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Inexorable Chaos

Cliff Hanger

A75/100
Gods are lazy. After a few hundred millennia they learned to delegate, and so the Heroes were born — useful pawns to handle the messy business of saving worlds. Quasi Eludo has been a Hero. He did the whole save-the-world routine, came home, and decided it wasn't enough. So he sold his services back to the Gods: Quasi Eludo, Hero for Hire. After countless subjective centuries on the job, an odd God arrives with a unique request — destroy a world, minimum payment several million dollars on completion. Quasi sees no reason to refuse.
Royal Road4.38· 2.4K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLit+12

Slumrat Rising

Warby Picus

A75/100
Truth Medici has to fight every step of the way out of the Harban slums. If he fails, his parents will sell him and his siblings to the brothels and gangsters. The Starbrite Corporation offers wealth and power to those who survive its brutal selection process—and the truly driven can even access the System Astrologica, which can turn an ordinary person into a Demigod. In a world where angels and demons are hired help, "Demigod" is achievable. But power like that has to be fought for, and fighting is the one thing Truth has always been able to do.
Royal Road4.62· 2KGoodreads4.13· 554
Anti-heroClass SystemGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+4

System Lost: My Own Best Friend

DarkTechnomancer

A75/100
Allison is a normal girl who enjoys spending time with her friends and just generally enjoying college life. So when she wakes up in a strange underground complex full of candles, weird creatures, and no memory of how she ended up there, it's safe to say she's a little out of her element. She has no survival skills, no ability to fight, and no clue what the weird words and numbers floating around in her head are supposed to mean. It seems like a hopeless situation until she finds an unlikely ally — another version of herself, with different knowledge, skills, and personality. Together, they might have a chance of making it out alive. The catch: they still share the same body.
Royal Road4.71· 719
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+2

Edge Cases

SilverLinings

A75/100
Rare classes and powerful skills are helpful. Too bad the system doesn't seem built to handle them — what even are all these errors? A team of outcasts and adventurers must rely on their trust in each other — and the bane of all stories, healthy communication — just to survive, let alone understand what the system is doing. They're quickly realizing that not all is as it seems, and the system is doing something to people, to monsters, and maybe even to the gods themselves. Their goal isn't just to survive; it's to make things better.
Royal Road4.67· 1.3KGoodreads4.50· 2
Competent MCLitRPGMysteryNon-human MCSecondary WorldSkill Collection

The Code of Survival

Greg Eckert

A75/100
Lee and Jak's world changes forever when a System message appears before them at noon: Earth has been integrated into the Multiverse. A status screen, health points, and then — the monsters. The duo must get stronger, learn how the system works by capitalizing on their rare classes and skills, save their town of Gilbert, and then find a way to travel to Albuquerque to rescue the people they love.
Goodreads4.48· 313
Class SystemLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

The Great Core's Paradox

Zendran

A75/100
Paradox is a tiny snake with great potential — the sole creation of the Great Core, hidden away in a small corner of the World Dungeon. Together, he and the Great Core hid from the horrors outside. Then the Coreless found them and tried to steal his creator away. With no other option, Paradox swallowed the Great Core. Only then did he begin to become what he was always meant to be. The Endless Cycle began — and with it, the story of a little snake zealot and his journey to greatness.
Royal Road4.56· 1.6KGoodreads4.40· 431
Dungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldTime Loop+1

Villager Three

Kruos

A75/100
Kira Hawthorne was just another teenage girl until the day a 'god' told the world their 'realm' was getting assimilated — they had lost some war no one on Earth even knew about. A System is installed on the whim of a very old and capricious god. Kira immediately gets trapped in a pocket dimension, and emerges to find a once familiar world turned foreign — and very hostile.
Royal Road4.56· 1.7K
CozyLitRPGOverpowered MCSchoolSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

Smith to the Small Gods

Max Vale

A75/100
Everyone knows that true Legends never die — but they do occasionally retire. After decades of bashing, slashing, and executing his way to becoming the highest-ranking Barbarian in the world, Orin Ironfinger is tired. Victorious and feared the world over, all he wants now is to embark on his long-held dream: a quiet life as a small-town blacksmith. But the Small Gods — the ones only the locals know about, who give happy blessings and small boons of favor — have other plans. What happens when the world's most terrifying Barbarian disappears and gains the favor of the gods? And how will Orin keep his true identity hidden in the charming seaside hamlet of Havenhold?
Goodreads4.47· 461
Competent MCCozyLitRPGOlder MCWholesome

My Big Goblin Space Program

ScottWarren

A75/100
Engineer, double amputee, and now astronaut for NuEarth LLC — Chris is about to complete his life-long dream of being the first man to moonwalk on prosthetics. At least until his rocket explodes on launch. Instead of death, he finds himself in a new world and a new body: three feet tall, covered in blue fur, and with the ability to command the absolute loyalty of any goblin he meets. The one familiar element to this new planet is that it's got a moon — a big one, with forests and seas. Chris sees no reason why death and reincarnation should get in the way of his goal. Armed with an expanding army of fanatical followers and a dubious self-propagating Goblin Tech Tree, he'll stop at nothing to jump-start the Apollo program. But he was brought to this world for a reason, and not everyone is content to leave the goblin king to his own devices.
Royal Road4.69· 1.1K
Base BuildingComedyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+4

The Center for Dungeon Management, Book 1: Gate Crashers

marshalcarper

A75/100
In the United States, the Center for Dungeon Management (CDM) handles everything related to gates: licensing crawlers, enforcing harvester safety standards, and prosecuting gate crashers — people who enter dungeons without licenses. Dorion wants to join a guild or crawl team, but to do that he needs levels. Since he can't afford a crawler license or gate fees, he signs on with the Pittsburgh branch of the CDM. By day he's a cog in the machine of dungeon bureaucracy; by night he volunteers to cull unclaimed gates. When his little sister appears on his doorstep, his goal of becoming a professional crawler turns from ambition into necessity — he needs the money and stability to give her the life he never had. A grounded, working-class take on the dungeon-gate story: slow progression, meaningful stats, and a protagonist with a clipboard and an overflowing inbox.
Royal Road4.71· 676
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

The Greystone Chronicles

Dave Willmarth

A75/100
In the latter half of the 21st century, Alexander and his guild play Io Online — the world's largest VRMMORPG — for both fun and income. While completing a rare "First Kill" dungeon, they discover that demons have returned to the realm for the first time in ages. Given the chance to test a new immersion system that makes casting faster, movement more fluid, and magic itself different, the friends must give up their high-level characters and start over at level one. They quickly run afoul of a player-killer guild, and the conflict escalates until in-game actions begin to have real-world consequences.
Goodreads4.43· 1.6K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitaryVRMMO

Royal Blood

Argentorum

A75/100
A worthless prince with a useless Blessing in a world where deep running waters threaten to pull even the most experienced warriors under. Lucky for him, he's always been a good swimmer.
Royal Road4.55· 563Goodreads4.09· 5.8K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitHaremLitRPG+4

The Scourged Earth

Mirrored

A75/100
Derrick is no one's hero. He is barely dealing with his mundane life when all of humanity is forced to confront the extraordinary. Overnight, across the world, mysterious machines appear offering people the chance to purchase almost anything they can think of — weapons, medicine, even superhuman abilities, seemingly for free. But following these machines come the Scourges: the most dangerous creatures, diseases, and machines that infest the universe. Ever growing and battling, these empires of horror and hunger will overwhelm and devour the Earth and its inhabitants unless Derrick and humanity can stand against all the horrors that battle between the stars.
Royal Road4.61· 1.5KGoodreads3.00· 3
GrimdarkHorrorLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiSystem Apocalypse+1

Dawn of the Void: a LitRPG Apocalypse

pwtucker

A75/100
Tragedy had reduced James to a nobody — washed up and homeless in New York City, certain his life was over. Then a message appeared in his vision: the 60,000-year countdown had ended, and Nemesis 1 had been released. As the world falls apart, as billions die, as society collapses and all hope seems lost, James discovers a powerful truth: he was wrong to think himself a nobody. With the dawn of the Void, he'll become the most important person to have ever lived.
Royal Road4.52· 1.9K
GameLitGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+4

This Quest is Bullshit

Nixia

A75/100
The Questing Stones have come to Nowherested, and Evelia Greene is finally ready to receive her life's quest. Perhaps she'll be a great warrior, a wealthy merchant, or a brilliant mage. Perhaps her quest is simply to live a quiet life honing a craft. Or perhaps the Stones will grant her the legendary mission of popping over to the next village to pick up a loaf of bread. Either way, adventure is out there, and Eve is determined to have one.
Royal Road4.46· 2.1K
Class SystemComedyGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World

Apocalypse: Regression

Charles Dean, R.A. Mejia

A75/100
As humanity faces extinction, the last three survivors on Earth create a final chance for the hero to travel back in time and stop the apocalypse. But before she can enter the chronomancer portal, both the hero and the portal's creator are killed — leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream. Nick must travel back, right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the world for the catastrophe he knows is coming — in this regression LitRPG of dungeon-diving, leveling stats, and racing against the end of the world.
Goodreads4.39· 2.2K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGRegressionStatsSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Small-Town Crafter

Tom Watts

A75/100
Lewis comes from a family that doesn't regard him much, so he sets out on his own into the world, intent on securing an apprenticeship in an interesting profession. What he doesn't expect is to find himself studying artificery — the mystical craft of adding magical effects to everyday objects — in the sunlit village of Sunhampton. Sunhampton is a sleepy little crafter's village of cobbled streets, cozy taverns, and pleasant bakeries. Under an old artificery master, Lewis begins his new life as an apprentice, crafting swords with self-sharpening blades, self-spicing cooking pots, and clocks that can read the future. It'll be hard work — perhaps even dangerous — but with mentors to guide him and friends to help him, Lewis is determined to become the best artificer in the land.
Goodreads4.40· 2.1K
CozyCraftingLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats

Demonic Devourer

Slifer274

A75/100
Awakening in an abandoned lab with no memory of the world, Evelyn is empowered by a system that grants her bloody magical powers in exchange for finishing missions and consuming her enemies. She knows one truth: no matter the cost, she will advance. She will manipulate allies and spread demonic corruption with a smile if that's what it takes to level up. Her first mission is to escape the lab's other newly born creations. But once she steps foot into the outside world, she must contend with people who forbid her existence and will work to eradicate those with her powers from the face of the planet. The outside world may be vast and deadly, but Evelyn will be deadlier.
Royal Road4.53· 2.2KGoodreads4.21· 784
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGSkill CollectionStatsVillain MC+1

Solo Apocalypse

Unreliable

A75/100
Evahn Wynst was no more prepared for the apocalypse than anyone else. When disaster struck, it came swiftly and without warning, turning the world over in an instant — order one moment, chaos the next. In an unfamiliar world teeming with equal danger and wonder, he will have to find his place amongst the rubble and navigate a new and dangerous reality. Luckily, he's not alone. He has himself. And himself.
Royal Road4.66· 1.3K
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse

Discount Dan

Shadow Alley Press

A75/100
All Dan wants is to find a way home. He'd settle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a place to sleep off his hangover. But Dan has accidentally noclipped into the Backrooms — a bizarre, extra-dimensional world cobbled together from twisted carnivals, abandoned shopping malls, janky laundromats, and condemned asylums, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as Dwellers. No one ever gets out. If Dan wants to survive the week, he'll need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own. He's also being hunted. The Flayed Monarch of the 999th floor has marked him for death, and no one walks away from the Skinless Court with their hide intact.
Royal Road4.70· 787
ComedyGameLitGrimdarkHorrorIsekaiLitRPG+4