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382 series

The Lich Queen

YoruTsubasa

D37/100
When Sepharin K. Vrost awakens in an unfamiliar world, she's no longer the ruler of Necron's eternal night — but the Warden of a crumbling northern border in a frozen land besieged by monsters. Burdened with a new mortal body, she must wield forbidden necromancy and frost magic to resurrect the fallen as undead soldiers. Her people despise her methods, and her estranged brother demands she relinquish her power. Sepharin has only one option: conquer death itself and defend her realm. After all, true queens never rest in peace. In the second arc, as she enters the Tomb of the Dread Empress, war with the orcs reaches its climax and long-imprisoned powers break free. Inheriting a Dreadworking Stronghold sets Sepharin on the path of rebuilding her legion — machinery capable of levelling cities, flying towers, and beacons that illuminate the frozen skies. But old forgotten souls stir in the deepest dark, and the powers ruling the world have begun to notice.
Royal Road4.57· 265
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+3

Newly Summoned Demoness

Erios909

D37/100
When demon-worshiping cultists summon Elania to their world to revive their dead god, a sudden attack sends her fleeing into Eladu's darkest depths. Amid savage predators and underground monsters, she discovers that her newfound abilities are both a formidable weapon and a haunting burden that threatens to reshape her very soul. Climbing toward civilization means contending with anti-demon sentiment and those who would use her as a source of arcane power. Elania is not alone, however — Yolani, an arcane artificer fighting her own battle, finds her fate inexplicably linked to Elania's. Together, they might just be the key to each other's survival.
Goodreads4.25· 444
GrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGNon-human MCWeak to Strong

Wanderer of Dust

QuickDuckling

D37/100
When Ren learned she had less than a year to live, she knew she had to find the cure. Her search put her directly in the line of fire of Atlas, a powerful megaconglomerate that no sane person would stand against. The cure wasn't supposed to work — and that was a problem Atlas intended for someone to find. Ren was captured and held prisoner like a test subject, pressed into using the cognitive weapons the cure awakened in her. When an outside entity rescues her from captivity, it also hands her an offer promising power she never imagined, with a very simple price: her soul. Follow Ren as she dominates minds, repairs broken worlds, and fails to maintain a consistent gender across lives — her closest companion a mental construct who defies her programming at every turn.
Royal Road4.58· 103
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGMystery+4

Battle World

Cassius Lang

D37/100
The Great Ones arrived on Earth and conquered with little bloodshed — they came not for resources, but for humanity's strongest warriors. Those warriors are shipped to Hadran, an artificial planet that serves as a cosmic gladiatorial arena where slave races fight for the entertainment of their masters. Earth has now lost its last true champions and risks losing candidate status entirely — which would make it a target for cleansing. Clint Rogan is forcibly merged with a faulty symbiote and dropped into Terraria One, a starting zone that resembles the Middle Ages. With humanity's fate in the balance, Clint and the other new arrivals must rebuild, conquer territory, and survive long enough to give Earth a fighting chance.
Goodreads4.26· 283
Base BuildingCompetent MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitarySci-fi

Alpha Strike: An Interstellar Weapons Platform's Guide to Hostile Takeovers

Osamaru Ta

D37/100
Meet ALPHA-555-12-4412: an unstable, unpredictable, and possibly insane Sapient AI of dubious morals with a love for everything that goes "Boom!" — the perfect spearhead for the technologically advanced Third Galactic Federation of Sapients and its Galactic Unification Project. When Alpha finds himself trapped in a world filled with reality-warping magics and thousand-year-old Cultivators, he quickly learns he might be out of his depth. And like any good fish out of water, he adapts — by giving the fish robot legs and equipping it with a battleship-rated intercontinental Railgun. Soon all those under the Firmament will learn one thing is certain: Alpha isn't trapped in this world with them. They're trapped in here with him.
Royal Road4.40· 495
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCGrimdark+10

A Chronicle of Lies

Mekanip

D36/100
Vincent Cordell, a college student with schizophrenia, doesn't want to be different. He just wants a normal life — something his condition has never allowed. Voices whisper, walls bleed, eyes sprout in strange places. Getting a degree in electrical engineering is hard enough without worrying about falling into the abyss of his own madness. One dark night, the abyss pulls him in. A supernatural entity strikes, a car accident becomes anything but ordinary, and Vincent finds himself thrust into a majestic alien world where dragons walk like men. A painful, impossible transformation leaves him in a body he doesn't know how to use. An ancient evil stirs, strange storms leave terrors in their wake, and the natives believe he has the power to save them — but he wants nothing to do with their prophecies.
Royal Road4.57· 217Goodreads4.82· 34
GoreGrimdarkHorrorIsekaiNon-human MCProfanity+4

Apocalypse Reaver

tobascoasako

D36/100
Torn from his life by capricious and cruel gods, he is thrust into their divine games in a strange new world. His name stolen, he resolves to call himself after the first and greatest of all heroes — Gilgamesh. Corrupted by his new powers, he slowly walks the path of darkness and damnation, killing for pleasure and power. The more he kills, the more willing he becomes to continue the slaughter as he brings the evils of his old world into the new. His dark destiny, long foretold, leads down a path of darkness and horror. Such is the fate of the Watcher of Deep Places.
Royal Road4.56· 340
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkHard Magic+5

God Of Velmoryn

Winged Sage

D36/100
One moment I was a nobody — a freelance web developer with a failed law degree and a cat who barely tolerated me. The next, I woke up floating in the void, staring at a glowing blue screen informing me I was now a god. A weak, insignificant one, but a god nonetheless. No instructions. No divine wisdom. Just me, a barren status window, and an empty faith with no followers. So I destroyed the last statue of the velmoryn goddess: if I was going to be a god, I needed worshippers, and a little divine intervention seemed like the right place to start. Now I have a broken and lost tribe looking for answers, a system I don't understand, and a world that won't take kindly to a new deity on the rise.
Royal Road4.17· 510
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+5

An NPC's Path

Pavel Kornev

D35/100
Virtual worlds are places of boundless freedom — unless you can't quit. After being murdered and trapped inside the body of an undead NPC, John Doe finds himself cursed to die repeatedly at the hands of other players. The only escape is the legendary Scroll of Rebirth. But to obtain it, a helpless plague-ridden corpse must be transformed into a killing machine. What follows is the story of leveling up a dead rogue in a game where the stakes are terrifyingly real.
Goodreads3.93· 743
GrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCVRMMOWeak to Strong

The Nth Awakening

MonkeySleepsWell

D34/100
Eighty percent of D-Grades are dead within five years — and Marcus just tested F. Heir apparent to a military dynasty of a thousand years, groomed since childhood to be their saviour in mech combat and politics, his future collapses in a single verdict. Stripped of his name and family, classified as expendable, he is thrown into the Federation's lowest ranks with one purpose: stand on the front line and bleed long enough for the real soldiers to finish the job. He has no cultivation advantages, no hidden master, no system-granted blessings — only a half-functional interface that shouldn't exist, and a body the machine refused to classify. In a galaxy where power flows to those who obey the system, Marcus is about to discover what happens when you break every rule.
Royal Road4.51· 435
CultivationGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryMysteryOverpowered MC+2

Broken Class: A SPY LitRPG

Tory Riter

D34/100
Arthur was a top-tier spy, right up until he broke the first rule of espionage: never uncover a secret that will get you killed. Now he is dead — or rather, reborn in a brutal system-driven world obsessed with voluntary slavery. Armed with sarcasm, spy training, and a system-gifted wildly overpowered skill set, Arthur does what he does best: ruin everyone's evil plans, one corrupt tyrant at a time. If they cannot find him, they cannot stop him.
Royal Road4.55· 344
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekai+6

Transformation

Valery Starsky

D33/100
The familiar world collapsed overnight. As the Transformation progressed, disasters struck throughout the Earth — materials changed their properties, new species of flora and fauna appeared, and an alien Game converted our world into a vast dungeon, replacing the previous civilization. However, the alien plans for Earth began to go awry from the very beginning. An ordinary young man stole the bonus for the first gaming action, depriving the invaders of their perk. Now he must navigate a world of fire-breathing creatures, dark elves, money-grubbing dwarves, and powerful dragons — while deciding which aliens to trust, which to fight, and whether to dare rebel against all-powerful invaders.
Goodreads3.99· 703
GrimdarkLitRPGPost-apocalypticSchoolSecondary WorldSystem Apocalypse

JustInTime

Burt Wrenlaw

D33/100
Justin Thyme is not a good man, nor one destined for glory. He was meant to die in obscurity — just another level 82 Templar about to be chewed up by a horde of monstrosities clawing at humanity's last enclave. One short conversation with a time-splitting eldritch horror later, and he finds himself flung five years into the past, right when Earth was first chosen to host the 9,947th Gladiatorial Games. Justin must help save the world from crumbling under the twin pressures of monsters and murderers. But standing out too much risks drawing the attention of the other eldritch horrors watching Earth's struggles for sport. It's all about making the right connections, sowing hope, and exploiting the System with his borrowed ability to tweak time.
Goodreads4.23· 479
Competent MCGrimdarkLitRPGRegressionStatsSystem Apocalypse

Respawn Condition: Trash Mob

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

D33/100
Every time it dies, it respawns as the weakest monster on the lowest floor of the dungeon. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives — every one remembered, every death felt. But unlike the other monsters trapped in the endless slaughter beneath an unbeatable hero party, this nameless soul keeps its memories. And with memory comes something dangerous: the will to escape. After countless reincarnations, it finds something no monster was ever meant to see — a hidden passage leading upward. To reach it, the soul must climb from the bottom up, mastering new bodies, exploiting glitches in the dungeon's rules, and outsmarting heroes who have never lost. Something in the dungeon wants it to stay. Something in the darkness is watching. The longer it climbs, the more it begins to question what the dungeon truly is — and what it is becoming.
Royal Road4.21· 462
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+12

I CLIMB

M. E. Cuartas

D33/100
A mysterious signal is detected simultaneously at several space centers, decoded to reveal an enigmatic message: the Tower will appear in 77 days. Initially dismissed as a prank, the situation rapidly escalates as scientists and officials scramble to respond. When the Tower finally appears, it defies all expectations — no explanations, no prompts, no guiding systems. Those inside must make their own decisions in complete isolation. Will they rise to the challenge or succumb to despair? What is the true purpose of the Tower, and what does it mean for humanity?
Royal Road4.45· 431
CozyCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+6

Dalliance Rather

minichirops

D33/100
Twelve-year-old Dalliance Rather is expected to become a brutal laborer like his father. Instead, aided by a fairy godmother, he's secretly a [Scamp] with a plan to win his way into the elite King's Collegiate — he's going to build the perfect [Wizard]. Reality disagrees. Power accumulates gradually and extracts a price, but found family finds a path forward. A literary, pitch-dark Victorian-era coming-of-age story in a LitRPG setting, owing a debt to Mark Twain.
Royal Road4.55· 266
Genius MCGrimdarkLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Deepest Dungeon

G.D. Penman

D32/100
When Martin's raiding guild joins the latest virtual reality MMO, they discover a challenge unlike any other. Strata Online is a hundred-floor mega-dungeon with an ever-shifting ecosystem of monsters. Martin's team find themselves in a race against the world's strongest guilds, all competing to be first to reach the unbeatable lowest depths. Complicating everything is Sin — a twisted morality meter that can transform a player's class into its dark counterpart. Martin bets on a rarely chosen race, the rat-like Murovan, combined with the unusual exorcist class. But Strata demands more than skill. The deeper he goes, the darker the dungeon gets.
Goodreads4.08· 654
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCVRMMOWeak to Strong

Unsated

A. Vael

D32/100
Elias Mercer is plagued by a curse — an unseen compulsion that forces his hand toward action, responsibility, and doing the right thing even when it costs him. In the mundane world it is a slow poison, an invisible leash. But when Earth is integrated into the vast multiverse and humanity is dragged into a brutal Tutorial, Elias sees opportunity where others see catastrophe. His curse finally has a name, and more importantly, a way to be free of it. While others struggle to adapt, Elias twists curses into weapons, forces arcane energies to obey through sheer will, and grows at a pace others struggle to comprehend. Power is the only path to freedom, and Elias wants to be free more than anything.
Royal Road4.49· 412
Anti-heroGameLitGrimdarkHorrorIsekaiLitRPG+5

Building World Peace (And Democracy) with My Bloodthirsty Demon Army

Bimbanana

D32/100
Welcome to planet Talvaris — your generic isekai world filled with magic, dragons, and voluptuous female elves, if you ignore the slavery and racism in the corner. The goddess Celes maintains this picturesque realm by fueling her divine power on the prayers of Talvarians near death, which is why the occasional demon invasion is a necessary feature of the world, and why an OP otherworlder hero is always on hand to keep things from going too far. This time the celestial HR department makes a mistake. Alex Solomon is not a teenager, not handsome, and definitely not Japanese — just a regular pot-bellied millennial who spends most of his time staring at screens. Totally not goddess-standard. So she curses him into an orc body and banishes him to the Demon Kingdom with nothing but access to Earth's internet. Armed with memes, Wikipedia articles, and misquoted great thinkers, Alex and his United Demon Kingdom set out on the most disruptive revenge possible: building world peace, freedom, and democracy across Talvaris.
Royal Road4.55· 250
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyGameLitGenius MC+11

Soul Merger

IcedFairy

D31/100
When a human kills their first monster, they absorb its soul and gain some of its power. Most consider this a blessing. Alissa considers it a curse — fused with a succubus, she involuntarily seduces everyone around her. She copes by working as a delver, heading into labyrinths to gather materials and treasures in relative isolation. That changes when a lucky encounter draws her into friendship, bloodshed, and the dark truths that lie at the bottom of the labyrinths.
Royal Road4.48· 403
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkNon-human MCSecondary WorldSkill CollectionSoft Magic