If you die in the battle of good versus evil, maybe it's time to change sides. Beno doesn't remember much about dying. Only that it hurt, he probably deserved it, and there were no snacks in Death's waiting room. When he is reborn as a dungeon core and he joins the fantastical Dungeon Core Academy, he learns a secret: the bad guys are really the good guys...and he's a bad guy now. As well as learning how to make a deadly dungeon lair and populate it with murderous monsters, he is taught three golden rules: Every hero in the world wants to kill him now. But heroes are made from squishy things. And Beno can create monsters who love to tear squishy things apart. Now that he's the master of his own dungeon, treasure-seeking adventurers are sure to hunt for him. It's up to Beno and his army of creatures to change how the stories all end. It's time to stop the good guys from winning.
Nomad Core (Core Control Book 2)
Life can be good when your enemies think you're dead.
But Wynne has traded one set of foes for another, and a hunter in oldtech armor wants him for sinister purposes.
Neither fully man or machine, it's up to this new bunker core to rise up against all odds, using his wits and technology to prevail against twisted animal-folk, shining mutants, and threats literally from out of this world...
The Land of Diarrhea Online: A LitRPG Parody of GameLit
A Bunch of LitRPG Authors Get Trapped in an RPG!
Or are they in a real world with RPG mechanics? GameLit or LitRPG?
When some of the most famous writers in the LitRPG genre get trapped in an MMORPG at GryphonCon 2021, arguments are bound to happen. Can they remember all the tropes and avoid all the traps while learning to work together? Will they discover who is behind their imprisonment before it’s too late?
Take a peek inside to see if you might like to go along with me on this wild ride through the meta side of the genre we all love. This novel is for authors (with all my respect) and readers (with all my love). See how many Easter Eggs you can find! Sorry, no DeLorean prize…
DISCLAIMER: This is a work of satirical fiction! Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously as parody. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and meant as parody of an alternate universe.
Death's Mantle 2
There isn't much time left for Lucian North to save his brother.
Discovering a new way to grow exponentially stronger, Lucian forms an unsteady alliance with the angel Danira, one that he hopes could grow into something more.
Matters are complicated once Lucian is given a deadline by the Council of Death: produce his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared, or be tortured until he relinquishes his mantle.
Hunted by parasites, injuresouls, fallen angels, and now his own kind, Lucian must level up in a way he's never fathomed before, crafting everything from mechas to bone armor designed to withstand even the strongest attack. He must forge new alliances, realize the impermanence of the alliances he already has made, and even become a Death Hunter if he hopes to save his brother from certain doom.
But that's not all that's at stake.
As Lucian grows closer to his goal, he's blindsided by an attack that he never saw coming. He's also asked to do something that will reignite a war between the Progeny of Light and the Progeny of Darkness.
The decision Lucian makes will have grave consequences for his future, and that's before his final discovery, one that threatens the very existence of his family.
It's going to be an uphill battle from start to finish. And while Lucian is always up to the challenge, he may not be ready for the consequences.
Pearl of the South (World of the Changed Book #2): LitRPG Series
Earth was never the same after World of the Changed. Humanity was reduced to two camps: monsters thirsting to kill, and players doing everything they could to survive. The squabbles people had spent their time on before? Gone. If you wanted to live to see another sunrise, you had to work with everyone you could, from other players to game functions.
Mark Derwin, the most advanced player through the initial period of the game, knew all too well that his level was no advantage. Far from it—the game owner didn’t tolerate anyone who got too far ahead. The only thing the owner wanted was for Earthlings to disappear without a trace, giving up their resources to be extracted. But not everyone was willing to bend the knee before alien intelligence. In fact, some had begun to fight back against the game.
Tales of a Northblood: Winter's Breath: A LitRPG Saga
From bestselling LitRPG author Carrie Summers comes a new saga about survival on a wind-swept coast.
Jace, a backcountry ranger assigned to patrol the wilderness of North America, was hiking when abruptly he was somewhere...else. Wind battered his thinly-clothed body, and the salt air from crashing waves immediately soaked him to the skin. Nothing looked familiar. And then the strange game messages started appearing in his vision.
With no explanation for how he arrived here, Jace must nonetheless learn to survive in a merciless environment, crafting everything with his own hands. He must learn the art of combat and how to control the powerful abilities that surface in his body. Northblood, they'll call him. A blessing and a curse.
On the bright side, he's totally buff. And there's this hot redheaded game tester who was pulled from her old life and shoved into his.
Things could definitely be worse.
Tales of a Northblood: Winter's Breath starts a brand new adventure. Scroll up and grab it now to read today!
Viridian Gate Online: Darkling Siege (The Viridian Gate Archives Book 7)
Not even gods are safe from the power of the fabled Doom-Forged weapon.
Grim Jack didn’t set out to be the leader of Eldgard’s united armies, but with dungeons falling one by one and hordes of Vogthar pouring into the material plane, it’s up to him to save both citizens and travelers from digital destruction.
His doomsday weapon will take him straight into the heart of Morsheim, but once there, even the combined might of the Empire and the Crimson Alliance might not be enough. He’ll have to uncover secrets buried for millennia just to get within striking distance of a death god gone mad, and the choices he’ll make will change him and the world forever…
Mind's Journey: The King's Quest
What is an amnesiac to do? In a world of monsters, a stranger with a lost, forgotten past seeks the great wish-granting king for answers. But is it worth the cost?
Finding himself in a world he doesn’t understand, with a voice in his head and a strange being guiding him, he travels to the city of Astra where the great king dwells. And the answers might be found. With the friends he makes along the way, this stranger faces each new challenge the world throws at him in this journey of action and adventure. With no memories to guide him, all he can do is chase this single desire.
“Who am I?” That is the question that burns inside him.
In Astra, the greatest challenge awaits him. To gain what he seeks, he must pay through violence. Only the death of a monster can give him what he desires, the answer he seeks. But can he stand up to the dangers of this unknown world or will be crumble beneath the toils of monster slaying and his own growing fear?
Every wish comes with a price.
Dungeons of Strata (Deepest Dungeon 1)
When Martin's raiding guild join the latest virtual reality MMO, they discover a challenge like no other. Strata Online is a hundred floor mega-dungeon, filled with an ever-shifting ecosystem of monsters.
Martin's team soon find themselves in a race against the world’s strongest guilds, all competing to be the first to reach the unbeatable game's lowest depths. Stranger still, they must now contend with Sin, a twisted morality meter which can transform a players’ class into its dark counterpart.
With eternal fame and prizes on the line, Martin risks playing as a rarely chosen race; a Murovan rat-man, combined with the unusual exorcist class.
But unlike other games, he will need as much courage as skill to progress. Because the deeper he goes, the darker Strata gets.
Tusk and Blade (Exodus Online) Book One: A LitRPG Novel
Grab your ax.
Charge your core.
Bash some skulls.
Logan Sharpe’s life has been a disaster, but that’s finally going to change. As soon as Incessant Technologies heard about his situation, they knew he would be the perfect fit for their new game. Only catch? Once he goes in, there’s no coming back. Without hesitation, he signs the paper and enters the new VRMMORPG world of Exodus Online as a Star Child. As an extra incentive, Logan is given a chance to become what he’s never been before. Something unique, something powerful.
Abandoning his old name to go with one that suits his new body, Necro is ready to start over. To face his new reality, Necro must learn to survive in a dangerous, unforgiving world. Even with the help of two daring women at his side, how will he fare while exploring deadly dungeons, facing power-hungry leaders, and leveling his new body?
The only certainty is this: Logan is dead, but Necro has risen.
Outpost 7 a Gamelit LitRPG dungeon core adventure: Book Two The Dark Exchange
Help Wanted!
The Dark Exchange seeks to fill multiple positions for a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity. Farmers, soldiers, gamers, slackers - put your life experience to work confronting new species and exploiting… er… exploring alien worlds.*
Four brave applicants heed this call to action, and find themselves facing a dungeon so dastardly that they will need every ounce of their combined experience to survive.
But survival isn’t the only goal. The new hires must band together and create a base of operations where they can muster the forces to defeat the hordes of enemies that the dungeon will throw against them. A base where they can unlock the mysteries contained within the dungeon’s depths.
Welcome to Outpost 7.
CivCEO 2: A 4x Lit Series (The Accidental Champion)
Now a Level 3 village, Tine has grown considerably since that fateful day Charles Morris got thrown in Liora by mistake and decided to become its Champion. With threats of uprising behind him, Charles could focus on bringing the Satisfaction and Happiness rates higher than ever, while also adding the basic structures that would generate enough weekly income to keep Tine growing steadily. But as with the companies he used to run in his previous life, he’ll find that the bigger a village gets, the bigger the problems. Follow our dear champion as he embarks on a delicate mission to switch governments. Follow him as he must select the best candidates for new advisor slots as they open and also find a way to up his Cultural Points in order to unlock new options in the Great Picture… all the while having to deal with a mighty warmonger and a mysterious group of thieves that could very well ruin everything he’s been working so hard for.
Irrelevant Jack 3
What lies beyond Blackmoor Cove and its connected Tower? When two displaced Heroes from the recently fallen Town of Emberstone seek refuge from the advancing Corruption, some people begin to believe that Jack’s brazen defiance of traditional ways has terrible consequences. New Buildings, new Townsfolk, and new Heroes bring new opportunities for everyone, and as Jack continues pushing them forward, the virtual entities around him begin to explore the limits of Subroutine Sana. This “Crunchy” GameLIT/LitRPG story contains: Item-Based character growth, empire building, unique monsters, bizarre boss fights, and the abuse of game mechanics.
GAME WORLD: LitRPG GameLit Adventure
This is the most interesting LitRPG / GameLit story you will ever read.
Blood. Betrayal. Players. Levels. Artificial Intelligence. Death. Psychology.
Detective Malone enters Game World because his friend Diageo has been murdered. Now it’s humans against machines against artificial life. And now you’ve been given access. Can any player win? Can you win?
NOTE: This story contains LitRPG / GameLit elements such as statistics, leveling and some crafting. Furthermore, this story isn’t “light” or “simple” like some milquetoast romance. You must play to win.
CONTENT WARNING: This book contains references to human sacrifice, loss of humanity, machine supremacy, mental breakdown, artificial intelligence trauma, alcohol, Nordic music, mathematics, syringes, dental implants, megalomania, financial inequality, backdoor code hacking, sexualization of death, Canada and God Mode. You’ve been provided with fair warning.
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: This book isn’t for children or even young adults. It includes adult language (strong profanity) and will likely offend those who are kind-hearted and gentle-of-spirit. Mature readers only.
My Opinion: 46 pages, $0.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
This is a mess. There’s no real story as much as blocks of text that look like code notes, or a chat room transcription. There are some thrown in stat and skill increases in there, but they don’t have a reference and much like the rest of the super short text, just kinda exist. I regretted picking this up even as a KU read.
Score: 4 out of 10
Skyclad (Fate's Anvil Book 1)
Morgan Mackenzie had a very bad day. First at work, then at home, and then her bathtub fell through a portal to another world, with her in it. Now she's stuck thousands of miles from any sort of civilization with nothing but the bathtub and a lace puffball scrubby. But she learned magic, so that's sorta nice. Now if only she could find some clothes..
Gnosis : Book1: The Paladin's Quest (A LitRPG novel)
Darrell was fed up with his life. All he wanted to do is have friends play RPG’s that he had created. His in depth research took a turn when he tried to create some atmosphere.
Drawn into a fantasy world that is based on his work Darrell must survive, and level up so that he can leave.
Will Darrell be able to navigate his new existence as a Paladin and complete his quest to rid the Realm of an evil army?
With forces arrayed against him that he neither understands, nor can combat properly, his quest may be harder than he first realises.
Influenced by tabletop fantasy RPG’s, Gnosis: The Paladin’s Quest is the first book in a new LitRPG series.
Start your next adventure here!
A World Called Memory
A World Called Memory
-A Fantasy LitRPG Novel-
By the year is 2049 there have been a number of significant advances in medicine, technology, trade, and social reform. The modern world has improved in many ways, but Cordaen just doesn’t really fit within its constraints. Getting his hands on some illicit technology, he decides to finally take the plunge; full consciousness transfer to another world, another life, and a fresh beginning.
Cordaen has to fight for every inch of success, but he finds his new life gratifying and surprising in ways that the old one never was. Who said violence and bloodshed were never good? Under the right circumstances, it seems to be what’s actually helping him to evolve and grow, and maybe even be a better person. The intense pressure of facing death, perversely, is keeping him alive in more ways than one. He just has to watch out for others more violent and less scrupulous than he is.
Follow Cordaen’s travels as he attempts to master his new avatar and gain real understanding of A World Called Memory.
Memory will remind you of what you already know, it will tease you with the familiar; with archetypes, mythology, and fable. But it also has a fresh perspective that is unique and alive.
A Fantasy LitRPG series of great depth and colour, with a huge multi-layered game world; including a massive RPG website and an evolving database of items, lore and game statistics. AWCM has a unique combination of classes, races, class abilities, monsters, gods, hundreds of illustrated magic items, in-depth world history and lore, and vividly detailed full-colour maps.
My Opinion: 427 pages, $4.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
A rather good slice of life story that had me interested from the very first pages. It’s set up as an upload to a fantasy RPG world but has a good bit of detail in character creation and gamer thinking. The main character is in the game world by the 5% mark and the adventures and use of RPG powers are well written, well thought out, and just fun to read. Characters are well fleshed out and there’s really good world building that makes shopping for new gear as interesting as the well written combat.
On the game mechanic side of things, it’s fairly familiar with characters sheets, skills, magic, item descriptions, and other notifications. There’s a fair bit of crunch here, but not so much that it interrupts the flow of the story.
Overall, I liked the balance between the fantasy story and the game mechanics and enjoyed following the MC as he went on his adventures. I hope to read another in the series soon.
Score: 7.7 out of 10
No Mistakes (World of the Changed Book #1): LitRPG Series
Let’s go! A new, ultramodern mobile game, and the release is just two days away. Be the best, save the planet! Who’s going to fight back the monster invasion if you don’t? Prerelease already available, no text alerts or payment required.
World of the Changed completely modified human consciousness. The incredible graphics that worked even on the simplest of phones. The intuitive interface that made the game accessible for absolutely anyone. The aggressive marketing campaign that put news about the game on every TV, every phone, every tablet. By the time the launch was a few days away, an entire army of fans was out there waiting for just one thing: Hour X. That was what the mysterious developers were calling the release time.
But did anyone have a clue what Hour X would unleash on them? Were they ready to pay the price the game demanded? Mark Derwin, a student, was just one of many to have no idea what kind of fate awaited him in the game. All he cared about was jumping into the prerelease as soon as it came out.
The Destroying Plague (Disgardium Book #3): LitRPG Series
Having emerged from the sandbox into the wide world of Disgardium, Scyth and his friends find themselves under the watchful eye of the preventers. The strongest clans in the world hunt not only Scyth, but also the already discovered ‘threat’ Crag, a member of the Awoken clan.
But this is just one of many problems; the Sleeping God has another impossible quest for them. The old enemy Big Po thirsts for vengeance, and the Nucleus of the Destroying Plague prepares to take cruel revenge against the former Herald…
7 Days Later: A Post Apocalyptic Gamelit Survival Horror
Craft, build, search for loot and fight to survive in a vast post-apocalyptic game world.
It’s been seven days since the old world fell and now my girlfriend, Sayōnara and I must battle for our survival. We’ll harvest wood, mine metal, grow our own food and craft better equipment.
Then we will build our base, secure it with traps, fortified walls and defend it till the end.
The monsters that ended the old world are out there, hunting the night and gathering into hordes that will attack us once a week. But zombies and mutants are not the only threat.
From mysterious enemy NPC factions, to hostile player bandits and ravenous packs of wild animals, the open world of 7 Days Later is filled with danger.
Only by working together can Sayōnara and I hope to live through the horror.
But are we ruthless enough to survive?
Grab your guns, tools and item upgrades and enter the apocalypse!