pf
Filters

Tags and status are community-built and still a work in progress.

See something wrong or missing? Open any series and hit “Suggest an edit”.

Status
Power system
Setting
Progression
Protagonist
Tone
Relationships
Content warnings
Drugs
Gore
Profanity
Sexual Content
Clear all filters

Browse

634 series

Return of the Unbound Mage

Scryx

B65/100
Miles has one obsession in life: magic. He lives it, breathes it, and dedicates every waking hour to it — but the same obsession wears down his body. At the peak of his power, he chooses to rest in artifact-enhanced sleep, planning for it to last months. It extends to centuries. Miles wakes to an entirely new world: one where magic has become structured and rigid, where mages have traded future potential for an interface — an easier, safer path for novices. The magic Miles knows has slid into legend. Someone has worked to weaken the world, and they have succeeded. But Miles still lives, and he can do everything this new era calls a myth — and much, much more.
Royal Road4.63· 963
ComedyCozyGameLitHard MagicLitRPGOverpowered MC+1

Arcanist In Another World

BleedingTears

B65/100
Valens Kosthal is the youngest Life Archmagus the Empire has ever seen. His mastery over Resonance allows him to hear the frequencies of the world and correct them — healing even the deepest wounds. Yet the full scope of his abilities is forbidden, and the little he can practice must be done in secret. When an ancient ritual promises to reveal the truth behind it all, he leaps at the chance. It leaves him alone in an unfamiliar world, deep in a dungeon crawling with rotten skeletons and towering beasts — and a System that grants him the secrets of Warmagic. Valens no longer needs to hold back.
Royal Road4.49· 1.2K
Dungeon CrawlingHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+1

Retrogression Keeper

Jonathan Brooks

B65/100
When Bax is transported from Earth to an organization of powerful universe-spanning races, he learns that his world is being forcibly inducted into the Retrogression System — which will introduce monsters to Earth and eliminate all human technology. Enrolled in a Keeper training program to become a protector of inducted worlds, he is also slated to become a Keeper Guide for future human Keepers. The only problem: he arrived while fighting off the flu, and when he finally recovers and emerges from his room, the entire Cooperative appears to be abandoned. What is a Keeper Guide recruit to do when there is no one left to teach him?
Goodreads4.40· 661
IsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary WorldStatsSystem Apocalypse

Value Loyalty Above All Else [Star Wars]

LostInTranscription

B65/100
No one rules alone — that goes double when ruling something as vast as star systems. But what if you were dropped into a universe you really don't want to be in, with powers that attract a cult of child kidnappers at best? A Star Wars: The Old Republic self-insert following the Sith Warrior storyline, where knowledge is power — but power through knowledge alone may not be enough to survive.
Royal Road4.65· 819
Base BuildingGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSci-fi+1

Paragon of Skills

VengefulBirch

B65/100
Jacob Cloud is sixteen, a miner's son, and he knows his fate: die young, broke, and anonymous in the town that feeds silver ore to richer cities and spits out its sons in pine boxes. He dreams of becoming a Knight — but that takes gold, rare Skills, and connections he will never have. Then the mine floor gives out beneath him. Jacob falls — not to his death, but onto a Rainbow-ranked Skill Crystal, something so rare people kill over it. He doesn't get a weapon or a healing Skill. He gets The Grimoire Extraordinaire — a support Skill that can only show him the flaws in any other Skill or item. No instant power. No glory. But Jacob isn't an idiot. He grinds, he experiments, and he uses the Grimoire to optimize the basics. In five days trapped underground, he boosts his skills to levels nobles would envy — and when he claws his way out, he's ready to quit the mines for good.
Royal Road3.91· 1.4K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Neon Dragons

LunaWolve

B65/100
Everyone is obsessed with Neon Dragons — the latest highly immersive cyberpunk aRPG from Sparksoft. But when our late-twenties protagonist's PC broke days before the game's release, all she could do was watch content creators play through it, limiting her knowledge to what she saw in those playthroughs. Things change drastically when she wakes up inside the body of a 15-year-old girl inside the city of Neo Avalis, six years into the game's past. She can level herself just like a character in the game, and with everything she's read and watched about Neon Dragons, she sets her sights on solving the mystery of the enigmatic Wall at the edge of the play-area. But she quickly realizes that this game is very real — life in a cyberpunk future is full of danger and intrigue, and the world has some surprising differences from the game she watched.
Royal Road4.36· 1.3K
CozyGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+4

Too Stubborn to Die

B. F. Huups, Sir Bedivere the Mad

B64/100
Fear of death never stopped Aaron from doing something dangerous. Now actual death can't either. Aaron was always a daredevil — motorcycles, cave diving, bungee jumping, skydiving. When his entire universe gets pulled into a System-managed multiverse, he happens to be skydiving, so instead of a peaceful introduction he goes splat and instantly dies. A goddess takes pity and resurrects him, but the only place she can send him is the Shadow Trials — a special dimension designed for the prodigies of each new universe. Stuck in the Shadow Trials starting from level 1, Aaron has one saving grace: he revives every time he dies. And he's going to abuse that as much as he can.
Goodreads4.40· 647
LitRPGOverpowered MCSystem ApocalypseTime LoopWeak to Strong

Orphan

Guy Incognito

B64/100
Potential is everything within the Vitrian Empire — and a provincial orphan boy is about to prove he has more of it than anyone. Found in the ruins of the Old City, the orphan Alarion is taken in by Assessor Elena, who bends the rule of law to adopt him into the House of Hunger. To earn his place, he must learn the ways of his new House, endure a grueling training regime, and battle deadly fiends — all while scraping together enough strength before those who hate what he represents finally close in. After all, potential unrealized is no power at all.
Royal Road4.59· 1K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

A Tyrant, Sort Of

farawaymuse

B64/100
Sable didn't know what she'd expected from the afterlife, but turning into a giant flying lizard wasn't it. Thrust into a magic-filled fantasy world with an obscenely powerful body, things aren't entirely great: there are hordes of orcs to the north, an immortal undead legion to the south, and fourteen human kingdoms that want the first dragon in centuries dead. What's more, her [Hoard] and [Notoriety] stats make her stronger the more gold she has and the more people fear her — which explains why dragons in the past were such unsavory sorts. Maybe she can find less evil ways to progress. What are the odds taxes and propaganda can get her where she needs to be?
Royal Road4.60· 993
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekai+5

Critical Roleplay: I Min-Maxed For Endgame, Not Flavor

PatchnotesPending

B64/100
Vera spent years climbing to the top of Ashen Legacy, a punishing MMO where every stat point mattered. She min-maxed her build, crushed endgame content, and became one of the highest-level players around. Then she woke up inside the game — in the body of her character. Everything works: the magic, the gear, the absurd power level. Unfortunately, so does the backstory — including the kid she gave herself for emotional flavor and half-baked roleplay she barely remembers writing. Now she must navigate a world shaped by her own exploits: divine ruins she helped demolish, cults whose gods she may have deleted, and a continent teetering on the edge of an expansion she never cleared. Being overpowered is easy. Being responsible? That's the real raid boss.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.60· 991
CozyGameLitIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MC+2

An Antihero's Journey: Book One, The Crow

Malaklein

B64/100
Burton was a good man — if gullible — until his superhero girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, also a superhero, and his entire family took her side. In a fit of suicidal rage, something changed: he became a Wisher, smarter and sharper than before, yet fundamentally still himself. Now he lives as a vigilante — not an official hero but a rogue man of the night who beats up bad guys and has a talking dog and cat for company. He is a cynic, a loner, and a sadistic hermit with no love to give. That is about to change, and so is his pain.
Royal Road4.67· 322
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCLoner MCOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

Omen of a Bluebell

Syly

B64/100
Gaining access to the System — that's the only goal Emilia has had for years. The death of her family left her scarred and broken, but her future still has a chance at being rewritten. She just needs the strength to overcome her past once and for all. After years of failure, her final opportunity is slipping away. One last delve into the Tunnels, sponsored by a questionable backer and fueled by desperation. Emilia never imagined that succeeding would be the easy part. Ancient powers begin to stir. Forgotten evils awaken. The System itself changes in ways nobody fully understands. And somewhere amidst the chaos, powerful forces begin searching for the one responsible — leaving Emilia scrambling through a new life she never had time to prepare for.
Royal Road4.68· 214
Dungeon CrawlingLGBTQ+LitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Equilibrium

Excalionar

B64/100
Peter V. Kastell is taken from the cycle of reincarnation and given a purpose — one he can fulfill in nearly any way he chooses. But his soul is damaged, leaving him at an unforeseen disadvantage. Thanks to a benevolent Goddess, he gains different advantages to compensate. Along the way, his story will be uncovered, and he will gain powers beyond what he ever thought possible.
Royal Road4.60· 967Goodreads4.25· 67
Anti-heroGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Burning Stars, Falling Skies

Cocop (Cale Plamann)

B63/100
Threedak is a simple Dhajtel. Every night she scavenges and hunts for her tribe in the great desert, relying on skill and ancestral memories to avoid the darkness's many dangers. Her life remains largely the same until one night, one of the gleaming lights in the sky falls into her desert. Deciding to investigate, she happens upon a scene far beyond her limited understanding. The Dhajtel aren't alone. The galaxy is far vaster and more hostile than her people can even begin to comprehend. Entrusted with the knowledge and memories of a dead race, it will be up to Threedak to forge Dhajtel society into something that can survive the storm to come.
Royal Road4.65· 669
Base BuildingGenius MCMilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSci-fi

System Reset: Forged in Nightmare

Elessar44

B63/100
Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end job, an estranged sister, friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality — except Alex's reality did not change. After surviving the Apocalypse for 15 years, his life came to an end with a betrayal. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.
Royal Road4.52· 1.1K
CraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+5

Overleveled: Arrival in a New World

JL Vincent

B63/100
When an aimless guy dies making a noble sacrifice, he is given a chance to live life better in a new world. Due to some godly negligence and terrible luck, however, his arrival does not go as planned. Having acquired overwhelming power, he has to confront a familiar question: how should I live my life?
Royal Road4.54· 1.1K
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+3

Hocus, Pocus, Hypothesis: A Scientific Isekai

Persimmon

B63/100
The Scientist cared only for the Truth. His brilliant career was thrown into doubt because fools could not see what was before their eyes. When he reaches too far in his search for undeniable proof, he dies. Against all reason, he wakes up — reborn in a coven of witches, in a world where magic is king and science is unknown. But the System is the key to finding the Truth. Now going by the name Orion Voidwalker, he will use his scientific knowledge to reach heights previously thought impossible, even as chaos spreads through the Cyril Magocracy and not everyone is content to watch him discard dogma in his quest.
Royal Road4.49· 1.1K
GameLitGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

Applied Cultivation

CatVI

B63/100
They called him trash — until he put the Dao under the microscope. When demons slaughter his new family, computer scientist Johan — now reborn as Yu Han — survives by pure wit. He gains access to the mysterious system that all cultivators use to defy the heavens. But it won't be enough. Betrayed and stripped of everything, his only path forward is joining a prestigious immortal sect. Before he can even step inside, he slaps the faces of two powerful young masters. Yu Han should have no path forward — but in his past life he was a corporate warfare consultant who treated business rivals like failed hypotheses to be mercilessly eliminated. Trash talent? He'll prototype his own. Watch this blood-thirsty fatty sprint toward immortality, bringing algorithms to sword fights and treating cultivation like a hostile takeover.
Royal Road4.27· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+6

House of the Dragon: Aegon's Infinite Class Tree

Deep__aureate

B63/100
When a game developer from modern-day Earth wakes in the body of Prince Aegon Targaryen — the long-forgotten third son of Baelon the Brave — he expects a swift, bloody end in the shadows of his more famous brothers. But fate has other plans. Aegon remembers everything: dragons, fire, politics, and the unfinished class tree system he'd been coding at the time of his death. Somehow, it lives within him now. Each decision grants him access to traits and abilities no Targaryen has ever wielded: [Pyromancer], [Demon Knight], and secrets yet to be unlocked. As the Seven Kingdoms groan under the weight of scheming lords and rising dragons, Aegon walks a knife's edge — with a mind sharpened by two lifetimes and power drawn from beyond the known world.
Royal Road4.57· 1K
Class SystemGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Behemoth

lkal92

B63/100
Cyril, the affable third prince of the Wandering Phoenix Tribe, awakens in the desert with no memory of his recent past. Destined to serve as the future Librarian of his people, he never expected to become the vessel of Behemoth, one of the World Titans — celestial beings ancient as the world itself, viewed like the eruption of a volcano or a tsunami capable of washing away an entire nation. More interested in reading romance novels than conducting war, Cyril seeks only to return to his family. But he soon discovers he is not the only anomaly to arise, and not everyone has such peaceful intentions. Armed with an unfathomable reservoir of mana and the spirit of a colossus, Cyril must stand tall through the upheaval of the old world and the birth of a new one.
Royal Road4.67· 275Goodreads4.12· 67
CultivationGoreGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+2