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Qube was designed to die. As the cheerful childhood NPC companion who helps the Player learn the world at the start of the game, it was only natural that the big bad would kill her at the end of the tutorial, kicking off the Player's quest for vengeance. The only problem: no one told her that. And this particular Player doesn't like to play by the rules. Being a chaos-loving gremlin, he glitches her out of her programming and drags her along on various adventures — grappling with friendly sharktopuses, Evil Emperors, and the question of what it means to be a person. As Qube breaks the world in increasingly strange ways while seeking to be the very best Companion ever, she slowly realizes that her reality is not quite what it seems. A loving parody of old-school games and every player who has ever thought "what happens if I do this."

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.

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.

An extraterrestrial civilization makes First Contact with Earth, but humanity dismisses their message — all except for one detail: instructions for accessing a mysterious game of unknown origin. As more players join and realize that in-game events shape reality itself, a countdown timer looms in the background. No one knows what happens when Earth's promised safety period expires. One man, known as Gnat, rises through the ranks to become the Kung of Earth — humanity's representative and defender in a vast galaxy of competing alien powers. He must navigate interstellar politics, space warfare, and humanity's own internal divisions before time runs out.

Stuck with a shoddy nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. In Sankta Varath, the greatest city in the Steelheart Kingdom, he'll have to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the city's underworld — all while managing a staff that includes a drow bartender, a religious zealot waitress, an ogre bouncer with a sleeping problem, and an orc dancer. Frank isn't a manager, has zero people skills, and even fewer connections. A cursed sub-class and a game system that actively screws him round out his advantages.

Timothy is offered an unusual deal: work as a tester for a popular MMORPG — unpaid, long hours — for the vague promise of mysterious future perks. He accepts, because this is the one thing he is truly good at, and because someone he cares about already lives a virtual life. Playing as a small goblin herbalist in the game Boundless Realm, Timothy finds himself rising far beyond a simple tester role, navigating a world where millions of players have it out for him and the game's secrets run much deeper than anyone suspects.

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.

She's a puppy. She's a girl. And she's going to evolve. Waking up one day in a litter of puppies, her human life a fading memory, she quickly falls into the flow of things — playing and hunting with her pack, taking naps, and leveling up. With five siblings who all have unique powers, a protective Dog Mom and three-headed Cerberus Dad, nothing seemed like it could go wrong. That is, until human hunters attack her family and kidnap her brothers and sisters. Now alone in a harsher world, she won't give up — she'll continue to level and evolve, and become powerful enough to take revenge and get her family back.

The world has ended, and those worthy of it have received a chance for new life in a new reality — the Infinite Realm. Zach grew powerful in the post-Framework world, becoming a respected leader. But as the world ended, his only thought was to punish the monster who had killed it. Not even his incredible power was enough to stop the World Ender. Ryun survived by pushing harder than anyone. He became the most powerful being to ever walk the planet — and is hated for it, called the World Ender by all. Stepping into the Infinite Realm, where beings stronger than him have lived for centuries, he finds himself lost and without purpose. Two men. One world that fell. And a new one that may follow.

Levi was once the servant of Death itself, spending years eliminating arcane threats to the world. His final task carried a terrible cost, and he retired to a life of solitude — until Death returns not to reap his soul, but to offer a blessing: reincarnation into another world where no one knows his name. Levi accepts, only to awaken in the body of a disgraced noble son, disinherited and on the verge of expulsion from the Institute of Ascension. Death apparently left some things out. He's fine with that. Let the nobles sneer. He's an archmage — so long as he has his magic, he can take on anything. He's been gifted a whole new life, and this time, he intends to live it as an adventure.

When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for its Centennial Celebration, they walk into what turns out to be an inescapable horror-movie set. Each of them is assigned an archetype—Scholar, Athlete, Eye Candy, Final Girl—and the curtain rises. Assigned the Film Buff archetype, Riley learns he can exploit the Oblivious Bystander trope to survive attacks. To escape Carousel, the group must leverage their assigned tropes and uncover what is trapping them—before the rounds run out and escape slips further out of reach.

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.

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.

A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world that seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The most terrifying answer might be that this world is an expression of the person he was back on Earth.

Getting carved off a soul is traumatic. Getting snared by an extradimensional entity for unknown reasons is worse. Waking up in a new world suspiciously familiar to your favorite reading material as a kid is downright crazy — but there have been some big changes to canon. Soul-Shard Vier wakes up in a Marvel Universe with no idea of what to do in the grand scheme. But it's a superhero universe, friendly to everything you might try. Time to stop buying into comic book power stasis and start climbing the scales — and if you get to exploit some still-relevant canon along the way, all the better.

Recent college grad Sam King expected a backpacking trip across Europe as a graduation present. Instead he gets a three-month stint in an ultimate immersive gaming experience. As a lifelong geek and outsider, it sounds like a dream — until he discovers the Mage's College has a very different definition of fun, one involving blisteringly strict regulations, aristocratic hierarchy, and a pay-to-play attitude. After crossing the College, Sam finds himself on the run with a back-talking book that is far more than it seems, wielding a class no one has ever heard of. Navigating deadly college politics and a looming war with the barbaric Wolfmen, he just might find the adventure he was looking for.

All life on Earth has been stolen away by The System, transported to another world at the behest of a distant galactic empire that lived in terror of humanity's potential. Ben was a normal, slightly above-average man on the verge of his first real vacation. Now he must contend with danger and mystery in a world of monsters, magic, and treasure — armed with nothing but his wits and the special item granted to him by The System.

Being a goon in Gotham is a death sentence with a delay. Jean has spent nearly his entire life scraping by as a crook, headed for nothing but an early grave. Then a chance to change everything falls into his hands. This is the rise of a goon who's done surviving and is ready to take Gotham by storm.

Devon Walker has one chance to turn her life around, and Relic Online is it. Hired as a salaried player to push the game's creator AI to its limits, she logs in expecting an adventure — and instead spawns in a ruined jungle city wearing nothing but a cloth tunic, with no skills and pocket lint in her inventory. Devon's task: drive the AI to its creative limits while building a settlement in a hostile game world. What begins as a job becomes a fight for survival — and something more — as the game's competing AIs wage a war with stakes that extend far beyond the virtual world.

Arwyn has just bought Fantasia, the first fantasy-based VRMMORPG with 99% realism that you can play while you sleep. In the game, she becomes Fey, a moon elf starting in the magical Elvenwood. Join her — and her snarky narrator who likes to interject sarcastic comments in parentheses — on her exciting, often hilarious adventures inside a magical world full of every fantasy creature you've ever encountered, and a few you haven't. Oh, and there's something strange about the NPCs in this game. See if you can figure it out before Fey does.