Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online - Recommendations

• Vol: 6+; Ch: 50+
• 2018 - ?

She may be new to gaming, but Maple has found the secret to invincibility! Just put all your skill points into defense until you can’t even move. That works, right? She doesn’t want to experience any pain in the VRMMO game she started playing, and somehow it works better than anyone expected. Now she’s got followers??

• Vol: 14+
• 2017 - ?

IS SHE THE GAME’S LAST BOSS?! Though she doesn’t play many MMOs, Maple has either a natural talent or impossibly good luck, because by pouring every last stat point she has into Vitality, she’s created a character who can’t be hurt! Whether it’s physical attacks or magic or status effects, nothing poses a real threat. In no time at all, news spreads across the server about the adorable terror who can’t be defeated. While Maple may just be having fun, her broken build is sure to attract lots of unexpected attention...

• Vol: 7; Ch: 59
• 2015 - 2018

There was once a legendary party named Subaru in the globally popular MMORPG Union. The group was made of elementary school friends. They earned fame in the blink of an eye for their unparalleled abilities in the Sense system at the core of the game. However, there was an incident where a player passed away inside the game. As a result of the death, Union ended service. Six years pass. Haruto Amō, who was a key member of Subaru, has become a hopeless high school student. His personality has changed, and he has no friends or ambition. A classmate gets him to log in to the new Re'Union game, and he ends up having a "reunion" that is hard to believe. He meets his former in-game partner and real-world childhood friend Asahi Kuga. The girl who was supposed to have died six years ago was there. Haruto can't believe his eyes. He thinks he must be ill or Asahi must be a system error or bug. Yet, she really seems to be there in the game. A new legend begins after the pair's reunion.

• Vol: 58; Ch: 1450
• 2007 - 2019

The man forsaken by the world, the man a slave to money and the man known as the legendary God of War in the highly popular MMORPG Continent of Magic. With the coming of age, he decides to say goodbye, but the feeble attempt to earn a little something for his time and effort ripples into an effect none could ever have imagined. Through a series of coincidences, his legendary avatar is sold for 3.1 billion won, bringing great joy to him, only to plunge him into despair at losing almost all of it to vicious loan sharks. With revelation of money through gaming, he rises from the abyss with new found resolve and steps forward into the new age of games led by the first ever Virtual Reality MMORPG, Royal Road. This is the legend of Lee Hyun on his path to becoming Emperor with only his family loving heart, his boundless desire for money, his unexpected mind, his diligently forged body and the talent of hard work backing him.

• Vol: 26+
• 2014 - ?

38-year-old Tanaka Daichi’s childhood dream of playing a VRMMO has finally come to life. As he creates his character, he decides to choose skills that are considered useless by others, since he has no interest in playing like a main character. Follow the adventures of Daichi as he strives to use his mismatched set of worthless skills to achieve his dream goal of simply being able to enjoy an alternate life in a virtual reality.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 25
• 2013 - 2015

Nogami Hajime is a player who enjoys game challenges such as clearing things at the lowest level possible or playing games with one character. In the VRMMORPG, he plays as Ichino, taking advantage of a certain system in the game which allows him to modify his exp gain such that he remains Level 1, giving him the nickname of “Complete Novice.”

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2014 - 2015

In VRMMO -CtG- (Cradle to the Glaive), Kasugai Yuu has <married> Mifa, a girl he has just met. After that, their daughter Haruha is born and grown!? Moreover… “I’ve come, daddy!” “K-Kugimiya!” In the real world, the real Haruha, along with the real Mifa – Kugimiya Miharu – suddenly appeared! The truth is, Haruha is a <new human> created in secret!! Living under the same roof, Yuu and Miharu are stuck with caring for Haruha both in game and in life, the one who controls the fate of humanity!?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2021 - 2022

At the recommendation of her younger brother who lives with her, Mari Akizuki decides to play the massively popular VRMMORPG "Mebius World Online". Being a beginner, she had only wanted to enjoy the game at a leisurely pace... But before she knows it, she ends up battling a boss monster, earning a rare skill, and becoming the center of attention?! And so begins the kind-hearted Mari-nee's VRMMO life, as she bonds with both players and NPCs alike!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2020 - 2022

Futayado Nanaka who calls herself a part time warrior, though all the places she worked at got bankrupt, now has too much time on her hands. And to that opportunity, she was invited by a very close friend of hers, a pro gamer and a livestreamer, to take part in the world’s first VRMMO with a livestream function "WorldLive-ONLINE". And so, a 21-year-old real cheat girl who has extraordinary strength, carries a blunt weapon and rampages through the VR world.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 23
• 2005

Everyone is raving about Yggdrasil, a new online game that's taken the world by storm! Almost everyone plays, and teenage gamer Koki Tachibana has something no one else does...his father works for the company! Every day after school, Koki and his friends meet in the virtual world of Yggdrasil to explore and level. But lately they've been getting a lot more than they bargained for...