The Enemy I Didn't Choose

A game developer wakes inside his own creation, not as the hero he'd imagined, but as the final villain-the Enemy designed to be hated, hunted, and destroyed. Every dungeon, trap, and punishment was his code; now they're alive around him, following rules he can't break. NPCs whisper of sins he doesn't remember committing. Old Testament plagues fall on lands he once built for fun.

To leave, he must reach the game's end-but he wrote this ending himself, and the villain never survives it. Each step drags him deeper into the world's theology, where every blade and beast seems to hunger for his blood as payment. Somewhere between his creation's wrath and his own guilt, he must decide whether to fight the script or fulfill it.