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The Heavenly Throne

Yuri Ajin

A75/100
He was the champion of underground fighting in his world — young, handsome, rich, and undefeated. He had the love of his life. Then in a moment, it was all gone. His dreams were taken. The one he had loved since childhood betrayed him and plunged a knife into his heart. In a distant world, a boy lying in a muddy ditch suddenly opens his eyes. A new life has awakened in his empty body. What path will Kai follow in a world where power and skill reign supreme — a world where worth is determined by martial arts? Rebirth. Ascension. Revenge.
Goodreads4.33· 2.6K
CultivationReincarnationSecondary WorldWeak to StrongWuxia

Department of Otherworld Rescue

ScottWarren

A75/100
Each year, teens around the country are spirited away to other worlds to fight on their behalf. One government department has been empowered to bring them back. Cole had his entire career planned — another year in the Airborne, then Ranger School, then Special Forces — until his fireteam was plucked from a war in Syria and thrust into a world of demons with an endless appetite for human hearts. Barely getting his squad to safety with the aid of the Department of Otherworld Rescue, Cole joins as an elite operative: venturing into dying, desperate worlds to retrieve stolen children and teens. These worlds run on strange rules enforced by vindictive gods and omniscient systems, filled with monsters, demons, and worse. But playing in their sandbox lets Cole and his team share in their rewards — rewards that could elevate even an ordinary soldier into a one-man army.
Royal Road4.70· 854
Genius MCIsekaiLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+4

Trinity of Magic

Elara

A75/100
Zeke was born into obscurity at the very bottom of a world where magic defines worth. The gap between his low birth and true mastery seems unbridgeable. Yet he refuses to accept his place — even as the path ahead is littered with those who tried and failed before him. A slow-burn progression fantasy built on a hard magic system grounded in solid principles rather than game-like point allocation. Power here is earned through understanding, not shortcuts.
Royal Road4.35· 2.4K
Base BuildingCozyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+7

Castle Kingside

Gennon Asche

A75/100
A puzzling encounter leaves Dimitry a beggar with a strange emblem on his wrist. Around him, people suffer as ruthless organizations, opportunistic nobles, and an overly pious church vie for power in a medieval land under constant siege by stone monstrosities rampaging from the coasts. Can a kindhearted surgeon aid this ailing world with modern knowledge, resourcefulness, and magic? Or will rival powers crush him first? The story starts brutally grim and transitions into technology uplift with a focus on science, magitech, and town building.
Royal Road4.66· 1.4KGoodreads3.81· 37
Base BuildingCompetent MCGrimdarkHard MagicIsekaiMystery+3

Mirror World

Alexey Osadchuk

A75/100
Mirror World promises adventure, castles, and kingdoms to anyone who dares enter its virtual realm of sword and sorcery. Oleg isn't interested in any of that. He's here to grind — endlessly, methodically, in the recesses of the game's mines. His goal has nothing to do with glory: his six-year-old daughter needs a heart transplant, and the clock is ticking. In a game built for heroes, Oleg is just a man trying to save his child's life.
Goodreads4.20· 3.3K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMerchantSecondary WorldVRMMO

The Storm King

warden1207

A75/100
Leon and his father Artorias are the last remaining scions of a once-powerful family of lightning mages. After barely surviving an attack that destroyed their home fifteen years ago, they now live in the dangerous Northern Vales, a desolate wilderness far from civilization. But those who want them dead are strong, patient, and relentless — and it is only a matter of time before they find the two they seek.
Royal Road4.46· 2.1KGoodreads3.68· 1.6K
Genius MCHard MagicHaremMilitaryOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

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

Godclads

OstensibleMammal

A75/100
The gods were the enemy — slavers who chained humanity. With dreams of paradise, humanity slaughtered them and stole their powers, opening the path to ascend. Instead, they nearly destroyed the world. Vast hive cities now serve as the final bastions against a crumbling reality, and within the greatest of them, New Vultun, ascenders wage war to determine the very laws of existence. Avo was born a weapon — a slave to his instincts and his masters, made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when he gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy. To free the world from its chains, he must ascend the megacity and challenge the tyrants who usurped the gods.
Royal Road4.65· 1.4K
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+6

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· 1.6KGoodreads4.39· 430
Dungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldTime Loop+1

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 Road4.47· 2.1K
Class SystemComedyGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World

The Consequences of Meeting a Dragon

Rynn the Tired

A75/100
Sixteen-year-old Thenio Iterune has a simple plan: work hard, do well in school, become a qualified wizard, and make his parents proud. Unfortunately, his magic power is increasingly difficult to control, leading to accidents that threaten his spot at the Kafron Royal Academy of Magic. When he discovers the source — an extremely rare and unstable magic affinity — the stakes rise from expulsion to survival. Enter Iggy, a tiny black dragon with a remarkable nose for magic, and his genius enchanter partner Ariom, who take an interest in keeping the chronically explosive boy alive. That's before demons get added to the mix.
Royal Road4.73· 400
CozyMysteryReincarnationSchoolSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Blessed by Death: An Archmage's Second Life

euterpe

A75/100
Levi was once the servant of Death itself, spending years eliminating arcane threats to the world. His final task carried a terrible cost, and he retired to a life of solitude — until Death returns not to reap his soul, but to offer a blessing: reincarnation into another world where no one knows his name. Levi accepts, only to awaken in the body of a disgraced noble son, disinherited and on the verge of expulsion from the Institute of Ascension. Death apparently left some things out. He's fine with that. Let the nobles sneer. He's an archmage — so long as he has his magic, he can take on anything. He's been gifted a whole new life, and this time, he intends to live it as an adventure.
Royal Road4.59· 1.6K
ComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

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.
Goodreads4.41· 2.2K
CozyCraftingLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats

Cultivation System: Elder Edition

beddedOtaku

A75/100
One moment of bad luck, and a modern man wakes up in the body of an Elder in a world of cultivation — with a reputation so terrible that even the best PR team on Earth couldn't rehabilitate it. Of course there's a system: one that allows him to create any martial art he can imagine, provided he has enough Creation Points. And his first disciple just happens to be a reincarnated monster from ten thousand years ago with an incurable poison he can cure with a custom creation. To earn Creation Points he must raise disciples, and to raise disciples he must first rehabilitate an image built entirely on infamy. These really are some crappy starting circumstances.
Royal Road4.63· 1.5K
ComedyCozyCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+5

Beesong Chronicles

Benjamin Medrano

A75/100
The life of a giant bee is a simple one. The life of a giant bee when her queen transforms the entire hive into human-like apis to fend off an attack? That's a good deal more complicated. Getting down from a fifty-foot giant rose without wings while surviving malevolent wasps is just a start. Surviving long enough to figure out what to do with her new life proves to be something of a challenge — and that's before she gets sucked into the tangled web of an ambitious demon lord threatening to plunge the world into war.
Goodreads4.46· 545
ComedyIsekaiNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

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· 563Goodreads4.08· 5.9K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitHaremLitRPG+4

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Acaswell

A75/100
When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teenager from the Denver suburbs. She woke up in a magical alternate dimension inhabited by monsters and governed by a mysterious System — where people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens. Grappling with the System isn't Alice's only challenge. An underground organization called the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions. If they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to extract the secrets of her world by force. Now Alice must pursue her scientific endeavors, learn to harness the magic around her, and uncover the Society's ultimate intentions — and how she ended up here — before it's too late.
Royal Road4.56· 1.7KGoodreads4.20· 1.3K
GameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMysterySchool+1

Mythshaper

Eon R. Solara

A75/100
Reborn into a world shaped by ashen storms, brutal blizzards, and sword-wielding sorcerers, Arilyn must forge his own path. Magic is abundant, spread far and wide by the realm-spanning Grand Spell — and even in the frail body of a newborn, Arilyn earns attributes, points, and power through stubborn hard work. Yet not everything is as bright as it seems. Legends walk the land, and the Blight Lords are hell-bent on resurrecting the Old God. None of this should have mattered to someone living on the fringe of the empire — until strange rumblings rise from the heart of the Candor Mountains.
Royal Road4.58· 1.6K
CozyCraftingDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGMystery+5

Wizard's Tower

Allanther

A75/100
For more than a hundred and fifty years, Nemon Fargus has served the Kingdom of Sena. Through four Kings and a Queen, two wars, a rebellion, a magic school founded and taught, and countless beast waves and dungeon breaks. Now the one close friend he had left has passed. He's done with their politics and economics. The short, busy lives of humans are more burden than benefit on the weary soul of this half-elf. He wants a refuge — a place truly his own, away from cities, markets, wars, and eager students. He's seeking the peaceful life of a wizard in his tower, studying magic to advance his spellcraft. We'll see if that happens.
Royal Road4.51· 1.9KGoodreads4.15· 1.2K
Base BuildingCozyGameLitNon-human MCOlder MCSecondary World+2

Midnight Bounties

Cassius, Castor

A75/100
Stuck with a shoddy nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. In Sankta Varath, the greatest city in the Steelheart Kingdom, he'll have to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the city's underworld — all while managing a staff that includes a drow bartender, a religious zealot waitress, an ogre bouncer with a sleeping problem, and an orc dancer. Frank isn't a manager, has zero people skills, and even fewer connections. A cursed sub-class and a game system that actively screws him round out his advantages.
Goodreads4.48· 259
Base BuildingComedyGameLitLitRPGMerchantSecondary World