A father and son duo attempt to navigate through a fictional video game world while they also face struggles in the real world.

A teenage boy unexpectedly discovers a love for chess and sets out to make a name for himself, only to hit the ceiling between passion and genius.

When a psychoanalyst's family forces him to give up his poker addiction, he uses the misery of one of his patients, a poker champion, to keep his need to gamble at bay.

A group of high schoolers gather at a classmate's house after school to play Dungeons and Dragons, but there are rumors that the group's leader, the Dungeon Master, may be unwell.

As a wistful divorcee helps his ex-wife and two sons clear out their former home, discarding nostalgic belongings, he finds it difficult to let go of the past.

A marble gambling machine becomes a huge hit in front of a hotel of a small town and becomes more than just a place for competition and earning money. The infamous machine, The Crusader, becomes the place where new friendships are built and love is explored.

A desperate spouse introduces her wife to a game about cat politics in hopes of helping her with her dementia. But when her wife turns out to be a prodigy at the game, she risks losing her forever to the fantastical gaming world.

A young Afghani immigrant boy plays a war video game set in a Soviet-controlled Afghanistan. The game reminds him of his parents who fled the war, and he begins to imagine himself rescuing his uncle, a man who died in battle.

In Vietnam War-era America, a young boy fills his days playing a “game” in which he reenacts his father’s battlefield death in Vietnam. But fun and games soon put his loved ones in real danger.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.