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Sentenced to Troll

S.L. Rowland

B62/100
Punished for his toxic online behavior, Chad faces a thirty-day sentence of full-immersion therapy designed to improve his anger issues. For his endless trolling, he's forced to play as a forest troll — the most hated race in Isle of Mythos — so that he can finally experience what it's like to be on the other side. To make matters worse, the heroes sent to rid the world of evil aren't heroes at all: they're violent felons on their own twisted paths to redemption. Playing as a monster in a world where it ain't easy being green, what could possibly go wrong?
Goodreads4.28· 1.5K
ComedyGameLitNon-human MCVRMMOWeak to Strong

The Elder Lands

B. Salem

B62/100
Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful aspects of his responsibilities — but most important of all, he must find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions. In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters that hunger to climb into the world of man, it's difficult to be a noble and dangerous to be a warrior. Lucan must navigate a maze of mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive and, perhaps someday, thrive. An action-adventure kingdom-building LitRPG focused on individual-level progression — no territory status sheets, and the RPG elements stay grounded rather than overwhelming the story.
Royal Road4.60· 937
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMilitary+1

Beware of Kittens - Scientific Sorcery!

Vitaly S Alexius

B62/100
Ioan Starfall, a Nordstaii teen on the cusp of adulthood, drowned as his village was set ablaze by a dragon. A biochemist from our world woke up in his body — and refused to become a hero seeking revenge when offered incredible power by a witch. There are far more important things on the to-do list. Reborn in a land of Nordic cultivators and giant monsters, there is a whole new world of science to explore, witchy powers to experiment with, and magical creatures just waiting to be dissected.
Royal Road4.67· 219
ComedyCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

One Up

Craig Anderson

B62/100
What would the world be like if video game rules suddenly applied? Marcus is about to find out. After a freak accident he finds himself stuck between a game and the real world. He'll need to fight his way through football hooligans, carnies, and the dreaded RNG to reach the final boss and save the world. Along the way he'll learn new skills, chase epic loot, and most importantly of all — level up.
Goodreads4.05· 1.7K
ComedyGameLitLitRPGStatsSystem Apocalypse

Axiom of Infinity: Souleater

TSeris

B62/100
"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. What then are we to think of it when the gods themselves steal our ideas on how the universe should work?" Axiom of Infinity follows several travelers from Earth as they attempt to make new lives in a world where RPG mechanics are as innate as the laws of physics, dungeons lurk everywhere, and the gods themselves appear to be playing a very different game — one with unknown stakes and strange alliances. Blessed by two gods and cursed by a third, one man finds himself at the center of their machinations. The unsuspecting natives of this world are about to learn to live alongside a bunch of min-maxing, power-gaming, spreadsheet-wielding gamers who do what they do best: break things.
Royal Road4.65· 483
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiLGBTQ++5

An Unbound Soul

Cathfach

B61/100
When Peter's too-close encounter with a truck sends him to another world, he lands in what seems like a perfect fantasy land — magic, elves, a hyperactive catgirl neighbor, and a System for earning skills and leveling up. But the world is almost suspiciously nice. Set a few hundred years after the events of A Lonely Dungeon, this is a slow-paced slice-of-life story about an Earthling falling into a rebuilt civilization and the struggles both he and the world's self-proclaimed protector face in trying to understand each other.
Royal Road4.40· 1.1K
CozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+2

Accidental Traveler

C.J. Davis, Jamie Davis

B61/100
Hal Dix is stuck in an unlucky life — his wife is a successful executive while his IT help desk job leads nowhere. Then a strange woman at a flea market sells him a bootleg early release of the highly anticipated Fantasma game. Hal should be careful what he wishes for. Whisked away into the game he only wanted to play for a weekend, he enters a world desperate for a hero — and is forced to become an Accidental Thief, and perhaps the mythical hero of prophecy.
Goodreads3.98· 1.7K
ComedyCompetent MCGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Dungeon Core: "The Eternal Training Ground"

apinsig

B61/100
A newly awakened dungeon core must discover what it is and what it wants from life. It quickly learns that it is not normal, and begins to discover what it truly likes about this world. Battling its own instincts, it chooses to live the way it wants rather than the way it was made to. Set in a world with game elements woven in, this is a story about dungeon-making, self-determination, and finding identity in an unexpected existence.
Royal Road4.64· 656
Base BuildingDungeon CoreGameLitNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World

Greg Veder vs The World

zfighter18

B61/100
Greg Veder knows life's not a game — especially not in Brockton Bay. A city crawling with villains, capes, and certain death for idiots who play hero. But when he wakes up with a gamer system, complete with stats, quests, and skill trees, he figures: screw it. Maybe life IS a game. Leveling up is easy. Surviving Brockton Bay? That's the real endgame. (A Worm / The Gamer AU)
Royal Road4.43· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyGameLitLitRPGStatsSuperpowers+1

Copy, Paste: The Misadventures of Milo Two

treebark

B61/100
Milo, 30, has everything going for him — except a paying job, a girlfriend, or anything resembling a social life. None of that is about to change, but he will be transported — copied? — to another dimension where the rules are pretty different. Join Milo as he bids farewell to his sister's spare bedroom and says hello to the magical world of Altabar, where he'll encounter scary monsters with lame names, meet new friends, and learn where not to pee.
Royal Road4.53· 988
ComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPG

Ashlani's Reincarnation

No_Creative_Name

B61/100
As a soon-to-be chieftain, Ashlani's responsibilities were numerous, complex, and often boring. But as a recently reincarnated keelish — a reptilian pest — his responsibilities narrow to three: survive another day, keep his belly full, and kill anything that interferes with the first two. And, if the opportunity arises, take revenge on his best friend turned murderer. Ashlani was shot in the back by the man he was closest to during his inaugural hunt as chieftain-to-be. Post-mortem, he was greeted by a [System] and named the elect, singular keelish representative. Now his focus must be on continuous growth and evolution — to awaken to his grand potential and lead his new people into a new age.
Royal Road4.65· 410
Base BuildingGameLitGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+3

Awakening Horde: Shieldwall Academy

M. Zaugg

B61/100
Against all odds, a defiant street rat takes on a ruthless empire. Pax, a cunning orphan without a class, navigates life in a city constantly threatened by monstrous beast waves. He's dedicated to keeping his crew safe and fed, especially after his family vanished without a trace. When his best friend is captured, Pax risks it all on the eve of the Awakening. Caught and thrust into the Astan Empire's war machine, he must adapt to survive the perils of an elite mage academy. While struggling to harness the forbidden magic surging within him, he must avoid the attention of corrupt leaders determined to snuff out any hint of rebellion. With ancient secrets and long-lost spells at stake, can Pax triumph against his foes and secure a future for himself and his crew?
Royal Road4.50· 1K
Class SystemCozyGameLitLitRPGMonster TamingOverpowered MC+5

Archmage from Another World: Gaining Administrator Access

Etheric

B60/100
Transported into a world where just about anyone can receive the title of Mage, Morgana is baffled and outraged. She spent twenty-two years studying spell formulae and memorizing the forty-three Primary Astolian Paradigms — and here, power is just handed out? She doesn't know how she arrived, why everyone is so ignorant of magic's fundamentals, or what this strange System is. But she intends to find out. Dungeons, artifacts, classes, skills, and spells all seem to have been built using a language only Morgana recognizes — and hidden within those mechanisms may be something far bigger than arcane knowledge alone.
Royal Road4.57· 920
CozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitHard MagicIsekaiLitRPG+2

Thera

MelasDelta

B60/100
Thera (A Monster Evolution LitRPG) | Royal Road OLD VERSION READ NEW VERSION INSTEAD Thera (A Monster Evolution LitRPG) | Royal Road
Royal Road4.64· 589
GameLitLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World

The Most Overpowered Floofer

Angry Spider

B60/100
Petey, a Golden Retriever with a heart equally golden, was euthanized in a pound after over twelve years of bringing love to everyone he met. A few very powerful beings agreed this seemed unfair — and gave him a chance to live life to the fullest in another world, along with more than a few perks.
Royal Road4.65· 380
ComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+3

Blueprint for Immortality: a Crafting Xianxia

NoDragons

B60/100
Booker has woken up in the wrong body — one ruined by drug use, trapped in a dead-end life as the lowest possible apprentice in a massive sect. But that doesn't faze him. When he looks at the mountains, he sees a climb waiting. Better yet, he carries the assistance of a magical book that lets him craft any pill in existence perfectly — a skill alchemists would fight and die for. With his crafting skills, patient soul, and relentlessly upbeat attitude, Booker sets out to climb the first of many mountains. A slow-life xianxia with a focus on crafting and character-driven exploration of the genre's world and people.
Royal Road4.51· 987
AlchemyBase BuildingCozyCraftingCrafting PowerCultivation+6

Medium Meld: Revised Edition (Naruto/Gamer, OC)

Elbowsnapper

B60/100
Sora wakes up on a beach, very far from home. Determined to avoid a fate worse than death, he sets out to save the world — armed with a complete lack of chakra, a strange system driving his growth, and his own sparkling personality.
Royal Road4.65· 358
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGTransmigration

Inexorable Chaos: God Games

Cliff Hanger

B60/100
Gods are, generally speaking, not fans of putting their fingers on the scale. After a few hundred millennia and enough prayers to fill a hollow Earth, they have learned the art of delegation — finding exceptional mortals with the potential to become Heroes, and putting them to work. Quasi Eludo has been a Hero. He did the whole "save the world" rigmarole across twenty-nine different worlds, came home, and realized it was never enough. He wanted to do it again. So he sold his services to the lazy, wanton Gods as a Hero for Hire. Now, after all that, he faces his most terrifying adversary yet: the Internal Revenue Service.
Royal Road4.65· 354
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

Pioneer of the Abyss: A Deepsea Livestreamed Isekai LitRPG

WolfShine

B60/100
On a dark day hated by all citizens of the lower worlds, Aqua is chosen during the Selection Ceremony to participate in the World Expansion — sent to a newly discovered world to explore and document it on a livestream broadcast across the entire Alliance. Things go sideways almost immediately when she awakens not one but two Bloodlines. As they merge, the Abyssal Kraken takes her first dive into the waters of her new world. Aqua must fight to survive in the ocean world of Oceana while navigating constant broadcast scrutiny — and occasionally stepping into the Alliance's entertainment industry through a System Phantom acting in her stead.
Royal Road4.45· 1K
ComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+1

Ascension of Chaos

WolfShine

B60/100
Ashley wakes up at the start of a System tutorial with no memories — only basic common knowledge and the blood of a primordial flowing through her veins. Her Skill Tree has just a single ability: to assimilate the skill trees of those she kills. As a Primordial System integrates every human on the planet, Gates open across the world and monsters pour out of broken domains. Ashley must navigate an apocalypse she knows nothing about, growing stronger only by assimilating the skills of the fallen — all while slowly recovering the emotions and memories she's lost.
Royal Road4.46· 1K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+3