in game book. (mmorpg/vrmmorpg)

[Thore]

I am looking for a book where the MC and the story spend most of the time in a game (mmorpg/vrmmorpg) leveling and adventuring.
OR
A book where the MC is sucked and stuck in a game and levels and adventures and meets new people.

[Joseph]

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a must read for what you are looking for.
I'd also recommend:
Arena by Holly Jennings and its sequel Gauntlet.
Vivian Vande Velde's Rasmussen series: User Unfriendly, Heir Apparent, and Deadly Pink

[Kris]

These lists might be helpful:

LitRPG: the books set in virtual reality online MMORPG games - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

Online Gaming Worlds in SF & Fantasy -
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Aaron]

I kind of find the constant levels and stat stuff really grating part of LitRPG but really like the genre.

These 2 do a good job of avoiding that pitfall.
Catharsis
Edge of Reality

These others not so much:
Survival Quest

Most of the rest I have to recommend in the genre is webfiction.

[Shanna_redwind]

This is close to what you're looking for City of Golden Shadow. It doesn't mention in the description that you also follow the people that are trapped in the network, moving though different games.

[Aymee]

Shanna_redwind wrote: "This is close to what you're looking for City of Golden Shadow. It doesn't mention in the description that you also follow the people that are trapped in the network, moving though dif..."

I cannot recommend this series highly enough. It is so immersive and well done. It's the reason why I'm terrified of VR games.

[Rosa]

Someone mentioned Heir Apparent, it rocks! There's also a cool video game metaphor in Twisted.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Blow Me Down has this. (The MC is actually stuck inside of a video game in beta production.)

Invitation to the Game to a lesser extent has this idea. The main characters spend a lot of time in real life preparing for when they are IN the game.

Witch and Wombat the players only THINK they are playing a game. . . .


The Sleeping Dragon this is a larp gone horribly wrong. . . Part of a series.

[Peter]

The Land: Founding: A LitRPG Saga by Aleron Kong is the first in a (so far) six book series that goes with the now standard "person from Earth gets pulled into game world" trope. It's a very enjoyable example of the trope, though. The characters are interesting, the storyline is both funny and epic, and the gaming elements are pretty darn hardcore and detailed. My one criticism of the story is that the main character, Richter, keeps on running into new challenges and adding to his "Must do this soon!" list without actually resolving all that many of the oustanding quests and problems he's already encountered. It's still a great read, though.

Last Horizon: Beta by Daniel Schinhofen is about a group of people who are beta testers for the first completely immersive VR game. The story follows them both in the real world and in the game. The RPG elements are fairly light, but the story deals quite a bit with the sort of community that builds itself in an online game, and it's an interesting book that's worth a look.

Otherlife Dreams: The Selfless Hero Trilogy by William D. Arand is interesting. The main character is a man assigned to a long-range space mission who finds himself waking up inside of what he knows is a fantasy VR setting, but everything has real consequences. The rest of the crew is also trapped, and people have already died. He has some administrator privileges, so it's up to him to save everyone. The problem he encounters is that the consequences aren't the only thing that are real. The NPCs he interacts with have become sapient AIs, which means all the usually disposable NPCs have that potential. Many of his fellow crewmembers are playing with the usual "Kill whoever you want" attitude, so our hero has to balance his duty to his crewmembers with his duty to innocent people who aren't really "people" by most definitions.

NPCs by Drew Hayes is one of my favorites. It follows two stories. The lesser story is about a group of gamers in our world who are slowly coming to realize there's something odd about the games they've been playing. The bigger and better story is about a group of characters inside the game world who are forced to take on the roles of adventurers and perform a quest in an attempt to save their town. They have pre-determined classes they have to fill, but the hulking half-orc ends up as the wizard, the sheltered teenaged girl becomes the barbarian, the trained town guard becomes the thief and the wizened old gnome becomes the paladin. I can't recommend this one highly enough, it's just cool.

[Shanna_redwind]

A little more old school, but people end up in a role playing game in The Secret Country

[Thore]

Wow really nice, just what i was looking for :D
Thanks everyone.