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Dungeons & Deliveries

SagaScribe

B63/100
In post-System Toronto, Alex doesn't slay monsters to get by — he delivers pizza. Broke and rejected by both the Adventurer's Guild and the Courier Guild, with nothing but a crumbly resume, he takes the only job left in town: delivery boy for Nino's Pizza, a Lich Pizzeria run by a married couple literally bound to the building. He must deliver enchanted pizza to Dungeon Bosses in sixty minutes or less, or suffer the wrath of both the Bosses and the old couple. With nothing but a seemingly useless ability, Alex must stay alive, deal with psychotic exes, and pray for loot in place of tips.
Royal Road4.65· 542
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGPost-apocalyptic+3

World of Magic

Levi Werner

B62/100
Paralyzed in a workplace accident, Lox's life is looking bleak — he cannot even use the hardware that would let him play the full-immersion games everyone else enjoys. Then a company called New Universal Frontiers makes him an offer: access to their technology despite his injuries, in exchange for one condition — he can never leave the game. Once inside, Lox quickly realizes this is far more than a game. Given a class everyone considers useless due to its inherent dangers, he endures a long and painful series of trials as he masters his magical abilities. As he explores the depths of the game's magic system, he discovers there is far more going on than anyone ever expected.
Goodreads4.23· 1.6K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingHard MagicVRMMOWeak to Strong

The Elder Lands

B. Salem

B62/100
Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful aspects of his responsibilities — but most important of all, he must find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions. In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters that hunger to climb into the world of man, it's difficult to be a noble and dangerous to be a warrior. Lucan must navigate a maze of mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive and, perhaps someday, thrive. An action-adventure kingdom-building LitRPG focused on individual-level progression — no territory status sheets, and the RPG elements stay grounded rather than overwhelming the story.
Royal Road4.60· 937
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMilitary+1

Axiom of Infinity: Souleater

TSeris

B62/100
"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. What then are we to think of it when the gods themselves steal our ideas on how the universe should work?" Axiom of Infinity follows several travelers from Earth as they attempt to make new lives in a world where RPG mechanics are as innate as the laws of physics, dungeons lurk everywhere, and the gods themselves appear to be playing a very different game — one with unknown stakes and strange alliances. Blessed by two gods and cursed by a third, one man finds himself at the center of their machinations. The unsuspecting natives of this world are about to learn to live alongside a bunch of min-maxing, power-gaming, spreadsheet-wielding gamers who do what they do best: break things.
Royal Road4.65· 483
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiLGBTQ++5

Savage Dominion

G.D. Penman, Luke Chmilenko

B62/100
Maulkin didn't know dying would mean a new eternity of dungeon delving, monster slaying, and glory hunting. Reborn in the wild world of Amaranth, he finds himself in a hulking demi-human body with a sword of a size to match. Marked as an Eternal — a fledgling immortal of boundless potential — Maulkin soon discovers he's been given a mission by the elder pantheon of this new realm: grow stronger, ascend to godhood, and spread chaos in their name. Oh, and fend off that inbound apocalypse, if he can find the time.
Goodreads4.21· 1.6K
ComedyDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+1

An Unbound Soul

Cathfach

B61/100
When Peter's too-close encounter with a truck sends him to another world, he lands in what seems like a perfect fantasy land — magic, elves, a hyperactive catgirl neighbor, and a System for earning skills and leveling up. But the world is almost suspiciously nice. Set a few hundred years after the events of A Lonely Dungeon, this is a slow-paced slice-of-life story about an Earthling falling into a rebuilt civilization and the struggles both he and the world's self-proclaimed protector face in trying to understand each other.
Royal Road4.40· 1.1K
CozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+2

Arcane Academy

A.P. Gore, Patricia Jones

B61/100
For two centuries, Daren Morin ruled as the Evil Lord through terror and cunning. Betrayal ended his reign — and now he wakes up eighteen years old again, stripped of power and trapped in a magic academy crawling with his old enemies, who mock him with the nickname 'Moron.' This time he's weaker. This time they think he's no threat. They're wrong. Daren remembers every secret, every spell, every betrayal — and he's going to use it all to survive, rise, and make them regret not finishing the job.
Goodreads4.22· 1.5K
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingGenius MCReincarnationSchoolVillain MC

Tower of Jack

Sean Loomer

B61/100
Jack Atlas, self-proclaimed 'World's Best Assassin', had a simple plan: retire in style and marry the girl of his dreams. Then he gets placed in The Tower — a divine deathtrap where gods pit their creations against each other for the ultimate prize. The catch? If you lose, your chances of finding a decent bar in oblivion are slim. Jack soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Black Centipede, a notorious assassin cult with a charming recruitment policy: join or they'll murder everyone he loves. If anyone's crazy enough to not just survive but win against The Tower, it's Jack.
pf7.0· 1Goodreads4.39· 433
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingLitRPGTower Climbing

The Apocalypse is a Side Quest

Liam Lawless

B60/100
Sometimes the best way to save the world is to ignore it completely. When the apocalypse hits, Nathan Lee accidentally dumps all his rare skill points into fishing. Humanity has been ripped from Earth and dropped into a colossal multidimensional dungeon — a nine-realm gauntlet straight out of a nightmare. Legends with sword and fireball are fighting to carve a path home. Nathan is busy maxing out his ability to sit quietly in a boat. Too bad the universe has other plans. On his first day in the tutorial, he accidentally deletes a monster from reality via a system bug, feeds a snail radishes and gets a rare skill, and somehow starts taking down ogres with his fishing rod. It turns out side quests and weak classes are more powerful than anyone expected.
Goodreads4.38· 607
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGSkill Collection+2

Archmage from Another World: Gaining Administrator Access

Etheric

B60/100
Transported into a world where just about anyone can receive the title of Mage, Morgana is baffled and outraged. She spent twenty-two years studying spell formulae and memorizing the forty-three Primary Astolian Paradigms — and here, power is just handed out? She doesn't know how she arrived, why everyone is so ignorant of magic's fundamentals, or what this strange System is. But she intends to find out. Dungeons, artifacts, classes, skills, and spells all seem to have been built using a language only Morgana recognizes — and hidden within those mechanisms may be something far bigger than arcane knowledge alone.
Royal Road4.57· 920
CozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitHard MagicIsekaiLitRPG+2

Apocalypse Knights

DB King

B60/100
Maximo Strident, war veteran and local law enforcement officer, never wanted to enter the dungeon. Promises of wealth beyond imagination convinced him. Without a Knight's magical equipment or spells, Max relies on the formidable sword forms he learned at the Blade Academy — more than enough for low-level monsters, but far short of what the dungeon demands. When something goes horribly wrong inside, Max meets the legendary hero Artur Brightblade, who grants him something he never dreamed of: a unique class and the ability to become a Knight. Armed with new powers, Maximo must learn to cast spells, work within a cohort, and craft worthy wargear — or the apocalypse will destroy everything he loves.
Goodreads4.37· 796
Class SystemCraftingDungeon CrawlingSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Limitless Path

DarkForsaken

B60/100
One day the Limitless Path sweeps up Earth into its established structure. Magic and beasts flood the world, making even a trip down the street a potentially dangerous endeavor. Elizabeth "Beth" Bell seizes the opportunity, choosing a path of battles and exploration. She fights her way through countless dungeons and trials, masters a wide variety of skills and abilities, and pushes herself to the very limit of what is possible — and beyond.
Royal Road4.46· 1KGoodreads3.00· 1
Dungeon CrawlingGoreLitRPGSci-fiSkill CollectionSystem Apocalypse+2

Ascension of Chaos

WolfShine

B60/100
Ashley wakes up at the start of a System tutorial with no memories — only basic common knowledge and the blood of a primordial flowing through her veins. Her Skill Tree has just a single ability: to assimilate the skill trees of those she kills. As a Primordial System integrates every human on the planet, Gates open across the world and monsters pour out of broken domains. Ashley must navigate an apocalypse she knows nothing about, growing stronger only by assimilating the skills of the fallen — all while slowly recovering the emotions and memories she's lost.
Royal Road4.46· 1K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+3

Tyrants of Earth

Purveilor

C59/100
All Ryan ever wanted was to become an adventurer — quests, skills, quirky teammates, and posting exploits on Realmnet. Instead he's broke, working at a Manaburger, and System slots cost more than his paycheck times ten thousand. Then he gets shot. Then the Trial System chooses him. What follows is a cascade of catastrophes: clashing with authority figures, stabbing a sword prodigy in a deathmatch, and getting blacklisted from the Adventurer's Guild before he's even started. Suddenly Ryan is no longer just a fry cook — he's a rare Destined, tasked with figuring out how to save not one, but two worlds. In a world ruled by Tyrants, Ryan must navigate between Earth and The Realm, where the line between villain and hero adventurer is mostly just attitude.
Royal Road4.58· 870
Anti-heroComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+4

Gravity and Divinity System

Hunter Mythos

C59/100
Jay Luckrun has many interests: street dancing, anime, action movies, comedy, and dashing across rooftops. But after a failed attempt to talk to his crush at her birthday party, he adds dungeon crawling to the list — because the Apocalypse has arrived. A divine creature chooses Jay to become a Champion, granting him a leveling System, stats, Skills, access to dungeon dimensions, and gravity powers that can alter reality. The downside: global assassins want Jay and other Champions dead, and monsters are hungry to break free from their dungeons and raze his world.
Goodreads4.36· 841
ComedyDungeon CrawlingHard MagicLitRPGOverpowered MCStats+2

Path of the Last Champion

TheWanderingWind

C59/100
Nar was born in darkness and was meant to die there — a slave, shackled by a sin long forgotten, doomed to a life beneath the surface. His eyes were never meant to see the Infinite Nexus or the wonders of the Endless Labyrinth. He was never destined for power, a class, or the System. But he made the choice few sinners dare: to Climb. Now he must forge a hybrid tank/DPS class, conceal a secret that could destroy his party, and achieve the impossible to save his dying father. With every step toward the City Without End, Nar unknowingly draws to a close a play that has spanned eternities — and no one is expecting him.
Royal Road4.59· 855
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMystery+4

Deeper Darker

mooderino

C59/100
Set in the far future, humanity has reached the stars — only to find it is not the first to do so. A long-dead alien race has left behind ancient cities, abandoned starships, temples, and fortified bunkers filled with artefacts so advanced they feel more like magic than technology. Powerful enough for a single person to dominate a star system, these relics are also fiercely defended by bewildering security measures. Those who are compatible with the alien technology can augment themselves to face the increasingly extreme protocols in the depths of the ruins — and by doing so, attain greater and greater power. The rewards are immense, but only those willing to go further and risk more will uncover the greatest secrets of a civilisation that vanished long before the first human walked upright.
Royal Road4.55· 910
ComedyCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingHard MagicSci-fiStats

Monarch

Extra27

C58/100
Rayne was a bastard — the only son of the fallen Duke Frayser, cast aside to die in an army that hated him for being alive. Then a soul from Earth took over his body. With the common class of a Soldier, a Lineage Quest to complete, and a unique trait for stealing skills, he must grow strong enough to survive a gritty world. Fighting goblins, trolls, and necromancers, he works to earn reputation and prestige in a kingdom that branded his bloodline as traitors — with kingdom building waiting in later volumes.
Royal Road4.46· 971
Base BuildingCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitary+3

MADMAN APOCALYPSE

Dosei

C58/100
The whole world has gone mad, so it's a good thing that Gambit is already insane. Locked away in a padded room, Gambit watches as the world goes to hell — blood rains from the sky, screams echo through the city, and monsters tear through reality. The world transforms overnight into the GREAT GAME: an apocalyptic battleground where monsters hunt, dungeons materialize, and the System destroys everything humanity once knew, all for the entertainment of an unseen audience. Armed with nothing but his fists, a talking plushie named Panda, and a glitched character Class that shouldn't exist, Gambit fights his way out of the asylum. But his existence triggers alerts across the GREAT GAME, drawing the attention of its agents who hunt players that don't follow the rules. In a world where insanity transforms humans into the very monsters they fear, Gambit's fractured mind becomes his deadliest weapon.
Royal Road4.60· 822
Anti-heroComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitHorrorLitRPG+3

Greyblood

Daniel Prince

C58/100
Lugor is a Half-Orc, and in his world, that's a very dangerous thing to be. He dreams of becoming an Adventurer, slaying monsters and delving into dungeons — but one cut to his skin could reveal his secret. He's forced to spend his days in his small village, keeping his head down. When a monster attack turns his world upside down, Lugor seeks training at the Adventurer Academy, where he must contend against an arrogant mage determined to see him fail. With a steadfast Dwarven Elementalist and a sarcastic Dark-Elf Necromancer at his side, Lugor sets out to prove that being Half-Orc doesn't mean he can't be a hero.
Goodreads4.22· 1.3K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCSchoolStatsWeak to Strong