Player Zero: Rogue Code

Twenty years ago, game developer Emeri Vale helped create a virtual world unlike anything ever seen. After his forced departure, his name fading into obscurity as the franchise grew into the largest online game on the planet.

Now millions of players log into New Realm RP every day—a sprawling crime-ridden world Role Play powered by advanced artificial intelligence. Every citizen has a life, a job, and a story. They work, love, argue, dream, and die.

Rem works the counter at Vale's Market.

His days should be simple: sell coffee, stock shelves, and listen to the endless parade of cops, criminals, and customers passing through the neighborhood's unofficial neutral ground. But lately, things haven't felt right. People are acting strangely. The city seems to remember things it shouldn't. And Rem keeps catching impossible glimpses beneath reality itself—fragments of numbers, code, and hidden information no NPC should ever be able to see.

When a routine robbery spirals into something far bigger, Rem finds himself pulled into the criminal underworld of New Realm. As he uncovers secrets buried deep within the game's foundations, he feels like he's stuck inside a game, not knowing he's apart of it.

Caught between players hungry for power, an AI designed to maintain order, and mysteries hidden since the game's creation, Rem must discover the truth about who—and what—he really is.

In the cities where everyone is playing a game, Rem wants to be alive.