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Trials of the Jötunn

Thraksius

F11/100
It's been over 300 years since every human and supernatural race on Earth found themselves transported to Floor Zero of the Tower. The population has fallen from 8.2 billion to just under 20 million. Anyone under sixteen must attend the Academy of Beginnings, a place designed to prepare them for the climb and uncover why the System brought them here. The highest known completed floor is Floor 34. Deacon Surtr Hayes stands on the cusp of graduating from the Academy, ready to claim his Tier 1 Class and ascend the Tower. Then he wakes up hours before receiving his Class and discovers that his father is alive — and that he isn't even human. A single revelation unravels everything he thought he knew, leaving him with one burning question: what is a Jötunn?
Royal Road4.34· 199
Anti-heroBase BuildingCraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+12

The Great Filter

Russell Wilbinski

F11/100
The apocalypse arrived exactly as predicted — global nuclear exchange. What no one foresaw was the message appearing before every living soul moments before impact: humanity's entire world is a species simulation, and after more than a million failed resets, The Administrators are done. No more resets. Instead, the irradiated ruins will be converted into a game for their entertainment. But one survivor has a family to protect — and if the universe wants a fight, he'll give it one.
Goodreads3.85· 351
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiSystem Apocalypse

The Kindest Vampire: The Chambers of Attrition

DwayneDT

F11/100
Dr. Harold Blackstone spent a quiet life helping others and their pets. He lived a good life, died peacefully, and should have moved on. Thanks to an afterlife clerical error, he's been turned into a vampire and dropped into a dangerous, game-ruled world with powers he never asked for and a System that's just trying to help. All Harry wanted was to avoid hurting anyone. Unfortunately, his new life includes manipulative sorcerers, mysterious allies, and a dungeon no one has returned from. Armed with dry wit, old-fashioned decency, and a disturbingly efficient healing ability, Harry is determined to stay kind — even when the world keeps treating him like a monster.
Royal Road4.26· 232
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitHorrorIsekai+3

Relative Reality: A Time Mage LitRPG

Synonymoose

F11/100
Rowan goes to sleep in his apartment and wakes in a redwood forest wearing frog pyjamas, holding a sphere packed with the power of reality. He has no idea how he got there. Finding his way to civilisation, he discovers this is not his planet — a world with giant ants, a city tearing itself apart, and a feathered family he didn't ask for. His background as an architect proves only marginally useful when the power he carries can bend reality itself. With the world intent on destroying itself, Rowan must learn to use his strange new abilities before it's too late.
Royal Road4.35· 138
Hard MagicIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Samurai Chef

Ronin Writes

F11/100
An outworlder with two cores, a Michelin star, and a new reality separating him from everything he has worked for. After a lifetime of grueling discipline, reaching fifth Dan, and finally turning his solo shop into New York's most recent Michelin-starred restaurant, Ren was ready to reap the rewards. Then he fell into a back-alley portal. Now stuck in Valdoris — a completely foreign reality featuring sprawling cities, near-divine beings, mana planes, and enough magical bureaucracy to drive a person insane — he must fight, cook, and butcher hordes of dark monsters to survive. Armed with two newly awakened cores, the ability to cook divine boons, and godlike sword powers, his journey is singular: do whatever it takes to find a way back home.
Royal Road4.35· 131
Competent MCCraftingIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

Reborn as a Fantasy General

J. S. Boyd

F11/100
Marcus Graham has been handed a raw deal. As a student of military history, he wants nothing more than to help the world learn from human conflict — but his increasingly hostile college is blocking his lectures and threatening to shut down his course entirely. There is, however, another world. A world of fantasy races locked in constant strife, on the brink of almost total annihilation, where the common people have nearly given up hope. Marcus, with his extensive knowledge of battlefield strategy, might just be the man to save them. Small- and large-scale battles, political intrigue between elves, trolls, orcs, lizardmen, and ratlings — each with their own kingdoms and motivations — and a protagonist whose tactical mind is his greatest weapon.
Royal Road3.92· 240
Base BuildingGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryMysterySecondary World

DarkRE: Shadows of Nekrom

SOMBRAcorpDT

F10/100
Tristessa Irandell is a young woman with no memories of her past, summoned into the world of Nekrom without explanation — and immediately killed. But Death is not the end for her. The mysterious God of Chaos granted her a unique Divine ability: [Death and Resurrection], capable of bending the fabric of space and time to bring her back to life. Now every death, every inch of pain, every scrap of information carries forward into the next loop. A never-ending spiral of fear, violence, and divine power. A path Tristessa must traverse to uncover the dark truths behind her lost memories and the tragedies bringing Nekrom to the brink of collapse — under the hands of the terrible Shadow Queen.
Royal Road4.35· 105
GrimdarkHorrorIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGPost-apocalyptic+7

Mysteries of Sacra

Robert Wolf

F10/100
One moment, Kai was an ordinary teenager on Earth. The next, he is torn into Sacra — a savage realm ruled by spirit beasts, ancient mana, and fallen gods. Alone, untrained, and relentlessly hunted, his only goal is survival. When he saves a dying beast and kills a deadly predator, everything changes. He discovers a terrifying power: the ability to absorb the souls of his enemies and claim their skills as his own. Each soul strengthens him, but also warps him, as their memories claw at his mind and threaten to consume what is left of the boy he once was. With companions Umbra and Scry as his anchors, Kai must decide who he wants to be — and what he is willing to sacrifice — to escape Sacra and return home.
Royal Road4.34· 135
CultivationIsekaiMonster TamingOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1

World of Ga'em

Dhayaa Anbajagane

F10/100
Zoran wakes up in a forest with only his name and a mouthful of blood. He has no memory of who he is or how he got there — only strange screens floating in front of him and an instinct to search for the truth. What he did not expect was for his search to ignite something that was never meant to happen. Cities will burn and towers will fall. Chaos will descend and ravage the earth. The darkness is coming, and the world will tremble in its wake.
Goodreads3.95· 340
GrimdarkLitRPGMysterySecondary WorldSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Chained Lord

Octagonal Corgi (J.T. Revell)

F10/100
No sane person would choose Apocalypse Difficulty. For Rowan, it was his only option. Forced into the hardest possible Tutorial, he finds himself poisoned and trapped in caves deep below the surface. Every waking second is a fight for survival, clawing toward safety one kill at a time. Deep in the caves, he stumbles upon a set of ancient chains that grant him a class — not enough to make things easy, but possibly enough to survive. For Rowan, Apocalypse Difficulty isn't just a source of death and fear. It's an opportunity to break free from his old life and seize real power.
Royal Road4.32· 187
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+2

Towers & Rifts

Nephilim Night

F10/100
Viktor spent centuries cultivating power in his world before being betrayed and killed. His soul lingered for decades—until a god took pity and granted him a place in the eternal divine game known as Towers and Rifts. Reincarnated in a new body with none of his old strength, only his knowledge intact, Viktor starts from the bottom on the day a Tower spawns and a System activates for everyone. He's been at the top before. Nothing will stop him from getting back there.
Goodreads3.57· 350
CultivationLitRPGReincarnationStatsSystem ApocalypseTower Climbing+1

Climbing the Ranks

Tao Wong

F10/100
When the Towers arrived without warning, chaos ensued. Decades later, the enchantments and mana cores harvested from within them power the most advanced technologies in the world. For Arthur Chua, climbing Malaysia's Beginner Tower is the only escape available to someone without money or connections—he's not looking to be a hero, just a survivor. Fate has other plans. The reason for the Towers' arrival will finally be revealed, and humanity will face another seismic shift—if Arthur can live long enough to see it.
Goodreads3.89· 342
Base BuildingCultivationLitRPGStatsSystem ApocalypseTower Climbing+1

Ethria

Aaron Holloway

F10/100
Given a choice between a risky route home and a safer path through a world called Ethria, Daniel "Rayid" Tear enters Ethria. It operates like the video games he loves — power found in many forms, light and dark — but its true purpose is unknown even to most of its inhabitants. Taking the long road home, Rayid chooses to help a persecuted people whose story mirrors his pioneer ancestors. But gods are changing, nations are shifting, and an ancient evil stirs at the base of the Sawtooth Mountains. What can one under-leveled foreign wizard do?
Goodreads4.01· 307
Class SystemIsekaiSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

The Glass Mage: An Artisanal Progression Fantasy

Andrew B. Salmon

F10/100
Magical glassblower Nuri Shahi is pursuing the pinnacle of his craft. His journey to create a masterpiece of glass detours into exploring magic, delving treacherous Rifts, and dragging his friends into crazy schemes — but he won't let life get him down. Impulsive and resourceful, Nuri treads the fine line between madman and visionary, determined to prove that Glassmaker is a viable path to becoming a superior Mage.
Royal Road4.29· 219
Competent MCCozyCraftingDungeon CrawlingHard MagicSchool+3

Kingdom of Iron: Tyrant's Fall

WanderingLeaf

F10/100
They say a good man cannot make a good king — but what if he isn't given a choice? Matthew Irons, a night security guard with two degrees and a dead-end life, stops a murder by force and is dragged onto the throne of a kingdom in another world. It's no fairy tale: he'll be ruling over would-be warlords, traitors, and slavers. The threats from his supposed allies are bad enough without the invasions, assassins, and — worst of all — bad city planning. Still, even as he fights to survive in a world full of danger, Matt is determined to drag his new kingdom into a new age, one where kings and despots are no longer needed — no matter who he has to fight to make it happen.
Royal Road4.12· 229
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCIsekaiMilitarySecondary World

Wastrel Heir of Velmoria: A Regressor Magic School Adventure

Daoist Enigma

F10/100
The kingdom's last defender had one chance to send his memories back in time. He chose wrong. The Sword Warden of Cravess watched his knights burn alive as Black Mana consumed his lands. With his dying breath, he passed his memories sixteen years into the past — not to himself, but to his best friend Lucan Velmoria, a genius who'd accomplished legendary feats before dying to save the Warden's life. Except that genius never existed. The real Lucan is an outcast drowning in wine, heir to a dukedom he never wanted, with a Shadow Mana affinity no one has ever advanced past Second-Circle. Now, with his half-sister marked for assassination, his mother trapped in endless sleep, and memories of techniques he has no idea how his future self mastered, he must figure out the impossible — and rewrite the ending.
Royal Road4.32· 170
Genius MCHard MagicRegressionSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong+1

Cultivation Struggles of a Lowly Fox

Ezy - Dreams Abyss

F10/100
An unfortunate man finds himself stranded in a hostile forest with a system that has turned his gender upside down. Transformed into a beast, he must scavenge and survive while navigating a Cultivation Society that either kills monsters like him or seeks to collar them as contracted pets. As his system pushes him toward evolving into a divine beast — or possibly back into a human — he must find his place in a world that sees him as property. A slow-paced xianxia cultivation story with gender-bending and yuri romance elements, focused on a non-human protagonist carving out a life in an unfamiliar world.
Royal Road4.24· 222
CultivationHaremIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGNon-human MC+4

The Goth and Her Knight

aadyhatopaz

F10/100
After losing a 1v1 against an empty-beer-bottle-wielding drunk, I transmigrated into the body of a girl who seemed to have nothing going for her. Before I could have a full-blown meltdown, a mysterious ability called the Plus Menu appeared in my mind's eye, granting me limitless potential. Suddenly, finding a purpose in this completely alien world full of darkness became a lot more interesting and feasible.
Royal Road4.32· 161
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkHorrorIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPG+7

Eat Them All

Of Rantings and Ramblings

F10/100
Reggie was not an important person — quite the opposite. He was the town lunatic, hated by all and less than an afterthought to the elves ruling over his people. That changed when he was killed to keep a secret, and his death didn't stick. Returning from the grave as a vampire, he scrambles to stay fed and alive while making sense of his new place in the world. But the fear of dying again quickly becomes secondary. It will take all of Reggie's will to maintain his humanity in a world that already thinks he's lost it.
Royal Road4.32· 157
Anti-heroBase BuildingGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

A Pioneer's Blood

Steve Rock

F10/100
The Galaxy has finally learned peace. The Akaadi Imperium and Libera Coalition have turned to the Frontier to replenish their resources — and for that, they need Pioneers: people dropped into remote, inhospitable worlds to hunt for valuable salvage, lost technologies, and unique lifeforms at grave peril. Daniel Hardgrave had always been warned never to become a Pioneer. He listened — until he learned he had a little sister to take care of. Wanting to fund her education, he enlisted, and unknowingly threw himself into the maw of the Apocalypse. Old powers are gathering, threatening everything Hardgrave has ever known. But his timely discovery of an ancient technology could change all of that.
Royal Road4.31· 181
Competent MCLitRPGMilitaryOlder MCOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+1