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Just Add Mana

SilverLinings

A83/100
The more lives you've lived, the more mana you have — and Cale has lived too many lives to count. His core is closer to the magical equivalent of a nuclear reactor. The downside: conventional spells have become impossibly difficult to cast, collapsing under the weight of his own magic. Then he finds himself summoned to a new world with a spellwork system capable of adjusting to his ridiculous reserves, creating new spells just for him. To make spells worth having, that means enrolling at a magic academy. On top of that, an old dragon has taken an interest in him, the kingdom's hunters seem intent on attacking his classmates, and at least one ancient evil appears to have followed him from a past life. With magic back on the table, Cale might finally achieve what he considers the true pinnacle of spellwork: baking.
Royal Road4.65· 2.2K
ComedyCozyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Wraithwood Botanist

Little Lynx

A83/100
Mira is determined to be a botanist — no matter how dangerous or violent it may become. Upon entering the multiverse, she made two requests: a botany class to further her research, and to be dropped off in an isolated forest far from the violent god-rearing System. She was granted both — but not in the way she expected. The System abandoned her in a hellishly dangerous forest where she earned a rare class that excels at killing things.
Royal Road4.57· 2.2KGoodreads4.40· 1.5K
Anti-heroClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1

Between Beast And Buddha: A Drunken Monkey's Journey to Immortality

Turniper

A83/100
Orange-crest is a monkey with simple desires: warm summer days lazing with his siblings, sampling the variety of fruit and grubs Mount Yuelu provides. Unlike his brothers, he is endlessly curious — and no subject arouses that curiosity more than the mysteries of fermentation. One fateful night, he finds himself enjoying an experimental brew far more potent than usual. Daoist Scouring Medicine is a man disgraced, caught between his uncompromising vision for pill refining and the politics of a world that discards its ideals the moment they stand in the way of profit. He wanders the slopes of an unfamiliar mountain, hitting the gourd harder than any self-respecting daoist should. From a pair of poorly considered drunken decisions, a sequence of events is set into motion that will one day shake the very heavens.
Royal Road4.81· 409
AlchemyAnti-heroComedyCultivationNon-human MCWuxia

Paladin

Komikhan

A83/100
When the first derelict alien spacecraft fell to Earth, humanity reverse-engineered its technology and entered a new Golden Age. Hundreds more ships followed over the years, each spurring greater leaps forward. One unassuming craft that fell on Siberia in 2021 passed unnoticed — but it contained something beyond miraculous technology. Three years later, in a top-secret underground facility in eastern Colorado, an army of Paladin Mobile Infantry Suits was being built to turn the tide against the alien incursion consuming the planet. Humanity fell before that could happen. Sam, an engineer responsible for overseeing the facility, is now alone — his only company a base AI and an army of empty suits. With the world gone to hell and the things that caused it still living above, he decides he is much better off staying exactly where he is. Unfortunately, that is no longer an option.
Royal Road4.62· 1.1KGoodreads4.03· 7.6K
Competent MCGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+1

Nightmare Realm Summoner

Actus

A83/100
When the system warned the world it was coming a week in advance, Alex couldn't have been more excited. In college for a degree he didn't care about to get a job he didn't want, the promise of a world where magic and challenge awaited — even at the potential cost of death — was the best news he could have imagined. He wasn't ready for his only friend to shove him through a portal into hell the moment the apocalypse started. Instead of hunting rabbits and farming wolves, Alex finds himself stranded in a warped world where even the bugs are stronger than he is. Even with a summoner class that gains the powers of its monsters, most people would have died. Alex didn't get the memo. Where others saw certain death, he found opportunity.
Royal Road4.51· 1.7KGoodreads4.48· 2.3K
Anti-heroGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+2

The Devil of Cintra

Ekological Chimera

A83/100
After her second death, Tanya von Degurechaff finds herself reincarnated once more — this time in a world of monsters and magic. Discovered by Aretuza's recruiters at a young age, she graduates from the prestigious academy in record time and secures herself a comfortable position in one of the Continent's most influential kingdoms. She is ready, at last, for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, her job does not stay comfortable for long.
Royal Road4.81· 401
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Kingmaker, Kingbreaker

Karen Miller

A83/100
In the kingdom of Lur, using magic without authorization means death. The ruling Doranen mages arrived as refugees centuries ago and struck a bargain: the native Olken would abandon their own magic forever. That law is enforced absolutely. Asher, a fisherman's son who came to the capital to make his fortune, finds himself befriended by Prince Gar and granted wealth and power beyond his dreams — unaware that the Olken's secret prophecy has marked him as the Innocent Mage, the one fated to save Lur from destruction.
Goodreads3.72· 20.5K
Competent MCHard MagicSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Schooled in Magic

Christopher G. Nuttall

A83/100
Emily is a teenage girl pulled from our world into a world of magic and mystery by a necromancer who intends to sacrifice her to the dark gods. Rescued by an enigmatic sorcerer, she discovers she possesses magical powers and must attend Whitehall School to master them. There, the locals believe she is a "Child of Destiny" — someone whose choices might save or damn their world. A title that earns her both friends and enemies. The necromancer is still hunting her, and if Emily can't stop him, he might bring about the end of days.
Goodreads4.24· 6.2K
GrimdarkHard MagicIsekaiMysterySchoolSecondary World

Death, Loot & Vampires

BenjaminKerei

A83/100
Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent's plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened. Now Vincent's left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe. There's a world filled with nightmares, and the looming threat of losing his soul standing between his goal and his reality. A good man is going to war.
Royal Road4.68· 2K
ComedyHorrorIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCWeak to Strong

The Transcendent Green

Mati Ocha

A83/100
Magic tears through an unsuspecting Earth, bringing mythology and monsters to life — and giving humanity a chance to prove their mettle. All Calum Green wants is to reach what remains of his family. Ninety miles of the Scottish Highlands stand between him and his home in coastal Oban — and he doesn't want to make that trek with his cheating ex-girlfriend's bestie at his side. Eilidh MacIntosh has always disliked Calum, and she's now armed with a bloody claymore on top of her disdain. But the ascension directive is clear: humans cannot survive this new world alone. With Calum's magic and their combined bad luck, the unlikely duo accidentally trigger a rare ascension quest: to find the perpetrator of a dangerous, corrupt magic that could make all of humanity an endangered species.
Goodreads4.49· 917
LitRPGMysterySoft MagicSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

Ashley Bell

Dean Koontz

A83/100
At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her she is dying. Two days later, she is impossibly cured. Fierce and dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared to save someone else — someone named Ashley Bell. Searching for Ashley Bell through a southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that grow more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn.
Goodreads3.62· 21K
GrimdarkMysteryUrban Fantasy

Wild Wastes

Randi Darren

A83/100
Before World War Two could reach its conclusion, a catastrophic experiment turned the center of the United States — from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi — into "The Waste," a land overrun by orcs, ogres, trolls, elves, harpies, and every manner of mythological monster, all of whom despise humankind. Vince is a Ranger, a profession built around surviving in the Waste and taking missions from the Ranger Guild. A single escort mission changes everything — and sets him on a path from lone survivor to ruler of a growing city-state, fighting to carve out a permanent home in a hostile world.
Goodreads4.31· 4.6K
Base BuildingGrimdarkHaremMilitaryPost-apocalypticSexual Content+1

Elemental Gatherers

Chris Vines

A83/100
Just one semester until graduation, a young man dies saving a little girl — only to wake up in another world, in the body of Kupiec Aiden, chosen by a deity to save the realm of Zemia. Unlike the isekai stories he's read, he retains none of Aiden's memories and must learn everything from scratch. When his exceptional innate talent for Aether Gathering is discovered, he earns a scholarship to Azyl Academy, the city's premier institution. Now he must figure out where he fits in this world — and how he's supposed to be the key to saving it.
Goodreads4.41· 3.5K
AlchemyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGSchoolTransmigration+1

Rise of Mankind

Jez Cajiao

A83/100
When the world loses electricity and mana-twisted beasts begin to prowl, Matt — an ordinary guy left for dead at the bottom of a gully — grasps at his only chance of survival: a glowing, dangerously pulsing Dungeon Core. With his reality permanently altered, Matt must race to deploy the Core before it detonates. Fighting through hundreds of people standing between him and safety, he carves out a foothold in a world that will never be the same again.
Goodreads4.42· 3.4K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse

Tower of Somnus

Cocop (Cale Plamann)

A83/100
When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting. The Galactic Consensus found us selfish, wasteful, and boorish — blockaded Earth and left behind little more than a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game played in one's sleep. The game, they said, would teach us to be better galactic neighbors. The megacorporations ignored it until they learned the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke. Magic and supernatural abilities exploded into existence, and a subscription to the Tower of Somnus became a status symbol. Katherine "Kat" Debs doesn't have much, but she wants something more — a chance to claw her way up the rigid social ladder from the arcology where she was raised. When she gets the opportunity to enter the Tower free of corporate control, she jumps at it, knowing the game might be her only path to taking control of her own destiny.
Royal Road4.57· 2.4KGoodreads4.35· 1.7K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGSci-fiTower ClimbingUrban Fantasy+1

Eight

Samer Rabadi (aka 3seed)

A83/100
His name is Eight. Not really, but that's what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall — and the gate guard drove him off, thinking he was a monster. Life's tough when you're an old man trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. But there's sixty-four years of hard-won wisdom inside that small frame, and Eight will use every bit of it to survive.
Royal Road4.54· 1.8KGoodreads4.45· 2.9K
CozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOlder MCReincarnation+4

Tournion

Nathan Pierce

A83/100
Andric died unexpectedly and found himself resurrected into what feels like a GACHA game — a second chance on another world where he can redefine himself. Given an unknown class whose powers hinge entirely on the luck of the draw, he must roll with the hand fate deals him. Tournion is a troubled land full of factions vying for power while gods meddle for their own entertainment. Andric will have to get risky, take chances, and let luck play its part — whether good or bad.
Goodreads4.48· 1.2K
Class SystemGoreHaremLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World+2

Player Manager

Ted Steel

A83/100
Max Best is a disillusioned Premier League fan whose love of football has been buried under cold statistics and hollow analytics. After rescuing a mysterious old man from a mugging, he's cursed — or gifted — with the ability to see any player's skills and attributes in a heads-up display, along with his own level-ups. What starts as a novelty rapidly pulls Max from the terraces into the world of professional football management, where he must reconcile the passionate fan he was with the calculating strategist he's becoming.
Royal Road4.74· 1.2KGoodreads4.44· 564
Competent MCGameLitGenius MCLitRPGStatsUrban Fantasy

Tonic Shop at the Edge of the World

Max Vale

A83/100
Mason Curacao is a big dreamer with an even bigger legacy to uphold. After the unexpected deaths of his famous Alchemist parents, it's been a long, lonely summer for the new Alchemy Academy graduate. When it's finally time to open his very own Tonic Shop, the Brewmasters' Guild assigns him — the son of the famous Curacaos and top of his graduating class — to a shop located in the absolute last place anyone would ever want to travel: the Edge of the World. Despite wild and downright unsettling neighbors, Mason is determined to do his parents justice, defy the Brewmasters' Guild, and build the best damn Tonic Shop at the Edge of the World. Just as long as he doesn't fall off the Edge first.
Goodreads4.52· 485
AlchemyCozyCraftingMerchantSecondary World

Orochimama

WhoaMama

A83/100
By cruel trick of the fates — or just the apathy of an uncaring universe — a modern soul awakens as Orochimaru shortly after he has possessed a woman as his new host. Now they must find a way to turn a hoard of sycophants and psychopaths into something that will not only keep them from an early grave, but reshape it into a genuine force for change in a messed-up world.
Royal Road4.75· 1K
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCLGBTQ+MysteryReincarnation+1