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Deeper Darker

mooderino

C59/100
Set in the far future, humanity has reached the stars — only to find it is not the first to do so. A long-dead alien race has left behind ancient cities, abandoned starships, temples, and fortified bunkers filled with artefacts so advanced they feel more like magic than technology. Powerful enough for a single person to dominate a star system, these relics are also fiercely defended by bewildering security measures. Those who are compatible with the alien technology can augment themselves to face the increasingly extreme protocols in the depths of the ruins — and by doing so, attain greater and greater power. The rewards are immense, but only those willing to go further and risk more will uncover the greatest secrets of a civilisation that vanished long before the first human walked upright.
Royal Road4.55· 910
ComedyCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingHard MagicSci-fiStats

Knights Apocalyptica

Zach Skye

C59/100
The Earth met its end, bathed in holy fire. Rifts now spill monsters into the world, and the Kingdom of Cindrus is the last bastion of humanity, clinging to life deep underground. Erec, blessed by the goddess like all humans, comes from a line of disgraced nobility and seeks to reclaim his family's honor by joining the prestigious academy that trains the next generation of Knights. Armed with a power that drives him to uncontrollable Rage and aided by an old-world AI, Erec sets out to reconquer the world with the remnants of humankind.
Royal Road4.51· 948
Class SystemLitRPGPost-apocalypticSchoolSci-fiSecondary World+1

Superworld

Benjamin Keyworth

C59/100
Matt Callaghan is in trouble. In a world where everyone has superpowers, he's got none, and has spent five years faking clairvoyance to avoid getting caught. When a desperate bluff backfires, he'll need every ounce of cunning and juvenile delinquency to stay alive. Jane Walker is trouble. In a world where everyone is powerful, Jane stands alone and apart, hated for her ability to copy abilities and atrocities far beyond her control. A chance encounter sends her hurtling toward her lifelong dream — or a violent, painful death. Unbeknownst to both, their paths are intertwined, and an unseen force draws them toward a secret whose existence threatens not just their lives, but the fate of the entire world.
Royal Road4.52· 932Goodreads4.09· 248
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

Grand Design

TMarkos

C59/100
Humanity once ruled space, building an empire that stretched across hundreds of stars. Now Earth is a cold cinder in the void, its colonies and ships annihilated in an instant. For five thousand years, the surviving races have huddled in the dying light of the few stations that avoided total destruction, eking out their existence in the shadow of the long-dead humans who built their homes. When a piece of that lost legacy resurfaces, the few who still remember humanity have one last opportunity to find the truth and avenge the fallen.
Royal Road4.64· 557
MysteryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary World

Dungeon's Path

akhier the dragon hearted

C59/100
So the world ended. Most people say that and mean humans are inconvenienced. Not this time — all matter disintegrated at the atomic scale. The local universe wasn't actually stable; what everyone took for sea level was actually a nice little mountain lake, and when the dam busted, so did everything. Magic is real, qi is real, gods are real — not on old Earth, but souls pay little attention to time and space, so humanity dreamed of it. The closer the shift in reality got to Earth, the closer those dreams got to the new reality. Reality became a video game. And Doyle Huxley became a dungeon. Doyle just wanted a normal life, but some early paths he takes — both literally and figuratively — lead him to becoming a dungeon core. This is his story.
Royal Road4.15· 1.1K
ComedyCozyDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MC+3

Path of the Last Champion

TheWanderingWind

C59/100
Nar was born in darkness and was meant to die there — a slave, shackled by a sin long forgotten, doomed to a life beneath the surface. His eyes were never meant to see the Infinite Nexus or the wonders of the Endless Labyrinth. He was never destined for power, a class, or the System. But he made the choice few sinners dare: to Climb. Now he must forge a hybrid tank/DPS class, conceal a secret that could destroy his party, and achieve the impossible to save his dying father. With every step toward the City Without End, Nar unknowingly draws to a close a play that has spanned eternities — and no one is expecting him.
Royal Road4.59· 841
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMystery+4

Magical Girl Rending Nightmare

RavensDagger

C59/100
After Earth's magical girls accidentally destroy the entire planet, they decide to fix their mistake with the power of love, friendship, and overwhelming firepower. This doesn't go as planned. A multi-isekai plot featuring ridiculously overpowered protagonists, cute girls terrorizing multi-dimensional godlike beings, and over-the-top combat. A continuation of the Magical Girl X series.
Royal Road4.66· 210Goodreads4.51· 83
ComedyCozyIsekaiOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi

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SquiggleStoryStudios

C59/100
Dr. Uru'Nav Xant, Department Head of Research, has been documenting his interviews with a newly discovered "Creator level" intelligent species: Human. His subject, Jasmine, displays many unique quirks — most intriguingly, an incredibly strong "frequency" she produces with the help of an implanted alien translator. Together the pair navigate cultural misunderstandings, corporate politics, and animal companionship while uncovering the mysterious circumstances of Jasmine's abduction.
Royal Road4.65· 346
ComedyCozyIsekaiMysteryNon-human MCOverpowered MC+1

Galactogon

Vasily Mahanenko

C59/100
Twelve players set off through the online world of Galaktogon, lured by the game owners' promise of an enormous payoff. The question is who will survive to tell the tale — which of the twelve is a potential hero, and which a traitor in the making? A knight or a coward? Each of the twelve will have to choose their path. Each will keep a poker face. But if a billion-pound prize calls your name, you can't conceal your choice.
Goodreads4.17· 1.4K
Competent MCLitRPGSci-fiVRMMO

The Power of Ten: Book One: Sama Rantha, and Book Two: The Far Future

RE Druin

C59/100
Some time ago, a planes-traveling archmage invented a video game to train people on Earth for a coming catastrophe. The gods seized the opportunity to take the templates — and even the souls — of some of those characters for use in other worlds. Sama Rantha is one of those characters. Being a Hagchild and surviving after your Hag Curse fails to murder you at birth is much, much less fun than setting it as your race at level one on a gamescreen. Book One follows Sama's Road to Ten in a traditional LitRPG fantasy setting, heavy with gaming terms and rules-lawyering as she min-maxes her heart out to survive a world intent on killing her. Book Two shifts to a sci-fi/fantasy/psionics mashup as Sama is sent into a grim dark galaxy she'd rather not be in — but the heart of a powergamer never says no.
Royal Road4.32· 1KGoodreads4.67· 3
GameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+5

Mage Steel: A Western Sci-Fi Cultivation Series

Dominick R

C59/100
A thousand years ago, Earth fell. Rifts tore open reality, flooding the planet with eldritch horrors. Humanity evolved, adapted, and awakened to new powers — but it wasn't enough. Earth was abandoned and humanity scattered to the stars. Now, Knights are all that remain of Earth's warrior legacy: humans wielding Rift-forged power armor and ancient combat disciplines, fighting for hire across the galaxy. Cadet Kon was training to join their ranks until his ship was shot down and he crash-landed on a Rift-infected world crawling with pirates, bandits, and relics of a dead civilization. Cut off from command and surrounded by monsters that should not exist, survival becomes the first test of many as Kon fights his way through a world lost to madness.
Royal Road4.64· 501
CultivationHard MagicMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+2

Phantom Server

Ros Per

C59/100
As the years start running out, you often find that life has left you completely alone. This is what has happened to one military veteran who has lived through many of history's flash points. In order to inject some color into his final days, the former soldier signs a contract with a company that has developed a fully immersive virtual world. Project Alpha Rome is a multi-level city plagued by endless wars between humans and mutants. Under the nickname Volper, the veteran sets out on his path alone — and thanks to his attentive, reflective approach, he begins spotting things other players have missed, raising deeper questions about the true purpose of the project.
Goodreads4.02· 1.5K
LitRPGMysteryOlder MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiVRMMO

The Forerunner Initiative

Draith

C59/100
Dragons, catgirls, guns, and magic — plus the ability to stop time. A modern woman finds herself in a fantasy world with a mysterious past she'd rather keep locked away on Earth. She has goals, though: first, play with magic. Last, find a way home before the world ends. A LitRPG-Isekai adventure that builds toward a return to Earth to stop a System apocalypse.
Royal Road4.52· 917
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSecondary WorldSystem Apocalypse+1

Cosmic Ascension

Adam King

C58/100
Noah was once the strongest Mecha pilot on Earth, leading the defense against the invading Parasites. Now he is stranded alone on a strange planet with nothing to do but fight and devour beasts to grow stronger, in hope of one day finding a way off. When a spaceship crashes on the planet, an escape route opens. Noah enters the wider universe and begins searching for the truth about what happened to Earth. Kill. Eat. Grow.
Goodreads4.39· 300
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStatsWeak to Strong

Arena

Holly Jennings

C58/100
Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League's elite competition where the world's best gamers fight to the digital death on national TV. The pain is real, even if the weapons are digital, and every bloody kill is broadcast to millions. Chosen as the first female captain in RAGE history, Kali is at the top of her game—until a teammate overdoses. Now she must confront what the tournament actually is, because the VGL hides dark secrets, and the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside.
Goodreads3.75· 1.6K
Competent MCGrimdarkLitRPGSci-fiVRMMO

That Which Devours

jerpatch

C58/100
Alex thought a colony ship crashing into a dinosaur-infested jungle was bad enough. Everyone else received a class from the mysterious System ruling this brutal universe — but Alex's Class Selection never arrives. To top it off, a meteor shower forces down the supply shuttle, leaving her and her brother stranded with food running out. Just when all hope seems lost, it finally happens: Class Selection. And with it, a Legendary Class: Devourer. But what the heck is a Devourer, and why does this power feel so ravenous — making her brother smell less like family and more like a tasty meal? Alex embarks on a perilous trek through the wilderness to reach the compound for supplies. As the dinosaurs close in with her brother's life hanging in the balance, she must master abilities she barely understands or succumb to a world that feeds on the weak.
Royal Road4.64· 439
Class SystemGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fiStats+1

Cherno Caster

Akaso

C58/100
Betrayed and murdered for daring to expose corrupt deeds, Brunhilde Krahe is snatched from death by the capricious hand of cosmic coincidence and reborn into a bizarre world of magic and conspiracy — eldritch knowledge in her brain, cosmic fire burning inside. She copes with her own death the only way she knows how: by continuing her work in the new world. Ruthless mafiosos, corrupt politicians, lowly gangsters — there is more than enough work for an investigator with no qualms about hyperviolence. Do not make peace with evil. Nuke it.
Royal Road4.65· 288
GrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Titan Hoppers

Rob J. Hayes

C58/100
Born talentless, Iro has all but resigned himself to a life of drudgery — watching others hop across massive space titans for supplies. When a titan explodes and his sister is killed, Iro finds new determination to take her place. When the fleet encounters a new titan filled with powerful monsters, deadly traps, and mysterious cloaked figures, Iro is the first to spontaneously manifest a new talent. Sent to a different ship to train with others far beyond his strength, Iro will have to work twice as hard just to catch up — and to uncover the mysteries of the titans.
Goodreads4.21· 1.3K
Hard MagicSci-fiTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

Magical Girl Crystal Genocide

RavensDagger

C57/100
After Earth's magical girls accidentally destroy the entire planet, they decide to fix their mistake with the power of love, friendship, and overwhelming firepower. This doesn't go as planned. A multi-isekai plot featuring ridiculously overpowered protagonists, cute girls terrorizing multi-dimensional godlike beings, and a hero who is occasionally badass — but usually on accident.
Royal Road4.63· 617
Base BuildingComedyCozyIsekaiOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

Superheroes and Magic Invasions

Belial666

C57/100
In the town of Destiny, Florida, magic portals open and spew out undead horrors. A few lucky survivors discover that killing the invaders grants magic powers following familiar game and comic-book tropes. For Maya Wennefer, that's only the beginning of her problems. Invaders from another world, ordinary people discovering easier paths to power, and the government's reaction to the new reality — surviving all of it is hard enough, let alone becoming a superhero. As chaos spreads and stronger monsters appear, human greed may yet prove more dangerous than any invader.
Royal Road4.59· 780
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+2