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What books have the characters think they're playing a game, but in fact they're engaging in some kind of control of actual events? Either in the same universe, or in a different dimension or something?
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Ender's Game
Fair.
Ender’s Shadow is also a good choice 🤪
Ender 2: Electric Boogaloo, how Ender got his game back.
no stop I hate it goddammit
No that would enders shadow beans boogaloo
A japanese light novel, The Latest Game is too Amazing, about a guy playing vr but being isekaid every time he puts on the helmet
He talks to regular players on the internet , hence not realizing it
in a similar vein, there's "The NPCs in This Village Sim Game Must Be Real!" though it seems to have stopped after the third volume, so it doesn't really go anywhere.
The Trapped Mind Project - Emerilia series. by Michael Chatfield
this series is one of my cosy reread series, i have probably read it like 7 times by now when combining the origional web series, audible listens, and kindle reads.
My i ask how it compares against the 10 realms? Somehow i have reread the first 5-6 books in that series but somehow the later books where a bit meeh at least for me.
i loved Ten realms in the first book and honestly i gave up by book 5 and never went back to it. so personaly i like Emerilia a lot more
Im audiobook only, so when they switched to Neil Helligers it killed it.
Neil is really monotoneish and has almost no variation in his voices.
He does like 5 or 6 voices in total, and his attempts for asian voices is quite sad bordering pathetic.
And when he tries to do a females voice, it sounds like when guys on tik tok mock women and do the 'oh im a woman and I want to do this but its so harrrrrrd' kind of inflections.
Which would be fine. Some narrators dont try to do very different accents/inflections/tones for all characters, just genders. But Hellegers tries, and fails badly.
In a series with 2 main characters, a dozen or so side characters for the MC's faction, and then another dozen or so characters to interact with reguarly....everyone sounds the same. Its like someone trying to do Travis Baldree but failing in a cringe way.
Yes! I read this series originally then later for it on audio and I love the re-listening to it!
World seeds by Justin miller
Phantom server by Livadny
Perimeter defense by atamonov
Reality Benders by atamonov
Completionist chronicles by Dakota Krout
Crystal shards online by rick scott
Bathrobe knight by Charles dean
Forever Fantasy Online by Rachel Aaron and Travis Bach
Sky Realms online by Troy Osgood.
Endless Online by MH Johnson
Crucible Shard by Skyler Grant
I wish Endless Online was completed...
But, then it wouldn't be endless... Right?
I'm sad that I laughed at that...
My Magus Academy is Run by Players?! [Western Cultivation LitRPG]
Crystal Shards Online
The World of Gods Rises From the Zerg. Depending on how you feel about Asian web novels. Also to set expectations zerg isn't star craft zerg it's more the idea of the hive mind and genetics. I honestly see it more like tyrnanids than zerg
Explain that to me? How did Ender get Gamed?
I mean I read the books but I'm not sure what you are asking for.
Ender was under the impression he was playing a game or a simulation when he was infact killing buggers and fighting the war. Op is asking for stories where the mc is equally in the dark about how their actions are affecting the real world. Where mc is playing some game or simulation that turns out to be real.
O ok yea that makes sense.
I thought for sure it was something about the philosophy part lol..
Emirillia by Michael Chatsworth. But there's a twist I can't say without ruining the plot. I enjoyed the series immensely.
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What an obnoxious perspective.
I'll add a twist: Infinite by Jeremy Robinson... without too much spoilers let me just say it involves the MC not knowing if he is in a simulation or reality. Definitely not LitRPG though. I would also volunteer that although it is part of a massive 13 book cross-series bonanza, my recommendation would be to read just this one and leave it at that.
The realms cm carney
Dominion of Blades