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Pulled from the point of death and thrust into a horde-mode-style survival game, Benny White's odds aren't looking too great. To make matters worse, an eldritch entity named 'Dave' has tasked him with destroying the very System that now controls his fate. Benny's experience as a lab tech grants him a rare Splicer Class that lets him repurpose the genetic material of slain enemies into augments for himself — bone claws, blood-bullet turrets, and skeletal hydra heads. There's also his Flesh Golem summon, a six-foot mound of muscle called Meat. The entire galaxy is watching. Welcome to the Game of Souls, where the only prize is to survive.

Zarian Darkrun, a Marine Corps veteran, is tired of being a homeless reject. He opens a portal in a busy mall and sends himself and nine other Floridians into another world — the Infinita Star System, a universe of epic fantasy and game-like magic. Only the strong can ascend from the lower worlds to the higher worlds of the Star System, where tyrants and crusaders alike seek godhood. Here comes Zarian, who mostly just wants to make unique friends, learn rare spells, and wreck the plans of gods.

Nearly a century ago, rifts opened and giant magic-blooded bugs descended upon humanity. Born and raised in a small desert village, Sand-Dancer Marisol wants nothing to do with the distant war. All she wants is to sail to a legendary island city and bring back a vial of healing seawater for her sickly mother. But when leviathans attack her ship and strand her in the middle of the sea, she's forced to pick a class from a system. Three out of four classes will save her life and bring her home — but only one will let her stand on water, move forward, and save her mother. So what if her system tells her she has less than a one percent chance of making the journey? Marisol will skate to the city or die trying.

Garath was a gamer who spent his time adventuring in magical worlds behind a keyboard — until the planet he actually inhabited became drastically more interesting. The ability to shapeshift into a house cat or summon a demon were things that only existed in video games, until they weren't. More akin now to the RPG games he loved than the 9-to-5 grind he'd woken up to, Earth has been fundamentally altered. He's a quick study, though, and learns fast that this new Earth isn't just fun and games. Garath and a motley crew of friends and neighbors must band together, using their new abilities to hold off increasingly deadly waves of monsters.

One minute Ethan Gower was an average computer technician playing online games with friends. The next, he's been abducted and dropped into a strange world where magic and monsters are real. Now a wizard, Ethan must convince his new companions to band together to survive, level up, and unravel the mystery of why they were abducted — and how to find a way home. But something is murdering wizards and sucking out their brains.

Hecate has never done anything wrong in her entire life. She was supposed to follow the rules, pick the same class as her mother, keep her head down. Instead she picked [Gunwitch] — and shot the Archon's son. Thrown into Silesia, a place that burns witches, Hecate has two guns, magic bullets, and nothing left to lose. Every head she claims only adds to her power. A loot system inspired by Diablo II runewords fuels her rise from outlaw to something far more dangerous.

In an impoverished border town with a dwindling population, Gwen Tailor aims to change things. She is the daughter of the Seamstress class, stitching with speed that borders on magic — but armed with a giant piercing needle, she is also a monster slayer. At the town's core lies a dungeon, the source of all local despair and decline. For every kill, each creature's pelt, shell, and exoskeleton becomes both protective armor and escalating power. Descending with her friends — a butcher's daughter and a young blacksmith — Gwen will make a harrowing discovery about the true roots of her town's decay.

For Hudson, the virtual world of PrimeVerse isn't all bad — it's beautiful, much nicer than overpopulated Earth. It almost feels like a vacation, except for the volatile wildlife, lack of amenities, and the inability to log out. He didn't exactly sign up for this. Exploring the world and leveling skills is all fun and games until a powerful rogue player with a vendetta shows up to wipe out Hudson and his primitive tribe. Thrust into a conflict he didn't create, Hudson is forced into a cycle of respawning where he learns that even death can be used as a tool. In an uninhabited, newly created virtual world, Hudson sets out to make the best of a bad situation.

When a colossal tower lands in the middle of a city, Devin Cain finds himself transported along with 99,999 others to a fantastical world called Gaea, ruled by floating demi-gods who claim humanity must prove Earth is worth saving. Gaea is entirely controlled by the System — a sarcastic, level-hungry intelligence that grants magical powers, strange classes, monsters, and loot, and forces players to compete in events with no clear endgame. Wielding a cursed katana that hungers for blood and souls, Devin must climb the tower and uncover the truth behind their abduction.

What if the world's strongest mage traded her legendary power for a rolling pin? [Archmage] Melina rewound time to save Alemahria and sacrificed her magic, leaving the Church and nobles behind. Instead of fighting monster hordes, she will knead, bake, and for the first time ever taste a slice of happiness. But peace is elusive when old enemies lurk in the shadows, the Church still haunts her, and her best customer is a tart-obsessed wyrm.

A world full of adventures, ancient mysteries, and monsters hungering for your demise — where anyone can become a successful trader, a wise anchorite, a brave warrior, or a battle mage who controls disastrous elemental powers. But the path to the top is long, and reaching it is never simple.

Seth Andersen, a UX designer, was driving home from a bad day at work when his world changed — literally. Transported to the world of Morgenheim, where magic is real and citizens must level up to grow stronger, Seth is given the chance to choose a powerful boon. He accidentally picks what seems to be the most useless power on the list. Now he has to survive a world of magic and monsters with a seemingly worthless ability — and figure out how to make it work.

In the frontier town of Isarn, Chase will never be more than the lowly Darkborn thief he is. Banned from training, banned from acquiring better cards — if the Lightborn had their way, he'd be banned from life itself. But Chase and his friends have determination. Losing a hand to brutal punishment only fueled his obsession to get access to reality-bending cards. Nobody cares where you came from when you're rich enough. Facing established powers, churches, and age-old prejudices, Chase and his crew must fight back — and if the Lightborn won't share, sometimes the only way to get dealt a better hand is to steal the whole deck.

Kandis Hammond, a twenty-four-year-old financial analyst from Sydney, sits down at her computer and wakes up naked and alone in a locked stone barn in another world. Glowing text informs her she has become a Worldwalker — one of seven chosen to play the Great Game, a contest that unfolds every two centuries and reshapes empires. Unsuited for combat, Kandis must rely on her wits, charisma, and illusion-based abilities to survive. Wherever Worldwalkers go, trouble follows — and the Great Game has a way of finding her whether she wants it to or not.

When the protagonist dies and becomes a portal jumper, the System glitches — and instead of a penalty, he gains something extraordinary. Thrown into a world of dungeons, combat academies, guild wars, and magic, he intends to become not just the best, but a legend. As the System increasingly counts on his unique shapeshifting ability, he must navigate empire-scale conflicts, orc invasions, and shadowy organizations — all while trying to keep his identity as an outsider from Earth secret.

On the cusp of entering the prestigious Lumina Battledeck Academy, Alistair Blackstar carries a dark secret: within him dwells Ghost, a reborn master assassin hellbent on revenge. Bound together by fate and magic, the two embark on a dual journey of vengeance and discovery. As Alistair navigates the arcane halls of the academy, mastering battledeck spells and summoning skills, Ghost seeks to unravel the mysteries of his own untimely death. Their worlds collide to reveal a threat far greater than either could have imagined.

Bloodwraith thought of himself as an effective villain, until a single adventurer destroyed his entire lair. With his last breath, he switched bodies with the adventurer — and discovered that his world was built on lies. Alien beings from another dimension were using his world as a game, and now he was one of them. The problem: Bloodwraith has no experience being an adventurer. He was a mage, but his new body only hits things. He relied on undead minions, but now must depend on other people. And strange boxes keep appearing in his vision describing the world in unfamiliar terms. To survive, he'll need to learn the truth about himself — and that means acting like an adventurer, at least for now.

When Henry Tsien is given the opportunity to make a wish, he chooses one that changes his life forever — landing him as a newly created, low-leveled Mage in a hidden supernatural world full of secrets and dangers. With a game-like interface granting him powers drawn from pop-culture assumptions, Henry must survive, level up, and pay his rent while navigating shadowy organizations and forging unexpected alliances.

Five years after a failed alien invasion, Earth maintains a fragile peace with orcs, elves, and dwarves. When a necktie-wearing orc walks into the magitek exosuit repair bay demanding the best rune mechanic on Earth, Luke is volunteered for interspecies employment — leaving Earth to repair advanced magic mech suits for monster hunters. Then he straps into one of those suits himself and discovers a taste for danger and profit. With a handpicked crew of battle-hardened monster slayers, Luke dives into deadly missions one monster core at a time. But the System of the World has other plans, granting Luke a powerful magic class and making him a player in a far greater game. Navigating ever-growing monster threats, secretive elvish plots, and cutthroat corporations, Luke's only hope is to get stronger than anyone seeking to use him. They want a pawn — he plans on clearing the board.

Zalia Taori is well equipped for life in the remote forest valley she calls home. But while tracking a deer through her snowy stomping grounds, she stumbles across a warp in the fabric of reality and is torn into an unfamiliar land where she must learn to survive as both predator and prey. As Zalia explores this forbidding new terrain, she encounters peculiar herbs, terrifying monsters, mysterious rituals, and some unexpected friends. She enters a world of classes and levels — where making the right move can bestow new powers, and a high-ranking bunny can be a formidable opponent. Just as this lone hunter gets her bearings, she spies opposing armies gathering their forces.