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A Draconic Rebirth

Undercover_Dragon1

B61/100
A tale of reincarnation with an unexpected twist. The protagonist is reborn not as a human, but as a dragon. Stripped of everything familiar from his former life, he finds himself in a world unlike anything he has ever known. To survive, he must adapt, evolve, and carve out a place for himself in this strange new realm.
Royal Road4.66· 312
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+6

The First Rule of a Nobleman

Alexander Gerda

B61/100
Silvian Crass had his own space fleet, the best reputation in the world, and then a death sentence. When the chance to take a new life came, he seized it — choosing a new body and a new world: a young nobleman in the Russian Empire. He will have to start biting throats again. Prove he belongs at the top. But fate gave him another go, and he does not plan to waste it.
Goodreads4.39· 498
Anti-heroCompetent MCIsekaiOlder MCReincarnation

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

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

Greg Veder vs The World

zfighter18

B61/100
Greg Veder knows life's not a game — especially not in Brockton Bay. A city crawling with villains, capes, and certain death for idiots who play hero. But when he wakes up with a gamer system, complete with stats, quests, and skill trees, he figures: screw it. Maybe life IS a game. Leveling up is easy. Surviving Brockton Bay? That's the real endgame. (A Worm / The Gamer AU)
Royal Road4.43· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyGameLitLitRPGStatsSuperpowers+1

Surprisingly Enough(NOT), Common Sense Is Overpowered in Cliché Cultivation World

PlumBlossom0_0

B60/100
Ning finds himself reborn in the world of cultivation. As he embarks on this new life, he gradually becomes aware that this realm revolves around a select few "protagonists" who endure underestimation and humiliation, only to rise and retaliate following the predictable patterns of clichéd cultivation novels. Realizing he is an "extra" — freed from the constraints of these clichéd rules — Ning resolves to chart his own path towards immortality, steering clear of predictable tropes and stereotypes. He uses his sharp intellect and vast knowledge to ascend to the pinnacle of the cultivation world, defying conventions and outsmartting adversaries along the way.
Royal Road4.64· 674
Anti-heroComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

Afterlife 2.0

QuickDuckling

B60/100
The gods have scrapped eternal torment in favor of something new: Eternia, a brutal, glitch-riddled wilderness where fresh souls are dumped with little hope of survival. Fail here, and it's back to classic hell as a consolation prize. Enter Ellie, who dies just in time to beta-test the gods' twisted new system. Utterly unprepared, she's tossed into a world where everything seems out to kill her — or glitch out before she can figure out what it's supposed to do. Armed with nothing but her wits and a reluctant sense of humour, Ellie must navigate hostile terrain, outwit aggressive wildlife, and find some purpose in this cosmic mess. In a world designed for divine entertainment where the rules are still being written, anything could — and probably will — happen.
Royal Road4.65· 439
Anti-heroComedyCraftingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+3

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

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

Summon Imp!

Oskatat

B60/100
Travel with a newly born demon as he grows and learns — in his own world and in every other world he gets summoned to. Usually to die or kill for others in strange and exciting places, though it's never certain what the next summons will bring. With each new world comes a new story, new experiences, and new lessons. He will work hard to become stronger, to be useful, and hopefully survive that way. A coming-of-age story — but different.
Royal Road4.61· 837Goodreads3.67· 3
Anti-heroCozyNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft MagicTransmigration+1

Tales From the Terran Republic

SlightlyAmusing

B60/100
It's the thirty-second century, and humanity is now part of a galactic civilization spanning hundreds of worlds. Savaged by natural disaster and centuries of war, humanity has fractured into several separate populations — all of which loathe each other. This is a gritty, drama-driven story that swings between action, dark comedy, and horror. There are no good guys here — it's less "good versus evil" and more "bad people doing bad things to worse people." Pick your favorite rogue, kick back, and enjoy the show.
Royal Road4.65· 387
Anti-heroComedyGrimdarkMilitarySci-fiVillain MC

Pilgrim

Harmon Cooper

C59/100
Danzen Ravja was abandoned at birth and raised by the Diyu Brotherhood to be an assassin. After one last disastrous job, he walks away and retreats to remote Genshin Valley, hoping to disappear in a small village and rebuild an old monastery. But his past follows him. His former teacher has put a contract on his life, and every assassin in the kingdom is hunting him. Worse, Danzen carries a dark secret: he is half-demon, and any spilled blood unleashes a horde of demons that will slaughter everyone around him.
Goodreads4.30· 1.3K
Anti-heroCultivationGrimdarkSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Superworld

Benjamin Keyworth

C59/100
Matt Callaghan is in trouble. In a world where everyone has superpowers, he's got none, and has spent five years faking clairvoyance to avoid getting caught. When a desperate bluff backfires, he'll need every ounce of cunning and juvenile delinquency to stay alive. Jane Walker is trouble. In a world where everyone is powerful, Jane stands alone and apart, hated for her ability to copy abilities and atrocities far beyond her control. A chance encounter sends her hurtling toward her lifelong dream — or a violent, painful death. Unbeknownst to both, their paths are intertwined, and an unseen force draws them toward a secret whose existence threatens not just their lives, but the fate of the entire world.
Royal Road4.52· 932Goodreads4.09· 248
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

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

Medium Meld: Revised Edition (Naruto/Gamer, OC)

Elbowsnapper

C59/100
Sora wakes up on a beach, very far from home. Determined to avoid a fate worse than death, he sets out to save the world — armed with a complete lack of chakra, a strange system driving his growth, and his own sparkling personality.
Royal Road4.65· 355
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGTransmigration

Unfathomable Power for the Low, Low Price of Someone Else's Soul

RaReason

C59/100
Colm Avery is a warlock — you know, the "sell your soul for unlimited power" kind. Except he never sells his own soul. Instead he trades the souls of murderers, those already destined for hell, in exchange for hellish gifts. It's hard work, and after six years of 18-hour days he finally has a windfall that lets him take a vacation. A cruise, specifically. Unfortunately, disaster after disaster strikes: food poisoning, bad weather, and pirates. Colm will have to use his magic and his gifts to survive — and to unravel the plot behind all these seemingly unrelated catastrophes. This cruise to Hawaii turned out to be more than he bargained for.
Royal Road4.64· 534
Anti-heroHorrorMysterySecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban Fantasy

Kin of Jörmungandr

Joroboros

C59/100
A serpent at the top of the food chain, master at threading through the rifts of distorted space, rules its territory — until something beyond comprehension destroys everything it has claimed. With sapience now forced into its mind, the serpent faces problems it was never equipped to handle. With no territory left and the distorted caverns collapsing around it, the only option is to search for an escape. A progression fantasy xenofiction following an actual monster gaining sapience — not a human reincarnating — exploring what it truly means to grow when you are, by all definitions, monstrous.
Royal Road4.66· 203
Anti-heroNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

MADMAN APOCALYPSE

Dosei

C59/100
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

Bloodstained Blade

DWinchester

C58/100
When the sword awakens, it has slept so long that it has forgotten everything but hunger. It is a weapon made to feast on death and blood — the more bodies it leaves in its wake, the stronger it gets. Bloodstained Blade is a fantasy GameLit where the main character is the blade itself, not the person wielding it. Expect the wielder to die and be replaced as the Ebon Blade pursues its own goals, no matter the cost.
Royal Road4.61· 788
Anti-heroGameLitGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryMystery+4

Magical Girl Mafia

Nihilea

C58/100
Becoming a magical girl should have been the happiest day of her life. Bleeding out alone on the pavement, she couldn't help but disagree. The contract saved her — but closure wasn't part of the deal. How could she rest easy after a hero abandoned her to die? She wants answers, and if that means playing for the villains, so be it.
Royal Road4.65· 304
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGPost-apocalypticSuperpowersUrban Fantasy