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William Oh was born on the hundredth floor of The Tower, steeped in its lethal miasma from his first breath — granting him strange and unnatural powers. Or so the stories go. The truth is more complicated, and the legend is still being written. An orphan whose biggest dream is serving his absent parents a knuckle-sandwich, William knows the only way to reach them is to climb The Tower, the center of the world through which all magic flows. A betrayal, a bit of generosity, and a knack for surviving impossible odds sow the seeds of something much larger — if the boy can outrun the legend he is becoming.

After being thrown into the void, Thorn finds himself stranded in a strange world filled with even stranger creatures. Together with his battle pet Hati and a sentient AI named Eve, he must forge a place for himself—but the local guilds have other ideas, and soon the Titan finds himself embroiled in plots that even his famed strength cannot resolve. To thrive, Thorn must rally his strengths, fix his weaknesses, and take risks that put his life and the lives of his friends on the line as he works toward climbing the tower known as Intra Mundum.

Ren Varrow was never the hero type — a quiet alchemist who kept his head low while others chased glory. But when a top guild lured him into a lethal dungeon and stabbed him in the back, his story should have ended. Instead, it rewound. Thrown back to Day One, before the Tower rose and before the betrayals, Ren knows what's coming: secret quests, hidden mechanics, and a ticking clock that ends with Earth's destruction. Armed with future knowledge, he's ready to rewrite everything — from building a guild out of nobodies to crafting mythic-grade potions to surviving a hundred deadly floors.

The entire population of Earth is suddenly transported to a new planet along with the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy's intelligent inhabitants. A strange System speaks of abilities and levels without concern for anyone's opinions, thousands of monster-spawning dungeons appear without regard for the new inhabitants, and one thousand random individuals receive a forced invitation to compete in a livestreamed dungeon crawl — with the rank of Administrator as the prize. Wolf Adler must survive his initialization into a universal System, gaining powers over ice as he fights his way up dungeon floors while being watched by the entire universe.

Five years ago, Corin Cadence's brother entered the Serpent Spire — a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire's trials return home with an attunement: a mark granting the bearer magical powers. According to legend, those who reach the top will be granted a boon by the spire's goddess. He never returned. Now it's Corin's turn. He's headed to the top floor on a mission to find his brother. If he can survive the trials, Corin will earn an attunement — but that won't be sufficient to survive the dangers on the upper levels. For that, he's going to need training, allies, and a lot of ingenuity.

When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting. The Galactic Consensus found us selfish, wasteful, and boorish — blockaded Earth and left behind little more than a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game played in one's sleep. The game, they said, would teach us to be better galactic neighbors. The megacorporations ignored it until they learned the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke. Magic and supernatural abilities exploded into existence, and a subscription to the Tower of Somnus became a status symbol. Katherine "Kat" Debs doesn't have much, but she wants something more — a chance to claw her way up the rigid social ladder from the arcology where she was raised. When she gets the opportunity to enter the Tower free of corporate control, she jumps at it, knowing the game might be her only path to taking control of her own destiny.

After the collapse of the known world, Rowan Wilder opens his eyes on the First Floor of the Tower. With a flawless memory and only eight Cards to his name, he must venture out and prepare for a coming calamity. In this place of blood and fantasy, Rowan has to not only survive but power his way to the top. The Demonic Plague twisting the creatures on the upper Floors is the least of his worries once he reveals the coveted Origin of the Summoner — drawing the attention of monsters, criminals, and zealots alike.

Six towers appeared on Earth one day — hundreds of stories tall, invulnerable, and filled with monsters, treasure, and magic. They also periodically release waves of creatures to attack the world outside. By 2083, only a hundred humans remain. In a final desperate attempt, they challenge the top floor. They clear it — at the cost of every life but one. As his reward, the last survivor is granted a single wish: to go back in time and prevent it all.

Today wasn't one of Fritz's best days — mainly because he'd been beaten, kidnapped, stuffed in a cell with a slew of other captives, then forced to climb a particularly malevolent Spire. The Spires have stood tall for thousands of years as cities, kingdoms, and empires rise and fall around them. Inside are Treasures, Monsters, and most importantly, Powers. Every floor conquered gives a choice of magical Abilities or Attributes that, when built up and chosen well, could raise even a street urchin to a king or beyond. Which is lucky for Fritz and his crew — urchins and thieves caught in a deadly peril. Climb or die.

Cassie is about to have her dream retirement, joining her favorite game world, Biprism Realm — a place of magic, portals, pocket realms, towers to eternity, monsters, and steampunk elements. Rather than banking on possible restarts, she sells everything she has for the best possible starting position imaginable. Unlike those who tried before her, Cassie has a plan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For four years, humanity endured the Crucible — a harrowing trial that forced survivors to conquer dungeons and battle horrific creatures in order to gain powers of their own. But the Crucible was merely the beginning. As the trial concludes, survivors find themselves on the precipice of the Endless Planes: a vast realm of kingdoms, mythical creatures, and formidable challenges where magic thrives and ancient forces shape the destiny of worlds. Among them is Kaito Bao, once a loving father and husband who has lost everything. Driven by an unending desire to hunt monsters, he has accumulated powerful abilities, incredible Feats, and rare Titles. His climb begins at Serpent's Way, the bottommost world of the Endless Planes — where all must start their ascent to the top.

In a world where cultivators wield qi to warp reality and a vast wilderness teems with deadly spirit beasts, mortals find even the first floor of the World Spire punishing. When Samantha unexpectedly receives a quest to become a cultivator from the mysterious System, she seizes the opportunity. But she soon discovers that in the fearsome landscape of cultivators, a single misstep could have dire consequences — for herself and for her spirit bond, a Lunar Hare named Silas. With her loved ones' safety on the line and her options narrowing, Samantha must either master the cultivators' dangerous games or brave the deadly upper floors of the tower, from which no one has ever been heard from again. She always knew that joining the ranks of cultivators would be grueling — but she never guessed that leaving her mortality behind would be the easy part.

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.

Jack is violently pulled into a game-like universe and dumped into a seaside town on the brink of destruction. When the people of Blackmoor Cove ask about his combat role, Jack discovers his odd Hero Class and finds that parts of his game interface are riddled with exposed coding errors. The only way the town can grow and push back the unknown substance threatening to consume it is if Heroes venture into an infinitely high, ever-changing tower, kill bizarre monsters for their equipment drops, and deposit those items into a special chest. As Jack struggles to level up and help save the people he's grown to care for, he learns the true nature of this simulated world — and his destiny.

Sorin Atharel was already a legend. After forty years of calculated risks, dead companions, and spent fortunes, he was ready to take the final step to immortality at the top of his tower. Instead, his soul space was stripped bare, all his abilities ripped away, and his anima drained to nothing. He wakes at the bottom of a different tower, surrounded by strangers in a strange city — his entire life reset. With only a mysterious tile mosaic as a clue, Sorin must navigate his new reality. If he wants answers to what was done to him, there is only one path forward: he must climb again.

All Max wants is to become a climber and search for his long-lost sister. But citizens aren't allowed near the mysterious and magical tower — and Max is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair, which makes entry seem doubly impossible. Then one night everything changes. Max gains an ultra-rare ability and a chance to train and climb the tower. But each floor contains vast worlds and deadly magical monsters, and plenty of other climbers won't blink at removing anyone who stands in their way.