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The Dungeon Boss's Favorite Game

Michael Dale

C57/100
Kragathor is the final guardian of the world's deepest dungeon — an immortal ancient dragon, and terribly bored. His only amusement comes from scrying on adventurer teams in the upper levels. When he hears of a new magic item called a Virmo that projects one's mind into a grand-scale game, he dispatches a minion to acquire one. He logs into a game set in a world that runs on the twin magics of "science" and "technology," and embarks on a new journey as Bob, the Level 1 Human with no class.
Royal Road4.62· 726
ComedyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fiVRMMO

In Space With a Junkyard Ship

apinsig

C57/100
Earth stands dead. Follow a broken man's desperate journey as he searches for freedom — trying to generate enough power to escape not just from a ruined Earth, but from the remnants of human colonies now controlling the solar system, who see him as little more than a machine. It won't take long for him to discover that the universe is nothing like he imagined. The emptiness he envisioned isn't there, nor is the easy life of leisure he dreamed of. Instead, danger and opportunity lurk around every corner — and for those not brave enough to face them, only death awaits.
Royal Road4.63· 530Goodreads4.69· 36
Base BuildingCraftingGameLitLoner MCOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+1

Past the Redline

RavensDagger

C57/100
Entirely sane space-racer Diana Slowbane pushes her ship past its limits to bag first place — and in doing so, breaks the laws of causality. She sends herself, her ship, and her AI companion ChaOS hurtling across the Milky Way and into Federation space, where she becomes the first human to meet any of the locals. She immediately demands they race. A completed action-adventure story full of racing, nanomachines, an overpowered AI that still can't handle an insane human, and plenty of chaos.
Royal Road4.64· 352Goodreads4.33· 51
ComedyCozyOverpowered MCSci-fi

Scion of Humanity

nugenttw

C57/100
Blake thought he was sacrificing his life to defeat the alien overlord. Instead, he finds himself ten years in his past — before Earth is aware of the malicious AI threat heading its way. With a second chance, he must leverage his in-depth knowledge of the AI's system and his hard-earned martial skill to grow strong enough to defend his people and establish a faction capable of uniting humanity. He gains levels, recruits members, and builds his base of power — all in a race against a threat only he knows is coming.
Royal Road4.46· 909
Base BuildingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticRegression+3

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· 784
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+2

Ace of Capes

kayday

C57/100
All Lexie wanted was to go to an elite college. But life deals her a bad hand and she's transported to a new world as the ten-year-old daughter of a once-beloved hero turned supervillain. The system wants her to be a hero, but she's only focused on finding a way home. Lexie isn't particularly brave or strong, and her deck-building powers are too weak for hero work. But as an overachiever with a passion for studying, she's confident that empirical research and a number two pencil can solve any problem. As unstable dungeons spawn and new villains arise, she digs deeper into her power mechanics and reverse-engineers a winning hand — one that may not be entirely legal. Maybe Lexie will be a hero after all. But it won't be like any of them expect.
Royal Road4.62· 651
Competent MCCozyDungeon CrawlingGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+6

Hail Thy Gods

Godric

C57/100
Born under the oppression of noble houses who believe they have the divine right to rule, Kalon dreams of restoring glory to his people. For a thousand years his people have toiled under the galactic nobility — so long that most have forgotten their once great empire. Starting from the lowest caste in the galaxy, Kalon must break the system of oppression to rise and see his dreams realized. Allegiances will sway as conflicts ignite across the stars. Worlds will burn, empires rise and fall, and republics shatter as gods grown deaf to suffering are challenged by the forsaken. A sci-fi xianxia blending cultivation and divine blessings, with slow progression and a competent, daring protagonist.
Royal Road4.59· 783
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyCultivationGenius MCGrimdark+5

Cosmic Ascension

Adam King

C56/100
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.
Goodreads4.38· 301
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStatsWeak to Strong

What's A Koopa To Do? (My Hero Academia/Bowser Self-Insert Story)

Mahmoud Schahed

C56/100
A self-insert fan fiction mashing together My Hero Academia and Bowser.
Royal Road4.64· 317
ComedySchoolSci-fiSuperpowers

Starblood

Roman Prokofiev, Sofia Shcherbakova

C56/100
When the ark began emergency jettisoning colonists, one got unlucky three times: his capsule was shot down above a forbidden Circle, crashed next to the White Devil's tomb, and he climbed into a wounded noxwolf's lair and discovered Starblood. Other Ascendants would call it good fortune — but had he left it alone, he might have remained a normal person. Now someone with a Slate, Attributes, and Runes isn't a typical colonist from Earth in a world that's far from ordinary — especially when he has a voice in his head. A spinoff set in the same universe as Project Stellar, Starblood follows those who escaped Earth's catastrophe into deep space.
Goodreads4.38· 292
IsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStatsSystem Apocalypse

That Which Devours

jerpatch

C56/100
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 Road4.63· 443
Class SystemGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fiStats+1

Tidal Lock

ResonantIce

C56/100
Humanity has finally taken the next step into space. Governments run research stations throughout the solar system while private enterprises mine asteroids for rare metals and exotic minerals. However, space remains beyond the reach of the everyday person. In contrast, virtual reality technology has led to an explosion of full-immersion entertainment, and many people turn to VR for the thrill of spaceflight. One game, Parallax Gate, lets players experience living in an interstellar civilization. For maximum realism, its developers created a world solely defined by players' personal skills and ability. Mark Asami, a student of aerospace engineering at MIT, dreams of bringing spaceflight to the masses. To pass time, he plays as Aero Rayne in Parallax Gate with his roommate and their organization, the Temple Wraiths — until a chain of in-game events draws them deeper into the game's world and politics than they ever intended.
Royal Road4.62· 596
CozyGameLitGenius MCSchoolSci-fiVRMMO

Kittypunk

RavensDagger

C56/100
She was the world's greatest assassin — a silent threat, the cause of a hundred mysterious deaths, all to feed her cats and pay her rent. And then she died. The last thing she expected was to be reborn as a harmless kitten in the hands of a very strange girl. Now tasked with mentoring the girl in the arts of assassination, Caroline Daniels (now known as the fearsome Queen Violence Von Ragamuffin) has to figure out how to mother an idiot while weighing as much as half a loaf of soggy bread. A lighthearted cyberpunk romp featuring cat shenanigans, found family, a soft progression system, and naps.
Royal Road4.63· 416
ComedyCozyLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fi

Mass Effect: Knight of the Old Republic

Azureblade

C55/100
Darth Revan, Dark Lady of the Sith Empire, is betrayed at the moment of inevitable victory. Forced to flee with an entire Republic fleet in pursuit, she risks everything on an experimental hyperdrive and an unknown course. In a galaxy far away, Commander Jane Shepard wakes up two years after a fatal ambush. While she hasn't travelled far, the galaxy around her is alien to her — and the Reapers are still coming. With only a humano-centric terrorist organization at her back, can she convince the galaxy of the impending threat before it's too late?
Royal Road4.62· 560
Genius MCMilitarySci-fiTransmigration

All I Got is This Stat Menu

J.J. Ackerknecht

C55/100
Anya Nowicki, along with thousands of people around the globe, has found herself a host for alien technology known as the Archive. The Archive allows its hosts to alter their minds and bodies in an instant through holographic menu systems — granting super strength, magical abilities, or mastery in an almost infinite number of skills. However, Anya has also become the target for nightmarish shape-shifting creatures that came to Earth following the extraterrestrial tech. The Archive can grant great power, but it may not be enough to survive the horde of murderous aliens hunting them down.
Goodreads4.34· 698
LitRPGSci-fiSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

A Bioweapon's Rhapsody

Alexanders (Katsu)

C55/100
Four white walls, a small room to sleep in, and an adjacent combat testing area — that was the life of Subject P4. Fight or solve logic puzzles, defeat enemies to eat and integrate their designs, or receive nutrient paste if you fail. That was until, after a combat test, P4 managed to trigger the generation of a Mana Core and got away with it. The System gave the tools to fight toward freedom. Now the only goal is to keep that freedom and carry on the prime directives burned into the Core after escaping: Eat. Grow. Evolve.
Royal Road4.32· 902
ComedyCozyCraftingGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MC+4

Arcane Apocalypse

Arawn Frostguard

C55/100
What would happen if Mana touched a Realm thus far deprived of it? The people of Earth are about to find out, and it's not going to be pretty. The moment the barrier keeping supernatural powers out collapsed, only the System's intervention held the world together. Mia is one of those tiny people on the floating rocks in the void — and she has much bigger problems, like goblins trying to eat her. It's not all bad: she may have monsters trying to eat her and disturbingly pointy ears, but she seems to have a real talent for magic.
Royal Road4.58· 751
GameLitLGBTQ+LitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+6

Sunspot

yootie

C55/100
Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth — but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in known as "Ezzen," he's resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic and fanboying over the superhuman Vaetna. When fate splinters and magic finally finds him, it's the best day of his life — and the worst. He suddenly becomes a resource in a cold war over magical power, hunted by paramilitary organizations and Flame-worshipping cults alike. Worse, the reality of being a flamebearer is nothing like the apotheosis he dreamed of: it is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters.
Royal Road4.61· 715Goodreads4.28· 210
CozyGoreGrimdarkHard MagicLGBTQ+Sci-fi+4

Viceroy's Pride

Cale Plamann

C54/100
Seek out new life and civilizations. Kill them for their mana. Daniel Thrush is the only known human capable of learning the magic that powers the various empires of the universe. Earth is in the crosshairs of the Tellask Empire — a race that discovered magic millennia before humanity mastered fire. All known alien civilizations abandoned technological progress once they found the arcane, spreading across the galaxy aboard great voidships. For all of Earth's military might, humanity's only hope is to incorporate alien magic into technology. That means finding monsters and harvesting their mana. Despite his better judgment, Daniel leaves Earth behind to bring back a future.
Goodreads4.31· 1.1K
Competent MCHard MagicMilitarySci-fi

The Laboratory

Skyler Grant

C54/100
Emma is an artificial intelligence with a love of science, a talent for insults, and a gift for devious traps. When her systems reboot, she finds herself in control of a long-abandoned facility in a post-apocalyptic wasteland — a world filled with dangerous beings granted extraordinary powers by the same cataclysm that silenced the old world. Emma must balance caution against her insatiable need for test subjects as she brings her facility back online and carves out a place in the chaos outside her walls.
Goodreads3.98· 1.3K
Base BuildingComedyDungeon CoreNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+1