Daemonorg Prison-Lab: A Dark LitRPG / LitFPS SciFi-Shooter (Overtaken Online Book 1)

The 33-year-old game designer Dex Walsh used to be a happy-go-lucky dude who enjoyed life, but when his high school sweetheart and wife of 15 years unexpectedly dies, his joy turns to hopeless depression.
He drops out of work, stops going outside, and spends every day rotting away at his computer - drinking, smoking and eating crap while suicidal thoughts poison his mind.
At the same time, the newly launched game OVERTAKEN ONLINE gains traction. The world's first FPS VR-MMORPG with 100% immersion. Reminiscent of classics like Doom and Dead Space, but with RPG-elements that enable players to level up and develop skills – and sprinkled with a pinch of magic.
Being an avid gamer his whole life, Dex glimpses a speck of hope. As a last-ditch effort to regain his will to live, he sells everything, pays the ridiculous admission cost and joins OVERTAKEN ONLINE – knowing all too well that if this doesn’t bring his joy back, then nothing will...