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M. E. Cuartas

D34/100
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 Road4.44· 455
CozyCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+6

Industrial Mage

Nectar

D34/100
Ethan was just a plain old engineer until he was reborn into a world of skills, levels, and magic. With knowledge far ahead of the time period and the unique ability to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct runes, he's primed to succeed. But royal politics, looming tax collectors, a mountain of debt, dungeon incursions, and hostile factions threaten to bury his dreams. He must bridge the gap between steel, science, and sorcery to grow stronger.
Goodreads4.23· 496
Base BuildingCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHard MagicIsekai+1

Dalliance Rather

minichirops

D34/100
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· 278
Genius MCGrimdarkLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Reach Heaven Via Feng Shui Engineering, Drug Trade And Tax Evasion

melmonella

D34/100
In a world of immortals and demon beasts, where a modern empire seeks to break old blood debts, dispel superstitions, and resist the Heavens that smite all who step out of line, young cultivator Qian Shanyi is drawn into the orbit of a classical xianxia protagonist whose luck gushes out of his ears. Can she survive, thrive, and ascend into the Heavens using nothing more than cunning and tenacity? It starts with engineering and turns into tax evasion, but at the heart of it is one question: cultivation is the ultimate freedom, but what does freedom mean when the Heavens hold all the cards?
Royal Road4.54· 411
Base BuildingCultivationDrugsGenius MCMysterySecondary World+1

The Legendary Poet

Nejm

D33/100
He needed a sword. The system gave him a pen. Klaid is a former kendo prodigy who treats VR as a ruthless economy, optimizing every second to pay for his mother's medical bills. On launch day, exploiting a lore paradox earns him the one class he can't solve: the Legendary Poet — a power-gamer's nightmare that runs entirely on emotion, the very thing Klaid discarded long ago. Now trapped between a dying mother in reality and a useless class in-game, Klaid must learn to feel again — not to heal, but to turn anguish into DPS. The narrative voice evolves alongside the protagonist as cold logic gives way to something more.
Royal Road4.53· 416
Anti-heroCraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+6

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 Road4.20· 464
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+12

The 37th Tier [Hundred Year War|Avatar The Last Airbender SI]

R. Lockey

D32/100
An airbender who can't fight is just a monk who's really good at running away. Sonam died in the 21st century and woke up at the Southern Air Temple — with twelve years before Sozin's Comet and a head full of memories from a world where this one was a TV show. The Air Nomads have thirty-six tiers of airbending. Every monk considers fighting back beneath them. Sonam is building the thirty-seventh tier, convinced that pacifism is a death sentence for everyone he knows — even if the order would rather exile him than learn it.
Royal Road4.54· 308
Base BuildingGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+5

The Soulstealer's War

kwerte

D31/100
A college student from Earth wakes up in the body of a Duplicate — an artificial soldier built from a template and deployed to hold the line against orc hordes threatening a crumbling empire. As an Atoning, he must serve on the front lines to pay off the "theft" of the soul he now inhabits. Survival is a luxury for Dupes. He is up against orcs, mutated monsters, and battalion members who want to put a knife in his back. But there is a slim chance to become more than just cannon fodder — to build something from the rot, and turn his name into a legend through skill-merging and earned progression.
Royal Road4.46· 424
Base BuildingCozyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+5

Eldrich Engineer

Kevin McLaughlin, Michael Anderle

D31/100
A lab experiment gone catastrophically wrong opens a portal to another dimension and deposits engineer Charles Smith directly on top of an enemy sorcerer—accidentally saving the kingdom of Kortall and earning the gratitude of King Alfred. The reward for a job well done is more work. Alfred recruits Charles to help defend against an invading army backed by the Shadow Council. Wildly outmatched, Charles must blend science, engineering, and whatever magic he can learn to give Kortall any chance of survival.
Goodreads4.23· 302
Base BuildingCompetent MCCraftingGenius MCHard MagicIsekai

Knives & Levels: Survival LitRPG Apocalypse

Zach Skye

D31/100
When Earth is thrust into a deadly multiverse labyrinth, a kitchen worker armed with only his knives and wits must lead his coworkers to survive, level up, and uncover the secrets of their new reality. Colt King never thought much of his kitchen job — until Earth was integrated into a greater reality and his workplace became the heart of a dungeon teeming with monstrous creatures. With limited resources, dangerous coworkers, and no clue about the world outside the dungeon, Colt must step up to lead. Every stat point counts, every decision matters, and survival means more than just making it out alive.
Royal Road4.47· 412
CultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MC+4

Universe's End

N. Francis

D30/100
The end of the universe came and went. An intergalactic war was waged, and the bad guys won when they pressed the big red button. Yet instead of the end of the story, Rory — a nobody in the grand scheme of things — finds himself almost completely alone in a fresh universe, one of eight precursors chosen almost entirely at random. With only an odd World Spirit for company, Rory must survive and build an entire universe from scratch. This is not the story of a plucky hero daring to challenge the gods of old. This is the story of how one of those gods came to be — their rise from a nobody in a brand new universe to a name known, sometimes loved, sometimes feared, throughout all of existence.
Royal Road4.54· 249
Base BuildingCraftingCultivationGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+4

The Duke's Reborn Daughter Sometimes Chooses Violence.

TheLastSurvivor

D30/100
Esra Veyne. Most only know her as the 'White Ghost', a Duke's Daughter who never leaves her room — a girl fated to die in obscurity, if only someone hadn't reincarnated into her body. The new Esra has no interest in being a ghost. She wants to enjoy her new life. There's just one problem: everywhere she looks, she finds something that needs fixing, and she can't just let someone else handle it. Even if it means breaking fingers to get answers, using a traumatized girl as an assassin, or never getting to enjoy being a Duke's daughter in the first place. Hopefully, she won't have to solve every problem with violence. This Esra Veyne was never very good at staying in her room.
Royal Road4.24· 431
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCIsekaiLGBTQ+Overpowered MC+3

Sovereign Sight

Nicoli Gonnella

D30/100
Without Talent, you are nothing. In Harker's world, Talent decides everything: status, power, and potential. He has nothing but the smallest of Knacks for perception — just enough to keep one step ahead of the townsfolk who hate him. Coupled with strict personal Laws and a sharp mind, he has survived the worst of their attention. But survival isn't living. When a storm curses Harker and enhances his small Talent far beyond its natural Scope, he suddenly possesses power that greedy hunters would kill to claim. His only hope lies in the one place his mother always forbade: the Nine Spires Academy — where he must reach and pass an entrance exam before the curse kills him.
Royal Road4.54· 220
CultivationGenius MCHard MagicSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Gods of the Game

Phil Tucker

D30/100
In the sun-scorched future of 2442, survival has taken the form of Krieg Chess — a high-tech fusion of strategy and brutal combat where players wield advanced technology and unlock latent abilities, transforming from pawns to kings. Charoen and his sister Jessie, refugees lifted from obscurity by the enigmatic billionaire Virgil, discover they have extraordinary talents. As they train and fight their way up through the leagues, they realize Krieg Chess is not just a game — it is a crucible for something far larger and more dangerous.
Goodreads4.20· 569
Competent MCGenius MCLitRPGMilitarySci-fiSkill Collection

Reroll Saga: I Brought Sarcasm To A Sword Fight

Runewriter

D29/100
Hal Miller wanted comfort, not chaos. Now he's trapped in a world where plumbing is myth, toothbrushes are sorcery, and nobles are parasites in fancy shoes. With a sarcastic AI in his head and a head full of modern logic, Hal is about to break every rule this world has. Armed with stubborn ingenuity and a talent for making things explode in instructive ways, he sets out to drag an entire medieval society into a new era — one scientific-magic experiment at a time.
Royal Road4.26· 421
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyCraftingGenius MC+5

A Modern Mind in Medieval Times

C. S. Valiant

D29/100
After his own arrogance destroyed his life, the depressed and blacklisted Jack escapes into strategy games — until he is reincarnated as the would-be savior of refugees fleeing a pogrom, in a world where the Vozoran Empire is swallowing the last independent kingdoms. An engineering and history nerd, Jack knows how to build a civilization from scratch. But knowing and doing are very different when his new people are living in tents, starving, and under threat from bandits. Meanwhile, a young Princess across the border searches for allies as the empire creeps ever closer. A kingdom-building story driven by problem-solving, real engineering, and a romance that shapes the fate of nations.
Royal Road4.13· 430
Base BuildingGenius MCHaremIsekaiMilitaryReincarnation+2

Empire Rewritten

sersor

D29/100
A 55-year-old American wakes up in the body of Constantine Palaiologos in 1429. No system. No magic. No prophecy — just practical knowledge and stubborn pragmatism facing the worst inheritance in European history: a crumbling empire, a closing Ottoman noose, vicious court politics, and a crusade that may or may not come. Michael Jameston must deploy diplomacy, reform, logistics, and gunpowder to drag a dying empire into a new age. Grounded in real 15th-century history, this is a story of military campaigns, court intrigue, technological innovation, and state-building in the final years of Byzantium.
Royal Road4.51· 374
Base BuildingGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryTransmigration

Blazing the Competition - Pokémon SI

Sugarcube

D28/100
Reborn in Lavaridge Town and living with his grandparents and little sister, an aspiring trainer sets out thinking his path forward will be smooth sailing — and gets more than he bargained for. A fire-type specialist who hates ghosts, dislikes sand, and loves his new sister, navigating an AU world that blends elements from the anime, manga, and games.
Royal Road4.50· 369
ComedyGenius MCIsekaiMonster TamingReincarnationSecondary World

Minute Mage

Reg Rome

D28/100
Arlan is a young hero who gains the ability to travel back a short period of time, giving him a second chance to face any challenge. Sounds overpowered — but his ability is limited to a single use per day, and every time he levels up, he can go back a little further. Arlan may be growing more powerful, yet he has never been in more danger. Demon magic was never supposed to reach human hands, and its original owners will go to any lengths to take it back.
Goodreads4.03· 584
Genius MCHard MagicLitRPGSecondary WorldTime LoopWeak to Strong

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

Bimbanana

D27/100
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 Road4.52· 255
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyGameLitGenius MC+11