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Nic has been Selected — chosen to leave his own body behind, become a monster, and serve as a footsoldier for the System's integration of new worlds. His mission: help break the native inhabitants of a planet called Earth into submission. But Nic has never loved the System, and his home planet is a depleted husk the System long since forgot. Arriving under blue skies and green forests, he might just fall in love with this strange world — leaving him with few friends and a thousand enemies.

Eight internet friends meet in person for the first time at a mountain cabin — and instead of a long weekend get-together, they're caught up in the end of the world. Strange messages float in the air announcing a "System Start." Now magic works and technology doesn't. Cell phones won't work, cars won't start, and it's ten miles to the nearest town. Some of them have families to worry about. Some don't even believe this is real. All of them have secrets they'll have to overcome if they're going to work together and make it back to town alive. Ten miles doesn't seem that far — but by the end of it, they'll have faced some of the worst the System can throw at them. And then things really get interesting.

Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end minimum wage job, an estranged sister, and friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality—but Alex's life still did not change. After fifteen long years surviving the Integration, his life came to an end against an enemy he could never hope to beat. When fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.

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.

Adam is no one special — just an accountant standing in line at a bakery one early Saturday morning. Unfortunately, fate has other plans when the black cubes show up before he can get his pastries. The cubes are the heralds and guides of the Trials of Defiance, and they've decided that Adam, along with every other able-bodied human adult, is to become a Player in their game. Humanity's future is at stake, and it's all but inevitable that Adam is going to die. Despite everything, he overcomes the first Stage and attains some measure of power — then discovers a way to kill the black cube following him around. The only problem is that killing the cube takes him down with it. Oh, and it also gives him the power to go back in time when he dies. A roguelite-inspired GameLit with infrequent time loops, a weak-to-strong protagonist, and huge build variety across Relics, Weapon Types, Divine Boons, and meta upgrades.

Ominous Obelisks land on Earth with a single message: join the games to give humanity a fighting chance to survive — or be destroyed. Warren isn't the rolling-over type, even with cancer slowly killing him. He has nothing left to lose. But once the games begin, he starts to wonder if a hospital bed wasn't so bad after all. He pushes forward anyway. Humanity needs him, and Warren has never known how to quit.

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.

Lorith's magic is fading. Centuries ago, heroic adventurers stopped the World Boss' cycle of rebirth by reducing the creature to one hit point and sealing it away — but by ending one calamity, they halted the natural flow of magic within the world and brought about the Havoc Plague. With all civilization now on the brink of collapse, humanity's only hope is to find and kill the World Boss again to restart its rebirth cycle. When the Plagued janitor Harvey accidentally kills the missing World Boss, he gains a million experience points — making him the target of almost every would-be adventurer in the world. Burdened with ancient knowledge and hunted by countless rivals, he must join with unlikely allies to find the reincarnated World Boss and defeat it again before it can ravage the world anew.

Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. When an artifact hurls him back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all — to warn humanity of their impending doom and stop the System before shortsightedness and lust for power can render humanity extinct. Facing malign deities, demonic hordes, and the unstoppable march of human greed, Isaac will give his all to prevent the end that has already happened.

Sam was surfing with his cat when the world ended. Suddenly enlisted into a battle to fend off annihilation, Sam seizes the strength of the Void to survive. In the aftermath, he and his cat are thrown into a new world shattered into floating islands, alongside other survivors from Earth. Training with his giant sword and apocalyptic Void magic, Sam is unusually quick to adapt to this deadly realm of monsters and magic. With endless threats to face and countless powers to attain, his journey of Ascension climbing has only just begun — but first, he'll have to forge a Legend of his own.

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.

Surviving the first days of a reality-warping apocalypse, William is a wreck hiding in an attic. The daily acid storms, floating elementals, and bizarre mutated animals are the least of his problems — the apocalypse has rules and a system much like those in video games, and he has no idea how any of it works. Staying alive isn't enough. William will need to bring other survivors together and build a fortification large enough for all of them if he ever wants to strike back at the things that took everyone he loved.

Every time he dies, Ethan Hill gains a little more power. Earth was chosen for Integration, but Ethan knows from the second his Trial begins that the Integration is a lie. The beings giving Earth access to their Interface want something from humanity — he just doesn't know what. Now he's trapped on an alien planet and lost in a time loop, fighting for strength and for his own humanity. One thing's for sure: he'll die as many times as it takes to tear it all down.

Ether — the cosmic energy that governs the universe — has returned to Earth, and Gaia has awakened with it. Rockland Barkclay was just trying to take a solo camping trip in Algonquin Park after a rough year capped by his father's death, when hovering system messages began appearing and the world started changing. Now humans are in a desperate fight to survive in an evolving world, with the very planet itself acting as an unhinged overseer of the new order.

Frank isn't exactly a model citizen. He's also not here to save Earth — he just wants his favorite curse word back. Too bad the World Dungeon drops him in as a zombie with a level cap of 1 and a profanity filter that turns every F-bomb into "frank." Earth has been repossessed and rebranded by a megacorp called DungeonCore. The prize is ownership of the planet, and this season is Hardcore Mode: death means getting stuck in his Lair until the next expansion, losing everything. Humanity gets a head start, but deep-pocketed aliens are lining up to buy in. To make matters worse, hero classes went to the NPCs while actual players got saddled with monster classes. Frank spawns as a lowly zombie with only stubbornness, handyman's grit, and an accidental Universe First achievement that lets him build a class of his own. He's not a hero — he's not even technically alive. But he might be petty enough to move mountains for the sake of one four-letter word.

Ten years ago, deep within a rift, Sloan faced a choice: defeat the Demon King and end the apocalypse, or claim his power and keep the rifts open. He chose an ending — and his party killed him for it. Now Sloan is reborn in a world where the System is life and his former companions rule like overlords over a monster-ridden wasteland. Armed with a cheat skill, he will climb rank by rank to take back everything that was stolen from him.

An Apocalypse changed human biology and granted new powers, but came with no instructions — so everyone created their own. Born over a century after "The Rise," Jeff scavenges with his tyrannical mother for survival, banned from cultivating freely. His one objective is to join the immortal rankers climbing the Northern Tower. On the day of his escape, a guild attack throws him through a dungeon portal that hasn't been used in nearly a hundred years. In pursuit of his ultimate goal, Jeff must navigate mountains of misinformation, choose between Church, guild, or going it alone, while predators come from every direction.

It was supposed to be another boring day at the insurance office for Rico Kline, but powerful forces had other plans. Finding himself repeatedly summoned to other worlds as a disposable minion, Rico must face deadly foes, disarm insidious traps, become a test subject, and run errands for his various summoners. At least when each summoning ends, he is rewarded and sent back home — but being home has its own set of problems. A unique spin on isekai LitRPG: Rico is the summon, not the summoner, dragged into a variety of adventures and missions as his power grows with each return. But is any of it truly random?

Death is an inevitability for all — except Aria. In a world locked in war, with most continents already wiped out before a Great Treaty banned strategic-level weaponry, Aria Crimson finds herself lost. Treated as a weapon by the military since childhood, she has almost forgotten what it was like not to be at war. When a System screen appears before every person on the planet, humanity gains classes, levels, and new powers — just as invaders from another world declare war to claim the planet for themselves. After ten years of fighting, Aria finally has a way out. One that involves even more fighting. As the only True Immortal in the universe, dubbed by the System as Death itself, she must figure out what that means for her future.

Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable. Jake survives as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team — a former mage who now follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power. Events will unfold that change Jake's life forever. He might even lose his very humanity while trying to do the right thing — but in return, perhaps he will grasp a second chance to save himself and others, to correct the past. He is about to be caught up in something much greater than himself. Will he be consumed by the machinations of greater powers? No matter how terrible the odds, Jake doesn't give up.