Romans & Histoires Independent Survival Game

She died freezing, alone, and locked out of his bunker. Now she's back with $4,212 and a grudge. Odessa "Dess" Marlowe gave the Hale family six years, sixty thousand dollars and every ounce of trust she had. In return, her boyfriend Garrick locked her out of his private bunker on the first night of the apocalypse and joked that she'd "eat through the supplies in a week." She froze to death on a pharmacy floor while his mother and his mistress laughed behind a steel door. Then Dess wakes up ninety days before the sky tears open. Her savings are gone. Garrick is cheating. His mother is bringing papers to dinner tonight. And a strange pocket of space has appeared in her mind, one that only grows when she earns. But she didn't come back by luck. Something pulled her out of death on purpose, and something on the other side of the sky is already looking for her. This time, Dess won't beg. She'll collect the proof, take back what's hers, stockpile every last can and blanket she can find, and watch the Hales' perfect lives crack in public. But Garrick isn't the only one who knows what's coming, and the men circling her new life are hiding secrets of their own. A quiet ex-soldier who sees too much. A cold billionaire who looks at her like he has already lost her once. A doctor with a joke for every wound. A mafia heir who won't let anyone touch what's his. When the sky finally breaks, the Hales will come knocking. Dess has plenty of food. Just not for them.

When Vespera Nyx discovers that her husband has stolen all her money and properties, she believes nothing could hurt her more. But he proves her wrong when he abandons her during the zombie apocalypse and proposes to her best friend, the woman she trusted like a sister. Left with nothing in a world filled with the undead, Vespera fights to survive. Before her death, she reads a novel about a woman who suffers the same betrayal during the apocalypse. The woman loses everything to her husband and best friend before being killed by the very people she once loved. But fate has a cruel twist waiting for Vespera. She opens her eyes again, only to discover that she has transmigrated into the very novel she was reading. Worse, she has become the zombie queen, a terrifying creature destined to be killed before the story ends. Then she discovers something shocking. Her former husband and best friend are also inside the novel, living new lives while repeating the same cruel betrayal. This time, Vespera refuses to become anyone’s victim. With the power to command the undead, she begins building an army of zombies stronger than anything humanity has ever faced. Those who once stole from her will soon learn what it means to lose everything. Her enemies believe the undead are mindless monsters. They are about to discover that their greatest nightmare has a name. Vespera Nyx. And the Zombie Queen has returned for revenge.

Level 1. Assassin. Starting gear: one rusty revolver and a really bad attitude. Aria was an insurance adjuster with a gaming habit and a Charisma score she's still offended by. Then she wakes up in a crumbling high-rise in a ruined city, with a health bar floating in her vision and a terminal telling her she's a Level 1 Assassin. Her loadout is a single Colt, a knife, and four boxes of ammo. No respawn button. No manual. No one to tell her whether she can quit. The city is full of zombies, and she's a terrible shot. But she's a quick study. With a secondhand baseball bat, a scruffy little dog named Midnight, and a talent for turning panic into XP, Aria starts to climb. She unlocks Victorian-flavored shops, scrounges for blueprints, and hunts quests for a shotgun she can't afford. She also catches the eye of a cocky guild recruiter, a flirty healer, and a secretive sisterhood of assassins whose mechanical librarian is a little too thorough with its security scan. Everyone in this world seems to want something from her. Then a stranger on a passing bus holds up a message, and Aria loses an hour in the back room of a crafting shop. Now she's wondering whether the game was built for her, and who else is watching her play. She can't log out, so she's going to have to grind. Snarky, gritty, and packed with gear porn, zombie-bashing, and slow-burn romance, this is a steampunk LitRPG for readers who've ever muttered "fuck this game" and then played for six more hours.

"She's your sister, Isabella! Give her your kidney!" My father's demand still echoes in my ears. In my previous life, I sacrificed everything for my family. I gave up my kidney for my father's precious illegitimate daughter, Gianna. I endured their cruelty, watched my fiancé betray me, and trusted the people who swore they loved me. My reward? They abandoned me to be devoured by zombies. But fate has given me a second chance. I have returned to the day they planned to cut me open—and this time, they will pay for every drop of blood I've shed. I reclaim my mother's mysterious jade pendant, sell my luxury penthouse, and turn my mountain villa into an impenetrable fortress. With millions in cash, a dimensional storage space, and ten years of memories from the apocalypse, I'm ready for everything. Deadly heat. Collapsing power grids. Devastating floods. Freezing winters. Superpowers. Zombies. Let the world burn. I'll be ready. But then I meet Dante Moretti, a dangerously handsome military officer with sharp eyes, a powerful body, and far too many questions. "Who are you really, Isabella?" I smile. "Someone you should stay away from, Major." His gaze darkens. "Too late. You've already got my attention." As the world crumbles, my enemies come crawling back, desperate for my protection. Too bad. They sacrificed me once. This time, they'll learn what happens when the girl they betrayed becomes the queen of the apocalypse.

Aurora Bennett, heiress to a shipping empire, dies locked outside her penthouse by her cheating husband Preston Whitemore as acid rain destroys the city. She wakes sixty days before the apocalypse with her memories and a secret Void Matrix, a storage space where time stops. Aurora divorces Preston, liquidates seventy-two billion dollars and builds a mountain fortress. Next door, scarred commander Raymond Black is preparing too. Their alliance turns to love as they uncover the truth: a secret military group caused the disaster on purpose. To save the world, Aurora must trust again and stop the machine destroying the planet.

He locked the gate and watched the infected tear me apart. My husband stood on the safe side, eyes cold, and told me the truth with his final words: “You should have been the one who died that day.” He had always loved her. They even had a child together. I was just the wife who dragged him onto the last helicopter and left her behind. I died with his betrayal in my ears and his child in my stomach. Then I opened my eyes two years before the apocalypse. Same husband. Same mistress. Same soft, disposable wife they thought they still owned. But the woman who used to beg and sacrifice is already dead. This time, I will not save him. This time, I will not share a single resource. This time, when the world ends, I will be the one standing behind the locked gate… Watching them both beg.

My husband sold me for thirty days of food. My best friend counted the supplies while I was dragged away. After two years of keeping them alive, I was worth less to them than a locked storeroom. I died in a settlement laboratory and woke up ninety days before the world ended. This time, I am keeping my money, my supplies and my life. I know which roads will disappear, which shelters will become graves, and exactly who will betray me when the food runs out. But the first catastrophe comes seventeen days early. The bunker I planned to buy has already been claimed, and a stranger knows things he should never know. Then a warning appears in front of me: [ANOTHER REGRESSOR HAS BEEN DETECTED.] Someone has come back to change the future. And unlike me, they want the world to burn.

Dying in a trap set by her selfish husband, Bennett, taught Corinne one lesson: loving the wrong person will get you killed. When Corinne wakes up sixty days before the end of the world, she gets a second chance. She sells everything she owns, cuts off her ex-husband, and fixes up her grandfather’s secret underground shelter. She also brings back a special power called the Stillroom. It does not just store food and tools—it holds secrets from lost timelines. Partnering with Devon Cross, a smart survival leader, Corinne prepares for the coming disaster. But saving lives comes with a dark rule: every life she saves causes a new danger to happen. Survival isn't free—it demands a body count, and Corinne intends to make her enemies pay it.

Jenna spent years keeping her husband's family alive. When a supervolcano erupted and ash buried the city, they locked her out of the shelter she had helped build. She suffocated outside the hatch while her husband, Steve, watched through the gap and did nothing. With her last breath, she learned that Max, the little boy she had raised as her own, was Steve's son with his colleague Vanessa. Then Jenna opens her eyes, sixty days before the eruption. This time, she doesn't beg for a place at their table. She hands Steve divorce papers, sells everything that will be worthless once the sky turns black, and claims the one thing his family always mocked: her late grandfather's abandoned mine, buried deep enough to keep the ash out and the air clean. When Steve and his mother, Linda, try to take half of it, the deed proves it was Jenna's long before the wedding. Everyone calls her crazy for stockpiling respirators, diesel, and medicine. Only Ray, the cold and watchful captain of the mine rescue team, notices that nothing she buys is random. He doesn't trust her, but he can't ignore that she seems to know something no one else does. Then the mountain blows. The sky turns red, roofs collapse under the ash, and the same people who locked her out come pounding on her door, begging to be let in. This time, Jenna decides who lives.