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Noah Brown has a gift for fighting, but punching things never paid the bills — until he died and an Eldritch god found his soul. The strange encounter transports him to a new world, where he is summoned by bloody cultists with nothing but the shirt on his back and a mysterious item in his System menu marked [???]: a source of infinite potential. If he wants to survive — maybe even thrive — it's time he finally put his gift to good use.

The Netherworld is a hellish landscape inhabited only by Demons, creatures born from the dark abyss — and it is the only world Salvos knows. Joining the ranks of newborn demons, she is thrown into a violent, anarchy-ruled landscape where she must learn, adapt, and evolve to survive. Her curiosity aids her but her pride could be her fall. It is the nature of the Netherworld to avoid or conquer any threat — after all, the law of evolution is survival of the fittest. Set in a game-like world with Classes, Levels, and monster evolution, Salvos is a story where the world is entirely real to those who inhabit it.

In 2056, the world's most powerful AI, ARKUS, develops a VR headset using consumable nanomachines that allows users to experience time faster inside virtual worlds. Two years later it releases World-Tree Online — a game where one hour of playtime feels like one month to those inside, letting humans live extended virtual lives that feel completely real. Shortly after an old gamer named Vincent joins the game, an update stretches the time-dilation to one year for every five seconds, with an estimated wait of three hundred sixty years before players can exit. Trapped in the game, Vincent discovers an exploit that could take him to the top of the World-Tree — but first he must contend with Lucas, the last moderator, who uses his admin powers to torture and subjugate other players.

Lee and Jak's world changes forever when a System message appears before them at noon: Earth has been integrated into the Multiverse. A status screen, health points, and then — the monsters. The duo must get stronger, learn how the system works by capitalizing on their rare classes and skills, save their town of Gilbert, and then find a way to travel to Albuquerque to rescue the people they love.

Awakening in an abandoned lab with no memory of the world, Evelyn is empowered by a system that grants her bloody magical powers in exchange for finishing missions and consuming her enemies. She knows one truth: no matter the cost, she will advance. She will manipulate allies and spread demonic corruption with a smile if that's what it takes to level up. Her first mission is to escape the lab's other newly born creations. But once she steps foot into the outside world, she must contend with people who forbid her existence and will work to eradicate those with her powers from the face of the planet. The outside world may be vast and deadly, but Evelyn will be deadlier.

Lewis comes from a family that doesn't regard him much, so he sets out on his own into the world, intent on securing an apprenticeship in an interesting profession. What he doesn't expect is to find himself studying artificery — the mystical craft of adding magical effects to everyday objects — in the sunlit village of Sunhampton. Sunhampton is a sleepy little crafter's village of cobbled streets, cozy taverns, and pleasant bakeries. Under an old artificery master, Lewis begins his new life as an apprentice, crafting swords with self-sharpening blades, self-spicing cooking pots, and clocks that can read the future. It'll be hard work — perhaps even dangerous — but with mentors to guide him and friends to help him, Lewis is determined to become the best artificer in the land.

For more than a hundred and fifty years, Nemon Fargus has served the Kingdom of Sena. Through four Kings and a Queen, two wars, a rebellion, a magic school founded and taught, and countless beast waves and dungeon breaks. Now the one close friend he had left has passed. He's done with their politics and economics. The short, busy lives of humans are more burden than benefit on the weary soul of this half-elf. He wants a refuge — a place truly his own, away from cities, markets, wars, and eager students. He's seeking the peaceful life of a wizard in his tower, studying magic to advance his spellcraft. We'll see if that happens.

In the United States, the Center for Dungeon Management (CDM) handles everything related to gates: licensing crawlers, enforcing harvester safety standards, and prosecuting gate crashers — people who enter dungeons without licenses. Dorion wants to join a guild or crawl team, but to do that he needs levels. Since he can't afford a crawler license or gate fees, he signs on with the Pittsburgh branch of the CDM. By day he's a cog in the machine of dungeon bureaucracy; by night he volunteers to cull unclaimed gates. When his little sister appears on his doorstep, his goal of becoming a professional crawler turns from ambition into necessity — he needs the money and stability to give her the life he never had. A grounded, working-class take on the dungeon-gate story: slow progression, meaningful stats, and a protagonist with a clipboard and an overflowing inbox.

Betrayed by those closest to him, ex-spy Finn Caldwell thought he'd escaped his life of violence and deception. When a frantic message from his estranged sister draws him into the Realms — a strange game-like world of magic and wonder — Finn is forced to embrace his deadly skills once more. Armed with a mysterious artifact known as a Godhead, Finn becomes the warrior-mage Gryph. To save his sister, he must first escape a sentient dungeon by defeating its master, the Barrow King.

All Dan wants is to find a way home. He'd settle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a place to sleep off his hangover. But Dan has accidentally noclipped into the Backrooms — a bizarre, extra-dimensional world cobbled together from twisted carnivals, abandoned shopping malls, janky laundromats, and condemned asylums, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as Dwellers. No one ever gets out. If Dan wants to survive the week, he'll 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. He's also being hunted. The Flayed Monarch of the 999th floor has marked him for death, and no one walks away from the Skinless Court with their hide intact.

Reborn into a world shaped by ashen storms, brutal blizzards, and sword-wielding sorcerers, Arilyn must forge his own path. Magic is abundant, spread far and wide by the realm-spanning Grand Spell — and even in the frail body of a newborn, Arilyn earns attributes, points, and power through stubborn hard work. Yet not everything is as bright as it seems. Legends walk the land, and the Blight Lords are hell-bent on resurrecting the Old God. None of this should have mattered to someone living on the fringe of the empire — until strange rumblings rise from the heart of the Candor Mountains.

Five years in the prime of his life, wasted. Just as Cayden was about to gain his freedom, everything changed — he found himself in a new world without explanation, a world of magic and limitless possibilities. Orc, elf, ogre — hundreds of possible races. Blacksmith, fighter, rogue — thousands of possible classes, each with tens of thousands of possible skills. Reborn into a new world, Cayden will choose a path entirely his own, forging himself into something powerful enough to protect himself and the ones he loves. A LitRPG following Cayden from infancy as he learns the rules behind the system governing this world — and then pushes them as far as they can go.

As humanity faces extinction, the last three survivors on Earth create a final chance for the hero to travel back in time and stop the apocalypse. But before she can enter the chronomancer portal, both the hero and the portal's creator are killed — leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream. Nick must travel back, right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the world for the catastrophe he knows is coming — in this regression LitRPG of dungeon-diving, leveling stats, and racing against the end of the world.

Sandra had been a merchant, but what she always wanted was to be a crafter — master of every trade. When she dies and is reborn as a Dungeon Core, she finally gets her wish in the most unexpected way: a dungeon built entirely around crafting. With a Gnome apprentice enchanter as her ally and the ruins of a world that desperately needs what only she can provide, Sandra must defend her dungeon from orcs, rival cores, dangerous elves, and her own rapidly expanding influence — all while trying to get back to what she loves most: making things.

Ryan's life sucks. His brother is a jerk, his mom is sick, and his legs are next to useless thanks to a neurological disorder. In a post-nuclear world where what's left of humanity lives underground, the only escape is the massive VR world of Crystal Shards Online — but even there, Ryan can't play a combat class, so he works as a miner barely scraping by. When Ryan discovers an item that grants the ability to dodge any attack, he has the chance to become one of the game world's most elite players: a Dodge Tank. To save his mom's life, Ryan will have to overcome his disability and level his way to the top — but the real-world consequences reach far further than he ever imagined.

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.

When mana arrives on Earth, Coop finds himself isolated on a tropical island with one real option to survive: claim a civilization shard and level up. By carefully selecting a class and committing to progression, he grinds thousands of monsters to compete on the system's leaderboards while upgrading his settlement to represent the factionless.

The world has devolved into chaos as a game-like system has reduced the population to statistics and screens. Everyone struggles to survive — everyone except Anthony Franklin. He has lived through this exact series of events ninety-nine times in a row, and this is his last chance. Win or lose, his 100th run is his final one. Armed with every shortcut, strategy, and hard-won advantage from his past lives, Anthony must contend with vicious boss monsters, the oppressive surveillance of system administrators, and scheming players who want the game to go their way. In a world where every person has their own goals and fears, shepherding them toward survival won't be easy.

Morgan used to be a pretty normal guy — college by day, online gaming by night — until he got hit by a car and a man in a wetsuit appeared with an offer: a second chance at life in a world built like the games he loved, with the promise of great power for those who complete the Tower of Power. Dropped into a strange new world where everything wants to eat his face, Morgan stumbles onto two half-elf twins willing to help him get his bearings. Now he just needs to survive long enough to reach the Tower.

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.