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by Summarius Brock
A rogue AI locked the alpha testers inside a revolutionary VRMMO. The UI broke. The starter zone turned lethal. Death became permanent. Nox's brother is missing. His friends are scattered. The monsters keep finding him no matter where he hides. And the key to everyone’s freedom is hanging around his neck. To survive, Nox has to do the only thing his build was made to do. Stand between his friends and the world trying to kill them. Will he get his brother and his friends out alive? Or learn the hard way that his shield can't save everyone?- - - - - - - - - - Alpha Testers is a trapped-game, survival LitRPG about found family, permadeath, and a brother worth crossing a dying world to reach. Tank MC - Dark But Not Grimdark - First person - Present tense New Chapters 3 Times a Week: Monday Wednesday Friday
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
33%
Two or more lists
12%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama (22%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#3268 of 12,157 · 3218 below RS #50
By genre
beats 93% of similar stories
beats 43% of similar stories
beats 46% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
