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Disregard Fantasy, Acquire Currency

Nemobrosus

C49/100
Business magnate Willem dies at age 87, entirely alone — and is reincarnated into a world of sword and sorcery, grand adventure, and life-threatening monsters. He stands poised to enjoy a life of splendor. Only, he doesn't care one whit about any of that. To him, there's only one magic: correcting an inefficient market. He mastered that sorcery long ago, and he's certainly not about to learn another when the old tricks work just as well in a new world. No matter how fantastical the setting, one thing never changes — money makes the world go round.
Royal Road4.54· 670
Base BuildingComedyGenius MCIsekaiMerchantOlder MC+1

Choose Your Apocalypse

JLMullins

C49/100
'A Rounding Error has Occurred. Please Choose Your Apocalypse as Compensation.' Alex Johnson — a home-based IT worker — is thrown into a brutal LitRPG apocalypse and handed the chance to design his own end-of-days. Like choosing wallpaper for his personal inferno. Enemies, skill tree, sidekicks — all semi-customizable. Of course, the universe is cruel and capricious. Hidden forces are at play, uninvited and unwelcome, seeking to control his fate. So Alex is going to be fighting uphill, against the odds — and probably some interdimensional middle managers — from the word "go."
Royal Road4.60· 469
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MC+3

Source & Soul: A Deckbuilding LitRPG

Furious Scribe

C49/100
Hull is living on the streets of Treledyne, scraping by and searching for cards from the Demon Realm — the only ones he can wield — hoping to build a deck powerful enough to take revenge on those who wronged him. Basil is a noble's third son with no path to glory, pinning his hopes on the Rising Stars Tournament to raise his soul to Rare and step out of his brothers' shadows. When these two young men duel, they set each other on a path to greatness neither could have imagined. In a world where every accomplished soul leaves a card behind, the one with the most cards has the most power — and the Orc tribes are gathering on the horizon.
Royal Road4.60· 469
GameLitGenius MCLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Sigma 16

Erios909

C49/100
Talia, daughter of a wealthy conglomerate CEO, joins the droves of new human explorers combing through uncharted space to make her own mark on the universe. Her resilience is tested when her brand-new exploration corvette crashes onto an uncharted planet, Sigma 16. Equipped with a state-of-the-art exo-suit, a semi-operational colony bootstrap system, and a sometimes-annoying AI companion, Talia sees the crash as an opportunity. She sets out to build her base, explore the expansive dunes and jungles, and uncover the planet's resources and secrets. But Sigma 16 may not be as uninhabited as it first seems — and a potentially hostile alien species with equally advanced technology is watching.
Royal Road4.58· 634
Base BuildingCompetent MCCraftingGenius MCLitRPGPost-apocalyptic+1

Chronicles of the last Leïn

Not_Important

C49/100
This is the story of a child who should be dead — for nothing survives what she fled. She escaped true horror and was rescued through a single extended arm, an act that broke prophecies and shattered Truth. Now she faces the grim reality of survival: not just staying alive, but learning to live in a world she was never meant to inhabit. It is a world of fantasy, where magic exists and marvelous creatures roam the lands — but the reality is neither fantastical nor forgiving. It is an Empire built on the ashes of war, ruled by the Imperatrix, where power belongs to the wealthy and the ruthless.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.60· 440
CozyGenius MCGrimdarkLoner MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Twisted Garden (Pokemon AU)

Aleister Adair

C48/100
Erika may have been born lowly, but she knows she is destined for glory and greatness. Street rat, trash, orphan — these labels are mere fetters to be shattered. One step at a time, Erika will claim everything that is rightfully hers. And what the world cannot give her, she will take by force. A darker, grittier, and more realistic take on Pokémon with xianxia elements and a unique power system.
Royal Road4.60· 401
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MC+1

The System Seas

RC Joshua

C48/100
Marco trained his whole life to become a captain, maxing every childhood achievement the System would allow — diving, rigging, outrunning couriers up mountains. When classing day finally arrives, the System doesn't make him a captain. It makes him a Gluttonous Marauder. The class has combat perks, shipwright skills, and captain potential — but a reputation so bad he's arrested on the spot. Now on the run in a barely seaworthy smuggler's dinghy, Marco sets out to prove he's not the villain they think he is, if he can out-sail bounty hunters, survive cursed dungeons, and feed enough victories to his ever-growing ship along the way.
Royal Road4.59· 582
Class SystemComedyCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+2

A Doctor Without Borders

DB Lazarus

C48/100
A doctor spent years mastering medicine — helping people live, watching people die, witnessing what a soulless system does to patients and to himself. He was counting down the days before he sold out. That plan ended when a stroke code went sideways. Now he's somewhere else entirely: a world where magic rules, Humans are despised, and Healers knit flesh back together in the blink of an eye. What good is a man of science with years of training and not a shred of magic? A slow-burn progression story grounded in medical realism, where every step forward is earned.
Royal Road4.43· 318Goodreads4.01· 1.3K
GameLitGenius MCIsekaiSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Idiot's Paradox

Taylor Colt

C47/100
Logan was kicking back with a beer on his dock when the System Integration transformed his world. The planet became a sci-fi movie overnight — powers, levels, and impossible messages from an entity called the System that has deemed humanity a plague. Each day the dissolution of society gets worse, and in 365 days only the top-rated 1% will survive. Logan could accept his lot and go along with the flow, but he's worked out how to manipulate his new world: baseball bats with nails, cleavers, weed whackers — whatever it takes. He's good at killing things, and when the System threatens his sister and her kids, he'll show it what an idiot can really do. Features a bonded murderhobo octopus and a sentient weapon with murderous intentions toward the MC's friends.
Royal Road4.46· 683
ComedyGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+2

Hive Mind Beyond the Veil

1650th

C47/100
Awakening somewhere completely foreign, with no memory of how or why, a new consciousness finds itself flooded with biological knowledge — how life forms adapt, how cells divide and heal, the microscopic patterns underlying all living things. This strange existence as a hive mind is both a gift and a burden: seeing through countless eyes, feeling through countless senses, understanding each creature within its domain as an extension of itself. In the sequel, reborn into a world where war is the only memory, the hive mind fights, bleeds, dies, and rises again — carrying every lesson from the drones it controls. Having crushed the dregs of the Triumvirate, it now prepares for the greater storm to come.
Royal Road4.61· 226
Genius MCMilitaryMysteryNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fi+1

Tower of Babel

Adam Elliott

C47/100
Launch day. That was what they called it — the day over four million people vanished from Manhattan, the day a one-hundred-and-one-kilometre tower rose from the wreckage, and the day every screen displayed a single message: The Great Emperor has issued his challenge. A hundred floors and a hundred challenges await the worthy. To the victor goes a Wish of Unlimited Power. Cayden Caros yearned to play that game, but the Terms and Conditions barred anyone under sixteen from entering. Forced to wait two years, Cayden researched, practiced, and prepared — because when it came to catching up to players with a massive head start, being a SpeedRunner was a very particular kind of advantage.
Goodreads4.00· 1.1K
Competent MCGenius MCLitRPGStatsSystem ApocalypseTower Climbing

Worm Mage

Maradina

C47/100
In a world ruled by giant bugs, colossal moths ravaged Sparrow's hometown, titanic waterbugs sank his refugee ship, and giant ants killed his parents. Ordered to stay behind and cover his army's retreat in humanity's losing war against the Swarm, he is rescued at the brink of death by a hidden village of powerful mages. To save his life they change his class to Worm — a class no one in the outside world knows anything about. Armed with a set of reality-warping mutations and abilities, Sparrow must gather knowledge, master the mages' techniques, and accumulate as much power as possible before returning to his army. First, he has to learn to control his wormhole abilities before he rips himself apart.
Royal Road4.60· 347
Class SystemCompetent MCGenius MCLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+2

The Dramatic Dungeon: A Dungeon Core Story

Fatomir

C47/100
In a world where Elves and Goblins are real, where Wizards and Witches cast terrible magic, and where level-100 Heroes lead parties against great evils, Dungeons are essential — places where stories are written, loot acquired, and legends born. And the narrator of this story is a Dungeon. Known as the Playwright, this Dungeon Core invites adventurers to the "Stage of Forgotten Fables" for a dramatic dungeon delve unlike any they have experienced before. Told from the perspective of the Dungeon Core itself, the story shifts between multiple POVs to show the growth of its characters. The LitRPG elements of levels, skills, and classes are present, though the focus leans toward narrative over number-crunching.
Royal Road4.60· 343
Anti-heroComedyDungeon CoreGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+2

Player 0.4

Alek Aundra

C47/100
The battle against the Kobar Empire was utterly lost, and as Luca lay dying a strange blue screen appeared: he had the aptitude to be a Player, and if he accepted, the game would reset. He accepted — and the reset went wrong, leaving him as only a partial player: Active Players: 0.4. Luca is neither clever nor strong. He will die. A lot. But with enough resets, he'll learn and grow. A slow-burning, character-driven story about an underdog using time-loop deaths to inch toward something better.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.55· 628
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+4

Rise of the Skillmaster

S.T.J

C47/100
In a modern Korea where fifteen percent of humanity has awakened as Manaborn, rifts tear open across the city and the strong rise as Rifters. Sam Jimin, a poor orphan scraping by on the outskirts of Seoul, pinned everything on his Awakening. He received Rank E-1 — no skills, a dead end. Hidden behind that humiliating result, however, is a Unique Skill no one has ever seen: Skillmaster, the ability to create and edit skills at a cost only he can pay. With nothing left to lose, he gambles everything on it — fighting his way up through academies, guild politics, and rising threats, skill by skill and battle by battle.
Royal Road4.41· 683
ComedyCozyCraftingGenius MCLitRPGSchool+5

Dungeon Mastery

Rokoran

C46/100
The chronicles of one very exasperated Dungeon Core — formerly a human of Planet Earth — who just wants to build in peace. Unfortunately, even with a cheat, life isn't quite that charmed.
Royal Road4.60· 300
Anti-heroComedyDungeon CoreGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

The Foundation of Smoke and Steel

JCAnderson2025

C46/100
I woke up in another man's body on the day of his arranged marriage to the most terrifying woman in the Kingdom. He was supposed to die — and the worst part is he already did, because he's still here, in my head. Bitter. Brilliant. Watching me relive every mistake he made in a life that ended with betrayal, heartbreak, and murder. But I'm not Ethan Zhou. I'm a systems engineer with a background in strategy, survival, and zero interest in playing by the rules of a cultivation world obsessed with bloodlines, legacies, and face. Together — whether we like it or not — we build something better. I'll play the quiet husband, the loyal son-in-law. Until it's time to rewrite the foundation beneath the empire's feet.
Royal Road4.16· 707Goodreads5.00· 3
CultivationGenius MCHaremIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World+3

The Bureau of Isekai Affairs

Vebyast

C46/100
What does a world do to survive a continuous low-level influx of Isekai protagonists, each adding their own world's magic or superpowers to the mix? Whitney Ismael, software engineer, learns the answer: licensing and registration paperwork, search warrants, and special agents for the Bureau of Isekai Affairs.
Royal Road4.60· 292
ComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSatire+2

System of Nil

Tim Paulson

C46/100
Nathan Cheng, known as Nil, is a game developer with four consecutive game jam wins — but a gaping hole in his heart from his sister's untimely murder. When he wakes up in an arcane world with a familiar System, he's given one mission: defeat the dark king, or die. Success means returning home on the day before his sister was killed. Only Nil's knowledge of the System — and his perfect memory — can let him advance fast enough to avoid being overwhelmed. The mechanics are far more complex than they appear, with thousands of hidden secrets waiting to be exploited. It'll take more than just brains. He'll need a mountain of grit and guts.
Goodreads4.30· 381
Competent MCDungeon CrawlingGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMystery+1

Shattered System

Actus

C46/100
A clock hangs over every mortal, counting down to the day the Goddess of Death claims them. The Gods were said to live forever, existing so far outside natural law that even their crimes go unpunished. But Knell Coba, at great cost, realizes this is nothing but a lie. The Gods can be tricked. They can be defeated. They can die. Together with his loyal crew, Knell will use his cunning and the power of the System to grow strong enough to get his revenge on the Goddess — no matter the cost.
Goodreads4.30· 376
Genius MCGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong