[A winner of the April 2023 Writathon!] When aliens induct humanity into a game for their own amusement, and bombard tutorial towers into the earth, James Wise is crushed by the impact. Instead of having his soul harvested like the rest however, the tutorial tower responsible for his death believes him to be an administrator, and makes him responsible for managing the tower for the duration of the game. Responsible for a device that can make or break the survival of millions of humans, James struggles to give humanity as much of an advantage as possible, but when the game itself is made to entertain an alien race with the suffering of his own, and when the power he wields is dependent on how well he entertains them, how much control does he truly have? Tower Core is a Dungeon Core adjacent LitRPG that updates on Thursdays (Special thanks to Aestereal Belequa for helping me design the cover through midjourney until I can commission an artist on my own!)