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Path of the Deathless

OstensibleMammal

A79/100
Whatever kills Shiv only makes him stronger. An outcast in his town, considered an unholy omen, Shiv has spent years fruitlessly hunting monsters on his own — the System seems to spurn him and the authorities refuse to grant him a Path. When his town is attacked and Shiv is murdered in combat, he finds himself bestowed with a Unique Path possessed by no one else: the Path of the Deathless. Resurrecting upon death, he is cast into the Abyss. In that dark and wondrous place, he is finally free to chart his own destiny — if he can survive its countless dangers. In a world that stands against him, death is not the end. For Shiv, it's just another source of power.
Royal Road4.55· 2.4KGoodreads4.00· 2
Anti-heroComedyGameLitGrimdarkLitRPGPost-apocalyptic+3

RE: Monarch

Eligos

A79/100
Cairn is a prince who is already tired of ruling. Faced with an imminent coronation and an overbearing father, he wants nothing more than to drown his responsibilities in cheap liquor and poor decisions. With the help of his sister, he hatches a plan to escape the throne once and for all—which goes terribly wrong. Cairn dies, then reawakens ten years in the past. He immediately begins planning for the future, only to discover his killer has somehow followed him back. To succeed, he must unite the kingdom and uncover his killer's motivation—using as many tries as it takes.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.63· 1.8KGoodreads3.90· 30
Genius MCGrimdarkMysteryRegressionReincarnationSecondary World+3

The Toll-Road to Immortality (Xianxia)

ThatGit

A79/100
It takes more than just talent to reach the heavens — more than an accident of birth or a flash of fortune. It is a long, arduous journey that comes with many costs. When you're an orphan street rat with no money, no family, and nothing but hunger and death in your future, you don't question miracles. Calvin certainly didn't question his. A miraculous artifact offering guidance, purpose, and treasures beyond mortal comprehension has arrived, and suddenly his future doesn't seem quite so dark anymore. A gradual xianxia cultivation story with a clearly defined power system, sects, martial arts, and an expansive original setting drawing on more than just typical xianxia influences.
Royal Road4.72· 911
CultivationLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSkill CollectionSoft Magic+2

Rise to Omniscience

Aaron Oster

A79/100
Morgan grows up on the streets of City Four, constantly shunned by other citizens and beaten by city guards because of his friendship with the city lord's only daughter. The lord wants him dead, and Morgan is nearing his sixteenth birthday with no awakened abilities in a world where might makes right. Faced with a life-altering decision, Morgan must find his own path in a world where power is everything — and where his choices will impact everyone around him.
Goodreads4.33· 3.2K
GoreGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats+1

Immortality Starts with Generosity

Plutus

A78/100
A lost soul from Earth transmigrates into a world of cultivation and finds himself in the body of a playboy noble who is wasting his life. He has no memories of being this person, cannot let anyone know he's not the same individual, and is immediately entangled in a conspiracy involving the downfall of a prominent young genius. Luckily, he arrives with one power: whatever he gives to someone as a gift, he gets back one hundred times better. His first target? His new wife — the former top young genius.
Royal Road4.47· 2.1KGoodreads4.29· 1.4K
ComedyCultivationReincarnationSkill CollectionTransmigrationWeak to Strong+1

Peculiar Soul

TMarkos

A78/100
Not everyone gets a soul. The rise of industry and mechanization has sent the world's population booming, striving relentlessly for the fixed handful of souls that level armies and steer the fate of nations. Michael is the scion of a lord — and the soulless cannot hold such a title. For five years he has endured pain and failure attempting to claim one of the souls freed by its vessel's death, earning only his father's contempt. The remnants of a crumbled empire fight in a grinding, bloody war against their ancient enemy. At last, one more opportunity has come. But not everyone gets a soul quite like his.
Royal Road4.61· 1.8K
GrimdarkMilitarySecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

The Artificer's Chronicles

E.M. Hardy

A78/100
At seventeen, Renan Saneris was still waiting for a talent to emerge. While everyone around him got a Class and moved on, he tried his hand at Smithing, Sword Fighting, and Artistry with little result — no skill trees, no saved experience, no class features. One day, etching symbols into a blade as a gift for his best friend, the glyphs start glowing and awaken something in him: Artificer, Level One. No one around him has ever heard of such a class. But when strange shadows attack his village and he barely chases them off with one of his new creations, Renan decides to investigate — and discovers that his mysterious Class may be more than meets the eye.
Goodreads4.44· 2.3K
Class SystemCraftingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Frostbound

PenguinKills

A78/100
Everyone dreams of gaining magical powers. When mana finally arrives on Earth, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Transported into a tutorial with his family, Christopher has to fight to survive while keeping his loved ones alive. After three grueling months inside a tutorial where tragedy and death seem to follow him, Chris struggles for power and the chance for revenge. When the survivors return to a changed Earth, conflicts arise as various factions vie for dominance — and Chris tries to carve out a place for himself and his family, free from any more conflict.
Royal Road4.64· 1.7K
Anti-heroLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+2

Metaworld Chronicles

Wutosama

A78/100
Gwen Song awoke in a world that was not her own. Instead of airplanes and electricity, this 21st-century Earth is ruled by magic and dragons; humanity survives in a land of magical beasts and otherworldly beings, protected by shielded enclaves and magical constructs. Follow Gwen as she struggles to rebuild her life in this strange new reality — growing from a grade school student into a fully-fledged Mage, through university and beyond, uncovering the secrets of a world made unreal by magic and mysticism.
Royal Road4.51· 4.7KGoodreads4.24· 596
CozyReincarnationSchoolSoft MagicUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Spire's Spite

Octophobia

A78/100
Today wasn't one of Fritz's best days — mainly because he'd been beaten, kidnapped, stuffed in a cell with a slew of other captives, then forced to climb a particularly malevolent Spire. The Spires have stood tall for thousands of years as cities, kingdoms, and empires rise and fall around them. Inside are Treasures, Monsters, and most importantly, Powers. Every floor conquered gives a choice of magical Abilities or Attributes that, when built up and chosen well, could raise even a street urchin to a king or beyond. Which is lucky for Fritz and his crew — urchins and thieves caught in a deadly peril. Climb or die.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.71· 1.1K
Class SystemLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStatsTower Climbing+1

The Reincarnation of Alysara

Comiak

A78/100
Reincarnated as a fox-like being in a fantasy world filled with magic and mysteries, Alysara is blinded after reaching for something she should not have. Now she must train her ability to sense the mana around her, and unravel the true nature of mana and magic itself, in order to see again.
Royal Road4.59· 1.9KGoodreads4.43· 30
CozyGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+5

Academy of Outcasts

Larry Correia

A78/100
All Oz Carnavon ever wanted was to become a master mage. But doing so requires the natural gifts or wealth needed to secure an appointment to one of the prestigious magical academies in the Core City at the center of the seven realms — and Oz had neither. Born without magical talent, he's been serving in the nightmarish elemental plane of fire, where life is cheap and escape is rare. When Oz fakes his death to escape his family's contract and sneaks into the Core, everything seems to be going according to plan — until he gets blamed for an assassination attempt on the fire realm's ambassador. Now a fugitive in a vast magical city, he must earn a place among the magical academies that have nothing but disdain for his kind. And the clock is ticking: the most dangerous wizard in the realm of fire is coming to track him down.
pf7.0· 1Goodreads4.40· 2.7K
Hard MagicIsekaiSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Dragon Sorcerer

Sean Oswald

A78/100
Nico, a young dragon of barely fifty, is rudely chased from his home by a group of murderous adventurers. Of his entire clutch, only he and one sister remained, but now he is alone. Isolated and hungry, Nico's magic awakens, bonding him with Cami, a brave young woman. In order to hide from the adventurers' pursuit, Nico takes on human form. However, once they discover that both he and Cami have magical ability they are required by law to attend the Imperial Academy. Of course, he has to hide his true nature, which isn't always easy, given a dragon-sized ego.
Goodreads4.45· 1.3K
Non-human MCSchoolSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

The Snake Report

wercwercwerc

A78/100
When life ends, many believe a soul is judged — warriors go to Valhalla, saints to heaven, and evil-doers to hell. But what about someone who doesn't fall into any of those categories? Some of them end up reincarnated as a tiny snake. This is the story of one such soul: a winding path through a fantasy world toward something like existential redemption, told with comedy and heart.
Royal Road4.52· 2.2KGoodreads4.42· 281
ComedyLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Teddy Bears on Brigade

TheWackyWombat

A77/100
Evelyn "Teddy" Claire is a street kid just trying to make ends meet in the undercity — a near-slum beneath the foundations of the megacity of Calgary. Her usual concerns are finding a good meal and avoiding stray bullets in gang fights. That all changes when an Antithesis incursion finds its way below. Empowered by a benevolent alien race, she becomes a Samurai — one of the protectors of humanity. Now she must work to exterminate the Antithesis trapped underground before they exterminate her and everyone else.
Royal Road4.73· 604
Anti-heroLitRPGSci-fiSuperpowersUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Apocalypse Continuum

Jakob H. Greif

A77/100
In ages past, the world was wracked with upheaval — flooded with monsters while humanity gained the power of the gods. The present is filled with youngsters desperately attempting to match the heights of those original heroes, while old monsters in human skin struggle for supremacy and daring explorers probe the cosmos. As the younger brother of one of the most famous trailblazers, Derek Thoma is expected to become strong or die trying. When his older brother returns from outer space, the pressure only intensifies — even as centuries-old threats rear their ugly heads.
Royal Road4.57· 1.9K
GameLitLitRPGMilitarySci-fiSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Wretch

Emilsola

A77/100
Once, the world belonged to humanity. Now it belongs to the creatures of the night. Humanity clings to life in scattered strongholds — rival factions huddled behind crumbling walls while horrors from the wilderness pound on the steam-powered gates. The sacred Flame bestows reality-bending powers to the worthy, but grants those same powers to the horrors that haunt the dark. In one such stronghold, a young man is caught between ruthless hunters and abominations from beyond the wall. Desperate to rise above his insignificance, he dreams of wielding the Flame's blessings — but the Flame is without mercy or prejudice. To earn his place in its ranks, he must endure in a fading city ripe with hunger and danger. And when the Flame demands cruelty and grisly transformation, he must decide: does he still deserve to be called human?
Royal Road4.73· 575Goodreads3.85· 34
GoreGrimdarkHorrorPost-apocalypticSecondary WorldSoft Magic+2

Dropship Cultivation - Dao of Delivery

JollyJupiter

A77/100
Lee Song always dreamt of becoming a proud cultivator — roaming the plains on horseback, fighting villains, righting wrongs. But during his initiation ritual, a terrible mishap brings him face to face with something even more frightening than an Eldritch Great One: a Canadian. With his plans for a life of righteous fame in jeopardy, Song must find his way in a world that isn't quite what he expected. New friends, new places, new food — and a new destiny, apparently in mail delivery. A cozy coming-of-age cultivation story blended with Lovecraftian themes, set in a world local to the protagonist.
Royal Road4.78· 215
Base BuildingComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiSecondary World+2

100th Run

Flossindune

A77/100
The world has devolved into chaos as a game-like system has reduced the population to statistics and screens. Everyone struggles to survive — everyone except Anthony Franklin. He has lived through this exact series of events ninety-nine times in a row, and this is his last chance. Win or lose, his 100th run is his final one. Armed with every shortcut, strategy, and hard-won advantage from his past lives, Anthony must contend with vicious boss monsters, the oppressive surveillance of system administrators, and scheming players who want the game to go their way. In a world where every person has their own goals and fears, shepherding them toward survival won't be easy.
Goodreads4.47· 598
Competent MCGenius MCLitRPGRegressionStatsSystem Apocalypse+2

When is a Spoon a Sword? (Pokemon/OC-Insert)

Fabled Webs

A77/100
A modern-day swordmaster dies and wakes up in the Pokemon world. A Ralts aims to become a glorious knight. Hoenn will never be the same.
Royal Road4.72· 683
ComedyCozyIsekaiNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World+2