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Becoming the Dark Lord

Mark Evenhart (aturato)

B61/100
The System integrated Earth into a multiverse of gods, monsters, and dungeons. Half of humanity answered the call. Some return stronger. Others never return. Thirteen years ago, Luke's mother entered the Tutorial and vanished. Now Luke faces the same trial — not for glory, but for answers. What should be a beginner's test becomes a death sentence when he falls into a forgotten dungeon floor where monsters are scarce, supplies are limited, and the only way out is a temple hanging over an abyss, guarded by a sleeping demon. Every puzzle kills. Every step risks his life. No buffs, no tricks — just a knife and the raw will to survive. When the light fades and the body breaks, Luke has only one choice: embrace the darkness and be reborn.
Royal Road4.08· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkLitRPG+5

Enora Online

Arlo Adams

B61/100
After learning he has just months to live, Gemini Fowler is granted one shot to cheat death when a billionaire game-developer offers to transfer his consciousness into a virtual realm. The catch: the only VR capable of receiving him is the unreleased game Enora Online, and Gemini must survive until level ten or be permanently wiped from the servers — and from existence. Welcome to Enora Online, where virtual is reality.
Goodreads4.35· 1.3K
Base BuildingLitRPGMilitaryStatsVRMMOWeak to Strong

Dungeon Core: "The Eternal Training Ground"

apinsig

B60/100
A newly awakened dungeon core must discover what it is and what it wants from life. It quickly learns that it is not normal, and begins to discover what it truly likes about this world. Battling its own instincts, it chooses to live the way it wants rather than the way it was made to. Set in a world with game elements woven in, this is a story about dungeon-making, self-determination, and finding identity in an unexpected existence.
Royal Road4.64· 653
Base BuildingDungeon CoreGameLitNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World

Blueprint for Immortality: a Crafting Xianxia

NoDragons

B60/100
Booker has woken up in the wrong body — one ruined by drug use, trapped in a dead-end life as the lowest possible apprentice in a massive sect. But that doesn't faze him. When he looks at the mountains, he sees a climb waiting. Better yet, he carries the assistance of a magical book that lets him craft any pill in existence perfectly — a skill alchemists would fight and die for. With his crafting skills, patient soul, and relentlessly upbeat attitude, Booker sets out to climb the first of many mountains. A slow-life xianxia with a focus on crafting and character-driven exploration of the genre's world and people.
Royal Road4.51· 988
AlchemyBase BuildingCozyCraftingCrafting PowerCultivation+6

His Soul Is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai

The Cabbage Preacher

B60/100
The land of Gemeinplatz is filled with fantastical creatures, adventurers, and heroes — most of them transported from Earth and blessed with cheat skills. On the surface, it's a perfect power-fantasy world where even the most ordinary person can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Yet beneath this "Gemeinplatzer Dream" is a disgusting truth. To satisfy the needs of heroes who can't function like normal humans, a lucrative slave trade crushes the dreams and ruins the lives of hundreds every day. Demi-humans labor in harems and mansions, treated as less than people by a ruling class with every incentive to keep the system going. In a world where the oppressors are overpowered and the odds are impossible, the hope for the enslaved has a name: John Brown. This time, he'll finish what he started.
Royal Road4.65· 421
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+4

Lone: The Wanderer

Lone

B60/100
A history teacher with familial trauma and a peculiar woman seemingly stuck out of time are thrust together into the weird and whimsical world of Altros — a planet with divides born of real superhuman strength, an odd ranking system, and natural species differences. Not ideal news for a Scottish history teacher whose ears have transformed into fox ones alongside nine new fluffy tails. Darren — or Lone, or whatever the strange system claims he's called — must figure out how to live with his new companion Sofia on a monster-infested island, alongside a self-proclaimed former immortal prone to bouts of extreme depression. At least there's an expansive LitRPG system to keep them entertained.
Royal Road4.52· 962
Base BuildingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

How I Built a Magic Empire

Konstantin Zubov

B60/100
Reborn from an advanced techno-magic world into one where magic is still in its infancy, the protagonist finds himself in the body of a young baron with a single village to his name — surrounded by monsters and hostile aristocrats on the fringes of a young, rapidly expanding empire. What he does have is knowledge far beyond what this world has dreamt of. Nothing will stop him from using it to build his own magic empire.
Goodreads4.29· 1.3K
Base BuildingCraftingGenius MCIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World

Homesteading in a fantasy world

apinsig

B60/100
A man finds himself transported to a different world and must survive through farming, crafting, building, and fighting. A story of familiar and new hardships as he carves out a life from scratch in an unfamiliar land.
Royal Road4.27· 1.1KGoodreads3.20· 5
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+1

Station Cores

Jonathan Brooks

B60/100
Milton Frederick was abducted by aliens and had his consciousness transplanted into a massive metal Station Core — but the ship exploded before reaching its destination, sending him hurtling through space to crash-land on an unknown primitive planet. With only a foul-mouthed nanite AI named ALANNA to guide him, Milton must come to terms with his new existence as a giant metal egg, defend his damaged outer shell from dangerous wildlife, and manage the hazardous radiation from his broken reactor. Building a dungeon underground and filling it with Combat Units works against beasts — but when people show up at his door, everything changes.
Goodreads4.14· 1.5K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreLitRPGSci-fiStats

Keeper of Totality

Infinityphoenix

B60/100
The death of the Hero reset the timeline — not what Lucy had intended when she made that last soul attack while dying. Returned to Earth, she attempts the obvious: use her knowledge of the future to dominate the System's five realms. Except things go wrong immediately. A Shard of Totality is now lodged in her eye, her Status is broken, and the Hero remembers everything — and has his own agenda involving her other identity, Adrianna Riftmire. She may be doomed. But as a master of soul magic and former Archmage, she is far from defenseless. This might just be her best chance to permanently defeat the Hero of Light, whose powers distort destiny to ensure his success.
Royal Road4.64· 598
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationIsekaiLitRPGMystery+5

My Children From Another World

_Glasses

C59/100
With souls and issues from a world very unlike his own, Rakta Velbrun must raise his children right, train their strange abilities, and keep the world from swallowing them whole. A fantasy tale of an ex-adventurer father caring for his beloved children in the wake of his wife's death. He must contend with noble politics, new enemies, old allies, and the realization that his children come from a world very unlike his own.
Royal Road4.65· 366
Base BuildingCozyIsekaiLGBTQ+Overpowered MCReincarnation+3

Tal, The Risen

A. Stargazer

C59/100
Tal is one of the elite undead soldiers of the Zozheim empire, resurrected from the corpse of an uncounted sacrifice. He does not know the man's name. He does not care. The body is his now. They say Tal exists to serve — and so he drowns and murders and pillages in the empire's name. But one thing is becoming clear: he exists. And soon, that fact will terrify his creators and their enemies alike.
Royal Road4.65· 364
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkHorror+8

An Arsonist and a Necromancer Walk into a Bar

FictionalAtlas

C59/100
Palmira is a young fire mage living on the streets, just one more orphan left in the wake of the Demon Wars. After a decade of saving precious few coins, she finally affords her own wizard's staff — only to discover it once belonged to the most dangerous necromancer who ever lived.
Royal Road4.65· 360
Base BuildingComedySecondary WorldSoft MagicSummoningWeak to Strong

Neophyte World Builder

ThePudding

C59/100
Nobody told him godhood needed an instruction manual. Reincarnated as the Administrator of a newborn universe, an ordinary man from Earth must design everything — physics, magic, plants, animals, and the rules that bind them — while ensuring the world generates the energy he needs to survive. The problem: every tweak he makes can cause unintended consequences. And sometimes, he has to live inside his own creation to experience the results of his choices.
Royal Road4.64· 517
Base BuildingDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World

First Fist

TJ Reynolds

C58/100
Once a soldier, now an outcast. Luca must overcome fate as he walks the path of a cultivator, seeking the Seventh Bridge to the Heavens. Few men served Mindea as faithfully as Luca during his years in the army. When every Elixir of Awakening failed to rouse his dormant core, he relinquished his dreams — only for even that to be torn away when his men collide with an unexpected fate. A monk from distant Shuya who wields all the elements at once forces Luca to question everything he knows about cultivation. Now exiled, he must gather allies, battle Mana Beasts, and ascend as quickly as possible — for enemies are already stirring in the distant reaches of Andaya.
Goodreads4.34· 1.1K
Base BuildingCultivationMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

How to Succeed in Monster Farming

Kenny King

C58/100
Nick was just your average overworked accountant — until he got isekai'd and then immediately rejected for lacking hero potential. Instead of a prophecy or a sword, he's given a rundown farm in a cursed wasteland where seventeen previous owners died horribly. Nick isn't as helpless as he looks. With mysterious strength, an eye for optimization, and a knack for flipping curses into perks, he starts rebuilding Blackthorn Farm from the ground up — monster livestock, magical crops, and an eclectic crew including a former elven slave turned manager, killer birds, and a shape-shifting dragon named Petunia. As his power grows, the farm draws attention from forces that might not be entirely mortal.
Goodreads4.29· 1.2K
Base BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGMerchantMonster Taming+2

Museum Core

Jakob H. Greif

C58/100
A visit to London's Natural History Museum became a horror show when magic flooded Earth. Now Thomas is entombed there as a Dungeon Core, with only the creatures on display available as minions. Across the globe, patches of land have been replaced by alien environments full of monsters from myth and nightmare — leviathans in the deep, dragons in the skies, and shadows that kill. Can Thomas turn a former place of learning into a deathtrap capable of withstanding the forces of the outside world, or will he fall victim to the bottomless appetites of supernatural beasts?
Goodreads4.39· 284
Base BuildingDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MCSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

Netherwitch

Xylix

C58/100
When Eric Swallow received his first quest from the System, he certainly did not expect to end up in the netherworld — or to become a witch called Sylvia. Now stuck as a girl, she must adapt as a student of the Starlight Nether Witch Academy. But she will not remain there for long. The System's creator has a scheme that will inevitably break the post-war peace that followed Ragnarok, and as a bearer of the System, Sylvia will have no choice but to dive into Hell's darkest corners and its highest society — all while building a safe place for herself and the "gamers" who follow. Features politics, economics, kingdom building, soul cultivation, a complex magic system, and a slow-burn romance.
Royal Road4.58· 829
Base BuildingCultivationLGBTQ+LitRPGSchoolSecondary World+2

Savant Barbarian

HideousGrain

C58/100
Among Hakon's people, strength is everything — weakness means death. When he finally completes the Rite, he expects at least a modest Ancient Power. Instead he awakens something his tribe scorns: a Power of the Mind called Enhanced Comprehension. To those who value brute force, Hakon is nothing. But he sees what they cannot — patterns, weaknesses, possibilities. As tribes stir and ancient grudges reignite, whispers spread of a prophesied Warlord born from the blood of his enemies. Hakon decides to become that man, claim his father's seat as chieftain, and unite the tribes — but first he must survive long enough to master his Power.
Royal Road4.64· 441
Base BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Monstar Saga

Eden Redd

C58/100
Unable to fully function in society after a life-changing accident, Kevin spends his time in virtual worlds chasing away reality. When the beta test for a new virtual MMO called Monstar Saga goes live — where players can be any fantasy race except human — Kevin joins to carve out a new destiny. What Kevin soon learns is that Monstar Saga is not just a game. He will fall into a new life where monsters live, darker threats lurk just beyond the veil, and the world of Voldor has stakes far more real than he expected.
Goodreads4.39· 282
Base BuildingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldVRMMO