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* ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft''has a questline where this happens for the player character. While it's perfectly normal for {{N|on-player Character}}PCs to refer to things like "quests"and "mana", they don't usually refer to themselves as "questgivers" or otherwise talk like they know they are in an {{M|assively Multiplayer Online Game}}MORPG. However, if you level through the undead starting zone you eventually get a quest to be a questgiver. You sit on a horse, and for some mysterious reason are unable to move (even though most horses in the game are perfectly capable of at least walking forwards slowly). You even get a yellow exclamation mark over your head. Three erm...eccentric characters who [[FourthWallBreak break the fourth wall]] constantly come to you after a few minutes, and you give them instructions. You do so, in exactly the same way that [=NPCs=] do. Though the AI-controlled "players" are not silent the way your character is typically represented. Although unlike you, these three blockheads can't seem to actually complete the quests you give them and need rescues. Still, the point is that at least some people in this world seem to realize they're in a simulation. {{Justified}}, given that Azeroth has been through three world wars, a world-ending threat and a global natural disaster in just 35 years (which makes the real world look idyllically peaceful by comparison). Surely some of them are realizing that the only logical explanation for all this crap is that they're living in a game world.

* ''[[LightNovel/MyMentalChoicesAre My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering with My School Romantic Comedy]]'': Protagonist lives with VisualNovel mechanics forced onto his personal life: he's occasionally forced to pick his next action out of a very limited list of choices presented to him by the unseen Narrator and supernaturally appearing text. The choices are twisted, audacious, flippant, inescapable, loaded, reality-bending, never explained, never foreshadowed. [[FridgeHorror Thank God it's a romantic comedy]] and he's trying his best to be a nice guy.

* ''Fanfic/IsseiTheGamingGear'' by ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4583733/SeerKing SeerKing]]'' has this happen to [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD Issei Hyoudou]] of all people through him receiving a unique Sacred Gear known as a Gamer's Gear.

* ''Fanfic/HermioneGrangerTheWitchingHour'' (''Literature/HarryPotter'', ''Webcomic/TheGamer''): Just before dying in the BadFuture, Hermione reaches the Room of Requirement while yearning for a new opportunity to SetRightWhatWentWrong. Lo and behold, a parchment scoring her life suddenly appears, followed by an interface presenting her with a NewGamePlus option and poping tutorials among other things. It's so unexpected and Hermione too unaccustomed to gamer culture that she first thinks the universe is mocking her.

* ''LightNovel/TheWorldIsFullOfMonstersNow'' has this as a central premise. The first time a human kills a monster, a voice resonates in their head and informs them of the RPGMechanicsverse that Earth has become, even providing a stat sheet window that only the human in question can see. The RPG elements take over from there.

* In ''FanFic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse'' a shared cast of {{Reality Warper}}s try to save worlds by empowering characters. There is no free saving or loading, no resurrection of KO'd protagonists (other than controlled bouts in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'') and all reality resets come at a great cost. That said, it gets pretty over the top. [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] unlocking harems is also a recurring theme.
** One of their notable works, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8264615/1/Mass-Effect-Life-is-a-Game Mass Effect: Life is a Game]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2483468/117Jorn 117Jorn]] and its [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9339660/1/Mass-Effect-2-Life-is-a-Game sequel]] by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2571491/RebukeX7 RebukeX7]], has a RealityWarper offer Male!Paragon!Shepard a one-way trip from [[Franchise/MassEffect Mass Effect 3]]'s endgame to the beginning of the series. Upon arriving in his past, Shepard realizes that a Female!Renegade!Shepard has accidentally fallen into his world as well, so he introduces her as his ''wife''.

* ''[[FanFic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse Naruto: life is a Game]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2571491/RebukeX7 RebukeX7]] has Manga/{{Naruto}} read further down the forbidden scroll than the Kage Bunshin and transform the world. Killing him will end the nuttiness of the game overlay, which becomes at least one character's motivation.

* ''[[FanFic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse Spidey's Life is a Game]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2571491/RebukeX7 RebukeX7]] has a RealityWarper bring a large number of Capcom fighters into the Marvel universe for a game-based tourney complete with the Franchise/StreetFighter announcer and [[AfterCombatRecovery instant healing]] after every match. Spiderman, Chun-Li, and X-23 are Team Amazing and together they take on heroes and villains, until they're ready to face down gods.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11697391/1/Percy-Jackson-and-the-Game Percy Jackson and the Game]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5380086/I-mjusttryingtofindmyway I'mjusttryingtofindmyway]] gives the [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians son of Poseidon]] an upgrade direct from the Fates. Among the many crossovers, influence from ''WebComic/TheGamer'' stands out strongly as Percy receives assistance and challenges from the organizations of the Abyss. The often dysfunctional personalities associated the Greek pantheon show true in Percy through unexpected moments of callousness - such as when he [[spoiler: 'dusts' not only the man who'd been abusing his mother (something he does reflect on later with at least some regret) but all his ''[[WhatTheHellHero presumably innocent poker buddies]]'' without a second thought]] - but he does grow as hero. The power curve is strong and apparently justified as [[spoiler: [[MotherNature Gaea]]]] who, ironically, was the apparent power granter for the [[Webcomic/TheGamer original Gamer]] is the main backer of the waves of [[spoiler: Titans]] forcing themselves back into the lands of the living.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11098883/1/Gamecraft Gamecraft]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1665723/Halt-CPM Halt.CPM]] has Prince Arthas of [[Franchise/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft's]] unlucky royalty awaken as Webcomic/TheGamer from a young age. To his deep shock, he soon finds he's [[spoiler: not the only Player]]...

* In Fanfic/LevelUpMHA Gamer Izuku can add stat points to himself and his party, increasing [[BreastExpansion charisma]], strength and other stats. He can also cook PowerUp food to the same effect, which he does to heal and replenish the stamina of victims/helpers at the aftermath of a natural disaster, he also uses this to stack the odds of the final battle [[spoiler: The Heroes of Japan vs All For One and every villain on I-Island.]].

* [[{{Fanfic/NewGameNewLife}} New Game, New Life]], written by ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/10922478/Adudefromthesea Adudefromthesea]]'' is an [[{{SelfInsertFic}} self insert]] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover FusionFic. Set in the 90s at the start of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', a young man finds himself in the body of a teenager named Ōe Hiroshi and seeing floating boxes reporting his status. Now in a new world, that is a mixture of Japanese media of all kinds he must try to survive.

* ''{{VideoGame/Persona 3}}'' has the [[HelloInsertNameHere protagonist]] stumble into what amounts to a [[TheHiddenHour pocket universe that's merging with the real world]]. Awakening his Persona allows him to feel when his stats go up, usually in town or at school, and the Social Links he makes enhance his affinity for the Suits of Tarot cards he uses in patterns on a Fusion Table to summon entities.

* ''[[http://not-a-hazard.tumblr.com/post/77618494349/all A Not So Portable Comic]]'', by [[http://not-a-hazard.deviantart.com/ Not-A-Hazard]], is a fan comic based on ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona3}} Persona 3 Portable]]''. The narrator immediately declares the (originally featureless) Author/Audience Avatar to be a girl because they played the original on the [=PS2=], and so the change of pace is the only thing that will keep the game interesting. It shuttles up and down the SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness at breakneck speeds, allowing for cool GenreBlindness jokes to exist along everything else.

* [[{{Fanfic/NewGameNewLife}} New Game, New Life]], written by Adudefromthesea is an [[{{SelfInsertFic}} self insert]] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover FusionFic. Set in the 90s at the start of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', a young man finds himself in the body of a teenager named Ōe Hiroshi and seeing floating boxes reporting his status. Now in a new world, that is a mixture of Japanese media of all kinds he must try to survive.