, and dealing with divine children, there is always more to be done. Now it's clear why gods on Earth worked in mysterious, invisible ways: there's simply too much to be done.

A lost and terrified Buneary stumbles into the Ruins of Alph and, in his desperation, calls upon forces beyond his understanding. What appears is a girl he suspects might be human — though Broccoli Bunch has strange powers and the ears and heart of a gentle Lopunny. They join forces, determined to grow stronger in a world of strange Pokemon and stranger friends, where old mysteries need uncovering and new enemies need to be pounded into the dirt. Chaos Cuddles Cauliflower isn't going to end as just some ordinary Buneary — he's determined to get to the top, one hop, skip, and bounce at a time. The story is told entirely from the perspective of the people and Pokemon Broccoli meets, never from her own point of view.

Morgan Mackenzie had a very bad day. First at work, then at home — and then her bathtub fell through a portal to another world, with her in it. Now she's stranded thousands of miles from any sort of civilization with nothing but the bathtub and a lace puffball scrubby. But she learned magic, so that's sort of nice. Now if only she could find some clothes. This is a bigger story than just one main character fighting the monster of the week — multiple characters and perspectives populate a fully realized world.

The Questing Stones have come to Nowherested, and Evelia Greene is finally ready to receive her life's quest. Perhaps she'll be a great warrior, a wealthy merchant, or a brilliant mage. Or perhaps the Questing Stones will grant her the Legendary mission of popping over to the next village to pick up a loaf of bread. Eve can't guess how a level 1 Messenger Girl is supposed to complete anything labeled Legendary, but one way or another — through wolves, goblins, and spontaneously combusting bakeries — she is going to get that gods-damned bread. There just might be a few Side Quests along the way.

Whatever kills Shiv only makes him stronger. An outcast in his town, considered an unholy omen, Shiv has spent years fruitlessly hunting monsters on his own — the System seems to spurn him and the authorities refuse to grant him a Path. When his town is attacked and Shiv is murdered in combat, he finds himself bestowed with a Unique Path possessed by no one else: the Path of the Deathless. Resurrecting upon death, he is cast into the Abyss. In that dark and wondrous place, he is finally free to chart his own destiny — if he can survive its countless dangers. In a world that stands against him, death is not the end. For Shiv, it's just another source of power.

Walter Tye is the best friend any adventurer needs — the smiling shopkeeper next to your local dungeon, selling cheap healing potions and sharing monster intel. You can trust him. He is also the undead necromancer ruling that very dungeon, getting paid to solve problems he caused in the first place. But don't tell anyone that.