Author · Mecabooks · playable worlds
Stories you can read, hear, and play.
Alex Meca writes LitRPG and horror — a father of three who works retail by day and other worlds after dark. The music goes out as Mecabooks. Helios, Service, and Ash Run play here. The full boards open on their own pages.
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Presidency
The Oval
Name the cabinet, wrangle a thin Congress, and read the country the way a pollster does.
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Valley
Starvale
Till, chop, and earn a villager’s trust. When the moon rises, the dead walk.
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Reign
Crownhold
Raise cottages and roads, feed the people, and see if a hamlet can become a capital.
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Watch command
Precinct Chief
Dispatch the cars, interview the story, and keep the dangerous ones in their own cells.
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Trivia night
Flashback
Five trivia nights, plus chess, checkers, and a shared letter board.
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Bunker
Ashvault
A shaft under a dead neighborhood. Frame the rooms, send people up the ladder, and keep the trades alive.
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The tape
Last Reel
The woods are on the tape, and the tape is speeding up. Jump the hits. Duck the low ones.
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Carnival
The Last Token
A coin pusher that does not want to be watched. Aim, drop, and feed the shelf.
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VHS 1996
Cursed Pong
One cup is cursed. It moves after every throw, and the ball is never the same twice.
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Horror · New
Fermented
Julian Graves inherits a Victorian house sinking into a Florida swamp. The journals talk in yields and numbers. The town knows. The fields are hungry.
LitRPG · 3.8 stars
Chef In Another World
Mac, a chef pulled into the realm of Helios, cooks his way through a game-like world of magic and monsters. Also in audiobook, paperback, and hardcover.
LitRPG · 3.8 stars
Soldier In Another World
John, a former Navy SEAL, is dropped into Helios. Military instinct meets magic, monsters, and a world that keeps score.
LitRPG
Helios: The Cosmic Game of Gods and Mortals
Prequel. Six gods draft champions from Earth — a manager, a chef, a soldier, and three more — until the Watchers change the rules of the game.
Horror · 4.5 stars
The Fall
A nanobot experiment mutates the animals and leaves humanity on the edge. Conner leaves a small settlement and learns what the fall actually was.
Horror · 5.0 stars
The Doll
Five short horror stories tied to one cursed doll. Phenomena escalate. Reality and the supernatural stop agreeing.
World art on this site is not the retail cover. Amazon has the real one.
Mecabooks
The records
Neon Thoughts is the latest album. Helios, The Void, Final Girls, and a long 2024–2025 run sit beside it on Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music.