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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

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· 909Goodreads4.42· 55
Anti-heroComedyCozyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+2

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.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.52· 1KGoodreads3.67· 65
Anti-heroCultivationGenius MCHard MagicMysterySchool+2

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

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· 602
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationIsekaiLitRPGMystery+5

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· 389
Anti-heroComedyGrimdarkMilitarySci-fiVillain MC

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

RaReason

B60/100
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.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.64· 536
Anti-heroHorrorMysterySecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban Fantasy

Infernal Investigations

saithorthepyro

B60/100
Malvia was once an Infernal of the Black Flame gang, a member of the Empire's most despised race serving in one of its most infamous criminal enterprises. But that's all in the past now. One faked death later, she's been living as Katheryn Falara, a slightly sketchy alchemist operating under the nose of the law — and business is booming. With the Anglean Empire's nobility constantly scheming against each other, both magic and machine benefiting from her skills, and an ever-expanding kingdom full of rare ingredients, Malvia has been content to sit on the sidelines and make a tidy sum of cash. However, a rash of poisonings among the noble heirs makes her behind-the-scenes role impossible. Elements of a life she wanted to leave behind keep resurfacing, and soon she'll find herself at the center of a web of intrigue — figure out the web, or be trapped by it forever.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.65· 364
AlchemyAnti-heroMysteryNon-human MCSecondary WorldUrban Fantasy

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

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· 358
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGTransmigration

Inexorable Chaos: God Games

Cliff Hanger

C59/100
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 Road4.65· 351
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

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

A Draconic Rebirth

Undercover_Dragon1

C59/100
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 Road4.65· 329
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+6

Afterlife 2.0

QuickDuckling

C59/100
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 Road4.64· 451
Anti-heroComedyCraftingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+3

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

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

Tower of Jack

Sean Loomer

C58/100
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· 1Goodreads4.38· 421
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingLitRPGTower Climbing

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

The Cabbage Preacher

C58/100
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 Road4.64· 428
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+4

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· 802
Anti-heroGameLitGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryMystery+4

Humanity's #1 Fan

Illiriel

C58/100
When the apocalypse comes, Ashtoreth betrays Hell to fight for humanity. She was always too optimistic, too energetic, too nice — never fit in with the other archfiends. She was supposed to study humanity to help destroy it; instead, she fell in love with it. But as she tears through the tutorial recruiting allies to her cause, she quickly realizes something strange: the humans don't trust her. Sure, her main ability is [Consume Heart] and her class is [Bloodfire Annihilator], but that doesn't make her evil — it just means every enemy drops an extra health potion! It may take some work, but Ashtoreth is optimistic the humans will come around. After all, she has an important secret to tell them: Hell is afraid of humanity.
Royal Road4.63· 592
Anti-heroComedyGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+3