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Saga of the Soul Dungeon

AJFoxmoor

B67/100
When Caden dies in an accidental fall, he is merged with a dungeon core in another world. He's not particularly happy to be dead, so resurrection in any form isn't too bad. The real problem? The dungeon core wasn't dead, and he has to share mind-space with it. That doesn't even account for the powerful wizard who is understandably reluctant to let a dungeon escape. And even once he manages to escape, he must found and manage a dungeon in a location fraught with complications: it sits on the border of two rival human nations, a sentient plant race claims the ground as sacred, and teams of adventurers keep wandering in looking for a living. Through it all, Caden is determined not to lose his humanity and become just another murder-hobo dungeon.
Royal Road4.48· 1.3K
CozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+5

Engine of Reincarnation

Philetus

B66/100
Everyone dies, but I get to live again. And again. And again. When I died, my soul followed the usual cycle of reincarnation — until I was caught by higher-dimensional pirates. Fortunately I was saved, and along the way I picked up a special skill that made me immune to the usual memory loss between lives, letting me carry stats and skills from each life into the next. So what's a guy to do when he's reborn as a baby in a new world? Learn the local magic, navigate how his System works, and pick up skills to help him survive and thrive — in this life and all the lives that follow. Maybe along the way find some meaning in it all, setting goals across the vast multiverse. A slow-burn, slice-of-life serial reincarnation LitRPG about the journey of living through multiple isekai fantasies.
Royal Road4.58· 1.1K
CozyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnationSkill Collection+1

These Reincarnators Are Sus! Sleuthing in Another World

AceGreen

B66/100
Sleuth out the reincarnators. Retrieve their jeweled eyes. Stop this world's destruction. That is Ailn's reluctant mission — except he is not really Ailn. He is an impostor: a detective from another world who cannot even remember his own name. Summoned by a young god with a terrible habit of hiding crucial details, the detective must use his past-life instincts and emerald eyes to unmask other reincarnators — all while wearing a mask of his own. Now posing as a noble son whose family has protected the empire from shadow beasts for generations, he faces a complication: the original Ailn had a trash reputation, was just killed, and the prime suspect is his sister, the duchy's beloved future Saintess. First things first: time to solve his own murder.
Royal Road4.68· 366Goodreads4.73· 11
ComedyCompetent MCIsekaiMysteryOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

Harry Potter and the Surprisingly Competent History of Magic Professor

TheFanficGOD

B66/100
Cassian Rosier is a near-Squib from one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families — the family's punching bag, mocked and barely tolerated. When a simple light spell becomes his last chance to prove himself, his world shatters: the Cassian they knew is gone, replaced by a man from our world with no magic but a lifetime of teaching behind him, and only the vaguest memories of a "Harry Potter" series he never bothered to read. Trapped in a ruined reputation with no real power, the new Cassian has one goal: survive. When forced to lecture on magic, he bluffs his way through by teaching Lumos — a spell he doesn't know. Something strange happens: as hundreds of students learn from his lecture, mastery floods his mind. Ancient variations awaken, along with memories that don't belong to him — some illuminating forgotten magic, others sharp, dark, and dangerous. Sent to Hogwarts as a professor, Cassian must juggle pureblood family expectations, faculty suspicion, and a power that grows every time he teaches — while wondering whether he is drawing on ancient wisdom or inviting something far worse into himself.
Royal Road4.42· 1.3K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCCozyGenius MCMystery+9

Master, This Poor Disciple Died Again Today

Noct

B66/100
In the midst of faking his death, Xiao Hui finds himself transmigrated into a cultivation world. With great hopes for what is to come, he gets taken in by a sect and chosen by a powerful master — except his master seems to have a hole in his brain. As a weakling who recognizes his place in the world, Xiao Hui faces certain death at every turn. So why fight it? He does what he does best: fake it, duck the fallout, and somehow claw his way to the top through a combination of cleverness and enthusiastic self-preservation. A xianxia comedy in the vein of A Will Eternal and Spirit Blade Mountain — neither grimdark nor fluffy, but woven through with both silly and intense moments.
Royal Road4.39· 1.3K
Anti-heroComedyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHarem+7

Route to Power

CSStephen

B66/100
Truth is stranger than fiction. Laiton had loved Pokemon, but that was a TV show meant for children — simple and easy, filled with obvious problems meant to teach moral lessons. Now he's found himself in a very different world: a place with culture, economics, and politics, inhabited by people with their own passions, goals, and prejudices. What's a reincarnated man to do when he finds himself in a vaguely familiar land filled with adventure and endless possibility — but not all of those possibilities are good?
Royal Road4.68· 362
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MC+3

The Sovereign's Toll

AuthorJS

B66/100
His family was his world. Now he's in a new one. When a fatal accident rips Caleb Foster from his wife and kids, the forty-year-old gets a second chance in a realm of dungeons and monsters. A cosmic system offers him a choice of legendary powers, but Caleb refuses the flashy magic. He chooses the abilities to learn faster, remember perfectly, and master any physical skill. A father's instinct to protect doesn't die with his family. To survive and shield the new lives that depend on him, he must use a lifetime of quiet competence to navigate a dangerous frontier town, hunt deadly beasts, and outwit men who mistake his lack of flash for weakness. In a place where might makes right, Caleb is about to show that the most lethal weapon is a mind that misses nothing.
Royal Road4.49· 1.3K
Competent MCCozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+6

SYRINE - Into the Grim Darkness of the Far Future

Wong40k

B66/100
A disillusioned gamer found himself on an unfamiliar path with no memory of how he arrived. After a disorienting encounter, he emerged inside one of the most brutal science-fiction universes ever conceived — the Imperium of Man, set in the grim darkness of the far future where there is only war. With this new identity came world-shattering secrets he had not asked to inherit.
Royal Road4.66· 683
GrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+MilitaryReincarnationSci-fi

Soulshard: Willbender

pyrowind

B65/100
Real Fantasy Online is the flagship product for the latest generation of neural-interface headsets, promising total immersion and the best NPC AIs ever created. But when the line between one's real self and one's digital identity becomes blurred, and the gods have their own agenda, who is the player and which is the game? Marcus has played any number of VR games and beta-tested dangerous systems. He usually disdains pre-order perks, but this time the bonus — the ability to craft your character's backstory and have it integrated into the game's lore — is too tempting to pass up. He opts to make a character purely for fun, with no interest in being all-powerful. Things aren't quite what they seem, however, and his backstory and character class have implications he never would have imagined.
Royal Road4.62· 998Goodreads4.58· 24
Anti-heroGameLitHaremLitRPGMysteryReincarnation+3

Dungeon Robotics

Matthew Peed

B65/100
In 2150, robotics scientist Regan Earle inadvertently caused a global robot uprising. For decades, he kept humanity hostage from the top of a tower, broadcasting his location as a deterrent. Until one day, his last creation finally came for him. Instead of death, Regan received a second chance — reincarnated in another world. As a dungeon core. With all his memories intact. The world of Murgin has no idea what's coming.
Goodreads4.31· 1.6K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fiSecondary World

The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life.

MDW

B65/100
The world ended. The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone — including me. But I got a second chance at life. As an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that I fault them. But to toss my half-eaten core into a landfill? Then an earthquake buried the landfill a mile underground. No sunlight, no water, and I'm pretty sure the apple I was reincarnated into was a GMO hybrid with no real chance of germinating. Then: **DING** — SYSTEM INITIATION!
Royal Road4.54· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyCozyDungeon CoreGameLitGenius MC+12

A Colorful Life

Fabled Webs

B65/100
A Worm/Pokemon crossover. A second-chance story about becoming the best there ever was — again — with all the chaos, cute companions, and unexpected consequences that entails.
Royal Road4.69· 205
ComedyCozyIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnationSchool+3

How I Was Accidentally Summoned in a Cult as the Demon Princess

North Drake

B65/100
Lily Carter juggles lectures, convenience store night shifts, and a secret life as Lilithia Nocturne — a top-ranked demon princess in the VRMMORPG Xantia. Then a robbery, a gunshot, and blackout. She wakes on cold stone in a glowing blood circle, wearing Lilithia's regal armor and horns for real. A bargain-bin cult calling itself the Children of the Abyss summoned her on purpose — by accident. They wanted a real demoness, not a nerdy girl cosplaying one. They're incompetent, fanatical, and inconveniently the only people who don't want to burn a demon on sight. Lily plans to humor them, learn the world, and bail. Instead, rumors snowball, idiots congregate, and an accidental empire starts forming in her name.
Royal Road4.49· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

What Will Be

Googieman

B65/100
Book 1 — Perseverance: Death is the end. At least, it should be. When Will is ripped from the life he has and the woman he loves, the last thing he expects is to be reborn as a baby with his memories intact. In a world where magic makes the impossible real, how much of his new life is he prepared to sacrifice for the chance to reclaim what he lost? Book 2 — The Fifth Stage: With his hometown behind him, catastrophe on the horizon, and the dangers of adolescence hounding every step, Will has hard truths to confront if he is going to survive long enough for his ambitions to matter.
Royal Road4.57· 1.1K
CozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGReincarnationWeak to Strong

Tavern Cat

PrimalSoup

B65/100
Dying and being reborn in a fantasy world as a hero destined to kill the Demon King is some people's greatest dream. Others, however, may prefer to sit around, relax, take a few naps, and ignore the impending doom. And if such a hero gets reborn as a cat, what's going to stop them from doing exactly that? Finding a warm tavern home filled with food, gossip, and comfort sounds a whole lot easier than putting in the work to stop a war.
Royal Road4.66· 575
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

The Sorcerer

Victor Pylaev

B64/100
A powerful sorcerer and shapeshifter — known for operating on the darker side of things — attempts a ritual to travel back in time and save his world. The ritual goes wrong, sending him further into the past than intended and into an alternate history: the year 1909 in the Russian Empire. Stuck in the body of a skinny teenage boy, with no friends, no money, and no title, he must rebuild his abilities in a world ruled by magical aristocrats, where all manner of evil spirits and ghouls crawl out of Breaches in reality and spill into the streets of St. Petersburg.
Goodreads4.40· 650
Competent MCRegressionReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft MagicTransmigration

A Tyrant, Sort Of

farawaymuse

B64/100
Sable didn't know what she'd expected from the afterlife, but turning into a giant flying lizard wasn't it. Thrust into a magic-filled fantasy world with an obscenely powerful body, things aren't entirely great: there are hordes of orcs to the north, an immortal undead legion to the south, and fourteen human kingdoms that want the first dragon in centuries dead. What's more, her [Hoard] and [Notoriety] stats make her stronger the more gold she has and the more people fear her — which explains why dragons in the past were such unsavory sorts. Maybe she can find less evil ways to progress. What are the odds taxes and propaganda can get her where she needs to be?
Royal Road4.60· 991
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekai+5

Sporemageddon

RavensDagger

B64/100
Why survive the apocalypse when you can become the apocalypse? Nature is dying, but perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine it can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a mushroom-loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger to accomplish the goal that brought them there: save nature from the system the sentient races have created. Stats, levels, classes, and skills are all well and good — but when you're a Child of Poverty in the slums of City Nineteen, there's little you can do to change the world. Not unless you're willing to think outside the box.
Royal Road4.58· 1.2KGoodreads4.18· 338
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingIsekai+7

Dao of the Deal

jacobk

B64/100
When Muchen wakes up as an orphan living a hardscrabble life in a world of magical kung fu, he immediately sets his sights on the obvious goal: get rich. Money can make ghosts work hard, let alone cultivators. He can worry about immortality once he has secured a comfortable standard of living. Unfortunately, on the Qianzhan Continent, it takes a clever mind to earn a fortune — but it takes strength to keep it.
Royal Road4.64· 920
ComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMerchantReincarnation+1

System Reset: Forged in Nightmare

Elessar44

B64/100
Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end job, an estranged sister, friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality — except Alex's reality did not change. After surviving the Apocalypse for 15 years, his life came to an end with a betrayal. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.
Royal Road4.53· 1.1K
CraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+5