“Play or Die” is a fantastic novel by Dmitry Serebryakov and Anastasia Soboleva, the first book of the “Virtual World” cycle. Genre: action fantasy, LitRPG, transmigrators.
The world of the future. Many would like to get there. But what if—against your will—you end up there, instead of reality, in a virtual game?
So our heroes find themselves in the future game. And if you put four hundred million people from the 21st century into one container like cockroaches—and then into another jar— the result might be completely unexpected.
But people want to live, so our heroes will have to wriggle like eels on a scorching skillet—sometimes in the literal sense.