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Reach Heaven Via Feng Shui Engineering, Drug Trade And Tax Evasion

melmonella

D33/100
In a world of immortals and demon beasts, where a modern empire seeks to break old blood debts, dispel superstitions, and resist the Heavens that smite all who step out of line, young cultivator Qian Shanyi is drawn into the orbit of a classical xianxia protagonist whose luck gushes out of his ears. Can she survive, thrive, and ascend into the Heavens using nothing more than cunning and tenacity? It starts with engineering and turns into tax evasion, but at the heart of it is one question: cultivation is the ultimate freedom, but what does freedom mean when the Heavens hold all the cards?
Royal Road4.53· 406
Base BuildingCultivationDrugsGenius MCMysterySecondary World+1

Arcane Veterinarian

Michael James Ploof

D32/100
After passing his veterinary exam, Ethan is whisked away to an alternate medieval world by a sorcerer in need of his skills. He soon comes into possession of Dali, an arcane intelligence whose sole purpose is to help its master become the greatest at whatever magical path they choose. Naturally, Ethan chooses to become the greatest arcane veterinarian in the world. He settles in the whimsical town of Arcane Acres and apprentices under the aging local vet. But someone has been hexing the town's enchanted creatures — someone who covets power above all else — and if Ethan can't unravel the mystery in time, Arcane Acres will be doomed.
Goodreads4.15· 616
CozyIsekaiLitRPGMysterySoft MagicWholesome

Nova Online

Alex Knight

D32/100
Imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit, Kaiden Moore's only shot at early release is serving as a Warden inside the virtual world of Nova Online — protecting new players and enforcing the law. But Kaiden has his own agenda: proving his innocence. The keys to his freedom are buried in the game's seedy underbelly, and the trail that led to his arrest is far more twisted than he ever imagined.
Goodreads4.08· 638
Competent MCLitRPGMysterySci-fiVRMMO

Dungeon Noble

J. Parsons

D31/100
Ascension is a blessing of the gods — a chance to strive for glory. Jake Khesh is an orphan yearning to be more. When the gods grant him the chance to Ascend, he seizes it, only to find himself saddled with an unfamiliar Class and a mysterious Patron. With limited knowledge and Triarchy Inquisitors hunting anyone like him, Jake must hide what he is while gaining enough power to reach the next Tier. Dungeons offer wealth and power, and conquering them is at the core of his Class. Unlocking the truth of his origins matters just as much as fame or fortune.
Goodreads4.22· 482
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMysterySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Deadly Persuasion

FreeID

D31/100
Isekai'd into a mysterious Victorian town, Levi finds himself in a weak child's body amid deep darkness, ravenous monsters, and a murderous cult of devil worshippers seeking to summon mythical beasts from the Graveyard of the Gods. Fortunately, he possesses the rare talent of an Arch-Magus. Armed with deadly magical words and traps, he is ready to incite riots, gain classes, and level up to survive everything that threatens his precious new life. In this world, power comes from absorbing Ingredients — each holding its own paths and classes — and every week the Krag opens, offering an entrance to the Graveyard of the Gods where relics, power, and Ingredients wait to be plundered, protected by terrifying monsters.
Royal Road4.48· 392Goodreads3.74· 209
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Early Adopter

Nat Wenty

D30/100
Private Investigator Scarlet Bourne isn't particularly bothered by the end of the world. When strange windows start appearing in people's vision, counting down three days to "Full Initialization," she does what she always does: she prepares. When the countdown ends, extinction never comes. Instead, the world gets monsters, mana, and the System. Most people panic. Scarlet sees a gap in the market — one an information broker is uniquely qualified to fill. The rules have changed and nobody knows what they are. She intends to be the first to find out, controlling the battlefield from the shadows rather than fighting her way to the top.
Royal Road4.54· 228Goodreads4.53· 70
Base BuildingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Nigmus Online

Noah Barnett

D28/100
Nigmus Online is the first MMORPG to use consumer virtual-dive technology — and it comes with no manual. Players begin as level-zero commoners with only the barest knowledge of the interface. Everything else is up to them. Liam stumbles into the game and discovers a hidden class: the Undead Necromancer. Across the country, Kathrine suffers from a paralyzing disease and joins an experimental program that gives her a new kind of life inside the game. Meanwhile, a disturbing spike in suicides among young adults in Russia and China points to something deeply wrong beneath the surface of Nigmus Online.
Goodreads4.16· 553
GrimdarkLitRPGMysterySkill CollectionSummoningVRMMO

Secret Agent In Another World - [The Learn]

Author Artemis

D27/100
Zack Adder spent four years as a double agent hacker for governments around the world — and then systematically scrubbed his existence from every network on the planet. On the first day of his return to normal life, he was struck by a truck and died. But that wasn't the end. Swept up in another man's hero summoning, Zack has been tasked by Earth's God with discovering the truth about another world's Goddess, Church, and summoning ritual — armed with nothing but a unique skill: [The Learn]. A man who has played many roles, Zack must now figure out who he really is underneath all the masks.
Royal Road4.53· 216
Competent MCGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+2

Academy of Grinding

TheHaoboSpatula

D26/100
Numbers are everything. In a meritocratic school, 100,000 students from across the galaxy compete to reach the top of the ranks — a competition to become humanity's strongest warrior. The TAG System, designed like an idle mobile game, seems deceptively simple. But someone needs to beat the Most Important Special Exam For The Future Of Humanity — and the path to the top is anything but.
Royal Road4.07· 374
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Second Skin

M. Damon Baker

D25/100
With a cruel twist of fate, everything was shattered. In a last-ditch effort to salvage his life, he stepped inside a virtual reality chamber, desperate to find some sense of purpose. But when he emerged in the virtual world of Second Skin, things had gone terribly wrong. Suddenly trapped in a strange place where nothing was what it seemed — unable to determine what was real, unsure of even himself — hunted and alone in a harsh land, he must survive. And more importantly: figure out who he really is.
Goodreads4.17· 493
Base BuildingGoreIsekaiLitRPGMysteryVRMMO

OVR World Online

Justin Monroe

F22/100
In the bleak not-too-distant future, most people have fled online to the virtual reality of OVR World Online. Zachary 'Zee' Jones could never afford to become a player — until he was arrested for a crime he committed to save his mother's life and included in the Inmate Player Program. Even without perception filters to limit his pain, it was better than the alternatives. Jacked into Gygax, a high fantasy adventure game world filled with knights, magic, and monsters, Zee quickly learns that just because the world is virtual doesn't mean the danger isn't real. Can he find his fortune, forge a few allies, and unravel the mystery behind the game's confounding sentient AI called the Doctor?
Goodreads4.14· 460
Dungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGMysteryVRMMO

Ex-Human Morphus: A Mutant Evolution Apocalypse LitRPG

sinout

F22/100
In a world turned into a game, Earth has become a dangerous place full of mutants and survivors. Jake, once lucky to be alive, finds himself transformed into a mutant with retained intelligence — hated by both survivors and mutants, surrounded by enemies. To survive, Jake must become the apex predator in this new unforgiving world. A unique system grants him diverse mutant skills and abilities, driving a step-by-step evolution from one deadly form to the next.
Royal Road4.09· 335
Dungeon CrawlingGoreHorrorLitRPGMysteryNon-human MC+5

The Mirror World Progression Saga

Rain Harlow

F22/100
Sammy struggled through college until she was magically transported to another realm and transformed into a goddess. Now she must acquire followers to appease an ever-helpful System — and her powers have something to do with mirrors. Sammy will struggle to take over the world one follower at a time, and in doing so, save more than herself.
Goodreads4.15· 395
Base BuildingClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGMysteryNon-human MC+1

The Luna Missile Crisis

Jaime Castle, Rhett C. Bruno

F21/100
The year is 1961. The Cold War is in full swing when Soviet Yuri Gagarin's historic first spaceflight is disrupted by an alien Mothership jumping into orbit, causing a cosmic collision that defies all odds. In exchange for help rebuilding their ship, the mysterious Vulbathi offer humanity technology beyond its wildest dreams — but the world wonders whether they are saviors or conquerors. When an alien tech counterfeiter's mistake sets off a chain reaction, the fragile peace is threatened. Connor McCoy didn't mean to upset Earth's new intergalactic neighbors. Now he may be the only one who can stop the doomsday clock from striking midnight.
Goodreads3.90· 488
MysterySci-fiUrban Fantasy

I Regressed 300 Years to Open a Quiet Inn

gbolgurov

F21/100
Roen Ashveil was the Archmage of the Crimson Tower — the most powerful mage to ever live. He spent three centuries fighting wars, burying friends, and shaping kingdoms. Then he died alone on a bad chair. The next second, he wakes in his nineteen-year-old body with all his memories intact and one firm decision: he will not be the hero this time. He is opening an inn. Unfortunately, Millhaven is not the kind of town that lets people stay uninvolved. There are debts crushing good families, fields where the soil has started to die, and nobles who smile while tightening chains. People keep finding their way to Roen's door — a sharp-tongued merchant woman, a boy too clever for the life he was born into, a tired guild captain watching the southern road. Every spell risks exposure. Every kindness becomes attachment. And beneath the quiet fields, something old is beginning to wake.
Royal Road4.39· 304
CozyMysteryOlder MCOverpowered MCRegressionReincarnation+3

Blades VR

Terry Schott

F20/100
Gamers believe they are beta-testing the world's first true virtual reality fantasy game — but is the magical world of Preu Treya actually real? A daring adventure of swords, sorcery, and mystery, where the line between simulation and reality blurs with every login. As the game's creator searches for his missing partner — the only person who may be able to stop the digital world from collapsing — questions mount about who the Scouts really are and whether they are a threat to the virtual world or its only hope.
Goodreads4.16· 251
LitRPGMysterySecondary WorldVRMMO

Practicing Death

Runewriter

F20/100
What does it mean to learn from your own death? Seventeen was supposed to die in a frozen granary-fort. Instead, a forgotten spirit pulls him back. Every death sends him to the same starting line with a little more knowledge, a little more skill, and a growing weight of visions he does not understand. The System inside him offers no guidance — its skills surface under pressure, and the things he sees in death do not fade. They accumulate. To survive, Seventeen must turn every death into information, outthink the men who own him, protect the few people worth saving, and uncover why the world around him is beginning to twist. What starts as a brutal struggle to escape a granary-fort grows into something far larger: border wars, hidden orders, and old powers moving in the dark.
Royal Road4.49· 150
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+5

Headshot Online

Matthew Siege

F19/100
Headshot has just gone live, and the whole world is playing the new Artificial Reality blockbuster. Unless you can buy your way onto the Survivor's side, you participate as a Zombie — every week the Apocalypse starts over and the forces tear each other apart. Ryan has played the beta for months, but now that Headshot has launched, he finds it consuming his life. He's trying to figure out if there's actually a way to win without paying to play — but something sinister is going on beneath the surface of the game, and he's wrapped up in it whether he likes it or not.
Goodreads3.83· 453
GameLitMysteryPost-apocalypticVRMMO

Unbowed: He Who Defies Fate

Winged Sage

F18/100
Slay monsters. Harvest their souls. Survive the brutal world. In a world where Dragon-riders rule the sky and magic grants infinite possibilities, Lucas was captured by the Central Empire and branded a trespasser, forced into military service. He soon discovered he had Inherited a game-like system, along with a powerful skill — Soul Reaper — and a unique resonance with the dragons above. With a burning desire to find his way back to Earth and no intention of dying in someone else's war, Lucas joins the Unbowed — the monster hunters of this world. Armed with nothing but an unrelenting will and a mysterious system, he will hunt monsters, grind experience, and grow strong enough to track down whoever dragged him here.
Royal Road4.48· 161
Base BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+4

Time Cursed Knight

GCLopes

F18/100
In 2097, humanity discovered Mana. Arcane academies, spelltech cities, enchanted weaponry — magic became ordinary. But that blessing tore open portals across the globe, and the beings who stepped through were not refugees. They were invaders. They took everything. Now all that remains of humanity is a sliver of land clinging to the edge of a shattered continent. Every death drags the protagonist back to the beginning of the day. Every loop forces him to train harder, learn faster, and outthink a world designed to erase him. Some call this power a gift. To him, it's a curse — but curses can be shaped into weapons.
Royal Road4.32· 283
Base BuildingGameLitLitRPGMilitaryMysteryPost-apocalyptic+3