Finn is stuck. His life is drab and monotonous and even the VR game, Oceania V2.0, where he logs in to work daily, offers little excitement. He is a Level 1 Lumberjack who spends his days chopping wood in a wealthy player's base camp for a few coins a week. Leveling-up is the last thing he's interested in.
When Selene, the girl he's grown to love like a sister, mysteriously disappears both in real life and in the game, Finn is finally shaken into action. He is determined to find her. If only his character weren't so damn useless…
The only solution seems to be to start all over... And that's exactly what The Developers' Challenge offers - a new life in a new world. But there's a catch. The standard rules of the game don't always apply, death comes at a higher cost and the monsters are unlike anything Finn has ever seen or heard about...