The world didn't end with fire or ice. It ended with a rain of blood and a bureaucratic apology memo from the rest of the galaxy. Enzo had always been a daredevil — snowboarder, rock climber, martial artist, skydiver — until an accident put him on a quieter path crafting bespoke jewelry. Then came the rain.
With it came evidence that humanity wasn't alone, and that magic was very real. The dead now rise as Eaters: magically evolving, mana-sucking undead with a taste for hearts and brains. Enzo's only guide is a cryptic Universal Training Guide that refuses to answer questions until you're already figuring things out for yourself. He'll master spells, craft magical equipment, protect the people he loves — and eventually find the people responsible for that apology memo.
After hundreds of thousands of years cultivating, Zhao Gang has finally reached the penultimate threshold — ready to ascend to the level of True Immortal. To avoid drawing the attention of his enemies, he selects the most desolate plane he can find: Earth.
Fast forward three thousand years. Zhao Gang discovers what his long absence has wrought — a cultivation-free culture that has independently unlocked the deep mysteries of creation. Now he can't help but wonder how this tiny, energy-barren planet could affect the course of all creation.
There's only one problem. For that to happen, he first has to succeed in cultivating Earth.
On an ordinary day, an alien descends to Earth and unleashes devastation, triggering Earth's premature initiation into a universe-spanning empire of cultivators, beasts, and entities of ungodly power — all guided by a mysterious AI System.
The System's first quest? Kill someone. Amidst the chaos, Alistair must choose whether to fight for power or stand against evil. Separated from his family, he must navigate a world where power is won through conflict and cultivation leads to the Peak.
4.14· 1.3K
Competent MCCultivationLitRPGSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWeak to Strong
Joseph Sullivan is at an all-time low: lost his job, fiancée dumped him, moved back to his parents' basement. Then the System arrives and Earth becomes a playing field in a contest among the gods.
Provided the ideal stat array for a physical combat class, the choice is obvious — until Joe fat-thumbs the selection screen and ends up with Spellcaster. His starting Intelligence stat: 1.
With a useless class and only his raw strength to back him up, Joe decides class optimization is for dummies. He pumps every stat point into Strength and sets out to win the whole damned thing. A real wizard should be measured by how much he can bench.
All Ryan ever wanted was to become an adventurer — quests, skills, quirky teammates, and posting exploits on Realmnet. Instead he's broke, working at a Manaburger, and System slots cost more than his paycheck times ten thousand. Then he gets shot. Then the Trial System chooses him.
What follows is a cascade of catastrophes: clashing with authority figures, stabbing a sword prodigy in a deathmatch, and getting blacklisted from the Adventurer's Guild before he's even started. Suddenly Ryan is no longer just a fry cook — he's a rare Destined, tasked with figuring out how to save not one, but two worlds.
In a world ruled by Tyrants, Ryan must navigate between Earth and The Realm, where the line between villain and hero adventurer is mostly just attitude.
The emergence of monsters and superhumans hasn't disrupted the modern era — people have adapted. Among them is Casper Clay, a man who long ago awakened to a gift that seemed more like a curse, until it opens a different path.
Seeing the opportunity in front of him, Casper heads down a road that could lead to prosperity just as easily as it could lead to an untimely end.
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.
Divorced and working as a security guard in Portland, 73-year-old Carl is attacked by an unknown creature before managing to taser it to death. After being released from the hospital, he discovers by accident that he is unwittingly acquiring DNA samples from the people he touches — and a blue box appears in his right eye.
The blue boxes reveal that his health is nowhere near what he assumed. Can he reverse the negative aspects using this strange system? And can he turn around his poor financial situation after his wife took half his pension just before retirement? A LitRPG slice-of-life following Carl as he discovers new ways of living life when he's nearing the end of his own.
What would happen if Mana touched a Realm thus far deprived of it? The people of Earth are about to find out, and it's not going to be pretty. The moment the barrier keeping supernatural powers out collapsed, only the System's intervention held the world together.
Mia is one of those tiny people on the floating rocks in the void — and she has much bigger problems, like goblins trying to eat her. It's not all bad: she may have monsters trying to eat her and disturbingly pointy ears, but she seems to have a real talent for magic.
The stronger his opponent, the harder Nil hits. Saving an innocent from a drug-crazed superhuman should have left him broken — instead it wins the Nexus's attention and an opportunity to make a difference.
Nil is done feeling small and watching his family scrape by. Apocalypse Arena holds the key: a multiverse-spanning battleground where champions fight to keep the Scourge at bay. Pain, death, and heartbreak await all who run the gauntlets — but Nil has what it takes to grapple his way to the top.
The multiverse is watching. He'll give them a show.
When alien beings address all of humanity, they deliver a warning: forces that destroyed their species' males are heading for Earth. In exchange for access to the System, they ask only for cooperation and survival.
Mathew Alexander Dunphy knows it's all a lie. He saw the truth with his own eyes. Nobody believes him. They call him mad.
In a world of alien-controlled survival games, Mathew fights back with mad-scientist ingenuity, crafting-based powers, and a stubborn refusal to let either the aliens or the apocalypse win.
4.24· 1.1K
ComedyCompetent MCCrafting PowerSci-fiSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy
A failed sci-fi writer and gamer, Oliver was a normal guy until the night a beautiful psychic shifter named Grace appeared on his doorstep — and a second superpowered woman showed up to kill them both.
The Cherry Blossom Girls is an urban superhero series blending harem, LitRPG humor and stats, telepathic and vampiric powers, government conspiracies, and a healthy dose of metafiction.
About four weeks ago the world simply turned. One day: iPhones, Mickey Mouse, hamburgers. The next: magic and monsters. And humans became players — with levels, items, and classes. Pretty ironic considering how many times parents told their kids to quit gaming and experience real life. Then real life grabbed everyone by the throat, and it was the gamers who were prepared.
A story about a guy, his best friend, a loyal golden retriever, a little girl, and her beloved cat — plus copious amounts of gore, legendary weapons, and a lich king who needed slaying.
4.25· 1.1K
Base BuildingGoreLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy
It's the end of the world, and all Dave wanted was to eat his eggs in peace. Thanks to a talking bird, he's been transported to another universe with only a few years to either grow powerful enough on his own to save his home, or find someone who can help him do it.
With new friends by his side, Dave pushes against a System that keeps nudging him toward dangerous experiments, working to understand the rules of his new world before time runs out.
4.41· 810
Base BuildingCrafting PowerDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingHard MagicIsekai+5
After four years working as a magical girl, Adah is a certified nobody. In a system where popularity equals power, she's unknown and underleveled — all she has is one pea-shooter spell and a pig mascot who talks too much for his own good.
That changes when her public meltdown goes viral. Rebranding as the dark magical girl Twilight Heartbreak, her popularity skyrockets, bringing new spells, new fans, and new threats. Thrust into the spotlight, she finds herself on the front lines of a war against soul-reaping monsters and inside a cutthroat industry full of personalities that might be even more dangerous.
Can Adah extend her fifteen minutes of fame when everything — and everyone — around her is trying to cut it short?
4.64· 147
LGBTQ+Skill CollectionSlow BurnSuperpowersUrban FantasyWeak to Strong
Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth — but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in known as "Ezzen," he's resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic and fanboying over the superhuman Vaetna.
When fate splinters and magic finally finds him, it's the best day of his life — and the worst. He suddenly becomes a resource in a cold war over magical power, hunted by paramilitary organizations and Flame-worshipping cults alike. Worse, the reality of being a flamebearer is nothing like the apotheosis he dreamed of: it is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters.
The gods are real and incorporated. Providence is a profitable global monopoly — but its chief executive is a corrupt authoritarian, the combined might of the divine powers ignores humanity's problems, and Helpdesk service is, frankly, terrible.
In this corporate fantasy, it's up to history's most maligned immortals to step up and sort things out.
Every day is the same for Joseph — study, class, repeat — until monsters spawn across his college campus and beyond. Goblins, ghouls, kobolds, and mythical creatures pour into the world with shocking carnage.
If Joseph is going to survive the RPG apocalypse, he needs to figure out the new rules fast. And is it wrong to feel so alive when so many others have died?
4.25· 1K
Class SystemLitRPGSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWeak to Strong
Mark Careed has dreamed of being a hero since he was eight years old — fighting monsters outside the city walls, going anywhere he wanted instead of only where it was safe, standing shoulder to shoulder with the real heroes against kaijus.
Now almost 18, Mark is close to taking the real Tutorial and Awakening his Power. But his hopes collapse when the False Tutorial estimates his future Power as a brawny — simply a stronger human, the fate of 90% of humanity. Mark refuses to accept it.
Determined to change his fate, he sets out to do something drastic: seek help from an archmage, a true Hero of Humanity. A story of exploration, slice of life, kaijus, magic, other worlds, trauma, and growth.
At the end of everything, the Final Reaper won — but it was a hollow victory. Having killed everyone who wronged him or his people, he was left utterly alone. When Order's Voice offered a chance to reset the multiverse to an earlier time in exchange for most of his power, the choice was easy: start over from when Earth was first brought into Order.
Landing in his old body, the Final Reaper becomes Thomas again — and chooses a new name for a new life: Serenity. He has ten years from the moment the Voice arrives to prevent Earth from losing the second round, as it did before. It will require a group effort, which is difficult for someone who has been alone for longer than he can reckon.
A system apocalypse story designed so that a large percentage of humanity can survive and prosper — if they work together.