Surviving the Simulation: Tides of Ruin

Surviving the Simulation: Tides of Ruin

A naval crew battles the LitApocalypse on the high seas!

Gamelit & LitRPG Action & Adventure Fantasy # System / Stats # Third Person POV # Heroic Lead # Steampunk # War and Military # Past Tense # Survival # Female Lead # Apocalypse # Post Apocalyptic

Twelve thousand years after a catastrophic system failure, the Simulation has rebooted and the world will never be the same.

Lieutenant Sarah Kade was on a training cruise with cadets and a skeleton crew of Marines when the wind died, the sea stilled, and the Simulation came back online. Magic surged through the oceans. Technology failed. Predators older than myth hunted the waves once more.

Cut off from command, Kade must keep her crew alive aboard an age-of-sail vessel in a world that no longer makes sense. But surviving monsters and pirates is only the beginning. The Horizon Talon was not just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were sent out there for a reason.

And someone in the Sovereign Military Corps knew the Simulation would return.

1.Chapter 1.01: The Ocean Holds Its Breath
October 21st, 2025
3,460 words
2.Chapter 1.02: Standard Procedure: Panic Slightly
October 21st, 2025
3,213 words
3.Chapter 1.03: Decisions at Sea
October 21st, 2025
3,283 words
4.Chapter 1.04: Press Accept to Regret Everything
October 21st, 2025
3,749 words
5.Chapter 1.05: Simulation Notice: You Almost Died. Please Hold.
October 21st, 2025
3,038 words
6.Chapter 1.06: This Cargo Hold Has a Giant Problem
October 21st, 2025
2,532 words
7.Chapter 1.07: We Killed a Sea Monster and All I Got Was This Eyepatch
October 21st, 2025
5,227 words
8.Chapter 1.08: Level Three, and Still No Coffee
October 21st, 2025
4,314 words
9.Chapter 1.09: Death Off the Starboard Bow
October 21st, 2025
2,505 words
10.Chapter 1.10: Don't Look Back. Seriously. Don't.
October 21st, 2025
3,374 words
11.Chapter 1.11: The Cannon's Roar
October 22nd, 2025
3,986 words
12.Chapter 1.12: Embers of New London
October 22nd, 2025
3,281 words
13.Chapter 1.13: The Pirate Queen’s Prequel Pitch
October 22nd, 2025
2,887 words
14.Chapter 1.14: XP Ain't Free
October 22nd, 2025
3,538 words
15.Chapter 1.15: Simulation Says I'm a Leader. I'm Not Convinced
October 22nd, 2025
4,432 words
16.Chapter 1.16: Harbingers of Newport
October 22nd, 2025
4,148 words
17.Chapter 1.17: Welcome to Newport: Population Screwed
October 22nd, 2025
3,080 words
18.Chapter 1.18: Cutlasses, Casters, and Crayons (Minus Orange)
October 22nd, 2025
4,218 words
19.Chapter 1.19: Throne of the Rat King
October 22nd, 2025
4,540 words
20.Chapter 1.20: Caught Beneath the Black Sails
October 22nd, 2025
4,749 words
21.Chapter 1.21: Leadership by Loot Table
October 30th, 2025
6,306 words
22.Chapter 1.22: Squad Goals, Apocalypse Edition
October 30th, 2025
5,410 words
23.Chapter 1.23: Shadows Beneath the Stone
October 30th, 2025
3,612 words
24.Chapter 1.24: We Poked the Wrong Sea Monster
October 30th, 2025
3,792 words
25.Chapter 1.25: Aggro Pulled, No Healer
October 30th, 2025
5,139 words
26.Chapter 1.26: You Triggered My Death Alarm
October 30th, 2025
4,825 words
27.Chapter 1.27: Everyone Has a Boss. Theirs Is Just Crazy.
October 30th, 2025
3,219 words
28.Chapter 1.28: Looters, Losers, and Legendary Grade Murder
October 30th, 2025
3,068 words
29.Chapter 1.29: Boss Fight: Magnus, God of Control Rooms
October 30th, 2025
3,454 words
30.Chapter 1.30: High Ground is a Lie
October 30th, 2025
4,168 words
31.Chapter 1.31: We Beat the Boss, Now What the Hell Is That Noise?
October 30th, 2025
3,484 words
32.Chapter 1.32: The Exit’s on Fire. Mission Complete?
October 30th, 2025
2,953 words
33.Chapter 1.33: Loot, Repairs, and Epilogues
October 30th, 2025
2,380 words
34.Chapter 2.00: Everything Left Behind. Book One Recap
October 30th, 2025
226 words
35.Chapter 2.01: The Dead Drift
October 30th, 2025
3,526 words
36.Chapter 2.02: We Found the Anchor. It Was Alive.
October 30th, 2025
3,335 words
37.Chapter 2.03: Three Factions Walk Into a Drowned City
October 31st, 2025
3,157 words
38.Chapter 2.04: Welcome to Portland: Please Bleed Responsibly
November 4th, 2025
3,371 words
39.Chapter 2.05: Before the Repairs, There's Just One Problem...
November 7th, 2025
4,149 words
40.Chapter 2.06: Click Clack Boom
November 11th, 2025
3,775 words
41.Chapter 2.07: Objective Complete: Get Played
November 18th, 2025
4,373 words
42.Chapter 2.08: More Meat for the Political Grinder
November 18th, 2025
3,790 words
43.Chapter 2.09: The Grave Knows Your Name
November 21st, 2025
2,986 words
44.Chapter 2.10: What is the Cost of Neutrality?
November 25th, 2025
3,218 words
45.Chapter 2.11: It Was Never Just a Bridge
November 28th, 2025
3,602 words
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