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Eat Them All

Of Rantings and Ramblings

F9/100
Reggie was not an important person — quite the opposite. He was the town lunatic, hated by all and less than an afterthought to the elves ruling over his people. That changed when he was killed to keep a secret, and his death didn't stick. Returning from the grave as a vampire, he scrambles to stay fed and alive while making sense of his new place in the world. But the fear of dying again quickly becomes secondary. It will take all of Reggie's will to maintain his humanity in a world that already thinks he's lost it.
Royal Road4.32· 145
Anti-heroBase BuildingGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

Core of Knowledge

Ghostman

F9/100
The Crazed Scholar. The Hoarder of Knowledge. The Thief of Ten Thousand Techniques. After ten thousand years, a cultivator attempted to ascend — to join the Heavens, to become a God. He failed. Yet the story of Xu Han did not end there. The Heavens gave him another life: as a dungeon core.
Royal Road4.31· 161
ComedyCraftingCultivationDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MC+3

The Brutal Healer

Fishkid

F9/100
Hector chose the Healer class to stay alive. The system had other ideas. Dropped into a lethal tutorial with only a Field Medic designation and a system that observes more than it explains, Hector quickly learns that healing is not gentle — it is force. Applied incorrectly, it breaks bodies as easily as it saves them. As overhealing becomes a weapon and deviation warnings stack up, survival stops being about following the rules and starts being about understanding them.
Royal Road4.32· 138
Hard MagicLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

Apocalypse Me

Noct

F8/100
He doesn't want to destroy the world. Problem is, he's an Apocalypse. Zeke and his friends are enjoying the city when suddenly, all of the apocalypses begin at once. Lucky — or unlucky — enough to be chosen as one of them himself, Zeke sets off to Devour his way to the top. It wouldn't be so bad, but his best friend is out to kill him, that rock has a gun, and everything has gone to hell. An LitRPG apocalypse that balances action, comedy, and pure chaos.
Goodreads4.00· 288
Anti-heroComedyLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse

Dungeon Incursions

Adam Bright

F8/100
For Lance, the incursion of monsters and a magical shop isn't so much an apocalypse as an inconvenience. Coming back from archery practice, Lance and his club are in the right place at the right time to deal some mayhem to the spawning monsters. But just killing them as they emerge from the portals isn't enough — they're going to have to go in and finish the job. A slow-moving apocalypse where the system doesn't lead to societal collapse but to changes in civilization itself. Not a solo overpowered MC, but team-based dynamics.
Goodreads4.00· 287
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSkill CollectionSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

World Apocalypse Dungeon Calamity

Andrew O'Kelley

F8/100
The end of humanity was marked by the appearance of the World Dungeon and the System of power it provided. No one gained more power than the tyrant known as the Black Seraph, the Angel of Genocide — who survived at the expense of the rest of humanity and completed the dungeon upon reaching the Altar of the End. A hollow victory. Cursed by the spirit of the dungeon for his ruthlessness, Seraph's power was sealed away and he was cast into the past, reincarnated into the body of his child-like self. Now forbidden from hoarding power and charged with ensuring humanity's survival, he must find a new path — and learn there's more to power than being a tyrant.
Goodreads3.99· 310
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingLitRPGRegressionReincarnationSystem Apocalypse+1

A Dungeon That Kills

Hitenma

F8/100
Viktor had been called many names: the Impaler, the Tyrant, the Dark Emperor. He carved out an empire across an entire world, bringing kingdoms to their knees — until the Six Heroes slew him, stole his power, and divided it among themselves. Three hundred years later, Viktor awakens in the body of a young boy named Quinn to find his castle in ruins, his capital razed, and the once-prosperous Central Plains a wild land ruled by trees and beasts. The only thing he finds among the rubble is a small, underdeveloped Dungeon Core. With that fledgling Core as his only ally, he sets out to exact vengeance on the Six Heroes' descendants and reclaim what is rightfully his.
Royal Road4.27· 191
Base BuildingDungeon CoreGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

The Dragonmancer Returns

Bertt

F8/100
The slaying of a dragon was meant to end his adventures. Instead, it was just the beginning of his own draconic journey. Meriel, a young and talented mage, had everything: a beloved partner, a delver party who became family, and a place among history's most prominent mages. There was just one last thing to do — slay the dragon at the heart of the most dangerous dungeon in the Lavarza kingdom. He didn't disappoint. But then everything went wrong. Betrayed, he is sealed away for decades in an inescapable magical stasis, with only the memory of that magnificent dragon for company. In that bubble, he crafts and builds. When the bubble finally bursts, Meriel finds himself in a completely different era. The magic academy has forgotten how magic works, the kingdom faces threats from all sides, and powerful beasts thought long banished are waking again. Thankfully, Meriel has his new Dragon-Crafting spells — and the knowledge to build a defence from the ground up.
Royal Road4.14· 200
Base BuildingCompetent MCCozyCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingLitRPG+4

Founder of the Beastkin Clan

Saberfang

F8/100
Kai Tong, a cultivator of the Ember Sword Sect, is an enigma among his peers. While others are consumed by the pursuit of immortality, Kai finds little interest in such ambitions — instead finding greater purpose in caring for the mystical creatures entrusted to him. His peaceful life is upended when vivid dreams from another world thrust him into unforeseen danger. These dreams grant him unusual knowledge, setting him on a path no cultivator has ever dared to tread. As Kai uncovers a revolutionary cultivation method, he defies tradition and reshapes the fabric of his world — establishing the Beastkin Clan, a society of mythical creatures bound by unity and strength. A slow-burn story of an MC who refuses to be ruthless, where fluffy companions matter as much as cultivation breakthroughs.
Royal Road4.19· 197
Base BuildingCozyCultivationMonster TamingReincarnationSecondary World+2

Magnus

Vowron Prime

F8/100
Magnus Cromwell is a professional killer — organized, efficient, utterly ruthless. When his sister's life is threatened, he responds with hypersonic gunfire and tungsten rods from orbit. The job should have been clean. Then something hits him and Magnus wakes up in a fantasy world with nothing but his armor and a cryptic half-written note. Strange predators track him, his life is on a timer, and dark visions haunt his sleep. There is never a good day to mess with Magnus Cromwell. The universe managed to pick the worst one possible.
Goodreads3.92· 318
Competent MCIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MCSecondary World

The Alchemy Empress: 10,000 Years Later

LTKnight

F8/100
After ten thousand years perfecting a single pill in seclusion, Bai Fanxian emerges to find the world transformed. Cultivation is now rare and weak, true alchemy has faded into legend, and nobody alive knows what the masters of the past were capable of. Armed with ancient mastery and unmatched power, she sets out to remind everyone exactly why "Alchemy Empress" was once the most revered title in the cultivation world.
Royal Road4.04· 200
AlchemyCompetent MCCozyCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MC+4

Return of the Hell Ranger

The_Bizone

F8/100
Half a million soldiers. One mission: kill the Death God. They called it the Glorious Expedition — sending an entire army through a portal to the underworld to save mankind. It was a suicide mission. Marcus was a low-level Scout when he entered with his comrades. After two decades of endless battle, he alone remained — now a max-level Hell Ranger who killed the Death God single-handedly. He returns to his world with nothing but his weapons, uniform, and the memories of the fallen, only to find that twenty years in the underworld equated to four hundred years back home. Killing the Death God isn't going to be the end of mankind's chaotic history, and Marcus finds his peaceful retirement pushed back once again.
Royal Road4.17· 194
Class SystemCompetent MCGenius MCLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+2

The Genesis Saga

Nicholas Dufresne

F8/100
Adrian was supposed to die in that lab — broken, nameless, and forgotten. When an alien scouting team finds him barely alive, everything changes: for Adrian, for team leader Reya, and ultimately for the galaxy. Reya's mission was meant to be simple. Captured and experimented on, she escapes with one certainty — there is someone else in the facility. A human who should not exist, whose presence threatens everything her people believe about their war. The Genesis Saga is a sci-fi drama about trauma, survival, and rediscovery, following Adrian as he learns to live again in a universe that was never built for him.
Royal Road3.58· 201
GrimdarkMysteryNon-human MCSci-fiSlow Burn

Nightsea Outlaw

Lazie

F8/100
Alexander Ortega is a man wanted by the Military Police in a world of islands connected by the nightsea. The papers call him an outlaw. In truth, he's a man from Buenos Aires who woke on a beach after being consumed by a blinding light, with no idea how he got there. His only goal is to find a way home. Fighting mistwalkers, soldiers, and powerful Scions, he survives by joining with other outlaws — each one pulled from a different world and stranded in the nightsea. A portal-fantasy survival story about people from different worlds fighting together to stay alive in a strange, interconnected archipelago.
Royal Road4.29· 129
IsekaiLoner MCMilitaryOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

Blood Mage Assassin

E.M. Dash

F7/100
Jack once believed the quill was mightier than the sword. He was wrong. After twenty years of failure and obsession, the crippled Apprentice Scribe confronted the noble who murdered his family — only for his revenge to end with a poisoned dagger in his gut and the mocking smile of the man he hated. When death came, it didn't take him to the Underworld. It sent him back — sixteen again, reborn in the body he lost to fire and regret, given a second chance by the Gods he believed had forsaken him. Now he wants to protect his family and live a good life, but the Gods have other plans. Armed with forbidden magic, a scribe's precision, and knowledge of the future, Jack will carve a new path through history — written in ink, blood, and vengeance. A deliberately slow-paced, slice-of-life, weak-to-strong story building toward an overpowered MC across multiple time loops.
Royal Road4.28· 129
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MCRegressionSchool+3

The Deadliest Lifeform in the Universe Loves Me

JJKandy

F7/100
Adam Samson is a burned-out regular human whose life changes when a small, seemingly helpless alien crash-lands in the woods near his home. Taking pity on the creature, he takes it in and the two form a close bond. What begins as a simple act of kindness spirals into intergalactic intrigue when the Earth government tries to seize the alien — and Adam ends up thrust far beyond the stars. All he wants is to keep the creature safe, until he discovers just how dangerous she really is. Can Adam survive adventures at the deepest reaches of space when the most dangerous lifeform in the universe is in love with him?
Royal Road4.05· 191
ComedyHorrorMilitaryNon-human MCSci-fi

Mimicmage

Lemur_Leylamin

F7/100
Lilieth Lasvenn, the twelfth member of the hero's party, was betrayed and murdered by the heroes themselves. Young, timid, and meek, she was an apprentice priestess who filled the ranks with little distinction — her only notable trait a perfect memory. When that very same party betrays and kills her, an inexplicable revival gives Lilieth something she didn't have before: an undying body and the ability to absorb the memories of others and copy their spells. She swears revenge, but to kill a hero is no simple task. As Lilieth learns to fight with her newfound abilities and grows stronger, she begins to realize the world is hiding secrets — buried memories that should never have been unearthed.
Royal Road4.29· 104
Anti-heroGoreGrimdarkLitRPGMysterySecondary World+2

Travail Online

Brian Simons

F7/100
When an overpowered NPC goes off the rails and starts killing players — even in safe zones — Coral, Daniel, and their friends accept an impossible quest: stop him, at all costs. Coral joined the immersive MMORPG Travail Online because her waitressing job was automated by a growing robot workforce. She starts as a Seamstress, hoping to craft and sell items for real-world cash — but the game has other ideas. Daniel has played longer, but the game assigns him a class that doesn't seem to exist, leaving him to chart his own path through a world of magic, intrigue, and betrayal.
Goodreads3.81· 314
CraftingLitRPGMysteryVRMMO

I'm a Fake Genius in a Cultivation Sect

TG Parsons

F7/100
A young man from Earth dies and his soul is placed in a new body in a cultivation world. Handsome, intelligent, and seemingly blessed by the heavens, Jun De appears fated to dominate the world — though all he really wants is to live life to the fullest.
Royal Road4.16· 187
ComedyCozyCultivationHaremOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Dark Magical Girl

Laulau20

F7/100
Thirty years ago, monsters called Anathema attacked the world. Despite humanity's best efforts, they were defeated. Then came the Zenith — providing seven sanctuary cities for the survivors and bestowing the power to repel Anathema through magical girls and guardians. Now, humanity is trying to reconquer the Earth. Despite being an honor student and always maintaining proper behavior, the narrator was not chosen as a magical girl — perhaps because, unlike others, her feelings weren't genuine. She never idolized magical girls like everyone else. Yet against all odds, one day she is chosen. How can she inspire hope and dreams in others when she lacks them herself?
Royal Road4.27· 138
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSecondary WorldSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy