The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real! (Light Novel) Series

THE SHUT-IN’S JOURNEY

The game is over for Yoshio. His villagers are gone, all dead as far as he can tell. Just as he is overcome with despair, one final gift arrives from the Village of Fate—a package containing the NPC Carol, and she’s a real, live girl. With Carol in tow, Yoshio leaves the safety of his home to travel to Hokkaido, where the developers are located. He will uncover the truth of this mysterious game once and for all!

FINAL VOLUME

WHEN FANTASY INVADES REALITY

Yoshio was a thirty-year-old unemployed shut-in when a mysterious village-building sim, The Village of Fate, showed up at his door. Through watching and caring for the game’s intensely realistic NPCs, Yoshio has started getting his life back on track—getting a job to pay for microtransactions, and using the villagers’ care for each other as inspiration to reconnect with his family. But despite overcoming the first challenges thrown at him, more complicated issues, both in and out of the game, are closing in. And are the game’s monstrous enemies controlled by real humans, too?

By the creator of Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon: can the strangely realistic characters in a mysterious video game bring meaning to one man’s life…and help him reconnect with the “real world”? Don’t miss the manga, also from Seven Seas!

Yoshio is thirty years old, and his life is a mess. A shut-in living with his parents, he has no job, no relationship, and no prospects. When he receives a new sim computer game that boasts characters created with a new kind of A.I., he doesn’t think much of it–until he gets drawn into a fantasy world so vibrant and lifelike that its residents can’t just be game characters. Suddenly finding himself the benevolent god of a scrappy fantasy village is a lot for Yoshio to handle, but it might be the key to the change he desperately needs.