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Erind Hartwell is a first-year law student with psychopathic tendencies and an obsessive compulsion to follow an arbitrary set of Rules. She's content living a normal life in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors invading minds — as long as the world doesn't bother her. Unfortunately, the world couldn't help itself. On the brink of death, an entity offered her powers to survive. Left with no other choice, she accepted, changing into a new form — the first of many that will allow her to bother the world right back.

The Vex are a monstrous swarm—man-eaters feared across the world and killed on sight before they can grow and consume everything in their path. Rythica is one such monster: a hive queen whose egg was smuggled into a human city and raised in secret by unlikely guardians. Grown up without ever meeting another Vex, Rythica wages a constant internal war as brutal alien instincts clash with the politics, strategy, and mercy she has been taught. As she approaches maturity, the world can only hope that compassion is something that can be learned—because a Vex never forgives and never forgets.

Ning finds himself reborn in the world of cultivation. As he embarks on this new life, he gradually becomes aware that this realm revolves around a select few "protagonists" who endure underestimation and humiliation, only to rise and retaliate following the predictable patterns of clichéd cultivation novels. Realizing he is an "extra" — freed from the constraints of these clichéd rules — Ning resolves to chart his own path towards immortality, steering clear of predictable tropes and stereotypes. He uses his sharp intellect and vast knowledge to ascend to the pinnacle of the cultivation world, defying conventions and outsmartting adversaries along the way.

Pan was an ordinary boy practicing to become a mage's apprentice, living at home and working for his parents — until the day a rogue necromancer attacked his family, killed them, and kidnapped Pan for his affinity for magic. In a bizarre ritual, Pan's consciousness is transferred into a dungeon stone and bound to serve the necromancer, forced to create an army of skeletons. Now Pan must find a way to escape the mage's magical clutches — and if he can manage that, simply survive.

Kayla is a burned-out college graduate neck-deep in student debt, stuck in a minimum-wage job, and about to be evicted from her apartment. One morning she abruptly wakes up in the body of a short-lived villain from a web novel set in Ancient China. Now Kayla must deal with living in the body of a man while trying to survive as the doomed political rival of the Seventh Prince. Caught in a web of political intrigue and backstabbing amidst a succession struggle between the Imperial Princes, it will take every ounce of wit she has to stay alive.

Thousands of years ago, humankind was destroyed — but the xenos still worship them as gods. Now alien civilizations build cities among humanity's majestic ruins, and one Empire has learned to harness forgotten human technology to dominate the distant worlds. Eolh is a jaded avian thief raised in the underbelly of a city full of winged xenos. He fought the Empire when it first arrived, but the resistance died long ago. He trusts no one and looks out only for himself. When an unusual heist takes a deadly turn, Eolh must bargain with an android carrying an impossible secret — one that could shake the foundations of the universe.

Lord Lucian Villamar left a trail of misery in his wake — the archetypal entitled rich villain of the turn-based strategy RPG War of Four. Now a new soul who enjoyed challenge runs has entered his body at a rather poor time: the start of the game. His relationship with his father is frayed. Powerful figures in the four major nations all want to see him dead. Conspiracies are underway from both political factions and malevolent powers. And Lucian, devoid of talent, is wholly unprepared for the coming calamities. Maybe our protagonist can plot a route to survive this challenge run.

The top percentage Rattata was a legendary existence never proven to work at any level of professional battling. But Joey, a reincarnated youngster, is willing to pull out all the stops to make this dream a reality and push his partner into the realm of champions. A pre-canon self-insert set in the Pokemon world.

The power Slate Graystone needs to remain the ducal heir is just out of reach, and he will do anything to get it. Even become a demon. Battling new instincts, ravenous hunger, and struggling to find her place in a world far darker than expected, Slate — now Silk — fights to claim the life she rightfully deserves: one for herself and the mundane folk she was sworn to protect. When Silk learns that the corruption left in the fallen Empire's wake runs far deeper than her own transformation, she must choose between standing by noblesse oblige or tearing the whole system down — and the Sects with it.

At the District One Invitational, a rookie eSports team defied all odds and reached the finals, earning worldwide acclaim. Dubbed the Paragons, they never celebrated that victory — they lost a friend in the match, who never appeared online again. Ten years later, only Helena remains of the original team. Abidden, once the most exclusive VR game ever made, has been reduced to a shadow of its former glory — yet remains the most-streamed game in the world. James Sylvester, finally out of hospital and crippled with medical debt, his gaming licence revoked, has been competing in illegal slum arcades to make repayments. When a high-profile job grants him temporary backdoor access to his blacklisted account, he receives an invitation that could change his life forever.

Tinea had an ugly childhood full of pain and abuse. It taught her how to fight and survive, how to run and hide and cut ties — but not much else. She ran, crossed an ocean, grew up, and discovered the world. Soul-deep pain notwithstanding, she fought to be happy. Then the aliens invaded her neighborhood. Smoking rifle in hand and still coming up short, she made a life-ending choice — and was rewarded beyond her wildest dreams through DNA-changing Vanguard science. Reborn, a whole new journey awaits the warrior looking for connection and togetherness, set in the universe of Stray Cat Strut.

Getting isekai'd into a gameworld full of waifus was supposed to be the dream. Unfortunately, the mysterious black-robed figure who did the summoning grabbed the wrong guy, and now the protagonist faces waves of monsters intent on terrible things. The game turns out to be a gacha, which means desperately earning money to pull summons, building fortifications, furnishing a tower, and gearing up — all while grappling with the existential horror of gacha economics. The necromancers who built this game are going to pay. A base-building, summoner-focused isekai with no harem, featuring tower defense mechanics and dark humor.

Bernt might have graduated from the Mage Academy, but not everyone has the money or connections to launch a prestigious career as a mage. A few years later, Bernt finds himself working for City Maintenance as an Underkeeper among the other rejects of Halfbridge's magery. But hey, it's a stable job. With the help of his unlicensed, unregistered soul-devouring demonic familiar, he'll save enough to launch his career as an adventurer — just as soon as he can afford some proper gear. If only there were a faster way. Adventure, it turns out, has a habit of finding him first.

Lots of people get isekai'd, and Matt is no exception. After a quickly resolved misunderstanding with a truck-shaped system assistant, he's sent to Gaia — the garden planet. The truck assures him it's a really good fit. It would probably be right, too, if Gaia wasn't a burned-out wasteland completely devoid of life. Matt has all the system-granted advantages of a LitRPG isekai hero — it's just that he arrived a little late for them to do anyone any good. Now he's starving, wandering a sterilized featureless wasteland that doesn't much care about his improved stats, and searching for a system-issued guardian that might not even exist.

When a fantasy kingdom needs heroes, they skip the high schoolers and summon hardened Delta Force operators. Lieutenant Cole Mercer and his team are no strangers to sacrifice — but as they make their last stand against insurgents, they are unexpectedly pulled into another world on the brink of a demonic incursion. Thrust into Tenria's realm of magic and steam engines, Cole discovers a power beyond anything he has imagined. But his new world may not be so different from the old one, and the stakes remain the same: there are people who depend on him, people he might not be able to save. Cole and his team are but men facing unimaginable odds. Even so, they may yet prove history's truth: that the greatest heroes are always just human.

After living decades and dying hundreds of times, Kegan has finally passed the cruel spirit's test. Now he has the ability to gain perks — enhancements earned through injury, death, and extraordinary effort — that can make each new life easier. He is looking forward to finally having an easier existence with the perks he has earned.

A game played between gods — where the playing field is the world itself and the pieces are living beings. Accidentally summoned from Earth to the world of Myelad, Kyran becomes embroiled in a thousand-year war between the gods. Trapped in Crota, an abandoned city haunted by the undead and infested with monsters, Kyran must use his wits and magic alone to become a Player that even the gods would learn to fear.

At twenty-one, everyone manifests a symbiont — a creature invisible to all but its host that shapes their destiny. Conrada "Conrad" Dorrien harbors a dangerous secret: she alone can see everyone's symbionts. Revealing her gift could trigger a buyout of her contract, separating her from family and placing her at the mercy of ruthless corporations. As manifestation approaches, Conrada hopes to follow her father into academia. But her extraordinary connection to the symbionts means she's destined for anything but easy obscurity. A single word — Classified — and she becomes the latest acquisition of Aquila Operations, a boutique corporate consulting firm known for unorthodox methods and a reputation for always getting the job done. A low-fantasy dystopian corporate-feudalism story with grey characters, a queer-normative setting, and a slow-burn romance.

Power of friendship? Getting stronger when enraged? A powerful monster sealed inside you by your father? That wasn't me. I was the arrogant youngster who got punched in the first panels of the shounen manga I was reading. I wouldn't have even remembered his name — if I wasn't stuck in his body.

To save a universe, a reincarnator must die. This keeps happening and has never made any sense. Lamutri is a Chapel assassin of the multiversal House of Fate, dispatched to deal with reincarnators in exchange for the promise of ascent — except his reality-altering Defects keep him strangled at the bottom. When straightforward missions start going horribly, exponentially wrong, the Chapel holds Lamutri to blame and offers a simple solution: murder the problem. But with the fates of universes in his hands, he realizes someone has been keeping very significant secrets for a very long time.