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Silhouette

GrimCat

C51/100
One night, a bioweapon escaped its laboratory in Zalcien, only to die in a dark alley. One night, a young man lent a helping hand, only to die alone in the dark. One night, a deity of death saw two lost souls and offered one a second chance in the other's body. Now a strange creature made of darkness, James must deal with his new form in a world where superpowers, heroes, and villains are commonplace — far from the Earth he knew. As he learns to use his powers and meets allies and enemies, James faces the paths of heroism and villainy and chooses a third way somewhere in between. Follow the story of a lost Earthling soul as he becomes Silhouette, the mysterious power in the shadows.
Royal Road4.54· 698
Anti-heroComedyCozyGrimdarkIsekaiNon-human MC+7

Heavy Metal

Kuropon

C51/100
Struck down in battle, a Hero and a Demon King meet their end at the same moment. As their souls linger on the edge of the afterlife, a mysterious force intervenes — merging their fragmented souls into a new being: Rusty, a living suit of armor. Affected by the memories and presence of both predecessors, Rusty embarks on his own quest. Will he seek revenge for the Hero's betrayal, fulfill the fallen Demon King's desires, or forge an entirely new path?
Royal Road4.42· 756
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLit+11

Abyssal Road Trip

Redhand (Glenn Wright)

C51/100
Julia is a practical person. All she wanted was a home and family to call her own — a small piece of the world she could say was hers. Instead of arriving home one evening, she finds herself in the Abyss, trapped inside a cursed body. The curse may have caught her, but she certainly won't let it — or anyone else — tell her how she has to live. To escape, she will need to become strong enough to descend to the Abyss's deepest reaches, where the most dangerous secrets lie in wait. There is darkness in the Abyss, and a darkness within her that might draw it in — but she'll need to risk its strength if she ever wants to get home.
Royal Road4.39· 759
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+2

A Demon's Tail

Andur

C51/100
He was born in a dark place, in a world where souls were traded like coins and a person's life wouldn't amount to much. A world where a single misspoken promise could rip you to shreds. On top of everything, his only soul was acting up and mocking him.
Royal Road4.58· 659
GrimdarkNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary WorldVillain MC

Not Your Usual Magical Girl

RockyRoll

C51/100
Susan Hill is your typical science-obsessed high schooler — until she is kidnapped to another world and transformed beyond recognition in a madman's scheme for power. Breaking free, she returns home, only to discover her old world is far more magical than she ever remembered. How will a girl turned dragon navigate a world of arrogant vampires, megalomaniacal mice, and a few too many magical girls?
Royal Road4.61· 440Goodreads4.80· 5
ComedyIsekaiNon-human MCOverpowered MCSchoolUrban Fantasy

Mage Among Superheroes

Halosty

C49/100
Turlough is a mage — and an orc, generally considered less intelligent than humans, born with the Curse of the Barbarian that limits him to leveling only through combat. In his home world of necromancers, dragons, and invading armies, that would be manageable. But an unprecedented peace reigns across the land, leaving little opportunity to advance. When he spots a portal in his master's study, he steps through hoping to find a horde of demons. Instead he ends up in a modern city full of skyscrapers and people in colorful outfits: superheroes — and, of course, supervillains. What dangers and opportunities await him in such a strange world?
Royal Road4.47· 701Goodreads4.17· 6
Class SystemComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fi+2

Forgotten Dungeon

maheusz

C49/100
It's quite hard to start as a dungeon core. Harder still when divine bureaucracy dumps you in the back end of nowhere due to their own incompetence — and your status as a Fallen Angel. Yet Uno is used to working with subpar materials and making the best of circumstances. His personality has been cut down to size, but he tries to overcome the system with ingenuity and a healthy dose of improvisation. In a hostile world, a fallen angel turned dungeon must build, adapt, and outwit a universe that seems determined to bury him.
Royal Road4.21· 738
ComedyDungeon CoreGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCPost-apocalyptic+3

A Real Human Being (Frieren)

Wiererid

C49/100
A human dies, a demon wakes up. Strong, fast, immortal, naturally talented in magic, capable of picking up languages with ease — what's not to love? It's hard to enjoy life when nothing causes real enjoyment anymore, and your emotions are dim, distant, and foreign. This is a story about a man turned demon, trying to find a way to keep himself together and maybe, one day, reclaim the humanity he lost.
Royal Road4.51· 672
CozyIsekaiNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary WorldTragedy

Greedy Dungeon

jollybane

C48/100
Egbert was a mercilessly effective tax collector in his first life — orphanages, nobility, clergy, none were safe from his bespectacled gaze. When he gets reborn as a dungeon that can only advance by making money, things get rather meanspirited. Egbert will do whatever it takes to nickel and dime every single copper he can from adventurers he cons into his depths. Inbred fisherfolk, concerningly drunk knights, even overeager orcs — all are fair game for his fleecing. Except the mages. Those pretentious dicks are getting fed to the mimics.
Royal Road4.61· 323
ComedyDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+2

Necrotourists

Adsterhappy

C48/100
Lord Archlich "Boss", the greatest undead of all time, could conquer the world with his mighty collection of undead knights, dullahans, shadowlings, resurrected expired food, and skeletons. But that's too much work. So why not tour the world he hasn't set foot in for over a thousand years? From the mighty Holy City of Aon — home to the greatest undead hunters on the continent — to the mystical Sorcerer City-States, Boss will tour them all. Hide your artifacts, hide your religious sites, hide your long-held traditional values. Boss will ruin them all, unknowingly.
Royal Road4.56· 633Goodreads4.50· 2
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSatireSecondary World

Armor

C.B. Titus

C48/100
Created as the ultimate dungeon trap — a living suit of armor that devours any adventurer who dons it — this cursed mimic has spent eternity serving a master who delights in betraying heroes at the moment of their greatest triumph. When the newest member of a quartet of dungeon crawlers dons the armor, something shifts. Maybe it doesn't need to spend eternity in the dark waiting to devour would-be heroes. Maybe it can take over this new identity, masquerade as an adventurer, and leave — betraying its master and its purpose to find a new one. The only problem: hopefully the new companions won't realize their friend is not who — or what — they think.
Goodreads4.29· 917
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCSecondary World

Divine Seed

Andrew Karevik

C48/100
The gods prophesied to die refused to take part in Ragnarok, threatening the annihilation of the nine worlds. Yggdrasil — the World Tree — was forced to act, dispersing its seeds across the planes. One seed landed in a strange forest called the Feverwood, in a world of humans, elves, orcs, and other strange creatures. To flourish and carry on the World Tree's legacy, this young dungeon must grow its roots, attract adventurers, and absorb their essence as they succumb to its challenges. This is the story of the Tree Dungeon.
Goodreads4.09· 1K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreIsekaiNon-human MCSecondary World

Dungeon Travels

Alston Sleet

C48/100
Death was supposed to be the end of it — the pain, the suffering, the failures. Instead, a recently deceased man wakes up as a small stone strapped to a table while a pimple-faced teenager rubs his facets. Life as a dungeon core isn't entirely terrible. There are lizard love triangles to observe, militaristic dwarves to spy on, and the occasional moment of dark comedy. The only real problem is his increasingly entangled situation with the Gods — which, admittedly, is a bit of a problem.
Goodreads4.18· 989
ComedyDungeon CoreNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World

Drakon Prince

Jamie McFarlane

C47/100
Separated as a child from his family, Theo has always felt made for something bigger than the suburban life ahead of him. When stepping in to protect a friend earns him a beating, he wakes up to floating game text inviting him to become a dragon. No matter how often he rejects the prompt, it returns. Reluctantly accepting, he's finally exposed to the real world — filled with goblins, orcs, and dragons. Starting at Level 1 and in extreme danger, Theo must embark on an epic quest to level up and claim his rightful draconic heritage. Dragons are both jealous and territorial, and the only way to survive is to grow fast.
Goodreads4.30· 507
Base BuildingClass SystemGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCStats+2

Core Control

Andrew Seiple

C47/100
Wynne might have been human once — it's hard to say. Now he's a bunker core, a nanomachine controller responsible for an entire complex. The place is a bit wrecked. The world outside is ruins. Whoever put him there is probably coming to look for him. And then there are the raiders. Dungeon core meets post-apocalyptic survival. Come for the mutants, stay for the dystopian adventure.
Goodreads4.08· 1K
Dungeon CoreNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi

The Traveler Initiative

Orthoros

C47/100
Liam is a down-on-his-luck gambler whose life is falling apart. When loan sharks come to collect, things end badly. But he gets another chance — by joining the Traveler Initiative, which promises the freedom to explore planets across the universe, a new body, and a slew of other benefits. Even in this strange afterlife, his gambling addiction rears its head, and he somehow ends up reincarnated as a slug. What follows is a largely solitary journey of evolution and survival, as Liam slowly crawls his way up from the bottom of the food chain.
Royal Road4.53· 623
IsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fiWeak to Strong

The Homunculus Knight

jayfiction99

C47/100
Bringing rest to the unquiet dead is not an easy task. It requires compassion, wisdom, patience, strength of arms, and suicidal courage — qualities Paladin Cole, a warrior sworn to the god of death, possesses in full. Surviving beneath the shadow of undeath takes a different set of virtues: intelligence, caution, determination, and the occasional moment of extreme daring. Natalie Striga, a barmaid raised under the vampires' boot in the mountain town of Glockmire, knows these truths well. When Cole arrives tasked with putting the undead to rest, events push him and Natalie together as hidden schemes among the vampire nobility threaten to boil over into disaster. As they unravel a series of mysteries, Natalie slowly realizes there is much more to the world than Glockmire — and much more to Cole than meets the eye.
Royal Road4.61· 225
GrimdarkHorrorMysteryNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Hive Mind Beyond the Veil

1650th

C47/100
Awakening somewhere completely foreign, with no memory of how or why, a new consciousness finds itself flooded with biological knowledge — how life forms adapt, how cells divide and heal, the microscopic patterns underlying all living things. This strange existence as a hive mind is both a gift and a burden: seeing through countless eyes, feeling through countless senses, understanding each creature within its domain as an extension of itself. In the sequel, reborn into a world where war is the only memory, the hive mind fights, bleeds, dies, and rises again — carrying every lesson from the drones it controls. Having crushed the dregs of the Triumvirate, it now prepares for the greater storm to come.
Royal Road4.61· 224
Genius MCMilitaryMysteryNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fi+1

Merchant Crab

H0st

C46/100
Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers — until he accidentally discovered the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie. With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day. Balthazar will do everything to find a baker, except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Meanwhile, adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home, and he keeps making great new friends by simply buying them.
Royal Road4.51· 703Goodreads4.07· 326
ComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMerchant+4

Ogre Tyrant

Blind_Watcher

C46/100
Tim wakes up naked and alone in a fantasy world that has officially labeled him an Ogre. Before he can get his bearings, he is enslaved and put to work killing other monsters for his new masters. Kindhearted and used to being pushed around, Tim must find his spine and turn the tables on a world that would see him dead or in chains. The story follows slow-burn progression, with GameLit elements that taper off as Tim begins to internalize the system rather than read its text boxes.
Royal Road4.22· 691Goodreads4.50· 2
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiMilitaryNon-human MC+3