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Rise to Omniscience

Aaron Oster

A79/100
Morgan grows up on the streets of City Four, constantly shunned by other citizens and beaten by city guards because of his friendship with the city lord's only daughter. The lord wants him dead, and Morgan is nearing his sixteenth birthday with no awakened abilities in a world where might makes right. Faced with a life-altering decision, Morgan must find his own path in a world where power is everything — and where his choices will impact everyone around him.
Goodreads4.32· 3.2K
GoreGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats+1

Spire's Spite

Octophobia

A78/100
Today wasn't one of Fritz's best days — mainly because he'd been beaten, kidnapped, stuffed in a cell with a slew of other captives, then forced to climb a particularly malevolent Spire. The Spires have stood tall for thousands of years as cities, kingdoms, and empires rise and fall around them. Inside are Treasures, Monsters, and most importantly, Powers. Every floor conquered gives a choice of magical Abilities or Attributes that, when built up and chosen well, could raise even a street urchin to a king or beyond. Which is lucky for Fritz and his crew — urchins and thieves caught in a deadly peril. Climb or die.
Royal Road4.72· 990
Class SystemLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStatsTower Climbing+1

Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone

MuffinLance

A78/100
Humanity is dying, hunted to extinction by creatures of legend. One boy was born to save them all. That boy just got knifed in the back. He looked a bit too much like Aaron, you see. Now it's Aaron's job to step up, lest his Death correct that little mix-up. But Aaron's skills as a street rat run more towards stealing and stabbing than towards saving. And the more he learns of what brought dear dead Markus to that fatal alleyway, the more he has to wonder just what the world's savior was really up to the night the wrong boy died. A dark fantasy set in a world drawing on a fusion of European and Asian mythology, featuring court politics, gray-on-gray morality, and a slow-burn empire-builder plot.
Royal Road4.72· 972Goodreads4.56· 159
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkMysterySecondary World+1

Magic is Programming

Douglas M

A78/100
Carlos was an ordinary software engineer on Earth — until he died and found himself in a fantasy world of dungeons, magic, and adventure. This new world offers many fascinating possibilities, but it seems unfortunate that the skills he spent much of his life developing will be useless, since they don't have computers. Then he notices something strange: the spell incantations read like source code. Magic is programming?
Royal Road4.54· 2.3K
Dungeon CrawlingHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

Peculiar Soul

TMarkos

A78/100
Not everyone gets a soul. The rise of industry and mechanization has sent the world's population booming, striving relentlessly for the fixed handful of souls that level armies and steer the fate of nations. Michael is the scion of a lord — and the soulless cannot hold such a title. For five years he has endured pain and failure attempting to claim one of the souls freed by its vessel's death, earning only his father's contempt. The remnants of a crumbled empire fight in a grinding, bloody war against their ancient enemy. At last, one more opportunity has come. But not everyone gets a soul quite like his.
Royal Road4.61· 1.8K
GrimdarkMilitarySecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Cerise

BlueCoffeeJava

A78/100
On the day Cerise and her best friend Mykhal return from getting their classes, miners from their village rebel. Fearing the reaction of their liege lord, Cerise's family flees — and with no better destination in mind, they turn their steps toward the newly discovered Sea Crest Dungeon. A feel-good, low-conflict read. Book 1 follows Cerise, Mykhal, and Cerise's parents as they travel across the width of Druerjan. Book 2 focuses on settling into life in the dungeon town and learning how to be dungeon delvers.
Royal Road4.78· 278
Class SystemCozyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World+1

Evil to Eden: Turning a Haunted Castle into a Bed and Breakfast

Tater Prince

A78/100
Gideon's life is going nowhere fast until a letter arrives telling him he's inherited a castle from a distant great-uncle he never knew. The only problem: his ancestor isn't dead, he's undead, and the castle is falling apart. When Gideon realizes the former evil lair sits along an important route through a treacherous stretch of mountains, he gets a new idea: instead of keeping people out, maybe it's time to invite them in. With a grumpy undead mentor trapped in a magic mirror, an animated suit of armor, and skeletons learning to make pancakes, Gideon learns new magic and levels up — one cozy renovation at a time.
Royal Road4.73· 703
Base BuildingComedyCozyLitRPGSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Artificial Jelly

Materia-Blade

A78/100
Born to die and be born again, Gell the Jellyfae must discover her strange connection to the horrible monsters called humans — creatures that speak with words she understands yet seem to want nothing but her death. Driven by a desire for safety and freedom, she ventures forth to Tread the Sky and finds more worlds than one.
Royal Road4.54· 2.1KGoodreads4.40· 577
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fi+2

Kairos

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A78/100
It has been centuries since mortals unlocked the secrets of the Fate System and overthrew Mount Olympus. The old gods are dead, and their thrones are empty. Kairos, a young pirate with the ability to speak with animals, has one ambition: to ascend as the newest deity of a flooded world. But divine power is not given — it is taken. Now Kairos must sail the endless sea, tame fearsome monsters, and conquer new lands. The challenges are many, but he will face them all. For Kairos is a cunning [Rogue] indeed.
Royal Road4.67· 1.6KGoodreads4.33· 545
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMonster TamingOverpowered MC+1

Low-Fantasy Occultist Isekai

Persimmon

A78/100
Nicholas Crowley is used to scraping by in a world where magic is dying. The modern age has left the arcane behind, and the few remaining practitioners fight over scraps like starving dogs. While performing a ritual, something interferes and his soul is ripped from his body. He awakens during the Class ceremony as Nick, a kid living on the frontier of the Green Ocean — a seemingly infinite expanse of trees brimming with rare ingredients and powerful creatures. Mana is abundant here, and the omnipresent System allows for feats he had once thought impossible. But legends walk the land, and gods require their due. Will his experience as an occultist be enough to navigate this wild new world?
Royal Road4.54· 2.2K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

The Reincarnation of Alysara

Comiak

A78/100
Reincarnated as a fox-like being in a fantasy world filled with magic and mysteries, Alysara is blinded after reaching for something she should not have. Now she must train her ability to sense the mana around her, and unravel the true nature of mana and magic itself, in order to see again.
Royal Road4.59· 1.9KGoodreads4.43· 30
CozyGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+5

Fostering Faust

Randi Darren

A78/100
Alex is dead — and headed somewhere only the worst of the worst go, all for a single choice he made about a product his company owned. He is given one alternative: return to the living in another world, with his soul belonging to another, bound to make pacts with others that seal their secrets forever. The world he is sent to is the dark ages. To keep his soul out of hell, Alex must ask how much he is willing to take from others — and how much he will give of himself to survive.
Goodreads4.35· 2.9K
GoreGrimdarkHaremIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World+1

The Snake Report

wercwercwerc

A78/100
When life ends, many believe a soul is judged — warriors go to Valhalla, saints to heaven, and evil-doers to hell. But what about someone who doesn't fall into any of those categories? Some of them end up reincarnated as a tiny snake. This is the story of one such soul: a winding path through a fantasy world toward something like existential redemption, told with comedy and heart.
Royal Road4.52· 2.2KGoodreads4.42· 281
ComedyLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself

Haylock

A78/100
When summoned to a fantastical world and granted powers by a broken System, most freshly minted protagonists would strap on their boots and get ready for their stats to start climbing. But Fischer isn't like most MCs — he doesn't want to be a hero at all. Fame, fortune, power? He had enough of all that in his old life. Discovering forbidden fishing techniques and petting every cute animal within scritching distance is more his speed. Unfortunately, cosmic forces rarely care for mortal feelings. He's hounded on all sides by inept cults, conspiring nobles, and magical misunderstandings — and even his dutiful pet crab is firing energy blades like an anime antagonist.
Royal Road4.57· 2K
ComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGReincarnation+3

Beware the Trickster

Mangowo

A78/100
Life was perfect: naps in sunbeams, stolen snacks, and expertly timed accidents to torment her favorite human. So when licking a strangely alluring gemstone suddenly flooded her fuzzy head with memories of her former human existence, Clover — now a fox — simply filed it under "things to not give a damn about" and went back to napping. Fate had other plans. When the curtain of her pampered ignorance was ripped aside, revealing a world steeped in ancient horrors, eldritch hungers, and flesh-warping occult progression, she reacted with remarkable calm. Because the real horror was anything threatening her nap-snack-torment equilibrium. Now this newly enlightened vulpine has a simple goal: get stronger — not for glory, but purely to achieve peace through overwhelming power.
Royal Road4.73· 639
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCGrimdarkHorror+6

Dropship Cultivation - Dao of Delivery

JollyJupiter

A78/100
Lee Song always dreamt of becoming a proud cultivator — roaming the plains on horseback, fighting villains, righting wrongs. But during his initiation ritual, a terrible mishap brings him face to face with something even more frightening than an Eldritch Great One: a Canadian. With his plans for a life of righteous fame in jeopardy, Song must find his way in a world that isn't quite what he expected. New friends, new places, new food — and a new destiny, apparently in mail delivery. A cozy coming-of-age cultivation story blended with Lovecraftian themes, set in a world local to the protagonist.
Royal Road4.79· 195
Base BuildingComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiSecondary World+2

Queen in the Mud

Maari

A78/100
A girl suddenly vanishes from her world and finds herself drifting in and out of consciousness in a place of pure darkness. Queen in the Mud follows a female monster protagonist as she makes her way through a vicious, untamed world ruled by a system.
Royal Road4.50· 1.5KGoodreads4.43· 1.8K
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fi+2

Underland

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A77/100
Once, the sun shone brightly on Azlant — until the Whitemoon came to steal mankind's light and condemn it to eternal darkness. Valdemar Verney is a sorcerer with a dream: to find a new world for his people to settle, one where the sky isn't a ceiling made of stone. But in the underground empire of Azlant, dissent is never tolerated. Brought before one of the undead Dark Lords, Valdemar is offered a choice he cannot refuse. Meanwhile, swordswoman Marianne Reynard is given a mission: to investigate a dead cult with a few mysteries left to unravel. Both are looking for the truth, though they might regret finding it — for many cultists, monsters, and cosmic horrors stand in their way.
Royal Road4.71· 1.1KGoodreads3.45· 69
GrimdarkHorrorMysterySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Arthurian Cultivation

BenBurch

A77/100
An Arthurian legend, Fae lore, and cultivation mash-up. Taliesin had one plan: escape the Harkley family, dodge their blood curse, and live a quiet life far from trouble. What he got instead was death (briefly), an arranged marriage gone wrong (knives were involved), and a volatile new power — the dreaded death glamour. Armed with his magical lute, a dry sense of humour, and a loyal but chaotic group of Knights, he's determined to carve out a life as a bard in a dangerous world. But political intrigue, ancient prophecies, and a Divine Cultivator conspiracy all come calling. Set in a Europe-based cultivation world where Ki is Glamour and connected to the Fae realm, the story follows a competent but decidedly non-overpowered MC whose progression stems from effort, reflection, and the occasional death.
Royal Road4.75· 425
ComedyCompetent MCCultivationSecondary WorldSoft MagicWuxia

[Maid] to Kill

zechamp

A77/100
Mud, oil stains, giant rats in the sewers, a society of greedy nobles engaged in heinous schemes — Fayette will cleanse it all. When the knights and mages try to stop her, they find that household skills put to violent use are nothing to scoff at. A broom right to the head. A society in need of a thorough cleaning. Guillotines, eventually.
Royal Road4.61· 1.7K
Anti-heroClass SystemComedyGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary World