I really like stories set within online worlds, but I'm looking for something more meditative. litRPG as a genre is over run with progression power fantasies about bland MCs rapidly gaining in power and being the perfect audience stand in. They're the cheapest kind of literary junk food.
I want a book set within an online game that's about the realities, both good and bad, of making deep bonds and connections with people over the internet.
Basically I'm looking for something where the video game setting is a colorful backdrop to the relationships and interpersonal struggles of the characters.
by Hormo_The_Halfling
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Check out “For the Win” by Cory Doctorow – it’s about gold farmers and online labor but has some really solid character development around the relationships people build in virtual spaces
Also maybe “Reamde” by Neal Stephenson, though that one gets pretty action-heavy in the second half
Maybe “the diamond age” by Neal Stephenson
Tad Williams’ Otherland series.