The latest Jumanji remake is LitRPG.
That new Ready Player One movie coming out this year? More LitRPG.
Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg? Definitely LitRPG.
Depending on who you ask, the term means Literary-RPG, Literary Role-Playing-Games, or Literature RPG.
Basically, it's a book genre about people playing games - including stats.
The term was coined by three Russian authors around 2010 - Alex Bobl, V. Mahanenko, and Dmitry Malkin.
LitRPG owes a lot to The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and other works that dealt with video games in fiction in new ways. Over the years, it's evolved to include many different types of novels.
We're gamifying the new genre over at the LitRPG Forum.
