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The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life.

MDW

B65/100
The world ended. The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone — including me. But I got a second chance at life. As an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that I fault them. But to toss my half-eaten core into a landfill? Then an earthquake buried the landfill a mile underground. No sunlight, no water, and I'm pretty sure the apple I was reincarnated into was a GMO hybrid with no real chance of germinating. Then: **DING** — SYSTEM INITIATION!
Royal Road4.54· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyCozyDungeon CoreGameLitGenius MC+12

How I Was Accidentally Summoned in a Cult as the Demon Princess

North Drake

B65/100
Lily Carter juggles lectures, convenience store night shifts, and a secret life as Lilithia Nocturne — a top-ranked demon princess in the VRMMORPG Xantia. Then a robbery, a gunshot, and blackout. She wakes on cold stone in a glowing blood circle, wearing Lilithia's regal armor and horns for real. A bargain-bin cult calling itself the Children of the Abyss summoned her on purpose — by accident. They wanted a real demoness, not a nerdy girl cosplaying one. They're incompetent, fanatical, and inconveniently the only people who don't want to burn a demon on sight. Lily plans to humor them, learn the world, and bail. Instead, rumors snowball, idiots congregate, and an accidental empire starts forming in her name.
Royal Road4.49· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

CyberGene

Sixbees2

B65/100
Every century, the MALswarm invades — adaptive aliens of blood and steel led by Titans that decimate billions and leave behind raw Warp Energy. Humanity seizes this power, transforming into beings of mutated flesh and cybernetic might. Yet the promised utopia remains a lie, and New California's underworld schemes to profit from the impending Fifth Swarm. Two destinies collide amidst the chaos. Ripley — a cybernetics savant battling to save his dying mother — operates in the shadows of a gang-owned nightclub. Diana, engineered for perfection, fights as an officer of the law to forget her past. When a monster is unleashed, they steal its infinite potential to warp their futures. In a city where salvation and damnation are inseparable, Ripley reinvents himself from the wreckage of his enemies' cybernetics as a mercenary, while Diana's mutated blood crackles with lightning as she purges corruption. Against a grand conspiracy of aliens, rogue AIs, shady corporations, and organized crime, their alliance — and conflict — determines if the world will plunge into darkness or embrace the light.
Royal Road4.66· 604
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyGenius MCGoreGrimdark+9

Gamble for Azeroth

Jesse Desire

B65/100
Arvis Godwyn was not a lucky man. Having Grand Marshall Garithos as his uncle and regent of his house was bad enough. Being exiled to guard the ruins of Stratholme was worse. But things truly spiral when he receives news of King Terenas' assassination — delivered in a very unusual manner. Now armed with a Chaos Gacha Variant System, Arvis must navigate a world unraveling around him.
Royal Road4.68· 281
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitHaremLitRPGPost-apocalyptic+1

An Ideal World for a Sociopath

Colin Parker, Oleg Sapphire

B64/100
A system arrives on Earth, and half of humanity dies and becomes zombies while the other half must try to survive. For Varg — a sociopath with no ties and no regrets — this brutal new world feels almost tailor-made. Following Varg across a system-driven apocalypse, the series sends him through zombie-infested cities, alien worlds, interdimensional challenges, and encounters with gods, vampires, elves, and worse. Each new threat is another test the system is all too happy to provide.
Goodreads4.39· 888
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill CollectionStats+1

Necrotic Apocalypse

D. Petrie

B64/100
An unstoppable curse. A dead man displaced from his time. How do you survive the zombie apocalypse when you started it? Digby Graves, a deceased medieval peasant with delusions of grandeur, is trying to figure out how the hell he ended up in Seattle eight hundred years after his death — with necrotic magic coursing through his zombified body and only fragmented memories of how he died. Now the curse he unleashed is loose in the world, and Digby has a target on his back. He needs to survive long enough to put the pieces back together, learn what it means to lead the horde, and master his power over the dead. The end of the world is gonna get weird.
Goodreads4.33· 1.5K
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSummoningSystem Apocalypse+1

The Drone Lord

Oleg Sapphire

B64/100
He saved humanity. The same humanity that had betrayed him. Then he was an outcast again. Now, years later, he doesn't expect gratitude and doesn't offer forgiveness — he just doesn't need anyone anymore. Memory is his voice, rage is his fuel, and an army of steel is his weapon. Reborn into a new world and a new body, the Drone Lord decides his own fate — not gods, not people, not anybody except himself.
Goodreads4.42· 327
Anti-heroCompetent MCIsekaiOverpowered MCSci-fiSummoning

Sporemageddon

RavensDagger

B64/100
Why survive the apocalypse when you can become the apocalypse? Nature is dying, but perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine it can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a mushroom-loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger to accomplish the goal that brought them there: save nature from the system the sentient races have created. Stats, levels, classes, and skills are all well and good — but when you're a Child of Poverty in the slums of City Nineteen, there's little you can do to change the world. Not unless you're willing to think outside the box.
Royal Road4.58· 1.2KGoodreads4.18· 338
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingIsekai+7

The Fractured Tower

EmergencyComplaints

B64/100
Sorin Atharel was already a legend. After forty years of calculated risks, dead companions, and spent fortunes, he was ready to take the final step to immortality at the top of his tower. Instead, his soul space was stripped bare, all his abilities ripped away, and his anima drained to nothing. He wakes at the bottom of a different tower, surrounded by strangers in a strange city — his entire life reset. With only a mysterious tile mosaic as a clue, Sorin must navigate his new reality. If he wants answers to what was done to him, there is only one path forward: he must climb again.
Royal Road4.57· 1K
Anti-heroCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+6

Equilibrium

Excalionar

B64/100
Peter V. Kastell is taken from the cycle of reincarnation and given a purpose — one he can fulfill in nearly any way he chooses. But his soul is damaged, leaving him at an unforeseen disadvantage. Thanks to a benevolent Goddess, he gains different advantages to compensate. Along the way, his story will be uncovered, and he will gain powers beyond what he ever thought possible.
Royal Road4.60· 967Goodreads4.25· 67
Anti-heroGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

An Antihero's Journey: Book One, The Crow

Malaklein

B64/100
Burton was a good man — if gullible — until his superhero girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, also a superhero, and his entire family took her side. In a fit of suicidal rage, something changed: he became a Wisher, smarter and sharper than before, yet fundamentally still himself. Now he lives as a vigilante — not an official hero but a rogue man of the night who beats up bad guys and has a talking dog and cat for company. He is a cynic, a loner, and a sadistic hermit with no love to give. That is about to change, and so is his pain.
Royal Road4.67· 322
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCLoner MCOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

Applied Cultivation

CatVI

B63/100
They called him trash — until he put the Dao under the microscope. When demons slaughter his new family, computer scientist Johan — now reborn as Yu Han — survives by pure wit. He gains access to the mysterious system that all cultivators use to defy the heavens. But it won't be enough. Betrayed and stripped of everything, his only path forward is joining a prestigious immortal sect. Before he can even step inside, he slaps the faces of two powerful young masters. Yu Han should have no path forward — but in his past life he was a corporate warfare consultant who treated business rivals like failed hypotheses to be mercilessly eliminated. Trash talent? He'll prototype his own. Watch this blood-thirsty fatty sprint toward immortality, bringing algorithms to sword fights and treating cultivation like a hostile takeover.
Royal Road4.28· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+6

A Jaded Life

Tsaimath

B62/100
Successful gamer Samantha Jade Jacobs, formerly known as Titania, was feeling the bitter sting of betrayal — kicked from the team she founded and made great — when the gaming world was turned upside down. A new type of game was going into Beta, and Samantha would be one of the few testers. Little did anyone know that the road would be longer than anybody thought. Follow Samantha's journey into the world of Mundus and beyond on a trip nobody could have foreseen, not even the gods themselves.
Royal Road4.29· 1.2KGoodreads3.50· 2
Anti-heroGameLitLGBTQ+LitRPGSecondary WorldVRMMO

Brainpunch

Slifer274

B62/100
Do not kill. That's the first rule of being a superhero — and it's the first one she broke. Vivian gained a superpower that allows her to telekinetically apply ten pounds of force. Weak. Useless, some said, but she's determined to make it work. On her first night out, she found out how wrong everyone was as she reduced a man's brain to mush. Now, pitted against villains, shady corporations, college debt, and the government's brutal hero program, she has to find a way to become the hero she has always wished she could be — a hero who could have saved her.
Royal Road4.60· 921
Anti-heroCozyGrimdarkSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+2

Inexorable Chaos: God Games

Cliff Hanger

B62/100
Gods are, generally speaking, not fans of putting their fingers on the scale. After a few hundred millennia and enough prayers to fill a hollow Earth, they have learned the art of delegation — finding exceptional mortals with the potential to become Heroes, and putting them to work. Quasi Eludo has been a Hero. He did the whole "save the world" rigmarole across twenty-nine different worlds, came home, and realized it was never enough. He wanted to do it again. So he sold his services to the lazy, wanton Gods as a Hero for Hire. Now, after all that, he faces his most terrifying adversary yet: the Internal Revenue Service.
Royal Road4.66· 344
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

Aurora Scroll

Avery Light

B62/100
Isekaid into another world, the protagonist arrives armed with genre savviness and a determination to twist every cliché to his benefit. Cockroach villains? Dealt with before they become a problem. Trash young masters? Avoided and handled quietly. Damsels in distress? Not his responsibility. A power fantasy built around a hardcore internet citizen who knows every trope in the book — and uses that knowledge to carve a path from weak to unstoppably strong.
Royal Road4.22· 1.2KGoodreads3.60· 5
Anti-heroComedyCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Law of Shadows

Andur

B61/100
Mercenaries are causing trouble in the city — hunting someone, whatever the cost. It's not that the demon lord particularly cares about the lowly humans who died, but letting it slide would set a bad example. The hero would save the victims and protect them while the enemies keep coming. The demon lord has a simpler solution. They aren't calling him the demon lord for nothing.
Royal Road4.59· 908Goodreads4.42· 55
Anti-heroComedyCozyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+2

Aetherborn

Deadalus

B61/100
In a single night, Thorne loses everything — and discovers the truth about his heritage. He is an Aetherborn, tied to an ancient power that others would kill to control. Forced from his home, he must survive on the streets, navigating ruthless guilds and dangerous factions using only his cunning and his rapidly developing abilities. To reach his near-limitless potential, Thorne must master many masks and countless skills — Assassin, Hunter, Strategist, Mage — as his paths of power converge in a complex web of deceit. Revealing too much, or trusting the wrong person, could cost him everything.
Goodreads4.40· 364
Anti-heroCompetent MCLoner MCSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Realm of Monsters

Frostbird

B61/100
In a land ruled by vile monsters, where death is common and life is cruel, one outcast aspires to have it all. When misfortune drags the odd goblin Stryg from his forest home into the ruthless city of Hollow Shade, he must adapt to a world that only sees him as a dimwit savage. Stryg finds himself embroiled in a school of magic where an aristocrat's smile hides deceit and the simplest remark may lead to death threats. Yet nothing will stop him from pursuing his ideals of glory: power, honor, and food with salt. As he navigates the muddled grey waters of the Ebon Realm, he will learn that some monsters lurk everywhere.
Royal Road4.42· 1.5KGoodreads3.53· 319
Anti-heroGrimdarkNon-human MCSchoolSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Secrets

David Musk

B61/100
Mana artists rule the world, and the path to power is a well-kept secret — restricted to state-approved programs and schools. Akari Zeller will never be a mana artist. Not if society has its way. She's a Bronze with no money, no family, and no connections. But technology is advancing too. And to a skilled hacker like Akari, no secret is safe forever. The dark web holds the keys to true power, advancement, and her only chance of survival.
Royal Road4.52· 1KGoodreads3.67· 65
Anti-heroCultivationGenius MCHard MagicMysterySchool+2