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Strip away wants, desire, dreams, and hopes. When you peel it back, such things are luxuries only possible when survival is guaranteed. Under the control of the new rulers of her world — as a pawn in a conflict she can scarcely comprehend — survival is not just everything; it is all there is left. Life, of her and her people, was nothing to the aliens if it was not useful. So she would be useful, she would be obedient, and she would survive. In this cosmic war of forces beyond her understanding, she would find a way.

When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teenager from the Denver suburbs. She woke up in a magical alternate dimension inhabited by monsters and governed by a mysterious System — where people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens. Grappling with the System isn't Alice's only challenge. An underground organization called the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions. If they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to extract the secrets of her world by force. Now Alice must pursue her scientific endeavors, learn to harness the magic around her, and uncover the Society's ultimate intentions — and how she ended up here — before it's too late.

John Hall did everything right — got his degree, landed his dream job in process engineering. Then, not even a week in, he woke up in a strange fantasy world steeped in Japanese mythology. Driven away by fireball-throwing locals, he retreated to the monster-infested woods, took residence in an abandoned fort, and rebuilt it — while teaching himself magic from scattered tomes. Five years of survival have slowly shaped the stranded engineer into an artificer carving out a more comfortable life, but the isolation is wearing on him. Danger and opportunity arrive together in the form of an injured kitsune. Aiding her drags John into a world in conflict, where his unique knowledge and perspective become his greatest weapons.

A rough draft of a dark secondary-world fantasy. The revised version contains major expansions and outright changes to multiple plot elements; this version is preserved for posterity only.

A cultivation world destined for destruction. A man fated to destroy it. There is a prophecy to ignore. Jim was thrust back in time to the moment he started cultivating — a second chance he is determined not to waste. He already knows the mistakes that doomed him in his first life, and he knows how to right them. But he must reach the top of the cultivation world without drawing the attention of those who would seize his knowledge of the future. He has seen how the world ended, and he is determined to fight through the world's hidden foes and defeat his destiny. Luckily for the world, Jim thinks fate is stupid. He doesn't care what it wants.

Reincarnated into a land of cultivation, Yuan Zhou draws on his Earth knowledge to carve out a reputation as a genius — both as a cultivator and as a businessman. His commercial ideas clash with the stagnant culture of the cultivation world, but his drive for immortality and power is limitless. Refusing to follow conventional limits, he walks a path of defiance, pushing cultivation bounds far beyond what is considered rational.

For millennia, two galactic empires have been locked in an interstellar cold war. Dissent is considered treason, and neutrality is incomprehensible. As each empire has expanded, newly discovered sentient species have always joined one side or the other — whether they want to or not. In the year 2028, Earth is the latest planet in the path of expansion. It has barely any space capability, no system defenses, and no allies. The nations of Earth must volunteer to be subjugated, or become the latest battleground in a war that began before the construction of the pyramids. No species has ever succeeded in resisting. Except humans have a saying: the best defense is a good offense.

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.

One moment of bad luck, and a modern man wakes up in the body of an Elder in a world of cultivation — with a reputation so terrible that even the best PR team on Earth couldn't rehabilitate it. Of course there's a system: one that allows him to create any martial art he can imagine, provided he has enough Creation Points. And his first disciple just happens to be a reincarnated monster from ten thousand years ago with an incurable poison he can cure with a custom creation. To earn Creation Points he must raise disciples, and to raise disciples he must first rehabilitate an image built entirely on infamy. These really are some crappy starting circumstances.

Arc Sandhurst will become a mech pilot, even if it kills him. After his sister's ship is destroyed by the Pirate Queen of Nepenthe with all hands lost, Arc enters the Imperial Mech Academy on the deathworld Vidako to get revenge — the only path available to the son of a silk-worker who needs the academy's enhancements just to pilot a mech. First he must survive disagreeable roommates, hazing from upperclassmen, the friendship of an imperial princess, and the steaming jungles of Vidako. But the Imperium Stellarum will need every good pilot it can get — because empires are built on a foundation of blood, and the sins of the first emperors are about to come due. Lost fleets lurk on the edge of known space, the ruins of ancient races are spread across long-dead worlds, and enemies thought defeated are gathering their strength once more.

Humanity is not alone. It fights to survive. Among Terra's billions, Lanis Osgell was one of the elite few — a Navigator, a psychic bridge allowing Fleet's warships to jump between star systems. Now, suddenly, she is nothing. Newly broken in a world she was never prepared to re-enter, Lanis must imagine a new future among the planet-side mega corporations and their fierce rivalries. A Navigator, even a broken one, is impossible to ignore.

The Aspects are long dead — the venerated creators of reality are no more. Yet the final scheme of their slayer, the deceased Betrayer, seeks to grind all they ever made to dust. And the truth is, it is working. Slowly but surely, the end of all things has been growing closer throughout the eons. The last Hope is a desperate gamble: for one of the first children of the creators to cast their very soul into reincarnation and perhaps return as something strong enough to stop the end. If there ever was any chance to begin with.

Keiran of the Night Vale has staved off death for two thousand years, but even he's reached his limits. His body is old and failing. While the flesh fails, his mind and magic remain as sharp as ever, and he bends his prodigious talents toward reincarnating into a fresh, young body. He awakens in a wasteland where mana has become a scarce resource, hoarded by those in power — and without mana, he's no longer a mage. With each passing week he regains more of his old strength, but standing in his way is a cult-like nightly mana tithing, a governor with secrets of his own, and an unforgiving desert full of monsters. Keiran didn't become an archmage by accident, and he's willing to use every dirty trick he knows to claw his way back.

The king is dead; his heir is too young to assume the throne. Jarl Vale wants to become Lord Protector, spurred by his ambitious brother Konstans. Jarl Isarn likewise seeks this power, aided — or thwarted — by the return of his brother, the knight and war hero Athelstan, whose squire Brand hopes to restore his family's fortunes, cost what it may. Through all of this, an enigmatic traveller makes plans with jarls, scribes, and priests for his own purpose. Abroad, powerful forces sense division in the realms of Adalmearc and make their own plans. War is on the horizon.

Aliandra Amariel loved magic, dedicating her academic years to the study of runes and spells. Like most Fae, her destiny seemed clear — until the day of her Class Trial, when the Blind Lich unleashed an undead apocalypse on her home, the fabled underground city of Dal'mohra, triggering a cataclysm that forever reshaped the world. Saved by her mother's legendary time-stasis spell, Ali wakes thousands of years into a dark future. Everything she knew is gone, buried under a mountain and transformed into a twisted dungeon by the malevolent will of the Lich. Now Ali must master battling monsters and braving corruption while the Lich hunts her unique magic. As her advancement slowly reveals the horrifying truth of the Class she chose to survive, she must decide: falter into the eternal servitude of undeath, or rise against all odds and cast him down.

College is supposed to be an exciting time to meet new friends and make lifelong connections. For Kaitlyn, talking to people has always been hard enough — let alone romance. Getting transported into a dating sim seems like the perfect opportunity to change that. But even here, affection is not easily earned. Beset by grueling classes, stinging loss, and her own faults, Kaitlyn's hopes for change slowly give way to a fear that she'll never escape the endlessly repeating semester. Anything is possible with enough practice. It's much easier to make a good impression the tenth time around.

A disillusioned researcher is summoned to a fantasy world of magic, dragons, and mythical beasts — only to learn the summoning was a mistake, and the Hero who was coincidentally pulled through alongside him is the one they actually needed. With no revenge subplot, no hidden trap, and compensation paid for the error, he is finally free to do exactly what he always wanted: experiment for the joy of it. With his new class as a [Biologist], none of this world's mysteries will go unexplored — not even if the Demon Lord himself comes knocking.

Steven awakens to a nightmare. Transported to a brutal medieval kingdom on a faraway world, he wakes up as Kivamus — the exiled third son of a Duke, now the newly made Baron of a crumbling village called Tiranat. In a bandit-ridden frontier surrounded by untamed forests, survival is a daily battle and resources are scarce. Yet he sees potential where the villagers only see struggle. He dreams of using his knowledge to forge a new future for Tiranat, fueled by industry. But managing a starving village through the coming winter and navigating the cutthroat world of medieval nobility is just the beginning of a very long road.

Retired CEO Charles Morris is transported to a medieval fantasy world by a goddess who immediately leaves — she grabbed the wrong person. Stuck with no way home, Charles is restored to his physical prime and stumbles upon the village of Tine, whose people have been waiting centuries for a divine Champion. Using a lifetime of business acumen and a special ability called Topsight — which lets him view and manage the entire village from above — Charles sets out to grow a Level 1 backwater into a prosperous settlement. He has one month to prove himself before the villagers hang him.

The senselessness of so much of the world's death and suffering becomes apparent to the dying paladin Isaiah in his final moments. He perishes — and is reborn into a quiet existence as a simple blackbird. But a spell gone awry transforms him instead into a strange, angelic monstrosity that is neither man nor animal. Isaiah, desperate to return to his simple life, sets out to build the tallest tower ever seen — tall enough to reach the reclusive gods in the heavens above, so he can demand they undo the transformation. But the humans below believe he is trying to destroy the world. [Dungeon-Core] [LitRPG] [Base-building]